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Corbyn must lead in fight against the Blairites
Editorial of the Socialist Party issue 1009: The Labour right’s summer of slander is drawing to a close. As parliament reopens and the party’s conference approaches, the Blairite fifth column is preparing the next phase in its anti-Corbyn campaign.
News
Tories in chaos – general election now!
Corbyn and unions must call mass action: The divide in the Tory party over Brexit is now wider than the Grand Canyon.
Enfield North Labour Party votes ‘no confidence’ in its MP
4m children in homes that can’t afford fruit and veg
£10 an hour now Scrap benefit cuts: Four million children in the UK live in households unable to afford enough fruit, vegetables, fish and other essential food groups to meet government nutrition guidelines, says the Food Foundation.
Fearful bosses call for ‘fairer capitalism’…
City banker Dame Helena Morrissey has called for “a more responsible and fairer form of capitalism” as part of a new report by the Blairite IPPR thinktank.
School students in solitary: for full funding, not exclusion!
‘Isolation booths’ – solitary confinement in all but name – are an increasingly common feature of ‘zero-tolerance’ school behaviour policies.
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
Financial crash
10 years since the financial crash – the socialist answer to capitalist crisis
On 15 September this year, a posh get together takes place at a secret venue in London. At it, top bankers who were part of Lehman Brothers – once the fourth largest investment bank in the world – celebrate the tenth anniversary of its 2008 collapse with “cocktails and canapes”.
Workplace
NSSN rally: militant trade unionists share ideas to win for workers
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) rally at the Trade Union Congress was a meeting of over 200 working class militants sharing their experiences to best fight the Tories, the bosses and their austerity.
TUC congress Brexit debate: unions must lead fight for a general election
Guards move closer to beating driver-only operation on Merseyrail giving confidence to other strikes
After 16 days of solid strike action over the last 18 months an announcement was made on 31 August pushing back the bosses’ attempts to move to driver-only operation.
Cardiff Uber Eats couriers strike back against bosses
Uber Eats courier riders staged their second action in Cardiff on 3 September against low pay and insecure work.
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including Liebherr latest and Nottingham bus strike.
International socialist news and analysis
Nicaragua: With the people against the Ortega government and imperialism
Since April this year, Nicaragua has become a bloodbath, with over 400 dead and thousands injured, arrested and disappeared.
Support for Putin’s regime dips over major attacks on state pensions
Sweden: left and far right gain as establishment parties falter
As expected, the racist, far-right ‘Sweden Democrats’ increased their share of the vote from 12.9% to 17.6% in the country’s recent general election.
The Guardian newspaper reported: “A backlash is brewing. Using the hashtags #homes4all and #TakeBackTheCity a coalition of housing activists last month occupied a four-storey property in the heart of Dublin which has been vacant for three years.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Catford campaign against regeneration
Lewisham in south London has a big problem with a lack of council and social housing. Not enough has been built and existing homes are being lost to housing associations, right-to-buy schemes and ‘regeneration’, social cleansing schemes.
Students unite and fight – free education now!
Reading council plans privatisation – set a no-cuts budget instead!
Reading Borough Council plans to privatise many of its key services. Bins, parks, road maintenance, housing benefit payments and council tax support are all at risk.
EDL outnumbered and confronted in Worcester
The Socialist Party was involved in organising a counter-demonstration against another visit of the far-right English Defence League (EDL) to Worcester on 1 September.
Fight against billionaire Newcastle boss Mike Ashley continues
Socialist Party members stood alongside a group of Newcastle United supporters on 26 August, as part of our continuing campaign against billionaire boss Mike Ashley for his despicable treatment of Sports Direct workers and mismanagement of Newcastle United.
Opinion
When working class women dominated football
One hundred years ago the ‘beautiful game’ came to be dominated by women.
