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Tories and Labour back callous ‘two-child’ benefit cap

By Chloe Leslie The ‘two-child limit’ policy prevents parents from claiming child tax credit or Universal Credit for any third, or subsequent, child born after it was introduced by the Tories in April 2017. This vital support could be worth up to £3,235 per child per year, according to the Department for Work and Pensions. 1.5 million children – one ...

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Tory government wants to create a hostile environment for asylum seekers in Llanelli and elsewhere

By Mark Evans (Branch secretary, Carmarthenshire Unison) The rushed and secretive home office plan to house 207 asylum seekers in Stradey Park Hotel’s 77 rooms by July the 3rd without consultation with the local community and with Carmarthenshire County Council and Hywel Dda Health board and other public bodies only receiving the plans at the last minute has inevitably resulted ...

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Defy and defeat Tory anti-union laws

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1229 Organise coordinated action in defence of unions punished by the law, including, if needed, a 24-hour general strike Labour authorities must refuse to issue work notices now On Monday 22 May, with trade unionists demonstrating outside parliament, Tory MPs voted the anti-strike Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill through the House of Commons, meaning that ...

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Ambulance workers strike across Wales

Across Wales, and much of England, ambulance workers in GMB and Unite are on strike only answering emergency calls. Anger is growing on the picket line against the UK Tory government’s refusal to even talk about a decent pay rise, but also at the Welsh Labour government that is keeping millions of pounds in reserves while refusing any further rise ...

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2023: Prepare for a year of continued class struggle

By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party General Secretary The Socialist Party enters 2023 full of optimism. The reasons for pessimism or even despair are obvious. 2022 was a year of dramatically falling living standards, frightening climate change, and the horror of war; and all this is set to continue. As inflation has soared, billions more people around the world are left ...

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Tory government threatens 600 jobs at Newport Wafer Fab

By Dave Reid 600 jobs at a semiconductor plant in Newport have been thrown into doubt as the plant is caught between farcical mismanagement by the Tory UK government and geopolitical rivalry between imperialist powers. Business secretary Grant Shapps has blocked the sale of microchip firm Newport Wafer Fab to Nexperia, a Chinese-owned company, on national security grounds. He has ...

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Sunak cannot resolve economic and political crises

A socialist solution is necessary Editorial of the Socialist issue 1200 The final days of the Truss-led Tory government revealed a deeper than ever, jaw-dropping level of crisis in the Tory party. Following the total collapse of Liz Truss’s shortest ever Tory leadership, the party’s MPs were again thrown back to looking for the least potentially disastrous new leader they ...

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Windfall taxes, ‘Great British Energy’ and price caps – Why we need a socialist nationalised energy system

By Josh Asker Liz Truss’ announcement of an estimated £150 billion bailout for the energy industry is not enough to even lower our bills. In fact, on 1 October the average typical household bill doubled from its level twelve months previously. The bailout, replicated in different ways across Europe, is a condemnation of the model of privatisation of the energy ...

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