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For a 24-hour general strike!
Chancellor Osborne has had to admit the humiliating truth – his policies to revive the British economy aren’t working…
Never Trust a Tory, photo Paul Mattsson
Scottish Unison unanimously backs one-day general strike
Socialist Party NHS campaigning
Health unions should take action to save our NHS: Proposals have been announced to close four accident and emergency (A&E) units in north west London: Charing Cross, Central Middlesex, Hammersmith and Ealing, writes Michael Wrack.
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
Campaign to save Lewisham A&E continues
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
Demo against South West pay cartel
Socialist Party feature
Scottish referendum: What sort of independence should socialists campaign for?
The 2014 referendum is going to take place against the backdrop of an unprecedented economic crisis. Tory Toff, David Cameron’s Con-Dem government is attempting, and to a degree has already succeeded,…
Rallying for a yes vote in Edinburgh as thousands march for an independent Scotland, photo M Dobson
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
November by-elections: Building an anti-cuts alternative
“November was an unusual month. You can wait a long time for a byelection and then six come along in one month…
TUSC on the 28 March 2012 NUT London strike and demonstration , photo Socialist Party
Socialist Party news and analysis
Leveson whitewashes press, police and political establishment
Lord Justice Leveson’s report, presented on 29 November, castigated the activities of the press in the past period but, like most judicial inquiries, brushed over the failure and corruption of important elements of the capitalist establishment
20 October 2012 TUC demo against austerity, photo Paul Mattsson
The rotten establishment – of a rotten system
Just as arrogant bankers flaunted their wealth while they helped crash the economy, so establishment politicians, press barons and some police have had their arrogance and contempt for ‘the plebs’ revealed.
Editorial: Don’t throw things at the telly – fight back! Working people face attacks on their wages, jobs, services or benefits.
Workfare schemes failing: We need real job creation
Socialist Party workplace news
Nothing to lose – Tesco drivers vote for indefinite strike
Striking Tesco drivers bring a tank to the picket line with a Unite banner attacked
Yorkshire NSSN plans for future battles
The Yorkshire Shop Stewards Network conference held in Leeds on 24 November was attended by 45 delegates from 14 different trade unions from Hull, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, York, Harrogate and West Yorkshire…
After revelations that the academies programme has run up a £1 billion overspend, which other schools are now being asked to pay for, anger against the government’s flagship education policy is growing…
RMT cleaners: ‘Prices are going up – but we get nothing extra’
RMT train cleaners from Churchill and ISS, who have taken strike action, protesting at Newcastle Central station, photo Elaine Brunskill
Socialist Party campaigns / party news
Food banks without politics don’t help
Nancy Taaffe on Waltham Forest anti-cuts protest, photo Senan
We need decent jobs not benefit cuts!
Standing up to austerity on the south coast
In October, the Lancashire Telegraph serialised former Labour cabinet minister Jack Straw’s memoirs. Peter Harris, one of six Labour Party members expelled from Straw’s Blackburn constituency party, wrote to the Lancashire Telegraph challenging Straw’s version of events
Belgium: Defend Tamil activist from deportation
Kazakhstan: commemoration on massacre
Cultural commemoration on the first anniversary of the notorious massacre in Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, of unarmed men, women and children by state forces, Sunday 16 December.