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From The Socialist newspaper, 29 August 2018
Them & us
Them and us fishes (Click to enlarge)
McCain dead
John McCain, the anti-worker, warmonger US senator and former Republican presidential candidate, has died. Seattle city councillor Kshama Sawant, a member of Socialist Alternative, the US co-thinkers of the Socialist Party, responded on Twitter:
"A politician's legacy is a political not personal question. An enthusiastic supporter of every imperialist war while in office, John McCain shares responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths. To whitewash that is to disrespect those who died in Iraq, Afghanistan, elsewhere."
Kshama went on: "Not to mention the countless working people's lives damaged by McCain's support, as a Senator, for brutal neoliberal social and economic policies in the United States. Our solidarity belongs with the millions of families suffering under such policies here and abroad."
Kshama Sawant, Socialism 2014, London 8.11.14, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)
Wonga broke...
Spare a thought for payday parasite Wonga. The leeching loan shark is in financial distress - and could be on the brink of collapse.
Small comfort for low-paid workers struggling under the burden of Wonga interest payments, though. The firm's owners and creditors will get off scot free in the event of bankruptcy. But debtors will have their accounts sold to other bullying bloodsuckers to keep collecting.
... sardine-tin flats
Residents of Newbury House in east London are crammed into 'studio' flats sized just 12 feet by 12 feet, according to a Guardian investigation.
Greedy developers can change office blocks into filing-cabinet 'homes' without even needing planning permission. The block is right next to the noisy, exhaust-clouded A12 trunk road. And - surprise, surprise - its owner is registered in a tax haven.
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In The Socialist 29 August 2018:
What we think
Capitalism is a chaotic, irrational system - we need socialist change
International socialist news and analysis
Venezuela: How can reaction and imperialism be defeated?
China: Solidarity with Jasic Technology workers
News
Working families £50 a week short of paying for kids
Nationalise the energy giants to combat global warming
Workplace
Restaurant tips walkout: "Hold the burgers, hold the fries, TGI are telling lies"
Sunderland: Resolute Liebherr workers in pay strike
Merseyside fire authority forced to postpone night closures
Northern Rail guards continue fight against driver-only operation
East Dunbartonshire council workers back further strikes
Youth and students
Exam factories, cuts and violence - Fight for our future!
CWI School 2018
The ongoing capitalist crisis and the struggle for a socialist world
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Battle growing against Loch Lomond area big business sell-off
Leicester lobby calls for consultation on NHS closure plans
Socialist sales success in Cardiff
Huddersfield Socialist Party organise counter-protest against EDL
Fracking companies backed by government and courts
Leeds protest against NHS treatment cuts
1918 police strikes
100 years since police went on strike: "never nearer to Bolshevism"
Opinion
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