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Socialist Party news and analysis
We can win the fight for the NHS
The situation isn’t all doom and gloom. Movements can be, and are being, built around the country to save hospitals
Stop press: victory – campaign saves NHS rehab ward
The campaign to save the Chatsworth rehab ward in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, has won
McDonnell says Labour would put services ‘irreversibly’ in workers’ hands
Only mass mobilisation can prevent capitalist sabotage and guarantee workers’ democracy: Fight for public ownership under democratic workers’ control and management, with compensation to owners only on the basis of proven need
Brigadier Priyankara Fernando’s cut-throat threat to peaceful protesters outside the Sri Lankan High Commission caused massive outrage
Rent doubles in a decade: cap rents, build council homes!
A stunning new report reveals the total rent paid in the UK has doubled to £51 billion since 2007
What we saw: Tory-Blairite EU love-in
Tory and Blairite MPs could combine to rescue big business
Oxfam scandal
Oxfam scandal: we need democratic aid and working class solidarity
The Socialist Party calls for democratic control over all aid and emergency assistance – through elected committees of workers, land labourers and poor people in every area
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
How should TUSC approach the local elections and Brexit negotiations?
TUSC conference 2018: Building support for Corbyn’s anti-cuts policies in the local elections – and what position should socialists take on the Brexit negotiations?
Socialist history
Czechoslovakia 1968: ‘Prague Spring’ challenges Stalinism
Frustrated workers and youth took the removal of their hardline Stalinist president as the cue to rise up
International socialist news and analysis
No to profiteering from water crisis! Cape Town is facing its worst drought in almost 100 years
Brazil: Lula conviction confirmed
Unity in struggle against Temer’s attacks – build a new socialist alternative: The objective of this second conviction of Lula – frontrunner in all opinion polls – is to eliminate him from the 2018 presidential elections
Big political strike against Finnish government’s attack on unemployed
Across the country, not only transport workers but construction and manufacturing unions were on strike, with a tenth of Finland’s workers – 200,000 – downing tools
France: rallies in support of oppressed Kurdish people
Turkey’s President Erdogan is intent on smashing the aspirations of the Kurdish people for a homeland
Workplace news and analysis
UCU uni strike: coordinate public sector fightback
Strike for decent pay and pensions: The Socialist Party gives full backing to UCU union members striking against plans to scrap their ‘defined benefit’ pensions
Sadiq Khan’s bus drivers’ London licence doesn’t go far enough
Labour’s Sadiq Khan spoke to London bus workers when he stood for London mayor and promised to deliver strikers’ pay demands – but we are still waiting
Newham teachers strike again as anti-academy pressure mounts
Woolwich Crossrail walkouts to demand promised bonuses
76 electricians on the Woolwich Crossrail construction site have been taking industrial action because Balfour Beatty has ceased paying the vital ‘finishing bonus’
Threat of action defeats pay cut at Surrey council
Organising works, we won and all members have received their full backdated pay
Socialist Party campaigns
Haringey protests HDV – but Labour fails to kill it off completely
Labour councillors passed a resolution postponing any decision on the Blairite privatisation scheme until after May’s local elections
After a prolonged battle with Surrey council, the campaign to protect fire services in Staines has forced an important retreat
Carlisle debate – socialism or social democracy?
Only a programme of nationalising the banks and top monopolies would allow a Corbyn-led Labour government to carry through serious improvements for the working class
Enjoyable and successful Cardiff Refugee Rights gig
“I was deeply moved by the huge support that we received”
Opinion
I’m now a ‘manager’ and I can barely manage!
I work in a well-known high street chain and I was promoted a little while ago and thought to myself “finally, things might get a bit easier!” How foolish I was!
In Windsor none of us want to see homeless people on the street
Royal wedding homeless clearance: The Tory leader of the council, Simon Dudley, decided the police needed to get rid of homeless people using the Vagrancy Act of 1824