Tuesday 26 April 2016

BACKING FOR JUNIOR DOCTORS STILL SOLID IN STOKE!

Despite Jeremy Hunt’s bluster, Junior Doctors are still in defiant and confident mood. Socialist Party members were there supporting their action and later did a campaign stall in nearby Newcastle-under-Lyme to build support for the action they are taking in defence of our NHS.
The backing of local people coming up to our campaign stall hasn’t diminished at all, in fact their backing and support is growing. As one fella said, “It’s about time somebody stood up to the dismantling of the NHS. These young junior doctors are an inspiration.”


Saturday 9 April 2016

NATIONALISE STEEL!



15,000 steel jobs are on the line, but the call to nationalise Tata is growing louder and the political pressure on Cameron to act is building!
In recent days, politicians of all the establishment parties in Cardiff and London are moving their positions, but we have to keep the heat on them. On 2 April hundreds came on a 'Nationalise Tata' demonstration inPort Talbot organised by the trade union rank and file National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN).

On 4 April, NSSN national chair and Socialist Party member Rob Williams spoke at a lobby of the specially recalled Welsh Assembly to discuss the steel crisis:
"We marched around the simple demand that steel benationalised to keep the furnaces firing in Port Talbot and around the UK. That is the only solution. Not to bribe another vulture capitalist to asset strip the company.
Tata reckon the business is losing £1 million a day. But that's just half what Osborne gave to the super-rich in tax cuts in the budget. It's nothing when you consider the social costs of the steelworks closing.
Assembly members should vote through a motion calling on Westminster to immediately nationalise Tata.

Labour Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones seems to be coming round to nationalisation, on a temporary basis. But the industry should be permanently nationalised along with the other privatised industries like rail and energy.

We need a real socialist economic strategy. As we protest here, Tata union reps are meeting in London. Let's give them the confidence to take the action that is necessary to keep the furnaces firing, to keep the steelworks going, to keep the communities alive!"




Thursday 7 April 2016

Next Meeting of Stafford Socialist Party Branch

100 Year Anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland

  • 100 years ago an uprising against British rule in Ireland took place - what did it represent? What were the lessons?
Come along for friendly discussion and debate
at
The Vine Hotel
Salter St STAFFORD
on
Tuesday 12th April 2016

STAFFORD SOCIALIST PARTY SUPPORT JUNIOR DOCTORS!

Despite horrendous rain, Stafford Socialist Party and Unite Community members were once again out on the picket line supporting the junior doctors as they continue industrial action against the government’s   imposition of unwanted contracts.

outside the main entrance of Royal Stoke University Hospital.

Despite the bad weather the mood was still buoyant and determined and by the continuous honking of car horns, they still have lots of support from the general public too.