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Socialist Party news and analysis
Strike to smash the cap: A stark new report by the government’s own advisors on public sector pay has shown that there was a 6% drop in average wages from 2005 to 2015
Jobstown victory: protest is not a crime!
Blairite EU rebellion: no to the bosses’ Single Market
Jeremy Corbyn has had to sack three members of his shadow cabinet. They were among 50 Labour rebels who voted to remain in the European Single Market, against the party’s instruction to abstain.
Fight establishment’s Grenfell insults: no to cover-up, safety for all!
Every day seems to bring a new insult to the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. They are still seeking assurances of local rehousing. Their landlord has charged them rent for burnt-out homes in error.
Hillsborough: six charged due to determination of justice campaign
More than 28 years after the Hillsborough stadium disaster, charges are finally being brought against the policeman in charge and five others
Tories’ tuition fees wobble: fight for free education!
Readers’ comments and reviews
200-year miscarriage of justice exposing ruling class
Book review: Exactly 200 years ago a 17 year-old Nottinghamshire girl was murdered walking home to Papplewick village from nearby Mansfield
Transport strategy: London’s mayor is no visionary
Letters to the Socialist’s editors including Grenfell, Qatar, Corbyn and magic money trees.
What we think
1 July demo: anger and enthusiasm shows potential mass movement
All who attended the Tories Out demonstration on 1st July will have been given a huge boost of confidence that the anger and determination exists to bring down the weak and wobbly Tory government
Socialist Party workplace news
‘Jubilant’ hospital workers strike against poverty pay in east London
On 4-5 July domestics, porters and security staff at Barts Health Trust in east London, members of Unite the Union, began a campaign of strike action
Support the Merseyrail strikes against DOO
RMT conference opens debate on Labour and pledges to fight anti-union laws
This year’s RMT annual general meeting (AGM) took place in the wake of Jeremy Corbyn’s tremendous general election result. The elation of workers and trade unionists at the result was carried into the hall and reflected by delegates to the conference which ran from 25-29 June in Exeter.
Bin workers’ anger boils over into strike action
Bin workers across Birmingham left work to begin the first in a series of strikes
Unison conference: Socialist Party argues for a socialist Brexit
One of the important debates at the 2017 Unison conference was about Brexit. One year on from the referendum, there were a number of motions and amendments about what form Brexit should take and what role the union should play.
Surrey FBU pass no confidence motion
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in Surrey has passed a motion of no confidence in the local fire authority, saying planned budget cuts will see firefighter numbers plummet.
BA cabin crew blacklisting strike starts
Mixed fleet cabin crew started a 16-day strike on 1 July. Up until the start of the latest strike, mixed fleet cabin crew had been on strike for 26 days
Leeds: Nurses’ union RCN says ‘scrap the cap’
“It’s time for all of us to take a stand, if we don’t we won’t have an NHS left” said one nurse through the megaphone at the RCN nurses’ union pay cap protest in Leeds on 30 June.
Pride 2017
Pride 2017: we need a fighting, socialist movement for LGBT+ rights
Michael Johnson, from the Socialist Party’s LGBT group, highlights some of the issues being discussed in this year’s Pride celebrations and examines the lessons of the Russian revolution for the struggle for LGBT+ rights today
Lessons from the Russian revolution for LGBT+ struggle today
NI abortion u-turn
Weakened Tories forced into Northern Ireland abortion u-turn
Thursday 29 June 2017 saw a significant step forward for women in Northern Ireland (NI). Funding to cover the financial costs for them to access abortions in England was pledged by the Tory minority government
Housing
Haringey: stop demolition of homes and communities
The fight is stepping up a gear to stop Haringey council’s massive privatisation project
South London tower block residents plan safety campaign
Newcastle tenants demand answers
On 27 June I attended a meeting organised by concerned tenants of Your Homes Newcastle (YHN), an arms-length management organisation (Almo) of Newcastle City Council, at Cruddas Park tower in the city’s west end.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
East London community demands action after racist attacks
Over 100 local residents, including 20 who couldn’t get in, packed the Berner Community Centre in Tower Hamlets, east London, on 2 July, angry about a number of recent attacks on local Muslim people.
Another record fighting fund quarter!
From Militant to the Socialist Party – what you thought
Like many people who eagerly pre-ordered From Militant to the Socialist Party I have enjoyed reading its 600-odd pages
