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The Socialist editorial issue 967: This brutal, broken Tory government is limping. May’s premiership hangs by a thread
Socialist Party news and analysis
Schools “can’t go any further” – stop the cuts: set deficit budgets now
‘Southampton Fair Funding for All Schools’ brought teachers, students, TAs, heads and parents onto the streets on 14 October to protest against the growing crisis in Southampton schools. The action took place ahead of the national lobby of MPs at Westminster on 24 October, which the campaign has built for.
Young people being strangled by debts
Tories scrap the NHS pay cap: now fight for real-terms pay rises!
Public sector workers have scored another victory against the Tories: the NHS pay cap will be scrapped
Obesity epidemic: end food market anarchy
At any given time nearly a billion people on the planet are hungry, and a third are malnourished. And yet a new report says the growing obesity crisis is set to cost $1.2 trillion a year worldwide from 2025.
Depressing yearly student loan statement – paid off £106 this year, but after interest total amount owed only gone down by £25.
Socialist Party workplace news
Royal Mail bosses block strike – back postal workers
It was the first national ballot for strike action since the act’s introduction. 72,877 Communication Workers Union (CWU) members voted to fight back against Royal Mail’s attack on their pension rights and refusal to engage seriously over pay, working hours, future job security and the need to improve the service.
PCS ballots members on the pay cap
Nationalise to save jobs at BAE Systems
Arms manufacturer BAE Systems has announced that up to 2,000 jobs will be cut in locations across the UK. These job cuts will have a devastating effect on the lives of workers losing their livelihood but will also have a wider impact on the local economy.
Striking back against sackers’ charter at Leeds Uni
Across 16 separate picket lines with over 100 strikers and supporters attending a rally, University and College Union members gave their response to management’s provocative attempts to amend Leeds University’s charter to remove protections from dismissal.
North London hospital workers fight cuts and job losses
Porters and domestics – members of the GMB union – at the North Middlesex hospital, facing the threat of redundancies and pay cuts, organised a spirited protest with a barbecue outside the hospital on 12 October.
Unite local government sector plans strike ballot
Salford Unison condemns pay cuts
Within one week, Labour controlled Salford city council announced an increase in wages for some of the lowest paid care workers and also made a decision to cut the pay and some jobs of those working in Regulatory Services
October revolution 1917
Russia, October 1917: When workers took power
With monotonous predictability the centenary of the Russian revolution has led to an outpouring of bile – not aimed in the main at the ‘acceptable’ February revolution – but at October. A cacophony of slander is attempting to drown out the real history of the October revolution.
October 1917 reviews: ‘More bright than any heaven’
October 1917 centenary pull-out and poster
Our special eight-page pullout for the hundredth anniversary of Russia’s October revolution, including a poster by Socialist Party member and artist Sofia Wiking
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
No cuts – hands off King George A&E!
People queued up outside Ilford town hall to sign the Socialist Party’s petition to save King George A&E in east London on 14 October as campaigners marched to voice opposition to its closure.
Can you donate to the Socialism 2017 appeal?
An NHS ‘uprising’ took place in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Saturday 14 October! A determined 800-strong demonstration wound its way through the town. People are fighting against the night time closure of Grantham A&E and the systematic downgrading of services in their local hospital.
Hundreds turn out for rally aimed at removing west Wales Tory MP
Haverfordwest is a small market town in south west Wales and in the marginal Preseli Pembrokeshire constituency of Tory MP and former secretary of state for Wales Stephen Crabb. On 14 October, the town centre was packed with around 300 people attending an anti-austerity rally
Sheffield Labour council threatens peaceful protesters with prison
Two months have passed since Sheffield’s Labour council won a High Court injunction against peaceful protesters fighting the felling of thousands of street trees in the city.
Socialist Students ‘welcome’ Hillary Clinton to Swansea
International socialist news and analysis
Campaign against political repression in Hong Kong
Protesters gathered outside China’s embassies and consulates, as well as the Hong Kong government’s economic and trade offices, in 22 cities across 20 countries on 12-13 October. The protests were part of a newly launched international campaign, ‘Global Solidarity – Stop Repression in Hong Kong’.
Socialist Party comments and reviews
Powerful picture of the Port Talbot steel workers’ struggle
Theatre: We’re Still Here: Under the threat of closure, the steel workers – but not the pensioners – were forced to vote for one of two options, either of which meant a cut in pensions. ‘We’re Still Here’ dramatises the effect of this threat on the workers.
Conference on state spies: who’s watching who?
‘Dazzling’ Bad Art show points to socialist future
Skipton is a quiet market town better known as the ‘Gateway to the Yorkshire Dales’ than it is for revolution. But on 6 October, socialist artists and activists, as well as the general public, from Manchester, Lancashire and Yorkshire gathered to view a dazzling selection of work by artists loosely grouped around the ‘Bad Art’ project.
