Britain
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By Sam Ashton
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Monday, 13 June 2011 |
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As Britain’s largest care home provider teeters on the brink of
bankruptcy we examine the underlying causes of the crisis and explain how not
even the care of elderly people is immune from the ravages of capitalism.
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By Steve Jones
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Friday, 10 June 2011 |
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The crisis which has hit the care home company Southern Cross continues
to get worse and worse. Already 3,000 jobs losses have been announced
and today the FT leaked the news that the company intend to "return to
their landlords" 132 of their homes - about 20% of the total holding.
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By Adam Booth (Cambridge CLP)
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Thursday, 09 June 2011 |
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We are being
constantly reassured that the financial crisis gripping Greece cannot reach
Britain. Many facts and figures are provided to back this up. However, a
closer look at the situation reveals the real underlying financial
crisis that sooner or later must surface in Britain also. In this
article Adam Booth looks at the situation in Greece and Europe as a
whole and shows how Britain cannot escape the inevitable.
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By Steve Jones
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Monday, 06 June 2011 |
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It would be remiss of us not to mention this year’s Sunday Times Rich
List, which was published during April. The opening article is headed
‘Wealth goes through the roof.’ It starts with the blurb: ‘While Britons
feel the pain of spending cuts, high-rollers march onwards and
upwards…’ What! Didn’t the government just tell us that We Are All In
This Together? Well it seems not.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 06 June 2011 |
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Plans by Royal Mail management to slash around 40,000 jobs over the next five years have been leaked. Clearly the plan is to make the company an 'attractive option' for buyers following privatisation. In reality this will turn RM into just another courier service - offering poor service for high prices.
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By HOV
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Saturday, 04 June 2011 |
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At
its annual Congress held at the Harrogate International Centre, from
Saturday 28 May to Monday 30 May 2011, the University and College Union
(UCU) passed a unanimous resolution condemning US sanctions against
PDVSA.
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By Rob Sewell
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Thursday, 02 June 2011 |
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Workers have been feeling the pinch for
some time, even before the slump of 2008-09. Now they are in for an even worse
time, the most prolonged squeeze on living standards in recent memory.
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By Paul Cummings, Edinburgh Marxists
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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 |
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“From Scotland to Spain, the problem is the same!” was one of many slogans being shouted from the streets of Edinburgh today (29th May) as around 200 - 300 people (most from Edinburgh’s sizeable Spanish
community) organised to demonstrate in solidarity with revolutionary
movements in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.
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By Cambridge SA
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Thursday, 26 May 2011 |
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To get the perspective of the NHS reforms from a
healthcare worker, Socialist.net talked to Martin Booth, Chair of the Unison health branch
at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge and Secretary of the Cambridgeshire
Against the Cuts campaign.
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By Adam Booth (Cambridge CLP)
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Thursday, 26 May 2011 |
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The creation of the National Health Service is considered
by many people to be the greatest achievement of any British government. The
NHS was established in 1948 on the back of a landslide victory by the Labour
Party in 1945, who came to power on a programme that included the creation of
the cradle-to-grave welfare state, the mass construction of council housing,
and the nationalisation of transport and key industries. Aneurin Bevan, the
Labour Minister of Health who pushed for the creation of the NHS, famously said
that, “The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight
for it.” Now these words are being put to the test as the coalition government
seeks to introduce the most regressive changes to the NHS in its history.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 20 May 2011 |
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The Walton by-election, in Liverpool,
took place in July 1991, twenty years ago. It arose after the sudden
death of Eric Heffer, the left-wing Labour MP for Walton. At the time it
created quite a political stir. It was also a key factor in the demise
of the Militant, which had boasted it could win the seat, but
failed miserably.
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By Daniel Morley (Camberwell & Peckham CLP)
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Monday, 16 May 2011 |
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The
announcement that Progress, the Blairite Right Wing group inside the Labour
Party, is to publish something called 'The Purple Book' later this year is just
the latest development of the so-called Blue Labour project.
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By Ewan Gibbs and Patrick Orr (Glasgow North CLP and Glasgow Uni Occupation- personal capacity)
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011 |
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On Thursday history was made as the
Scottish National Party, who only a decade ago seemed destined to play
second fiddle to the Labour Party in Scottish politics, became the first
party in the Scottish Parliament's twelve year history to form a single
party majority. More importantly, for the first time there is a
pro-independence majority in the Parliament, and consequently a
referendum on whether Scotland should leave the United Kingdom will be
held within the next five year term.
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By Rob Sewell
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Wednesday, 11 May 2011 |
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Elections are simply a snapshot of the
mood at any particular moment in time, but they can reveal a lot about
the real underlying processes taking place in society. That was the case
with the May local elections, which marked the first anniversary in
power of the Coalition government and from which we can draw important
lessons.
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By Ben Peck, for the Militant Student Editorial Board
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Monday, 09 May 2011 |
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The National Union of Teachers (NUT),
the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) and the National
Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) are balloting their members for
strike action. It is likely that as a result of this we will see
sometime in June or July strikes of teachers up and down the country.
For school students this raises the question of what the response should
be.
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