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Socialist Party news and analysis
Queen’s Speech – more cuts and sell-offs: The Tory government has announced a raft of new bills to extend the privatisation and commercialisation of our public services, writes Dave Carr.
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
PCS Conference 2016
PCS leads the way in fightback against Tories
What a difference a year makes! Last year’s PCS (civil servants’ union) conference took place in the immediate aftermath of the Tory election victory. All the pessimists in leading positions in the labour and trade union movement shied away from a fight against what they saw as an all-powerful government.
“Where’s Carwyn?” – museum workers demand action
National Museum Wales workers from all over the country, currently on indefinite strike against the management’s imposition of a cut in pay, rallied at the Senedd in Cardiff on 11 May to demand the Welsh government step in and resolve the dispute, writes Dave Reid.
BIS members strike to save jobs and keep offices open
Government defeated by check-off court challenge
The EU
The EU and the economy – Project Fear steps up
Vote to leave the ‘Employers’ Union’ and fight the bosses’ government
Cameron can’t rely on Tory voters alone to win the EU referendum. Only 24% of the electorate backed his party in the general election and most of them aren’t in favour of staying in the EU.
Socialist Party workplace news
Teachers: vote Yes to strike – defend pay and conditions
“I am today reaffirming our determination to see all schools become academies. However, having listened to the feedback from parliamentary colleagues and the education sector we will now change the path to reaching that goal.” Nicky Morgan couldn’t have made it clearer – the wholesale privatisation of our schools is still the Tories’ aim.
Higher education action over pay and casualisation
Junior doctors vote to work with and develop links with other unions
Unite housing workers walk out against intransigent bosses
Low paid Pennine Foods workers strike over cuts to premiums
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
On an upward trajectory: my experience as a new Socialist Party member
Newcastle: countering the fascist menace
International socialist news and analysis
France: New stage in battle over labour law
Belgium: unions call national demos and general strikes
Readers’ comments and reviews
Featured letter: stop the badger cull
Letters to the Socialist’s editors.
