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Socialist Party news and analysis
Bin the bedroom tax: Can’t pay – Will stay!
The Bedroom Tax has rightly sparked a massive and angry response. It sums up the cold cruelty of the Con-Dems. Nationally an estimated 660,000 will face reductions in housing benefits
Hull protest against the Bedroom tax – Debt = Slavery, photo Lash
NUT conference: Serious attacks require serious action
The National Union of Teachers Conference 2013 meets to debate how best to defend teachers at a time when education as a whole is under fierce attack
Cameron whips up immigration fears to divide movement against austerity
The Con-Dem government grows more unpopular by the day. Endless austerity is combined with falling living standards, rising unemployment, and no prospect of a return to economic growth
What does the budget really mean for the housing crisis?
Fight the destruction of our NHS across England and Wales
The ‘workfare bill’ and sanctions targets
International socialist news and analysis
Cyprus bailout: Return of the eurozone crisis
The eurozone crisis has dramatically intensified. Events in Cyprus have blown away the optimism of the European ruling classes in recent months that they had resolved the crisis
Bank of Cyprus
South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party Launched
On 21 March – coinciding with the 1960 Sharpeville massacre memorial day – over 500 Tshwane workers, mineworkers’ delegates, trade union and community activists launched WASP
Socialist Party workplace news
Reports from the picket lines and rallies
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
Thera care workers prepare for action
The snow might have cancelled many events on 23 March but it did not prevent members and supporters of Thera workers in Unison South Derbyshire Health branch and Notts County Unison holding a protest
Striking against the ‘fast track to the sack’
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Sussex university occupation: ‘they say privatise – we fight back and organise’
‘Students and workers, unite and fight’ was the chant reverberating around Sussex campus on Monday 25 March
Sussex University occupation March 2013 , photo Serena Cheung
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Sick of Your Boss gets going in London
Fighting the cuts: Birmingham and Exeter
New server report; and May Day greetings
The Socialist: readers’ comments
Disability hate crimes – accomplices and victims
Over 1,700 disability hate crimes were recorded by police in England and Wales in 2011-12. The new Joint Inspectorate report said that disability hate crime was in fact under-reported and blamed police…