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Socialist Party news and analysis
Tory MP claims he can’t live on £300k: Tory MP Mark Simmonds recently announced he was leaving parliament. He claims that his MP’s wage and expenses don’t give him the life he aspires to for himself and his family
Low pay – now way! photo Elaine Brunskill
Protests, strikes, equality: Women in World War One
In this anniversary year there is likely to be scant attention given to the militant struggles of working class women during the four years of brutal conflict, where class divisions remained a feature of everyday life
Socialist policies needed to answer Project Fear
Thursday 18 September will see an unprecedented mobilisation to the polls for the referendum on Scottish independence
Scandal of underfunded mental health services
The shocking death of actor Robin Williams starkly highlights the fact that depression is a dangerous and life threatening clinical condition
Government’s economic mirage as election approaches
Ahead of next year’s general election, Tory Chancellor George Osborne and Lib Dem Treasury minister Danny Alexander have been regaling the mainstream media with tales of government success in increasing employment, in an expanding economy
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“You can only spend them once.” This was Welsh Local Government Association chief executive Steve Thomas’ explanation of why Welsh councils plan to cut £7-800 million after it was revealed that they hold reserves of over £700 million
Demonstration against closure of day centre in Llandeilo, Wales: Users of Noddfa Teilo Day Club in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, protest, photo Socialist Party Wales
More than shouting at the news: As a teenager, I was involved with various activist groups, then life took over. Two decades later, with a Tory government in power again, that feeling of injustice is back with a vengeance
International socialist news and analysis
Iraq: Only united action can stop sectarian war
Iraqis and Kurds must not trust imperialist ‘helpers’: Millions of working people around the world have been shocked at the rapid advance of the extreme religious fundamentalists of ‘Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIS)
Part of the massive demo against war in Iraq, 15 February 2003, photo Molly Cooper
USA: Ferguson erupts over police killing
The police killing of unarmed black youth, Michael Brown, in the Ferguson suburb of Missouri on 9 August, has led to a storm of protest across the USA
Hot on the heels of socialist Kshama Sawant’s earth shattering election victory in Seattle and the game changing success of the ‘$15 Now’ end low pay campaign, comes Jess Spear
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Capitalism means war: Join the Socialists!
Nato, the war-machine of Western capitalism, will descend on Newport in South Wales for its summit at the beginning of September
London Gaza demo 19 July 2014, photo Paul Mattsson
Join the Fast Food Rights day of action on 28 August
Fight for real jobs: Iain Duncan Smith may claim his changes to the welfare state are making everyone ‘better off’. But the 868,000 16 to 24 year olds who are still unemployed tell a different story
Youth services: jobs and centres slashed
The public sector union Unison has revealed that three quarters of local authorities have cut youth services
Campaign steps up on New Era estate
Hackney Socialist Party members have been campaigning on the New Era estate in Hoxton. Residents on the estate (owned by the richest Tory MP) have had their rents increased by over £100 a month in the last year
Southampton Labour-run council has evicted Charlie Wort from his home in St. Marys after the recent death of his mother. They claim he is no longer entitled to be housed by the council
Protest camp brings NHS activists together
Save Stafford Hospital activists, determined to stop it from being dismantled, have run a protest camp in the hospital grounds for several weeks
The People’s March for the NHS
Liverpool anger at library closures
Campaigning for genuine equality at Leeds Pride
Fleetwood: For the second time in eleven months, TUSC has polled a strong third position for Rossall ward of Fleetwood town council in Lancashire, winning 19% of the vote
Socialist Party workplace news
Care UK workers to strike for three weeks
“We’re Yorkshire folk, we’re like a dog with a bone. We won’t give up, we’ll never surrender.”
Striking Care UK workers outside the company’s Mansion House in Doncaster, 09.08.14, photo Alistair Tice
North West Fire Service call centre cuts catastrophe
The disastrous consequences of just one element of cuts and privatisation in the fire service recently hit the news, when a fire crew from Carlisle in Cumbria were instructed to attend an incident near Bolton in Lancashire – a 200 mile round trip
BT pay cuts: we need less surveys, more action!
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) telecoms section is once again shying away from a fight with BT and recommending cuts in pay and conditions for new staff
Surrey council workers look to strike on pay
In April, Surrey county council imposed a two year pay deal broadly in line with the government’s austerity measures on pay constraint
Royal Mail workers stage unofficial walkout
Support London Taxi drivers’ fight against deregulation
Dave Wallis, a London taxi driver, RMT member and Bob Crow’s cousin, says why drivers are campaigning against the Uber app