12 May 2021

Readers' opinion

Social care: Another broken Tory promise: Since 2010, spending on social care has decreased despite demand increasing. Boris Johnson pledged in 2019 that he would finally come up with a solution to the social care crisis, and ensure that people

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12 May 2021

United action needed to defeat fire and rehire

Seventy percent of people are opposed to 'fire and rehire' and want it made illegal. This number will only grow as this brutal weapon of the bosses, imposing worse pay and conditions on workers by sacking

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12 May 2021

RMT: Militant industrial and political strategy must be fought for

RMT general secretary election: The election of Mick Lynch as general secretary of the RMT transport union comes at a crucial time for our union.

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5 May 2021

Goodlord strike forces talks - solidarity needed for crucial dispute

The strike at lettings tech platform Goodlord has forced bosses into Acas talks

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5 May 2021

Fight the rotten establishment

For workers threatened with 'fire and rehire', young people facing job losses, local communities fighting cuts in services, the choice on offer from the establishment parties during the elections has been woeful

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5 May 2021

Cladding: Tories refuse to protect leaseholders again

Socialist Party member Paul Kershaw, chair of the Unite housing workers' branch, spoke to Ed Spencer

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5 May 2021

Go Ahead offers deal to Manchester bus drivers

Bus drivers employed by Go North West in Manchester have been taking all-out, continuous strike, since the 28 February

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5 May 2021

Bellway must pay! Make our homes safe!

On 1 May more than 60 residents of the Caspian Quarter gathered outside Bellway's Barking showrooms to protest about the property developer's failure to replace flammable balconies

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5 May 2021

Can the 'Preston model' beat the cuts?

It is clear that we are at the start of a new period of austerity, where the ruling class will try and make ordinary people pay for the costs of the pandemic and for the crisis in the neoliberal capitalist system which has been fully exposed by the pandemic

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Socialist Party members campaigning for TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) election candidates in Liverpool, 24.4.21, photo by Mark Best

30 April 2021

Socialist Party members campaigning for TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) election candidates in Liverpool, 24.4.21

Socialist Party members campaigning for TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) election candidates in Liverpool, 24.4.21

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28 April 2021

Waltham Forest TUSC: On 6 May - Use your vote to fight education cuts

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28 April 2021

What councils can do to protect the environment

Protecting the environment will be a key issue in the various election campaigns.

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28 April 2021

Goodlord strikers fight fire and rehire as part of day of action

Unite the Union held a mass picket outside the tenant referencing company Goodlord on 26 April as part of a day of action against 'fire and rehire.'

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27 April 2021

Leicester and Leicestershire TUSC: Fight the cuts!

Speakers include Kumaran Bose, TUSC candidate for North Evington; and Damian Cosgrove, TUSC candidate for Loughborough North West.

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27 April 2021

Caerphilly & RCT Socialist Party: How the Welsh government could fight Tory cuts

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21 April 2021

Capitalism discriminates against us - Disabled people fighting for our rights

"My experience has been a humiliating financial nightmare ...I first tried to claim disability benefits in the 1990s..."

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21 April 2021

Essex: Why I'm standing for TUSC

The Tories in Essex County Council want to cut £46 million from public services. There's nothing left to cut!

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21 April 2021

Bus workers protest Go-Ahead's 'fire and rehire'

The Go-Ahead group runs bus services in Manchester and is currently using 'fire and rehire' to cut drivers' pay and conditions. Go-Ahead is also a big operator in Transport for London (TfL).

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21 April 2021

Fight to stop cuts

6 May elections: In the run-up to the 6 May elections we have an opportunity to build the fight against austerity and the damage it has done to our lives.

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21 April 2021

Keep Liverpool council's One Stop Shops open

In the 1980s, when the Labour council in Liverpool was led by supporters of the Militant newspaper, forerunner of the Socialist, one of the reforms that was implemented was the opening of eight 'One Stop Shops' across the city

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