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Socialist Party news and analysis
Nasty party imploding…drive out the Tories
Theresa May’s 2017 Tory conference speech will go down as one of the funniest – or the most humiliating – depending on where your political loyalties lie, writes Paul Callanan, Socialist Party national committee.
Major attacks ‘Universal Credit’, half a million more face poverty
IMF helps cause inequality it slams
NHS meltdown – fight the Tory cuts
Hundreds of torture victims wrongly detained
Close detention centres now!
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us including Lords’ expenses and young workers’ debt.
Catalonia
Catalonia: Workers can finish what Puigdemont won’t
While thousands amassed outside the Catalan parliament, Catalan president Puigdemont was asking inside for agreement to ‘suspend’ a declaration of independence
Black History Month 2017
The fight against racial discrimination is tied to the fight to defeat capitalist austerity
On the morning of 10 October the Tory government announced it was launching a website to show the widespread racial inequality in Britain. To many this will seem like a sick Black History Month joke
Socialist Party workplace news
Royal Mail workers fight court attempt to stop national strike
As we go to press, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) is in the High Court as Royal Mail management tries desperately to stop a 48-hour strike, starting at 11am on 19 October.
Boeing bust-up threatens thousands of skilled jobs
Who’s watching who?: The fight for justice, trade union and democratic rights
For almost 100 years a secret ban was operated to deny jobs to thousands of workers involved in trade union activity
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including BAE job cuts, PCS action and cinema strikes.
Housing crisis
Housing crisis: Corbyn’s positive measures blanked by Labour’s right
A standing ovation greeted Jeremy Corbin’s pledges on housing at Labour’s conference: to stop ‘social cleansing’ regeneration schemes and give residents a vote on regeneration proposals; to build more council homes and to control rents.
No more fire deaths – ensure safety now!
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Don’t wreck our rec! Campaigning to save green space in Standish
On the morning of 10 October the Tory government announced it was launching a website to show the widespread racial inequality in Britain. To many this will seem like a sick Black History Month joke.
Carlisle NHS campaigners hand in petition to MP
Cardiff Socialist Students confront ‘Parasite’ Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg, aristocratic, misogynistic, homophobic, billionaire landlord and current pin-up boy of the Tory right, was invited to speak at a venue in Cardiff on 29 September.
Manchester rally discussed unionisation and nationalisation
Crowds poured into Manchester Cathedral on 2 October to see the shadow chancellor John McDonnell at a free event.
Join the Orgreave Halloween rally
The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign has called for our supporters to gather in their hundreds this Halloween night (31 October) in Sheffield.
TUSC members and supporters in the borough of Halton in Cheshire are campaigning against the payment of tolls on the soon to be opened Mersey Gateway crossings
Comment and reviews
Poverty, repression and fightback on the docks
Biography: Harry Constable in his own words: This book is about Harry Constable, a leading activist in the struggle of the dock workers from before the war until the end of the 1950s
Theresa May, Frida Kahlo and turning women into wares
TV drama: The State: The brutal finale of the Channel 4 drama about Isis, ‘The State’, came as no surprise
Letters to the Socialist’s editors including NHS conferences, Procter and Gamble problems and Ryanair.
