
The Socialist 20 June 2018
Save our NHS

Desperate divisions in Tories - Corbyn and unions must act
Tory cash boost not enough - save our NHS
No to Trump's climate change chaos
Universal Credit delivers claimant misery
Seattle council repeals Amazon Tax
1000 issues of the Socialist: A vital weapon standing in proud traditions
Greetings from readers of the Socialist
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DWP surrenders to union pressure - now vote Yes to smash pay cap for everyone
Rolls-Royce: fight all job cuts!
GMB union: NHS reps reject Tory pay offer
McStrikers and young workers take centre stage at bakers' union 2018 conference
Northern Rail strike reaches 21 days of action to save guards
Miners demand end to pensions robbery
Yorks NHS workers fight outsourcing
Unite agrees NSSN affiliation - come to the NSSN conference!
Tamil Solidarity Day: intense, lively, thought-provoking
Grenfell disaster: one year on, still no prosecutions, still no adequate housing..
Organisers' school - an opportunity to educate and discuss
Leeds: Disability campaigners force council to retreat
Wrenford centre: Stop heartless Tory cuts
Knowsley council pushed back on cuts and privatisation
Orgreave - no justice, no peace
Inspirational account of young Marx's political battles
Rousing, funny take on Marxism - from the man himself
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Miners demand end to pensions robbery
Over a hundred former miners lobbied parliament on 6 June, demanding the government stops its decades-long looting of their pension fund.
Billions of pounds are involved. The government milks the fund and doesn't pay out to the miners while waiting for them to die off.
In commenting on the event on Facebook, frustrated workers spoke many truths - including about the lack of action by Labour MPs...
Miner 1: "The miners went through enough with the closure of the pits and the following years of chronic respiratory diseases. Communities and family ruined for generations. Now this. It is so tragic it makes me want to cry with anger."
Miner 2: "Imagine how much angrier you would feel if it was your pension cash [they were] were stealing. My Coal Board pension would be roughly twice what it is now if these Tory vermin hadn't been helping themselves to it.
"We're subsidising their City chums and corporate masters so as they can carry on tax dodging. Richard Branson and Sir Philip Green send their thanks."
Miner 3: "Don't forget... the Labour Party had a chance to put it right. Those MPs who were over the road the other day [when we were lobbying] and had a chance to come over and meet us. They are just as bad as the Tories. They are letting their class down."
Miner 2: "Nothing but a bunch of careerists posing as Labour MPs. Tory Blair's 'New Labour' were just a Tory second eleven - all those MPs who aren't prepared to stand by and defend their class should be... replaced with people who will."
Miner 4: "It was maddening enough to find out the Tories and top-level management of British Coal had planned, schemed, connived and put into place all this. But then Blair and Brown from Labour just carried on doing the same. Makes me so mad."
Miner 2: "That'll be New Labour though. A sort of Tory-lite."
In this issue
What we think
Desperate divisions in Tories - Corbyn and unions must act
News
Tory cash boost not enough - save our NHS
No to Trump's climate change chaos
Universal Credit delivers claimant misery
International socialist news and analysis
Seattle council repeals Amazon Tax
1000 issues of the Socialist
1000 issues of the Socialist: A vital weapon standing in proud traditions
Greetings from readers of the Socialist
How do we produce the Socialist?
Workplace
DWP surrenders to union pressure - now vote Yes to smash pay cap for everyone
Rolls-Royce: fight all job cuts!
GMB union: NHS reps reject Tory pay offer
McStrikers and young workers take centre stage at bakers' union 2018 conference
Northern Rail strike reaches 21 days of action to save guards
Miners demand end to pensions robbery
Yorks NHS workers fight outsourcing
Unite agrees NSSN affiliation - come to the NSSN conference!
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Tamil Solidarity Day: intense, lively, thought-provoking
Grenfell disaster: one year on, still no prosecutions, still no adequate housing..
Organisers' school - an opportunity to educate and discuss
Leeds: Disability campaigners force council to retreat
Wrenford centre: Stop heartless Tory cuts
Knowsley council pushed back on cuts and privatisation
Orgreave - no justice, no peace
Opinion
Inspirational account of young Marx's political battles
Rousing, funny take on Marxism - from the man himself
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The Tyneside apprentices' strike during WW2
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