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2 December 2020
Unions must resist return to austerity
Chancellor Rishi 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 cut - which is what a pay freeze means in reality - on 1.5 million public sector workers.
2 December 2020
"Devolution is a disaster" were the reported words of Boris Johnson, referring to the Scottish government and "Tony Blair's biggest mistake".
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.
21 October 2020
World capitalism's terrified strategists abandon austerity - for now
The International Monetary Fund, evangel of austerity, has come out against austerity to pay for Covid-19!
14 October 2020
Non-fiction: This Land - the story of a movement
The 2017 general election surge for Corbyn's anti-austerity manifesto was a high point for many workers and youth desperate for an alternative to Tory cuts
9 September 2020
TUSC to stand in elections again against pro-austerity politicians
Starting in the contests scheduled for next May.
2 September 2020
The Socialist Party condemns the decision by Lincoln council to cut support for Drill Hall. The Labour-controlled council voted to fully end funding, after years of cuts, placing the service in jeopardy
2 September 2020
Don't blame asylum seekers for Tory cuts
The plight of refugees was grimly highlighted by the Channel death of a Sudanese migrant
22 July 2020
Saving the music industry from pandemic and austerity
"90% of UK venues and festivals face closure" warned a report from the Music Venue Trust in June. Like many other service industries, the live music business has been left on a cliff edge
1 July 2020
Boris Johnson has attempted to grab the headlines by bigging up his government's £5 billion post-pandemic spending programme on schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
24 June 2020
Cladding off now; failure app; Labour untogether; shopping scandal
24 June 2020
Reading workers' movement responds to knife attack
A horrific knife attack took place in Forbury Gardens in Reading on 20 June, killing three people, reportedly LGBT+, and injuring others
20 May 2020
Crisis in council services: Labour must fight or stand aside
A £10 billion financial black hole faces councils, according to a Labour Party report
22 April 2020
Why I joined the Socialist Party
I joined the Socialist Party two months ago. I've been interested in socialism and socialist politics for a number of years, writes Amy Sage, Bristol Socialist Party.
22 April 2020
Capitalist press attacks Tory incompetence
"Pandemic planning became a casualty of the austerity years."
21 April 2020
Councils must demand control of supplies and reversal of austerity
Despite their claims of "partnership" between central and local government, it's clear the Tories have not involved councils in their Covid-19 planning at all, writes Hugo Pierre, Unison union national executive committee member (personal capacity).
1 April 2020
Fully fund hospices to care for vulnerable children
I am a parent of a child with a terminal diagnosis.
1 April 2020
NHS workers speak out: austerity has left us unprepared
"Only in the last couple of weeks things are actually happening"
25 March 2020
Coronavirus and domestic violence: a double threat to women's lives
As we entered 2020 the number of women murdered every week by a partner or ex-partner in the UK rose to three. On top of this, three women a week kill themselves to escape abuse
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