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What we think
High Court injunction: solidarity to the CWU
There should be an emergency national demo, support for whatever action CWU members decide to take, and an immediate joint meeting of the TUC and Labour leadership
CWU – ground laid for an almighty struggle
Climate change
Major funding for flood risk management needed
The recent large floods in Derbyshire, South Yorkshire and other areas have resulted in damage to thousands of houses
NHS
Save the NHS: kick out the Tories
Tory lies exposed – Labour’s record and programme – how to rebuild the NHS with socialist policies
Frimley NHS Trust: Strikers remain determined to defeat privatisation
Hospital support staff struck on 18 and 19 November against transfer to a ‘wholly owned subsidiary’
Violence against women
What policies are needed to end domestic violence and abuse?
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women: Rebuild women’s services – fight for a socialist society which drastically changes women’s position
Socialist Party news and analysis
Broadband: privatisation has failed to deliver, time for a socialist plan
Labour’s policy announcement to nationalise Openreach and BT broadband infrastructure, and provide free internet for all, has had an impact
Bolton university fire: government inaction puts safety at risk
Fire ripped through a six-storey student accommodation block, with what eyewitnesses described as terrifying speed, on the evening of 15 November
Wages flatline, while shareholders profit
Returns for top company shareholders have increased by 56% in just five years
Workplace news and analysis
UCU pay and pension strike: university staff have had enough
On 25 November, striking university staff will be sending a clear message to management that we’ve had enough
West Midlands Trains: guards strike to defend safety-critical role
On 16 November, senior conductors at West Midlands Trains took their first day of strike action
PCS union: elect Marion Lloyd!
The vote for the next general secretary of civil service union PCS has started, and it closes on 12 December
Cleaners strike over low pay at Haringey secondary school
Outsourced cleaners struck at Highgate Wood School in north London to demand an end to appalling working conditions
Bradford library and museum strikers enter third round of strike action
Library and museum workers in Bradford were holding firm as they entered their third round of action from 18 November
Long hours in the world of security
He said he had started at 4am and would be working till 8pm, and then going on to work on the door at a pub
NEU members’ sixth-form walkouts
National Education Union members will strike at over 30 sixth-form colleges on 20 November over pay and conditions
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Secret police infiltration of workers’ movement exposed
Trade Union Conference Opposing Political Policing: Up to 200 socialists, trade union activists and community campaigners took part
150 protest against Leicester hospital downgrading attack
More than 150 protested on against cuts in the NHS nationally and locally
Carmarthenshire union demands no-cuts budget
With both Labour and the Tories promising more spending, there is no excuse for any council to make more cuts
Swansea: students protest against Hillary Clinton hypocrisy
Hong Kong demo brushes with pro-dictatorship students: Former US secretary of state and failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton returned to Swansea University on 15 November
Keep the National Poetry Library free
A fight is on to keep the National Poetry Library free to join and use by the public
Just a few of the events where the Socialist newspaper has been sold in the past few days. Seizing chances in Leicester, election action in Cleethorpes, CWU solidarity in York
Readers’ opinion
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Austerity kills, defend the CWU, no rape justice, disabled poor
International socialist news and analysis
Amazon bosses defeated in Seattle – Kshama Sawant reelected
The attempt by bosses of Amazon and other companies to effectively buy control of Seattle city council was defeated by a city-wide reaction against their takeover attempt
Chile revolt continues: read eyewitness report
Mass social protests against inequality, injustice and state repression, continue to erupt in Chile weeks after an uprising was sparked by a hike in Metro fares in Santiago
