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Save our NHS
NHS: use the 3 February protests as a launch pad for a mass movement
“If we have made history, so be it. Someone had to make a stand.” These were the words of shop steward Joan Foster to our predecessor paper, Militant, in January 1988. Joan was one of 40 nurses who walked out at North Manchester General hospital in response to an attempt to take away their unsocial hours payment.
Northern health campaigns conference discusses the fightback
Around 150 delegates crowded into the first and very successful Health Campaigns Together northern conference held in Leeds on 20 January.
8,000 strong petition opposes closure of Sheffield health services
Socialist Party members took part as over 8,000 signatures on petitions were presented by Sheffield Save Our NHS, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and Labour Party members against the proposed closure of the minor injuries unit at Hallamshire hospital and the walk-in centre in Sheffield to a meeting of the clinical commissioning group (CCG).
Labour NHS rally reveals horrors but offers no way forward
A rally in Central Hall, Westminster, on 25 January brought home the horrors of what is happening to the NHS, after 70 years of its treasured existence.
Leicester Socialist Party hosted a determined public meeting on 27 January to discuss how to build a fightback against the escalating attacks on our NHS.
Opinion
Trump as Nixon: urgent questions about press freedom and the state
Film: The Post: In 1971 US casualties in Vietnam were running at 500 a week, and opposition to the war was reaching boiling point.
Women’s liberation
For workplace trade union organisation against sexual harassment
The scandal over the President’s Club charity dinner shows that behind closed doors the rich and powerful feel as entitled to women’s bodies as ever.
Presidents Club sexism scandal: what you thought
100 years since women won the vote
It is 100 years since the first women in the UK won the right to vote in parliamentary elections. It took years of struggle and the largest mobilisation of women in Britain’s history to achieve this partial victory.
Socialist Party workplace news
Victory for Hackney school cleaners!
Unite members employed by the outsourcing company OCS working in Hackney schools have won a fantastic victory. The cleaners had voted, by 100%, to take strike action which was due to begin with five days across six schools.
Local government workers’ reps reject 2% pay offer
University workers’ walkout for decent pensions
University and College Union (UCU) members in 61 universities will be taking up to 14 days of strike action in February and March if plans to completely scrap the defined benefit element of our pensions aren’t dropped.
Supermarket’s slash jobs – union fightback needed
Two of so-called ‘Big Four’ supermarkets – Tesco and Sainsbury’s – have announced job losses running into the thousands.
Cammell Lairds strikers demand improved pay and conditions
Shipbuilding workers in the GMB and Unite are striking
Socialist Party news and analysis
Labour civil war re-erupts over Haringey regeneration project
Every attempt by the Labour Party membership to exert democratic control over MPs and councillors is met with howls of outrage by the capitalist class.
Tory infighting escalates – workers’ action can oust them
Failing academy chain strips school assets – end academisation!
In businesses when cuts are made, they sell off their facilities and equipment in the interest of maintaining profits. Now that’s what’s happening with our schools.
Capitalists fear for their system at Davos
Representatives of the world’s ruling class again gathered for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at the Davos mountain resort in Switzerland.
Majority of kids poor in some areas
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Fat cat vice chancellors schooled by Brum students
Students at the University of Birmingham lambasted their fat cat vice chancellor (VC) David Eastwood during his ‘Question Time’ event on 25 January. The room was filled with students rightfully angered by Eastwood’s role at the university.
Confident London Socialist Party conference discusses key issues
Your newspaper fights with you: help fund it with May Day greetings
The Socialist is the newspaper that stands with you in your fight. May Day greetings help fund it. Help us get them in.
Bristol anti-cuts campaigners debate alternatives to the cuts
Bristol and District Anti-Cuts Alliance (Badaca) hosted a public debate at Unite the Union’s Bristol office on 24 January.
International socialist news and analysis
For mass resistance!: Last month the Turkish state began a fresh military assault on Kurdish areas in Syria. Kurds and supporters demonstrated against the war in London on 27 January
Vienna: 50,000 march against racism and austerity
They came in their tens of thousands to protest against the new far-right coalition government formed by the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).