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Socialist Party news and analysis
Autumn budget: More cuts, More misery – More reasons for a 24-hour general strike!
Do the Tories suspect that they won’t be re-elected? Their plan was for the private sector to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of the destroyed public sector to create growth…
On the 20 October 2012 TUC demonstration against austerity, photo Paul Mattsson
Answering the lies of the Con-Dems
Flooding tragedies – Socialist action needed to tackle climate change
Flooding in Gloucester in 2007, photo by Chris Moore
Gove’s ‘overspend’ – on academies!
Are you a teacher whose school is short of cash? Have you been warned of ‘hard times ahead’ and possible redundancies?
Haringey protest against academy school, photo by Paul Mattsson
Don’t fall for Labour’s fairy tale
Socialist Party workplace news
Stratford Academy: Parents and teachers united against bullying management
After striking for nine days over three weeks, teachers at Stratford Academy, east London, suspended their strike action pending the outcome of negotiations with senior management…
Socialist Party feature
MPs’ expenses, bankers’ bonuses, corporate tax dodgers; this deep, long-term crisis of capitalism has brought with it a thorough-going crisis of legitimacy in capitalist institutions…
Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people, photo Paul Mattsson
Socialist Party NHS campaigning
On Saturday 24 November, defying cold driving rain, up to 10,000 residents and staff marched to defend their local hospital. A south London nurse reports…
Saturday 24 November, defying cold driving rain, up to 10,000 residents and staff marched to defend Lewisham Accident and Emergency (A&E) and linked arms around it., photo Socialist Party
The battle against pay cuts continues in Mid Yorks hospitals
Admin and clerical Unison and Unite members at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust ended their three-day strike action on 22 November – with a firm resolve to fight on
Three-day strike of Mid Yorkshire Unison NHS staff against pay cuts and mass downgrading, photo Iain Dalton
I work as a support worker in health. Many years ago I was transferred over from the NHS to a trust which is a charity. In October 2011 the trust started to attack the workforce.
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
The ‘hardest hit’ are being hammered – fight all cuts to benefits and services
A new ‘Hardest Hit’ report points to the huge impact that cuts are having on disabled people
5,000 people marched against the Welofare Reform Bill on 11 May 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson
Rotherham: Standing against cuts, corruption and racism
John Malcolm is standing for TUSC in the Middlesbrough constituency byelection on 29 November. Here is an extract from his election leaflet
Student demo – potential for mass movement
Anger at NUS failings: Sheffield student union was the first in Britain to organise a campus-wide anti-cuts campaign in response to the call for a national demonstration in November
Students on the NUS national demonstration 12 November against the government attacks on university education, photo Paul Mattsson
Over 10,000 people demonstrated and marched in London on Saturday 24 November to condemn the Israeli bombardment of Gaza…
Protest against the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza 24 November 2012, photo Paul Mattsson
School students hungry for answers
Housing for the Counihans, housing for all
Fund the fightback: join the Christmas Collectathon
Christmas books from Socialist Books
We have many books which would make good presents for your family and friends – both political and less political – and we have selected just a few here
International socialist news and analysis
Egypt: Mursi power grab provokes mass protests
Build a united front of workers and poor for ‘second revolution’: The declaration of sweeping new political powers by Egypt’s president Mursi has provoked a violent backlash, leaving two dead and hundreds injured, and further polarised society along pro- and anti-Mursi lines…
Socialist Party review
Sorry to Bother You by the Coup
Ian Slattery reviews the Coup’s sixth album, Sorry to Bother You…
