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1 Sep Slashing public services: do councillors have 'no choice'?
1 Sep Anti-cuts movement builds momentum in Plymouth
1 Sep Fighting the far right in Bradford
1 Sep Our future under attack
1 Sep A fightback can stop cuts
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12 Sep National Shop Stewards Network lobby of TUC conference
7 Sep Sheffield Socialist Party: How Thatchers Poll Tax Was Defeated
7 Sep Pontefract meeting: What is Socialism? What Does the Socialist Party Stand For?
9 Sep Shrewsbury Socialist Party
14 Sep Wakefield Socialist Party: Capitalism in Crisis, Was Marx Right?
15 Sep North-West Leeds Socialist Party: What is Socialism? How Would It Work?
6 Nov Socialism 2010, the Socialist Party's weekend of socialist discussion
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London May Day demonstration, photo Jules Mattsson |
No wonder people say they're sick of political double-talk. Mrs Thatcher said "there's no such thing as society". David Cameron talks of "the big society". They both mean the same thing: swingeing Tory attacks on public services and support for working families, writes Dave Griffiths, Coventry Socialist Party
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Suraj Shah and Ben Robinson, Youth Fight for Jobs, say life is different for those who go to state schools...
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THE POET Shelley helped inspire a 50-strong meeting launching Plymouth's fight against the cuts. 90-year-old pensioners' campaigner, Paddy Ryan, quoted Shelley: "Rise like lions after slumber in unvanquishable...
The EDL's protest consisted of racist chants, fighting with the police, and amongst themselves, writes Ian Pattison, Leeds/Bradford Socialist Party... Socialist Party news and analysis
THREE FORMER Labour cabinet members are now acting as advisers to the Con-Dem coalition. Prime Minister Cameron has appointed Alan Milburn his 'social mobility tsar', who is supposed to help break down...
Socialist Party feature
From 1983 to 1987 the Liverpool Labour council, led by supporters of Militant (the predecessor of the Socialist Party), refused to make cuts or increase local rates to compensate for Tory cuts. Instead they led a mass movement to win more money from Margaret Thatcher's Tory government. Tony Mulhearn interview. |
Lobby the TUC conferenceSunday 12 September 12 noonCentral Convention Centre, ManchesterOrganised by the National Shop Stewards Network Contact the NSSN for more information and to report what is happening in your area in support of the lobby: info@shopstewards.net
HUMAN RIGHTS campaigner and lawyer Vadim Kuramshina was violently attacked and arrested last week in Kokchetava, northern Kazakhstan...
THE COSATU trade union federation in South Africa has warned the African National Congress (ANC) government to meet 1.3 million public sector workers' demands for an 8.6% pay increase and a housing allowance of R1,000 a month, writes Weizmann Hamilton of the Democratic Socialist Movement in South Africa.
On 24 August, reps from transport unions TSSA and RMT met to discuss the first ever joint strike between the two unions on London Underground, writes Reg Johnstone, RMT. |
The Socialist 18 August 2010
Billionaire tax exile to slash services: A cabinet of millionaires appoints a billionaire to advise them on making cuts to our jobs and services, or as they refer to them - 'efficiencies'. No surprise there!, writes Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party.
The Trade Union Rights Campaign - Pakistan initiated the Workers' Relief Committee to coordinate aid to workers and activists.
The fragility of Britain's economic growth has been confirmed by various reports and comments from bankers and economists over the last week... Socialist Party news and analysis
THE CON-DEM government is determined to use the excuse of a financial crisis to justify its aim to finish what Thatcher started - and Blair and Brown, in effect, continued - the comprehensive dismantling of the welfare state, writes Louise Cuffaro.
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National Shop Stewards Network lobby of TUC conference12:00 noon, Sunday 12th SeptemberManchester Central Convention ComplexCall for a national demonstration against cuts
70 years after his death Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, assesses the contribution of Trotsky's ideas to the struggle for socialism in the 21st century.
Kirklees Unison has launched a formal industrial action ballot, to begin strike action in September to challenge the council's headlong rush into some of the most swingeing cuts in living memory, Huddersfield Socialist Party members write.
Book now for the Socialist Party summer camp for political discussion and fun in pleasant Essex countryside. Discussions include...
DOZENS HAVE died in fires, thousands have drowned, hundreds have been arrested in the last month as the environmental crisis and the struggle against its causes find their epicentre in Moscow, writes Rob Jones, Moscow. Socialist Party news and comment
The racist English Defence League (EDL) plans to march through Bradford on Saturday 28 August. In a deeply provocative move the EDL has specifically targeted Bradford because of its large Asian and Muslim... |
The Socialist 11 August 2010
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International socialist news
Pakistan Flood disaster: Appeal for workers' solidarity The Progressive Workers Federation (PWF) and Trade Union Rights Campaign Pakistan (TURCP) urge all our brothers, sisters and comrades in the international trade union movement to show their solidarity...
Bill Mullins, NSSN Steering Committee writes. Never has a government been so crude in its attacks. They couldn't wait to wield the axe against the workers...
The concerted might of the strongest and largest military force in the world, that of the US, is failing to defeat the disparate and crudely equipped Taliban militias in one of the poorest countries of the world...
Negotiations between BA management and Unite cabin crew representatives resumed on 2 August and are continuing at the time of writing...
Cindy Sheehan to speak at Socialism 2010: Cindy came to prominence in 2005 when she set up a protest camp outside president Bush's ranch. She simply wanted to ask Bush why he sent her son to die in Iraq. In 2008 she ran for Congress as an Independent against the top Democrat Nancy Pelosi, winning an impressive 16% of the vote, beating the Republican, and coming in second place. In recent months Cindy has clearly stated that capitalism is the root cause of the world’s problems and that democratic socialism is the alternative. The Socialist Party Summer Camp 2010, taking place from Friday 27 August to Monday 30 August, is the ideal opportunity for activists to come together to share ideas and experiences while enjoying a weekend of sports, singing and maybe even some sun. |
The Tories’ new youth service plan is the latest attempt to use young people as free labour. Billed as “non-military national service””, it will offer 16 year olds an eight week programme of volunteering and community work immediately after finishing school.
Leeds Socialist Party members formed a very visible and vocal contingent on the Leeds LGBT Pride march around Leeds city centre on 1 August, handing out leaflets calling for a united fight against homophobia and transphobia as part of the wider struggle for socialism... Accademies
BLUNDERING EDUCATION minister, Michael Gove, is finding that the realities of life do not match his free market fantasies, writes Robin Pye.
AN OIL trading company has been fined £840,000 after being convicted for concealing the dangerous nature of toxic waste which was subsequently dumped in the Ivory Coast in 2006, causing thousands of people to fall ill, writes John Sharpe. Workplace Debate
In an article in issue 632 of The Socialist, Kevin Parslow outlined reasons why Socialist Party members in the Unite trade union are supporting Len McCluskey in the general secretary (GS) election... Tamil Solidarity
ON 24 July, 21 people died in the horrific stampede at the Love Parade festival in the German city of Duisburg...
Socialist Party news and analysis A DAMNING report was issued recently by the charity ActionAid on the "deplorable" pay and working conditions of Bangladeshi factory workers employed by British supermarket Asda - a subsidiary of US conglomerate Wal-Mart which makes £45 million a day in profit...
Review & Comment Review: The Lacuna: THE LACUNA is written as the diary of a solitary young man, Harrison Shepherd, who ends up working as a cook for the Mexican artist Diego Rivera and then the exiled Leon Trotsky, one of the leaders of the 1917 Russian revolution, writes Hannah Sell. |
The Socialist 28 July 2010
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Socialist Party NHS campaign
This is nonsense. Roger Shrives investigates the NHS's largest ever rash of privatisation.
BT and the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have agreed a three year pay deal which will be recommended to the union's members in a ballot, writes Clive Walder, Birmingham, Black Country and Worcester branch CWU, personal capacity.
Socialist Party workplace analysis
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TWO WEEKS - two meetings! The 'Hackney alliance to defend public services' has been formed. With 50 at each meeting from many unions and workplaces and community groups, a real buzz has developed to fight the cuts in Hackney.
Initiated by Coventry TUC, this campaign has already organised a 100-strong protest on the day of the emergency budget, and three meetings, Coventry Socialist Party members write.
Comment
"ENOUGH IS enough" by Donna Summer and Barbara Striesand may not be the greatest song ever but the title illustrates the mindset of many a modern day worker, writes Martyn Yates. |
The Socialist 14 July 2010
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Anti-cuts campaign
No apology. No concern. No regret. Sitting comfortably and calmly in his Newsnight chair Michael Gove, education minister, had no qualms about claiming that cuts to frontline services are "unavoidable". Gove merely blamed the previous government. Now young people leaving university cannot get a decent job...
Every day this millionaires' government announces another way it is going to heap misery on the population as it sets out to destroy our public services. Cuts News and Analysis
"It's class war, isn't it?" This was the view of a woman asked by the BBC what she thought of George Osborne's emergency budget, the day after it was announced, writes Eleanor Donne and Vicky Perin.
Socialist Party feature
Hitting those on benefits hardest: "Yes it is tough; but it is also fair". This was how Tory chancellor George Osborne described his emergency budget on 22 June 2010. In fact the plans of this government of millionaires represent an enormous...
LABOUR CONTROLLED Neath/Port Talbot council is threatening to sack its 7,000 strong workforce and re-employ them on worse terms and conditions in a brutal attempt to close a £24 million gap in its budget by 2014, writes Alec Thraves.
Youth Fight for Jobs will be protesting outside the Department for Business Innovation and Skills against the brutal attacks that young people face and to demand real jobs and free education. |
THE RACIST British National Party (BNP) has been forced to call off its annual Red, White and Blue 'festival of hate' which usually takes place in Codnor, Derbyshire, writes Pete Watson,.
Socialist Party councillor (Australia) speaks to strikers: ON SATURDAY 26 June I travelled with two comrades from South Africa's Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM, the Socialist Party's counterpart in South Africa) to a mass meeting they had called in Rustenburg, about two hours north west of Johannesburg, writes Steve Jolly,. BA Dispute
Although there are some guarantees on terms and conditions that were not in the last offer, the substantive issues that led to the strike have not been addressed, writes British Airways cabin crew began voting on 6 July on a new 'final' offer from the company. Despite the rhetoric of BA management the new offer seems to be similar to the old offer put forward prior to the last round of strikes.. Civil Service
On 6 July Tory minister Francis Maude announced new legislation to attack civil service workers' redundancy pay, writes John McInally.
The public sector union Unison has announced the timetable for national executive (NEC) by-elections, including the local government male seat that was held by Socialist Party member Glenn Kelly...
support Len McCluskey: The general secretary election in Unite will take place between 25 October and 19 November this year... Interview with Brian Caton
Genuine reform or further hypocrisy?: On 30 June Ken Clarke, the new justice secretary, made a speech addressing the problems of a soaring prison population... LGBT
PRIDE STARTED 40 years ago as a political demonstration for gay rights. London Pride 2010 on 3 July was a carnival, with politics only at the fringes. The gay establishment claim that lesbian, gay, bisexual... I WENT to my first Socialist Party summer camp last year as a fairly new member. It was fantastic being in such a relaxed environment with everybody on the same political wavelength and with the same goals in mind, writes Katie Simpson, Cardiff East Socialist Party
Socialist Party review
Steve Appleton reviews: Whoops! Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay, by John Lanchester, published by Allen Lane, 2010, writes £20. |
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