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Coordinate the strikes to defeat the Tories
Normally a quiet month for the trade union movement, August has seen a whole number of industrial disputes raging on – and two prominent ones have registered wins: the Birmingham bin workers and janitors in Glasgow.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Glasgow jannies win famous victory against council cutters
Glasgow janitors, after an industrial action campaign lasting almost two years, have won an inspiring victory
Bin workers – fighting back wins!
Hundreds evacuated after Labour council dismisses cracks in tower blocks
Fight for safe homes for all: Hundreds of tower block residents have been decanted by Southwark Council in south London over serious safety concerns the Labour administration initially dismissed
Amazon tax halves as revenues soar – nationalise now!
Tech giant Amazon paid 50% less tax in the UK this year compared to last year despite the company’s turnover rising by 54%
Workplace news and analysis
RMT and the Labour Party affiliation debate
There was unanimous agreement that the victory of Corbyn raises the possibility of RMT once again affiliating to Labour, but the discussion also recognised the structures of Labour remain in the hands of the right
Defiant Barts NHS workers fight to stop Serco sabotage
The latest Barts hospital workers’ strike was a defiant message to employer Serco that its underhand tactics wouldn’t succeed in defeating the low-paid workers on their 24th day of action
Three-week Argos distribution strike
Workers at four Argos distribution centres across the country are taking three weeks of strike action to defend jobs and terms and conditions in the wake of Sainsbury’s buying out Argos last year
BA poverty pay dispute enters new phase of action
On their 74th day of strike action, British Airways mixed-fleet cabin crew and their supporters, circled Heathrow Airport in an open-top bus
McDonald’s workers vote to walk out in historic strike
McDonald’s workers balloted at Crayford, south east London, and Cambridge stores have voted by an incredible 95.7% in favour of strike action
Bin workers say: Sack Suez, stop rubbish cuts!
PCS: strikes to defend jobcentres
More and more jobcentres are taking action against DWP office closures
Fighting the far right
US: neo-Nazi violence reawakens resistance
The vicious white nationalist violence in Charlottesville and across the US has acted as a collective wake-up call
Lewisham 1977: When socialists and workers defeated the far-right National Front
40 years ago almost to the day before Charlottesville, on 13 August 1977, the fascist National Front aimed to march through Lewisham
Opposing the National Front in Grantham
Even with a national mobilisation, the National Front could only muster around 30 supporters
With only a day’s notice, around 100 people gathered outside the US embassy in London on 15 August to stand in solidarity with Charlottesville anti-fascist demonstrators
Socialist Party feature
The Single Market: a neoliberal tool of the bosses
Fight for a socialist Brexit: The single market compels privatisation of public services, prohibits nationalisation, and makes it easier for employers to exploit workers in numerous ways
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Socialism 2017 takes place on 11 and 12 November. It is a weekend of discussion and debate with a choice of over 40 workshops and rallies
Chatsworth ward campaigners demand answers
A highly charged and unusual meeting took place against the closure of Chatsworth rehabilitation unit at Mansfield Community Hospital
Vital women’s services under threat
Hull’s first ‘collective youth festival’ was primarily aimed at developing the next generation of trade unionists to continue the fight against the bosses
West Midlands Young Socialists fight for free education on results day
NHS campaign receives Labour Party backing
On 14 August members of Save North Tyneside NHS active in Labour, Unite the Union and the Socialist Party met with North Tyneside MP and shadow cabinet member Mary Glindon to discuss cuts
Socialist readers’ comments and reviews
Mutinies and strikes: when Bolshevism threatened British bosses
Review – 1919: Britain’s year of revolution: Like countries across Europe, Britain was not immune to the impact of the 1917 Russian revolution
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