Year: 2014
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Economy
Oil price crisis: Nationalisation needed to save jobs and protect the environment
Jamie Cocozza The global oil crisis, deepened as it has within the past few weeks, has alarmed the capitalist class.…
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Murphy’s election means trade unions must build a new workers party
Philip Stott Jim Murphy’s election as Labour’s new Scottish leader has underlined the need for the affiliated trade unions to…
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Committee for a Workers International
Europe: a new wave of workers’ struggle has begun
Editorial from the Socialist. The paper of Socialist Party England and Wales Once again workers are in revolt against “elderly…
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Campaigns
Labour councillors vote to slash funding to Glasgow mental health project
Richard Neville Around 250 people gathered outside Glasgow City Chambers yesterday for a protest against the proposed 40% reduction in…
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Campaigns
Glasgow’s trade unions demand council sets a No Cuts budget
By Matt Dobson Council trade unions in Glasgow representing 20,000 workers are demanding the Labour authority sets a “No Cuts…
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Campaigns
From Ferguson to Staten Island: An Uprising Against Police Violence
Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative A Staten Island, New York, grand jury announced last week that it will not indict police…
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More powers for Scotland, but they don’t go far enough
Philip Stott Significant new powers over tax and benefits are to be devolved to Scotland following the report of the…
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Scottish Labour’s crisis and the building of a socialist challenge to austerity
Philip Stott Opinion polls are a potent reflection of the collapse of Labour’s support in Scotland. The latest in a…
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Socialist Party replies to attacks as mass water charges campaign threatens to bring the government down
Socialist Party Ireland A week can be a very long time in politics. On Saturday 15 November, following an anti-water…
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Socialist Party under attack from billionaire media and capitalist establishment in Ireland
A mass revolt against water charges, an austerity tax, is taking place in Ireland. Hundreds of thousands of working class…
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