28 April 2021

International Workers' Day - struggle, solidarity, socialism

May Day is an annual celebration of workers' struggle against capitalism.

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15 April 2021

Latest podcast: PCS elections - the struggle for fighting trade unionism

https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/main/Podcasts

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31 March 2021

We will not be the lost generation

The under-25s have accounted for two-thirds of all job losses over the last year.

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24 March 2021

Lessons of the 2011 pensions strike: when workers showed their power

In 2011, trade unionists demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands and then took strike action in defence of their pensions and against public service cuts

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13 March 2021

Oppose bans on vigils - Defend the right to protest

The high court upheld the Met police's ban on a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard

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10 March 2021

NHS pay - 15% now

Trade unions must organise for strike action:
Staff are outraged. 1%, or an extra £3.50 a week for an experienced nurse, is not just a slap in the face for NHS workers, it's a pay cut compared to the cost of living.

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3 March 2021

Public sector workers respond to the budget

"The financial outlook is volatile." This (under)statement, in Essex County Council's budget document for 2021, could be the strapline for the future of all local government services.

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24 February 2021

Where's the road map to jobs and wages Boris?

Trade unions must fight for lives and livelihoods
Johnson's 'cautious' road map to reopen society from lockdown in England - after over 120,000 Covid deaths and a massive hit to incomes - won't lead to the needed restoration and improvement in living standards.

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16 December 2020

Effective testing and properly funded safety plan needed

The health secretary hopes mobile testing units can stop the Covid tide

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7 December 2020

How far can the Starmer counter-revolution go?

And what are all those who have supported Jeremy Corbyn proposing can be done to reverse the tide? Read the editorials of Socialism Today

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2 December 2020

Unions must resist return to austerity

Chancellor Sunak's spending review should be a wake-up call to the trade union leaders. Even from the capitalists' point of view there was no immediate need to impose a pay freeze on 1.5 million public sector workers.

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2 December 2020

Napo kickstarts fight against pay freeze

At my first meeting on the national executive committee (NEC) of probation union Napo, I put forward an emergency motion to launch a campaign against the pay freeze.

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2 December 2020

Equity union conference calls for radical change - now lead a fight!

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18 November 2020

Women workers need strong trade unions to defend their jobs, pay and services

Why I am backing Hugo Pierre for Unison general secretary: "It's bedlam at the care home", said one care worker, my neighbour and Unison member. She went on to say: "They admitted three more patients at the weekend. We have never been so full. Some residents

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11 November 2020

Tory U-turn: Furlough extended - not enough to save jobs

Boris Johnson's recent U-turn, to extend furlough, will give a glimmer of hope to some workers, but will come too late for many already dumped by their employers.

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4 November 2020

Why the Socialist Party is backing Hugo Pierre for Unison general secretary

On the 28 October, 1.4 million ballot papers will go out to Unison public sector union members to decide who should be the new general secretary and lead the union.

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3 November 2020

Corbyn suspended - Time to fight for a new mass workers' party

Keir Starmer is determined to annihilate the last vestiges of 'Corbynism'- as the Socialist Party warned would be the case

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7 October 2020

Tories put profit first: Gambling with our jobs and lives

Roll up, roll up, and place your bets - at the great pandemic wheel of fortune! Red, you win the virus; black, you lose your job. Don't fancy the odds? Too late!

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5 October 2020

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lots of test here

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30 September 2020

Tory scheme won't halt mass unemployment: mobilise the unions!

It should be renamed the 'job scrapping scheme'.

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