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Ledbury Tenants Fight For Decent Homes
The Socialist

Ledbury Tenants Fight For Decent Homes

The Socialist has previously reported that the Ledbury estate in Southwark, following the Grenfell Tower fire, was declared wholly unsafe by structural engineers and residents told they may have to temporarily leave. This was due to large cracks which you could fit your whole hand into in the fabric of the four 13-storey tower blocks.

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Issue 964, 28 September - 4 October 2017
Sampson Allegations Show Overhaul Needed In Women's Football
The Socialist

Sampson Allegations Show Overhaul Needed In Women's Football

At the start of the summer women’s football was riding high. In the build up to the European Championships, England, for the first time in a very long time (in men’s or women’s football), were one of the favourites. A crushing semi-final exit to the hosts and eventual winners, the Netherlands, ranked 12th in the world to England’s fifth at the time, ended hopes of the title.

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Issue 964, 28 September - 4 October 2017
Lecturers Vote Yes To National Strikes Against Pension Cuts
The Socialist

Lecturers Vote Yes To National Strikes Against Pension Cuts

Sam Morecroft Sheffield UCU anti-casualisation officer

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Issue 979, 25-31 January 2018
PCS Executive Agrees Next Steps In Pay Campaign Following Historic Vote For Action
The Socialist

PCS Executive Agrees Next Steps In Pay Campaign Following Historic Vote For Action

Marion Lloyd PCS national executive committee member and PCS Left Unity chair (personal capacity)

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Issue 979, 25-31 January 2018
Defend Louise Harrison - Save Yorkshire Women's Services!
The Socialist

Defend Louise Harrison - Save Yorkshire Women's Services!

Amy Cousens Women’s Lives Matter campaign and Leeds Socialist Party

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Issue 979, 25-31 January 2018
Jobcentre Walkout To Save Whitley Bay Office
The Socialist

Jobcentre Walkout To Save Whitley Bay Office

Two days of strike action took place on 17 and 18 August organised by the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), that represents staff in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), against the closure of the Whitley Bay Jobcentre.

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Issue 959, 24-30 August 2017
Defiant Barts NHS Workers Fight To Stop Serco Sabotage
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Defiant Barts NHS Workers Fight To Stop Serco Sabotage

Socialist Party industrial organiser

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Issue 959, 24-30 August 2017
Amazon Tax Halves As Revenues Soar - Nationalise Now!
The Socialist

Amazon Tax Halves As Revenues Soar - Nationalise Now!

Tech giant Amazon paid 50% less tax in the UK this year compared to last year despite the company’s turnover rising by 54%.

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Issue 959, 24-30 August 2017
Bosses Divided - University Pension Strikes Can Win!
The Socialist

Bosses Divided - University Pension Strikes Can Win!

Sheffield UCU anti-casualisation officer (personal capacity)

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Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
Facebook Sides With State Repression Reinstate The Tamil Solidarity Page
The Socialist

Facebook Sides With State Repression Reinstate The Tamil Solidarity Page

Facebook shut down the Tamil Solidarity campaign page on 9 February.

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Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
Northants Council Crisis - Protesters Demand An End To Cuts And Privatisation
The Socialist

Northants Council Crisis - Protesters Demand An End To Cuts And Privatisation

Northants Socialist Party

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Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
May Day, May Day!
The Socialist

May Day, May Day!

North West Socialist Party paper organiser

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Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
German Engineering Strike Puts Shorter Week On Agenda - But Could Have Won More
The Socialist

German Engineering Strike Puts Shorter Week On Agenda - But Could Have Won More

Socialist Party industrial organiser

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Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
Fight Tuition Fees
The Socialist

Fight Tuition Fees

Tories in retreat - kick them out

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Issue 963, 21-27 September 2017
Deal Concludes Barts Health Strike
The Socialist

Deal Concludes Barts Health Strike

“We have raised our heads high”

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Issue 963, 21-27 September 2017
Birmingham Bin Workers Vote To Continue Action Following Rally
The Socialist

Birmingham Bin Workers Vote To Continue Action Following Rally

Several hundred supporters, including a large contingent of bin workers, assembled on  17 September outside the very building in Birmingham where the decision to issue 113 redundancy notices and deprive some workers of up to £5,000 a year was made by the Labour council.  

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Issue 963, 21-27 September 2017
Tata Pension Deal
The Socialist

Tata Pension Deal

Tata steelworkers have reluctantly accepted a ‘gun to the head’ pension deal which will end their final salary pension scheme and see it being replaced by an inferior defined contribution scheme.

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Issue 937, 23 February - 1 March 2017
Rail: Fares Up, Bosses' Pay Up - Delays And Cancellations Up
The Socialist

Rail: Fares Up, Bosses' Pay Up - Delays And Cancellations Up

Greenwich and Bexley Socialist Party

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Issue 976, 4-10 January 2017
Blairite Haringey Council 'All Ears' To Rich Property Developers
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Blairite Haringey Council 'All Ears' To Rich Property Developers

Nick Auvache North London Socialist Party

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Issue 976, 4-10 January 2017
Amy Murphy For Usdaw President Vote For A Fighting And Democratic Union
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Amy Murphy For Usdaw President Vote For A Fighting And Democratic Union

Socialist Party members in Usdaw

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Issue 977, 11-17 January 2018
What's Behind The Surge In Eating Disorders?
The Socialist

What's Behind The Surge In Eating Disorders?

Many will have been shocked by recent NHS figures showing the doubling over the last six years of hospitalisations due to life-threatening eating disorders.

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Issue 984, 1-7 March 2018
Victory Against Government's War On Eastern European Homeless
The Socialist

Victory Against Government's War On Eastern European Homeless

Paul Heron Solicitor, Public Interest Law Unit (personal capacity)

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Issue 979, 25-31 January 2018
Universal Credit: Set Up To Fail
The Socialist

Universal Credit: Set Up To Fail

Only a few days after the roll-out of the Tories’ new ‘universal credit’ benefits system, the working poor, disabled and most vulnerable in our society are already suffering. Ronnie, an income officer for a housing trust in Halton, Merseyside, spoke to the Socialist Party’s Stephen Armstrong about the difficulties encountered by claimants and her own organisation.

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Issue 979, 25-31 January 2018
Netherlands: Heavy Defeat Forausterity Government
The Socialist

Netherlands: Heavy Defeat Forausterity Government

Build a mass workers’ party that fights for socialism.

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Issue 941, 23-29 March 2017
Victory: Low-Paid Workers Beat Bank Of England Bosses!
The Socialist

Victory: Low-Paid Workers Beat Bank Of England Bosses!

Unite the Union members at the Bank of England have won a historic victory.

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Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017
I've Been Placed In Charge Of Wards Without Defibrillators
The Socialist

I've Been Placed In Charge Of Wards Without Defibrillators

Kick out all the cutters and private profiteers

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Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017
Barts Hospital Workers Force Serco To Negotiating Table
The Socialist

Barts Hospital Workers Force Serco To Negotiating Table

As we go to press, talks are underway between Unite the Union and Serco over the long-running Barts hospitals dispute.

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Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017
Bus Safety: We Won't Be Distracted From Public Ownership
The Socialist

Bus Safety: We Won't Be Distracted From Public Ownership

Twenty-five deaths and nearly 12,000 injuries have been caused by buses on the capital’s streets in just two years. The lethal pressures heaped on bus drivers are shown in a new report ‘Driven to Distraction’, by the London Assembly’s Transport Committee.

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Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017
Readmit The Socialists - For A Federal Labour Party
The Socialist

Readmit The Socialists - For A Federal Labour Party

The Socialist received a letter over the summer from a reader questioning our application to work with the Labour Party in an inclusive federation. Socialists always welcome serious debate on the strategy and tactics we should employ, and so we asked Dave Nellist, the former Labour MP who is now a member of the Socialist Party national committee, to make a contribution.

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Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017
When We Fight - We Win!
The Socialist

When We Fight - We Win!

Interview with leader of students’ union in the Spanish state

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Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017