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Tory scheme won’t halt mass unemployment: mobilise the unions!
The Tories’ new ‘Job Support Scheme’ will do nothing to save jobs. It should be renamed the ‘job scrapping scheme’.
Job Support Scheme – too little, too late
Low-paid workers can claim a pitiful £500 for compulsory two-week self-isolation from 28 September. Four million will be eligible – but who can afford to self-isolate for £200 less than the minimum wage?
International news
Trump’s failure over western US wildfires
On 24 July, lightning sparked the first fires of what would become one of the worst wildfire seasons in US history
US: Police escape justice over Breonna Taylor killing
South Africa: Working class unity to stop violence against women
What we think
Covid restrictions expose Tory splits
Students
Students trapped on Covid campuses speak out
Apprehension about Covid – anger at fees, costs and exploitation
The first street meeting of Socialist Students at the University of Birmingham was great. Students came together to discuss, plan and organise to fight the mountain of issues facing them and young workers
Black History Month
Still crawling at 60: Capitalism has failed Nigeria
Workplace news
Unison: Hugo Pierre is on the ballot – vote for a fighting socialist!
Trade unions must fight to put their stamp on events
‘We need a call to arms. That’s why I call on everyone to write to the press and lobby their MPs. This was the ‘clarion call’ of Trades Union Congress general secretary Frances O’Grady at
Usdaw elections: Defend members’ right to participate
During the Covid-19 pandemic, members of Usdaw, the shop and distribution workers’ union, have been hit hard
PCS: No to DWP management’s plans – Yes to action
PCS union members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are reacting furiously to management’s rush to book appointments in all the Jobcentres, a move especially targeted at 18-to-24 year olds
NHS workers need 15% rise and full funding
As NHS staff face the second wave of Covid-19, we are also preparing another round of protests on 17 October calling for a pay rise.
Peterborough CWU have massively voted for strike action
Campaigns and party news
Why I joined the Socialist Party: Labour moved right and left me behind
£71,522 raised: We’ve smashed our target again
A big thanks to all our readers for the marvellous £71,522 raised in our six-month campaign. That’s another target smashed thanks to some magnificent large donations, and many thousands of small ones.
Campaign for new King George Hospital wing gets boost
Readers’ opinion
