tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74357980724502182572024-03-14T10:49:50.928+00:00Brighton Hove Socialist PartySouth East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comBlogger273125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-25155158655202877942014-05-02T19:46:00.001+01:002014-05-02T19:46:32.541+01:00United against the Far Right in Brighton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On Sunday 27 April, a collection of far-right groups descended on <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Brighton" target="_blank">Brighton</a>
for the annual 'March for England'. The English Defence League is an
organisation in decline and it showed with the racists mustering barely
75 supporters. Anti-fascists outnumbered the march significantly.<br />
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Socialist Party members were among the first on the scene as <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Police" target="_blank">police</a> escorted the fascists into a pub for a pre march drink.<br />
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Within moments the nationalists were surrounded and their <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Racist" target="_blank">racist</a> chants drowned out with: "the workers united will never be defeated".<br />
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Police had issued draconian special powers, giving them the right to
stop and search anyone and to arrest anyone who had a face covering.
Unsurprisingly we only saw these being used against the counter
protesters as the police helped the march shuffle slowly along the
seafront.<br />
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1,000+ lined the streets to drown out their racist chants. The
English Disco Lovers were dancing and banners and placards were hung
from windows and balconies. Once the march returned to its starting
point the speeches to the small gathering were drowned out by a
protester on a balcony with a loud trombone.<br />
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As police tried to escort the march back to the station, the
so-called family march then divided and headed into the North Lanes
where they threw tables, benches and bottles at anti-fascists.<br />
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Protesters ensured the route back to the station wasn't easy, using
anything they could find including fences to make barricades causing the
march to stop in its tracks. Only the police using horses, baton
charges and kettling meant the march got to its final destination.<br />
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United action by hundreds of Brighton residents and a heavy downpour
of rain ensured the marchers had a thoroughly miserable day. Half an
hour after they left the rain stopped and the sun came out!</div>
South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-34800695651389986332014-02-05T13:36:00.000+00:002014-02-05T13:36:02.512+00:00Council Tax Referendum, the missing question: Fightback against ALL CUTS!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thursday 30<sup>th</sup> January marked a new
low point in the
pantomime political point scoring between the mainstream parties who make up Brighton and Hove Council. Amidst cat
calls and booing, a vote of ‘no confidence’ in the Green Party administration
was passed by 29 votes to 21.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Scandalously this was not a
vote against the £20 million cut in jobs and services proposed by the administration,
but a vote by Labour and Tory councillors for <strong>more cuts</strong>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Green Party have said
that they won’t resign, and plan to press ahead with a referendum in May on
their proposal to carry out these cuts, threatening 100 plus jobs, or to increase council tax by 4.75%. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Socialist Party have
argued (<a href="http://brightonhovesocialistparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/oppose-green-partys-cuts-budget.html">http://brightonhovesocialistparty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/oppose-green-partys-cuts-budget.html</a>) that this referendum is no defence against the
Con-Dem government’s austerity programme, which has withdrawn £70 million of
central government funding from Brighton. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As we have explained, the referendum
would pass the bill for Tory cuts onto the council tax payers of Brighton, and divide, rather than unite, opposition to the
austerity programme the Greens were elected to resist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Socialist Party will be
campaigning in the run up to the council’s budget meeting in February for a
second question to be added to the referendum. This should ask whether voters
agree that: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Brighton and Hove Council should
draw up a ‘needs budget’ to restore jobs and services. Based on this the council should launch
a campaign with Trade Unions, Service Users and Community Groups to demand that
Central Government refund the £70 million lost from the City’s funding since
2010.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333;">Section 116 of the Local Government
Act 2003 provides a specific power for local authorities to hold
polls in order</span><span><span><span>
to ascertain views on any matter relating to: </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333;"><span> </span>(1) their services, or</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333;"><span> </span><span> </span>(2)
expenditure on those services, or</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333;"><span> </span><span> </span>(3)
their power to promote well-being in their areas.</span></span></div>
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<br /><span><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333;">The Green Party have suggested that they
plan a ‘referendum on austerity’. The Socialist Party says that it is merely a referendum
on "WHAT FORM austerity should take’: ‘£22 million of cuts and a 2% council tax
rise’ or ‘£20 million and a 4.75% rise’. Our proposal is a REAL alternative and
provides an opportunity for the people of Brighton to link up with others fighting austerity
like the RMT tube workers in London.
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-7759432274082053372014-01-27T12:49:00.001+00:002014-01-27T17:21:29.865+00:00Oppose the Green Party’s Cuts Budget. Referendum does not offer an alternative to cuts: the Green Party threatens 100-150 Jobs and a £20million cut to services!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Brighton and Hove Green
Party leader Jason Kitcat wants to follow up last year’s attack on the city’s Bin
Workers’ wages with further cuts in the council’s 2014-15 budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If successful, this would mean that his
administration, elected on a mandate to ‘resist austerity’, has cut £50 million
from jobs and services in the city in 3 years. Amazingly the Green Party are trying
to spin this attack as an act of ‘resistance’ to central government cuts and are
seeking a mandate for their budget, and a 4.75% increase in the council tax, in
a referendum that, if it goes ahead which will cost the city almost a quarter of a million pounds to
carry out! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is no question that
the primary responsibility for cuts in local government services lies with the
Con-Dem Government’s austerity programme. This has ramped up the onslaught on
council budgets after 13 years of attacks under New Labour. The proposal by the
Greens to increase council tax by 4.75%, however, is no defence in the face of
this attack.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This tax increase would
raise £2.75million more than December's draft budget.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that budget proposed £22.56 million in
spending cuts<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>. These threaten the jobs
of 100-150 Council workers<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words the Green Administration would
be asking the voters of Brighton to swallow a rise of almost 5% in their
council tax bills as the price for still accepting nine tenths of the cuts in
jobs and services demanded by Pickles and the Con-Dem government!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These would come on top of
£30 million worth of Tory cuts which the Green Party have passed on to workers
and service users in the city since coming to power in 2011. Not surprisingly
the Tory local government minister Brandon Lewis MP fully supports the Greens’
move.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
This shows that it is not the case, as Green Party National Leader, Natalie
Bennet, has claimed, that: ‘</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Instead of
letting Whitehall impose cuts on vulnerable people in Brighton & Hove, this
announcement takes the decision to the people.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By playing along with the
spending limits imposed by Pickles and the Millionaire ‘Eton Boot Boys’ in the
Con-Dem cabinet, Brighton’s Green Party is ensuring that the only possible
outcomes of the referendum are either:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Voters reject an
increase in council tax bills 2 ½ times the rate of inflation (at a time when
real wages are under sustained attack and public and private sector rents and
other housing costs are shooting through the roof) and so all £22½ million
pounds in cuts demanded by central government go through,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> or</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Council tax
payers in Brighton bear the brunt of subsidising the cuts in central government
spending: the penalty system means that much of the extra council tax will not
fund threatened services, but will simply be clawed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back by Central Government. At the same time
we will still have to swallow 90p in every £1.00 of Eric Pickles’s cuts to
services!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In other words, whatever
Natalie Bennett and Jason Kitcat claim, either way, the referendum can only
lead to ‘Whitehall imposing cuts on vulnerable people in Brighton and Hove.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The referendum would also be
a highly divisive exercise in ‘divide and rule’: pitting ‘council tax payers’,
against ‘council workers’ and ‘service users’ when the reality is that
resisting the cuts requires that we stand united (indeed, most often we are the
same people, anyway!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we accept the
Greens’ ‘dented shield’ analysis, which says that nine-tenths of the cuts are
inevitable, we will end up engaging is a vicious ‘race to the bottom’. This
would pit education against housing and children’s services against
services for older people and the disabled, in a struggle to become the lucky
‘one in ten’ to escape Councillor Kitcat’s axe. Instead we should be standing
together and resisting ALL CUTS. </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is not what is being
proposed by The Labour Party. Labour Councillors are proposing a ‘vote of no
confidence’ in the Green administration. Not because they are carrying out cuts
but because they want to carry out more cuts! Labour want an ‘all party </span><span style="line-height: 15.333333015441895px;">administration</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">’
to implement the Con-Dem coalition’s cuts in full for 2014-15, and for 2015-16.
This would inevitably lead to even more losses in jobs and services. </span></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is an alternative,
which the Socialist Party, the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC),
Brighton Trades Council and Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition have urged on the
Green Administration since it was first elected. Cuts are only inevitable because
our councillors have meekly accepted the restrictions imposed on the City’s
budgets by successive Labour and Con-Dem ministers in the interests of big
business. Instead, Brighton and Hove Council <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>should set a ‘needs budget’ and campaign for
Central Government to return the £70 million plus which has been cut from
central government allocations to the city since 2010. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Imagine; if our councillors
explained that adequate funding for Brighton’s schools, bins and recycling
(which are still reeling from the ‘settlement’ of last year’s strike and the
botched ‘reorganisation’ forced through by Kitcat and senior managers), housing
and care services should have priority over the governments’ agenda: tax cuts
for the rich, subsidies for fuel companies which raise prices and destroy our
environment by ‘fracking’, and imperialist wars in Afghanistan and the Middle
East! This way, Councillors could build a mass movement of resistance and
unite council workers, services users and Brighton’s communities to force Pickles
to return the money stolen from our city. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was what the Socialist
Council did in Liverpool in the 1980’s. Not only did they force the Thatcher
government to increase funding for services but they expanded the council’s
workforce at a time of rising unemployment and built 5,000 new council houses
(more than were built by councils in the whole of the rest of England and Wales
in the same period!). For this, 47 Labour councillors were surcharged and
banned from office. The draconian laws which allowed this to happen no longer
apply. The worst which Brighton Councillors defying Pickles’s cuts today would
face is being forced to face a new election at which they could defend their
strategy: a real ‘referendum on Austerity’ unlike the bogus exercise being
entertained by Councillor Kitcat. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Liverpool Council did raise
the rates (the fore-runner to the Council Tax) but only to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">expand</b> spending and provide new services not to pay for central
government’s cuts to the City’s budget, their political honesty won them
undying respect from the people of Liverpool. Their willingness to fight and
boldly confront the government shows that there is an alternative and, that it
would gain mass support, if followed in Brighton three decades on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">http://www.brightonhovegreens.org/news/greens-propose-referendum-for-council-tax-rise,-to-protect-citys-vulnerable.html</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
Guardian 16/1/14. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a> ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Budget Update and Savings 2014/15’</i>, Agenda
Item 76 policy and resources committee 5<sup>th</sup> December 2013 (para 3.24)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ibid, </i>(para 3.33)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a>
Brighton and Hove Green Party website http://www.brightonhovegreens.org/news/council-leader-calls-on-labour-to-let-the-people-not-the-tories-decide.html</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a> http://www.brightonhovegreens.org/news/greens-propose-referendum-for-council-tax-rise,-to-protect-citys-vulnerable.html</span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-16535380924212623642013-12-03T21:31:00.001+00:002013-12-03T21:33:26.806+00:00Brighton shows solidarity with LGBTQ Russia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_533771235" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Saturday</span></span>
the 30th November 2013 saw over 100 people showing their solidarity with the
increasingly oppressed LGBTQ community in Russia. The protest, organised
by Socialist Party members attracted people keen to show their anger at
the recent wave of oppressive legislation brought in under Putin.<br />
This
legislation, that includes at attempted ban of so called "homosexual
propaganda" has seen activists arrested and jailed for organising and
joining protests, and is part of a general crackdown by the Russian
state on any form of dissent.<br />
<br />
The protest heard from
Ksenia Zhivago, a Russian activist who has experienced the brutality of
the Russian state first hand. She called for mass international protests
on the day the Winter Olympics opens, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_533771236" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">7th February 2014</span></span> to highlight the plight of LGBTQ people in Russia and to put pressure on the Putin regime.<br />
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Local
Green councillor Phelim McAfferty spoke and pointed out that Russia had
been the first country to legalise gay marriage following the 1917
Bolshevik revolution! It is a damming indictment of capitalism to look
at the plight of LGBTQ people in Russia today, nearly 100 years on from
1917.</div>
Two local poets read out poignant messages,
and Socialist Party member Beth Granter shared a message from the Russian section of the CWI (Committee For
a Worker's International). CWI members have been at the forefront of
the struggle in Russia and have faced huge fines and imprisonment for
their activism.<br />
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Crucially it was highlighted at the
rally by Peter Tatchell, longstanding LGBT rights activist, that these laws in Russia also threaten the rights of everyone
fighting back against Putin; the "propaganda" law has been used to sack
striking teachers.<br />
<br />
The fight for LGBTQ rights is a fight that must be
taken up by all of those fighting austerity and for democracy in Russia,<br />
<br />
The protest then marched down St James Street, led by
a loud and vibrant samba band - to applause from passers by. It was
clear that the message of support being shown to Russian LGBTQ people
was widely echoed across Brighton.</div>
It was the largest demonstration on this issue outside of London,
and a fantastic building block for future action, which is likely to
include marking the opening of the Winter Olympics on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_533771237" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">February 7th 2014</span></span>.</div>
South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-27100958440877702682013-11-26T14:07:00.000+00:002013-11-26T14:07:09.817+00:00Russian LGBTQ+ solidarity demo to take place in Brighton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A
demonstration of solidarity with LGBTQ+ people in Russia is planned to
take place on Saturday 30th November 2013 in Brighton. "To Russia with
Love, Brighton" starts at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2146568711" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">12 Noon</span></span> at New Steine Gardens off St James' St, by the HIV memorial.</div>
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Organised by members of local PCS and Unite unions,
and members of the Brighton and Hove Socialist Party, the aim is to
raise awareness of the increasing violence and oppression faced by gay,
lesbian, bi, trans, queer and other people in Russia.</div>
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In Russia today, gay people and their allies are
under attack: beaten, arrested and killed. New anti-gay laws have
effectively made it illegal to even mention the existence of LGBTQ+
people positively, let alone defend their human rights. Currently being
proposed is a law which would remove custody rights of gay parents of
their own children.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young people in Russia demonstrating for LGBTQ+ rights earlier this year.</td></tr>
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Beth Granter, Brighton & Hove Socialist Party says,</div>
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The coming Sochi Olympics puts the world spotlight on Russia and
international protests are showing mass opposition to Putin's homophobic
government. The 'Russian Section 28' is fuelling a rising tide of
violence. The laws must be challenged! Here in the UK we ask our own
government to defend human rights worldwide and tell Putin to stop
turning back the clock.</div>
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As a city which values its own diversity, it's
important for the people of Brighton to show our solidarity with LGBTQ+
people around the world."</div>
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Over 100 people are expected to gather <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2146568712" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>
where speeches will be heard from human rights campaigner Peter
Tatchell, local 'My Genderation' documentary filmmaker Raphael Francis
Fox, Russian LGBT activist Ksenia Zhivago and local Green Party
Councillor Phelim McCafferty. The event is also supported by the Rainbow
Association (Moscow-based LGBT activist group), March for Equality
(LGBT and women’s rights campaign), Russian LGBT Sport Federation,
Committee for a Workers’ International (Russia), Left Socialist Action
and the Pussy Riot Support Group.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2146568713" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">3 September</span></span>
- Whitehall, London - A demonstration was held opposite Downing Street,
to protest Vladimir Putin's signing into law the prohibition of
'promotion' of homosexuality in Russia. The protest was also attended by
human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, and TV presenter and writer
Paul O'Grady.</td></tr>
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For more information see the Facebook event at <a href="http://bit.ly/russiademo" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/russiademo</a></div>
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For a map of the event location see <a href="http://bit.ly/russiademomap" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/russiademomap</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Thursday 17<sup>th</sup> October saw 2,000 striking teachers
and supporters march through the streets of Brighton in a display of anger
towards the government’s attacks on education. Schools were overwhelmingly shut
across Brighton and Sussex as NUT and NASWUT members joined together in the
second regional strike action taken by the two main teaching unions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">The route was lined by people applauding, showing up the
divisive tactics of the media in trying to undermine teachers – it was clear on
the day how much support the teachers had from the public.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">While the official dispute is over pay, pensions and working
conditions<b> </b>that are threatened by
Michael Gove, the demonstration saw an outpouring of teacher’s frustrations
right across the board. OFSTED, over testing and “free schools” were all
highlighted in speeches and on placards throughout the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">More than anything, there was a general feeling that the day
was about defending an idea of education that is shared by teachers and students
alike, a publically owned, accountable and inclusive system. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">This idea is not shared by the ConDem government, especially
the Tories, who are threatening to break up the state system with more and more
academies, in effect, privatisation of schools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is not just teachers fighting
back as we enter what could be an uncomfortable winter for the government and
their austerity plans. The Brighton NUT rally heard from firefighters, and
higher education workers who are set to join postal workers and probation staff
who are all set to strike over the coming weeks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">This represents the entering of a new stage in the industrial
struggle in Britain, following the retreat of the union leaderships over
pensions, and should be welcomed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">However these unions alone are unlikely to force the
government back. If these strikes were co-ordinated, if not by the TUC then by
the unions themselves, they could form a powerful force against the next wave
of privatisation and cuts coming from the ConDems. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But just like the massive public sector general strike on
November 30<sup>th</sup> two years ago, this strike showed there is a desperate
need for a mass political voice for workers in Britain today. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Labour Party locally had offered their support on the
day, but with the Labour Party leadership openly supporting academies and free
schools – it is hard to take this support seriously. In fact it strikes as
hollow when the Labour Party talk about defending education, seeing as it was
their party that introduced academies and tuition fees in the first place! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A party that supports, and encourages strike action as a
tactic in opposing all cuts could have the potential to be a pole of attraction
for all opposition to cuts and austerity in Britain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In Brighton there have been steps towards this. A meeting
last month called by local TUSC (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition) and Left
Unity supporters agreed to make sure there were anti cuts candidates contesting
right across Brighton in the next local election. TUSC contested the Hanover
by-election in the summer and took was the only party to increase their vote,
taking 5%.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This all points to a rising wave of anger against the
government following a summer lull, and shows the potential for the building of
a mass movement; both industrially and politically to bring down the Con-Dems
and their brutal cuts agenda. </span></span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-33457466631852162572013-08-31T11:18:00.001+01:002013-08-31T11:18:30.084+01:00The fight against fracking in Sussex<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hundreds of protesters have set up camp in the small village of Balcombe, West Sussex, to stop unsafe, environmentally dangerous gas shale extraction - fracking - by Cuadrilla.<br />
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On Sunday 18 August, Socialist Party members joined a 1,000-strong demonstration called by 'No Dash For <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Gas</a>' that marched from the station.<br />
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Although a heavy police presence meant the demonstration was unable to reach the drilling site, a human chain was formed around the site.<br />
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Police later admitted that policing the demonstrations has cost £2.3
million. The mood was carnival-like and peaceful, as Balcombe residents
showed their support by joining in the demonstration.<br />
Monday 19 August saw the beginning of direct action against
Cuadrilla, who had been forced to suspend drilling due to the
demonstrations. Hundreds of demonstrators blocked the B2036 road between
Balcombe and Cuckfield.<br />
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Earlier in the day, campaigners forced their way into the company's
headquarters in Lichfield, Staffordshire, and six protesters glued
themselves to the London HQ of Cuadrilla's PR company.<br />
In Balcombe, police served a Public Order Act notice and arrested 30,
saying the crowd might cause serious damage to property or disrupt the
life of the community - despite the community largely supporting the
action. The real damage and disruption is being done by Cuadrilla!<br />
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The idea that unsafe shale gas extraction is about cheaper energy for working class people is nonsense.<br />
It's about more profits for the greedy energy companies and never mind the consequences for the rest of us.<br />
As socialists we need to link the protests to the wider movement
against the capitalist system and its demand for profit at any cost.<br />
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Kevin Dale </div>
South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-55797320668505257472013-06-18T16:00:00.004+01:002015-01-07T18:13:12.014+00:00Brighton bin workers strike for seven days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Widespread support shown for Brighton bin workers on strike for seven days, photo Support Brighton Council workers facebook page (Click to enlarge)</div>
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On Friday hundreds of people rallied in support of <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Brighton" style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Brighton</a>CityClean workers as they began a seven-day long strike against planned pay cuts by the Green controlled council.</div>
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The picket line outside the bin depot began in the early hours of Friday morning and was soon spilling into the road, swelled by<a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Bin_workers" style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">bin workers</a>, their families, other union members, students and bedroom tax campaigners.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Strike" style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">strike</a> successfully closed the depot, with its gates shut and barred with placards telling the loathed Green council leader Jason KitKat to "take a break from cutting our pay".</div>
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A reporter for the Socialist was told that the strike was 100% solid, and succeeded in drawing in Polish workers to the dispute - there had been a worry that management would try to drive a wedge among the workforce but it has clearly been unsuccessful.</div>
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The only person who tried to cross the picket line was a former driver turned manager who set out on a one man mission to drive a refuse truck around the city. He was quickly turned away!</div>
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Huge pay cut</h3>
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The council is looking to slash wages by as much as £4,000 in a move that has further exposed the Green councillors' failure to stand up to central government<a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Cuts" style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">cuts</a>.</div>
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Firstly voting through a cuts budget and ruling out the possibility of a needs-based budget, they have now begun attacking the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Pay" style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pay</a> of some of their own workforces' lowest paid workers.</div>
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As we have consistently pointed out in Brighton, a refusal to implement cuts by the <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Council" style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">council</a> could have been the basis for a mass campaign demanding that funding is returned to the city.</div>
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Instead the Greens have tried their own strategy of imposing "fair" cuts, leading inevitably to attacks on council workers.</div>
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Cuts are cuts; a heavy heart will make no difference to a £4,000 reduction on a bin worker's pay slip.</div>
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Councillors should be busy fighting the Con-Dem government's cuts, not their own workers!</div>
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This has caused frictions within the local Green Party with its local branch urging the councillors to stop their cuts plans.</div>
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Caroline Lucas, former Green Party leader and local MP who has come out in support of the bin workers, visited the picket line in the morning with some of the Green councillors who are opposed to the plans.</div>
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One of those councillors, who held the position of deputy leader of the council has since had it revoked, showing the arrogance and determination of the councillors grouped around leader Jason Kitcat to push through these pay cuts, even if it threatens to tear apart their party locally.</div>
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It is also worth noting the absence of the local Labour Party from the picket lines, they have been invited by the GMB union to the demonstration on Saturday, it remains to be seen if they turn up.</div>
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The absence of any solid political support again shows the vast gulf there is in society for a new party that opposes all cuts and stands on the side of striking workers.</div>
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The Green Party, Labour as well as the Tories and Liberals have now all had their record tainted by cuts and privatisation.</div>
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The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) locally has been giving solid support to the bin workers.</div>
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Socialist Party member Phil Clarke, who is also secretary of the local Trades Council, is standing as a TUSC candidate in a local council byelection and was warmly received at the picket, with leaflets being snapped up as soon as the "support Cityclean workers" slogan was seen.</div>
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TUSC is providing the only byelection candidate who not only opposes cuts to workers' pay but proposes a strategy for stopping them, and all cuts in the local area.</div>
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This is to refuse to implement government cuts and to build a campaign around a needs budget for the city.</div>
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As rubbish piles up around the streets of Brighton, the council is going to come under increasing pressure to shelve its plans.</div>
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And while the council will undoubtedly try to use the disruption caused by the strike to turn public opinion against the workers, when the issue is explained clearly, very few people fall on the side of the council; a recent poll in a local paper showed 70% of people blamed the council and not the workers for the strike.</div>
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Not surprising, who can afford to take a £4,000 pay cut in society today, when pay cuts and freezes are the norm for millions of ordinary people?</div>
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In the past the workers at the bin depot have won a similar dispute with one day of strike action, let alone seven! It remains to be seen if the council will try to stick it out, certainly some workers think they will.</div>
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But that determination is going to matched by that of the workforce, summed up by a picket on the first morning: "We're going to strike for seven days, and if that isn't enough, then we'll come out for more - we're not going to take a 20% pay cut lying down".</div>
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A demonstration was planned for Saturday 15th June, and will see hundreds of pickets and supporters march from the depot to the town hall, demanding the council change their course (reports to follow).</div>
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Hundreds of people joined the march by striking council workers in Brighton on 8th June.</div>
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The march from outside the bin depot to the council offices was well received by residents who stood on the route and applauded.</div>
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The dispute has split the Green council, with several Green councillors joining the march and signing an open letter to council leader Jason Kitcat calling on him to resign.</div>
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At a rally outside the main council building, national GMB secretary Brian Strutton said that the workers had the resolve to win this dispute and pledged £100,000 from national funds to support the strike.</div>
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Phil Clarke, standing as a TUSC candidate in the Hanover ward byelection in Brighton outlined the political alternative to cuts and austerity of the main parties and said the election campaign would also be a platform for supporting the strike, although undoubtedly there was widespread public support.</div>
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The mood was determined and workers pledged to keep fighting until these proposals are taken off the table.</div>
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In a reference to Brighton and Hove council chief executive Penny Thompson, who is forcing through the cuts, they chanted that their pay will be cut "by not one penny".</div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-49754141097999970032013-03-01T16:36:00.001+00:002013-03-01T16:40:30.578+00:00B&H Budget: Fight the Government, Not Council Workers!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brighton and Hove City Council's latest budget amounts to £17m worth of cuts, an estimated 50 compulsory redundancies and 110 voluntary. This is a total of 170 jobs lost. Over the
next 6 years (2013-2019) it is estimated a total of £120m will be
cut from the council budget.</span><br />
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to three quarters of B&H council staff will be reviewed with up
to £7,000 of take-home pay being lost as a result. Shamefully the
council have effectively threatened staff to accept this, with one
group facing the sack and re-engagement on worse terms and a deadline
of October to accept the changes or have them unilaterally imposed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These cuts add up to a serious assault
on the finances of the council. Over the past three years the council
has avoided the shocking cuts made in other local authorities as a
result of an underspend in adult and children's services.
Nevertheless the past three years have seen some services cut and jobs
lost.
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will mean a real impact to the lives of many people. In local
government a 0.6% pay offer has been made, on top of years of pay
freezes. Many will look back over the past three years and see how
their pay has fallen while council tax and other costs have risen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The budget approved last night puts these cuts [£10.7m reduction in government funding] into practise, and, coming on top of cuts to benefits, Legal Aid for immigration and benefit cases, support for victims of domestic violence, mental health services, the privatisation of much of the NHS, and so on, these cuts, to my mind, represent just another salvo in the Government's ongoing vicious war on the poor and most vulnerable - and, while I am full of respect and admiration for my friends and colleagues who reached a different conclusion, I felt a vote for the budget was, in a meaningful way, a vote for this programme of cuts - and in that context I felt I had to oppose it." <a href="http://another-green-world.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/councillor-ben-duncan-on-why-he-voted.html?m=1"><span style="color: red;">Click here for his full statement.</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aim of the Greens to avoid the impact of these cuts falling most heavily on the vulnerable will become harder and harder to achieve. We support Cllr Duncan's decision, but it must be taken further. A fightback is needed - £120m over the
next six years will devastate local services. The council is one of
the biggest employers in Brighton and Hove. If the past three years
have not seen dramatic cuts to local services, the next six will! The special alowqance cuts must be met with industrial action across the council workforce, and a victory can be achieved.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But that will not solve the budget
crisis this year or for the next six. A mass campaign must be built
to demand a return of the funding that is currently being robbed from
the city. That money is being stolen from Brighton and Hove to pay back the debts created by the capitalist crisis. We have
<a href="http://brightonhovesocialistparty.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/green-cuts-budget-proposals.html"><span style="color: red;">described elsewhere</span></a> how a campaign could be waged, and time and
again have challenged the hand-wringing greens who claim such a
campaign is not possible. In <a href="http://www.tusc.org.uk/press180213.php"><span style="color: red;">Southampton two Labour councillors</span></a>
rebelled against their party and proposed a no-cuts budget. They have
used their position to build campaigns across their wards and beyond.
This is what the Greens should be doing,. Instead they, and Labour,
are passing on the Tory and Liberal Democrat cuts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This budget crisis reveals an even
deeper crisis in Britain today: a crisis of political representation.
Many feel there is no party worth voting for! None of the parties properly challenge the cuts and the public
sector sell-off (with action as well as words). We aim to build a new party for
everyone that is suffering or who will suffer as a result of these
cuts. It should be an anti-cuts and anti-privatisation party, one
that stands up for ordinary people behind the basic principle that
together we are strong. We believe the <a href="http://www.tusc.org.uk/"><span style="color: red;">Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition</span></a> is a step towards that and we hope that at the next
election candidates will stand alongside us from the trade unions and
local campaigns to oppose all cuts and take the fight to the government.</span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-18267669070814019192013-02-13T11:36:00.000+00:002014-04-05T13:13:45.526+01:00Sussex University: Fight to Keep the Profiteers Out - Occupy and Strike!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Sussex Registrar John Duffy spoke to
students on the 11/02/2013 about the University's outsourcing plans.
He argued the introduction of private companies to run campus
services will provide new expertise and improve efficiency. He hasn't
explained how that would be achieved, requesting staff and students
to join him in his leap of faith.<br />
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<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/University-of-Sussex-and-Brighton-Socialist-Students/354747941280163?fref=ts"><span style="color: red;">Sussex Socialist Students</span></a></i></div>
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where private companies have started running University services across the country, including Sheffield
Hallam, where housing has been taken over by a private company called
Unite. Prices have increased, service is poor, the electric
keeps going off with no compensation and students have been threatened with £300 fines for having a poster on the wall...</div>
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It isn't hard to look for the woeful
results of privatisation. British railways have the most expensive
ticket prices in the world according to UBS, and have been mired in
controversy since safety failures in Hatfield and Potters Bar. Over
Christmas a private company called Sodexo, took over cleaning at Royal
Sussex Hospital in Kemptown, failed to pay staff and threatened almost 100
redundancies. Attempts to imitate 'the market' in Health has led to
the disasters of PFI and Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust.</div>
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A private company's definition of
success is profit – this is not a definition shared by staff and
students.
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<b>Protecting Staff Pay, Terms and Conditions?</b></div>
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When asked whether the University would
guarantee the existing terms, pay and conditions of staff and prevent
any redundancies Duffy said they could make no assurances but in the
bidding process the University would place the interests of staff at
the top of the agenda. He argued that TUPE legislation would protect
staff in the transfer. If vague sweet-talking was a contract the
staff would be fine! But it isn't. TUPE allows an employer to
restructure the business after the transfer. This means that terms
and conditions may be protected and then immediately slashed or
undermined in a restructuring.
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsrZZq8-RwYJ38PNZdDaPelK46hx7-4f3jcUN_dUTHQ3uAyonby_Eg3qu0yvrjOIfeXgZiJ2rWfMk2PfJmlZDfTg_Q5O1dGS5uLq7tRsnTGJoWsHZlRM63jUiph0kWE_ifCf22L4znt8hW/s1600/occcccccc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsrZZq8-RwYJ38PNZdDaPelK46hx7-4f3jcUN_dUTHQ3uAyonby_Eg3qu0yvrjOIfeXgZiJ2rWfMk2PfJmlZDfTg_Q5O1dGS5uLq7tRsnTGJoWsHZlRM63jUiph0kWE_ifCf22L4znt8hW/s320/occcccccc.jpg" height="192" width="320" /></a>Privatisation is a long-established
method, it is not a new experiment the outcome of which remains to be
seen. Often much of the profit from privatisation has come from
government subsidies (Tory and New Labour) who are ideologically
driven to prove the success of privatisation. However studies have
demonstrated that the increases in productivity which generate huge profits are the result of attacks on the workforce. Lower wages
and attacks on other benefits, longer hours, a smaller workforce, less secure
employment; this is how profits are made by private companies running public services.
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Catering, cleaning portering and so on are all
labour-intensive; where else will any private company squeeze their
profits from if not from worsening staff terms, conditions and pay?
There are only a handful of options to achieve these gains, and
private companies time and again opt for reducing the workforce,
increasing work intensity, slashing wages or other benefits, or
raising prices. (Andrew Glyn, Capitalism Unleashed, Finance,
Globalisation and Welfare, 2006 Oxford University Press, pg43 quoting OECD
studies and drawing on ONS statistics.)
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Duffy claims staff will be fully
represented and consulted in this process. Why have they refused to
negotiate keeping services in-house with the trade unions? His
assurances given are vague; what are they worth? Will staff be able
to vet the companies under consideration, and judge them on their
past practices elsewhere? Or will their new employer simply be
announced? What kind of consultation excludes the preferred option of
keeping services in-house? If the contract fails (what will the
conditions of this be? Can staff set those conditions?) will the
company receive a golden handshake?
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<b>Who knows...? John Duffy does! But the
cat's got his tongue, all he can do is shrug; it's out of his hands;
he is controlled by a higher power...</b></div>
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Duffy claims the overriding motivation
in these plans is to account for the growth of Sussex University. The government has
established a 'sink or swim' regime across Higher Education, where
institutions compete even more fiercely than before for students and
tuition fee revenue. He claims the drive towards privatisation is
not aimed at cutting costs but once a privatised arrangement is in
place it will be a far more effective tool in driving down labour
costs in the future, if not today, even if immediate spending remains
stable. If services are expanded but the private contractor keeps
costs stable, that will be a real term cut.
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<b>How Can They Be Stopped?</b></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXQ5C8lhbRVMCEBmnhCZjsxMjgfAyCEWrQ1Q5DNLW_LyAeNHsdSHmyo9csoQ6cEXcfRUG9txMsuGPT4Qt3RUZrTFD2L6LeRQbYvkIDkp7puPgX2A-qU8axmSXkyzIpQcaUGDTUaEp6G53/s1600/strikeplacard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZXQ5C8lhbRVMCEBmnhCZjsxMjgfAyCEWrQ1Q5DNLW_LyAeNHsdSHmyo9csoQ6cEXcfRUG9txMsuGPT4Qt3RUZrTFD2L6LeRQbYvkIDkp7puPgX2A-qU8axmSXkyzIpQcaUGDTUaEp6G53/s320/strikeplacard.jpg" height="192" width="320" /></a>London Metropolitan University staff organised in the
trade union UNISON faced down a similar threat to privatise services
through a mass sustained campaign which drew in the wider branch
membership and included protests, statements of support and so on.
This campaign culminated in industrial action which finally caused
the management to back down. Strike action can have the effect of a
hundred occupations, especially with a strategy to escalate if
management does not back down (if one day doesn't work, two days. If
two days don't work, three days etc). </div>
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London Met shows how strike
action can force an employer to back down. So-called 'concession
bargaining' is not a better strategy because 'weakness invites
aggression', once management feels there is no resistance to their
plans the attacks will only increase and the union's subservience
will be repaid with scorn - only a struggle can stay management's
hand, and strike action is the strongest form of struggle.<br />
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Strike
action like this cannot be called by magic; it requires a campaign to
build across the campus, to recruit an active membership who will
fight within the branch for an all-members' meeting, to demand a vote
on a fighting strategy, to demand a ballot and to refuse to take no for an
answer! A handful of UNISON members have been working hard for the
branch to adopt a fighting strategy, but they need more support and
active members taking part in that struggle alongside them. The
student movement can help develop that campaign, through patiently
explaining all these points to staff across the campus, and to the
235 in particular.
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If the university says there is nothing to fear from privatisation because of the so-called
protection of TUPE, why don't they guarantee to write into the contracts of employment the following?:</div>
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A guarantee of no compulsory
redundancies for the life time of the contract.</div>
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A guarantee of no changes in terms
and conditions for the life time of the contract.</div>
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Provision of a pension scheme or
schemes at least equivalent to current schemes available to affected
staff.</div>
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A comprehensive response to these
demands within 14 days.</div>
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<b>We urge staff to join UNISON and
demand:</b></div>
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1. The creation of a democratic strike
committee of affected staff and branch officers of all three unions –
NO to a tiny group of branch secretaries calling all the shots!</div>
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2. For a joint union, time-bound
demand that management halt the privatisation proposals or agree to
match University terms and conditions and have no compulsory
redundancies for the life time of the new contract – to organise
strike ballots a.s.a.p. if no response is received or these demands
(which can form the basis of a legal industrial dispute) are not met.</div>
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3. To organise for every member of
affected staff to pledge to vote for strike action if the identity of
their employer is changed (as done at London Met. The precedent for this as
another dispute – Barnet Unison Local Government branch)</div>
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4. NO to concessionary bargaining –
for the representation of the interests ALL workers, young and old,
directly affected and next-on-the-list. This is the thin end of the
wedge and we must stop it completely.</div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-43207006066100234952013-02-11T11:47:00.001+00:002013-02-11T11:48:08.408+00:00Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust: Performance Related Pay is not the Answer!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">The serious systemic failures in care at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust described in the Francis Report and the recommendations from them have sent shock waves through the NHS. The experiences of staff, patients and relatives who gave evidence paint a grim picture of a system at breaking point; of overworked, under qualified staff, unable to maintain basic standards of care and safety </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br /><i>Becky Johnson, student nurse</i></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">No-one ever became a nurse for the money- we do it because we genuinely care! Undoubtedly, there are some individuals who are currently not safe to take care of patients. However, the knee-jerk response to scapegoat the entire profession not only does us a disservice, it fails to address the real problems in the NHS, leaving patients at risk. My friend and colleague hit the nail on the head when she said: “It makes me sad and very angry that something so disgusting and tragic was allowed to happen... This is why NHS hospitals should not be run as business organizations by people who are managers but nothing else. Patients are not just numbers!” </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Mid Staffs were so obsessed with being one of New Labour’s Foundation Trusts, a step towards privatisation, that they ran it like a business Footfall, turnover and productivity became paramount. It can be no co-incidence that wards, already ran on a shoestring, went into melt down when staff numbers were cut. The problem was compounded by a reconfiguration of wards in order to squeeze more money out of the service. A culture of bullying started at the top and permeated down to the wards. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Far from alleviating the underlying factors that led to poor care at Mid Staffs 2005-2009, today’s era of austerity cuts and privatisation only serve to compound systemic problems, making further crises of care likely to inevitable.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Robert Francis has listened to the testimonies of patients, relatives and staff He knows what happens if you run a service like a business. Yet in his opening remarks to the Health Minister Jeremy Hunt he says that the required changes to improve the service can now be implemented within the system created by the Health and Social Care Act. You can’t fight fire with fire. The drive to privatise has created the conditions for the systemic failures at Mid Staffs. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Francis recommends the implementation of Performance Related Pay for nurses. Nurses will be paid on the basis of how “compassionate” they are, judged by individual patient feedback forms of individual nurses. Aside from the obvious practicalities of implementing and utilising such a system, especially when nursing patients with dementia, who are unconscious, experiencing confusion, under anaesthesia, compassion is subjective. It can’t be measured by tick-list. What about those patient’s who just don’t like you? </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">In the NHS, we treat everyone, which means treating people who have prejudices. I stopped counting how many times patients have said to me “I’m so glad I don’t have a black nurse”. You don’t know where to look! Sometimes, patients are reluctant to follow medical advice. The nurse that encourages a patient with breathing difficulties get out of bed is not always popular, but she is compassionate! Fear of being marked down by patients could see many nurses feeling they have no choice but to compromise their professional integrity. Of course the patient is at the centre of the care we provide, but applying the business principal, “the customer is always right” to something as complex as healthcare will create more problems than it solves. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">The Francis report also advocates registration for unqualified healthcare assistants. HCAs provide the majority of hands on personal care, under the supervision of a registered nurse. They are incredibly underpaid for the work they do and are often unsupported in their jobs. Because they are cheaper, the government want a move towards more HCA, managed by fewer qualified nurses. This takes nurses further away from the caring side of nursing, with qualified staff focusing on more technical, high status tasks. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">This division of labour has come about in order to reduce costs. However, nursing requires a holistic approach. Registration of HCAs does not address this contradiction. In many ways, it entrenches it further. In any case, the over-reliance on HCAs was clearly a factor in the breakdown of care at Mid Staffs. There will always be a need for auxiliary staff, however, in order to provide the quality of care we want to, we need more nurses and fewer HCAs. This does not mean sacking HCAs and recruiting nurses, Funding needs to be made available to up-skill HCA’s into registered nurses. Wards should grant secondment to HCAs who want to do their nurses training and guarantee them a job at the end of it. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Universities need to provide support to ensure HCAs have the academic requirements for the course. There has been much criticism of university based nurse education. Some have suggested it is responsible for creating uncaring nurses. This is fundamentally untrue. What a university education does is equips nurses for the reality of the job It is physically, emotionally and intellectually taxing. It requires a critical approach. Intelligence and compassion are not mutually exclusive qualities, we just work under a system that restricts our ability to show either.</span></span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url(http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Images/furniture/smallstar.gif); margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">Stop the destruction of the NHS. Repeal the Health and Social Care Act</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url(http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Images/furniture/smallstar.gif); margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">No cuts, closures or job losses in the NHS</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url(http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Images/furniture/smallstar.gif); margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">End the postcode lottery. We call for a fully funded, high quality service in every area</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url(http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Images/furniture/smallstar.gif); margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">Kick big business out of the NHS. Scrap the dodgy PFI deals and cancel the debts</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url(http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Images/furniture/smallstar.gif); margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">For a national trade union-led weekend demonstration against attacks on our health service</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url(http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Images/furniture/smallstar.gif); margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">For mass action to defend the NHS with trade union strike action at its heart</li>
<li style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: url(http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/Images/furniture/smallstar.gif); margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: 20px;">For a new mass workers' party to provide a fighting, political alternative to the pro-cuts parties</li>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-46774042988546824142013-02-08T16:49:00.001+00:002013-02-08T17:33:25.928+00:00Sussex University Occupation Message of Solidarity from Member of Staff<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students from </span><a href="http://sussexagainstprivatization.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Sussex Against Privatisation</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have
occupied the conference centre at the top of Bramber House at Sussex
University. They are protesting against plans from the university
management to privatise services which will affect 10% or 235 members of staff, by selling
off a </span><a href="http://sussexagainstprivatization.wordpress.com/list-of-jobs-affected/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">list of services</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to private companies.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNldSLDOSvQAiiEQB5GbV4jYKzFvBlvcHNsGWsZvhyEgIVqDsRYolDsgYOLuJh6-sVvUBMIFF1_3Uq1GHdhqQVmNDYo-4-HlfUlGP1-g-SYmiYVEG9otXX26VH-eXAhOoLQOY9YooMkaN4/s1600/sussexocc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNldSLDOSvQAiiEQB5GbV4jYKzFvBlvcHNsGWsZvhyEgIVqDsRYolDsgYOLuJh6-sVvUBMIFF1_3Uq1GHdhqQVmNDYo-4-HlfUlGP1-g-SYmiYVEG9otXX26VH-eXAhOoLQOY9YooMkaN4/s320/sussexocc.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we have <a href="http://brightonhovesocialistparty.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/defend-in-house-services-at-university.html"><span style="color: red;">explained elsewhere</span></a>, a
profit-driven private company will run public services with profit in
mind, leading to worse staff conditions and worse services to
students. The <a href="http://sussexagainstprivatization.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/statement-from-sussex-occupiers-against-privatisation/"><span style="color: red;">statement of the occupation</span></a> rejects the division of
students and staff into customers and producers. Strong links have
been built between students and staff through the campaign.
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capacity) and Socialist Party member Shona gave a message of support
today to the occupiers, highlighting the need for a campaign within
the trade unions to provide a fighting lead in this struggle. Her
statement and a video of her speech is below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sussex management have brought this on
themselves by refusing to negotiate and by unilaterally driving through
these proposals. This occupation will be a significant boost to the
campaign among students and staff, with its energy inspiring the staff to fight within the
unions for a strike ballot.</span></div>
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<b style="line-height: 0.45cm;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmH9Mrlayu8"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Message of Solidarity - click here for video</span></a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
is a message of solidarity to the student occupation at Sussex in
opposition to plans to privatise 10% of jobs on campus to be run for
private profit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As
a campus worker, and member of the local Unison branch committee, I
and others have been waging an ongoing struggle within our union
branch to see the staff directly affected by the privatisation
proposals put in democratic control of an industrial campaign against
the privatisation proposals – up to and including strike action if
management refuse to back down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
local leadership of our branch, and the regional and national
bureaucracy of our union, has made this incredibly difficult –
despite our best efforts we dissenting activists have still not
succeeded – but we remain confident in the correctness of our
strategy, built with advice and support from Socialist Party
activists with years of experience of fighting to win against both
the bosses and the reactionary elements of the trade unions, and its’
ability to defeat this and future attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
success of London Met Unison in defeating so-called “shared
services” privatisation proposals through a mass campus campaign,
with the union side led democratically by the affected workers, and
with a concerted plan in place to organise sustained strike action if
management forged ahead with their plans, is absolutely applicable to
the Sussex context and I refute anyone who claims we are
fundamentally different or less able to achieve such a success than
LMU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without
the determination of student and dissenting union activists here at
Sussex the campaign against this sell-off may well have been
strangled at birth. That students have occupied the conference centre
is strategically significant, and the demands issued to management
are clear and necessary. You have posed the question of who this
University is for through this occupation, and now staff must do the
same by organising on a mass democratic basis in preparation for
playing our strongest card – taking strike action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So
please, when you engage with staff during this occupation, please
refute the myths and misinformation being spread by those in our
unions who don’t have the stomach for a fight, and make these
strategic demands loud and clear:</span></div>
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The
creation of a democratic strike committee of affected staff and
branch officers of all three unions – NO to a tiny group of branch
secretaries calling all the shots!</span></div>
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For a
joint union, time-bound demand that management halt the privatisation
proposals or agree to match University terms and conditions and have
no compulsory redundancies for the life time of the new contract –
to organise strike ballots asap if no response is received or these
demands (which can form the basis of a legal industrial dispute) are
not met.</span></div>
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To
organise for every member of affected staff to pledge to vote for
strike action if the identity of their employer is changed (as done
at LMU. The precedent for this as another dispute – Barnet Unison
Local Government branch)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">4.
NO to concessionary bargaining – for the representation of the
interests ALL workers, young and old, directly affected and
next-on-the-list. This is the thin end of the wedge and we must stop
it completely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best
of luck in your occupation, you are showing the way and I hope we can
follow you in militant action against these appalling plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
solidarity,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shona
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unison
University of Sussex branch officer (personal capacity)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brighton
and Hove Socialist Party activist</span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-6573623870933735012013-02-03T19:24:00.001+00:002013-02-03T19:24:24.109+00:00Life at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: Bullying, Stress...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A recent survey of staff in the Sussex
Partnership NHS Foundation Trust found a high level of
dissatisfaction among mental health staff working for the Trust.</div>
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Staff complain of inadequate training
in the vital areas of health and safety and equality and
diversity.</div>
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The Trust is among the worst in the
country for effective team working. 13% of staff have been bullied by
a colleague, with 2% of respondents reporting being physically
attacked by their co-workers.</div>
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In addition, many trained nurses are
being forced to work 12-hour shifts. Staff report exhaustion and are
frustrated because they are too overworked to provide a quality
service.</div>
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Staff cannot expect their managers to
support them. The Trust is among the worst 20% in the country both in
terms of support from line managers and of effective action from the
employer regarding bullying or harassment.</div>
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Staff reporting work
related stress cannot depend on the organisation for
assistance. Workers' intention to leave their jobs is at a very high
level.</div>
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I am sure other workers are suffering
in a similar way and want to feel they are not alone.</div>
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<b>...and Pay-Cuts</b></div>
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An article in the Mid Sussex
Times on 1/2/13 provides another insight into the working lives of
staff working for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.</div>
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Around 1,000 staff,including
nurses,stand to lose £600 per year through the removal of the
recruitment and retention premia agreed by the National Pay Review
Body and implemented as part of the Agenda for Change agreement
in 2005.</div>
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The Trust has justified the cut by
saying as they no longer have to give incentives to staff to recruit
them, the payment is no longer needed. They also say loss of pay
will protect patients and jobs.</div>
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The Trust Chief Executive, Lisa
Rodrigues,says that costs must be managed with 'forensic precision'.
It's unfortunate that Ms Rodrigues did not apply the same rigour
when the premium was first introduced. Many nurses were told that
their posts did not attract the payment, when in fact it was a
contractual right.</div>
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As for the protection of patients,the
Trust's own information show staff motivation at one of the lowest
levels in the country. It's time for a democratic NHS that protects
both service users and staff,and rejects the cuts to jobs and
services fuelled by a privatisation agenda.</div>
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<a href="" name="byline"></a>Sharon Mitchell,
Brighton and Hove Socialist Party</div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-46333700145871017672013-01-25T13:37:00.001+00:002013-01-25T13:37:44.125+00:00No to B&H Staff Allowance Cuts!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the face of government cutbacks, the
Green led council is looking at reducing locally negotiated
allowances for council staff. These allowances go in most cases to
the least well paid.
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The Policies and Resources
committee was standing room only in the public gallery of Hove Town
Hall. Workers and their supporters were made to wait almost three
hours as the issue was moved to the end of the agenda. After a long
wait the public gallery was cleared so the debate could be had behind
closed doors! This gutless move was made in the hope the gallery
would clear itself during the long meeting.
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After the secret debate the Greens and
the Tories voted in favour of asking officers to 'explore' the
allowance system, while Labour voted against.</div>
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Details of the proposals will now be
made by officers with an October deadline to put the new scheme into
place. Depending on the details of the changes, most workers will see
cuts in these allowances as a line in the sand. Public sector workers
have faced years of below inflation pay rises, while the costs of
utilities, food, rent etc have all risen. This comes on top of years
of belt tightening. The Bank of England estimates that the pay packet
of the average worker is now worth 15% less than it was in the
pre-crisis period. Benefits (often topping up the wages of low-paid
workers) have also been slashed by the government.
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The Greens are clearly willing to wage
a battle over this issue; when council leader Jason Kitkat was asked
why the report reserves the option of imposing any changes without
union agreement, he replied they had to keep that option open in case
it proved necessary.
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They are trying to balance the books in
the face of government cuts, but instead of taking the fight to the
government they are taking it to the council workforce and service
users. Even with the best intentions the council will end up cutting
jobs, pay and services. Two years that could have been used to build
a campaign against government cuts have been wasted. The Greens have
been backed into a corner but they refuse to even consider a
fightback. </div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-51062161274315275742013-01-23T21:29:00.003+00:002013-01-23T21:40:27.291+00:00Attack on B&H Council Staff Allowances<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The policies and resources
committee of 24th January has proposed a review of allowances
received by Brighton and Hove staff. These allowances frequently make
up large parts of staff incomes; the Argus
reports that £4,000 of a binman’s £17,000 annual salary is made
up of these payments, according to the GMB trade union. There is the possibility of
an unequal impact on women, resulting in equal pay claims.</div>
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The motivation behind this report is to
reduce costs. The next round of cuts is expected to reach £25m, and will go to the vote on 28th February, Hove Town Hall, 4:30pm. If the vote tomorrow is successful the details of implementation will be handed over to council officers,
who aim to introduce a new scheme by October. The report says the new
scheme could be unilaterally imposed if there is not agreement with
trade unions. It naively states: “...<span lang="en-GB">there is a
risk that the trade unions may feel unable to agree any proposals
that result in any of their members losing pay </span>without
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All councils are
facing significant cuts from the coalition government.
Councillors can oppose these cuts, however since the Greens have
taken over the council they have taken no such steps. In Southampton
two Labour councilors decided they could no longer stomach
passing on the government's attacks and voted against the cuts. They
have since used their influence to build local campaigns across
Southampton, and are building the idea of Southampton fighting
for a needs budget. </div>
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A wave of anti-cuts feeling brought
the Greens to power in Brighton and Hove in 2010: why can't the
Green councilors take the Southampton road and
stand up for the people who elected them? The Greens have to
encourage - not resist – a fight for the funding that is currently
being cut from the city.</div>
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We call on the Green party to call and
properly build for a demonstration on the weekend before budget day that demands the government returns the funding
they have cut from the city.</div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-29677784830438311492013-01-16T11:20:00.000+00:002014-04-05T13:54:44.343+01:00Are the cuts necessary? What is the Socialist Alternative?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />In our opinion the system of
society that presently rules which is called capitalism, is a
destructive, exploitative system that forces the majority to work for
the profits of a tiny minority. The wealth and effort of society
should instead be used for the well-being of society as a whole. This
recession is the best example of the development of society being
kept in cold-storage or put into reverse until big business can make
enough profit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Capitalism is showing itself to be a
system that is rocked by crisis, and a system that is massively
destructive. At the same time as huge advances have been made in
large and small scale technology and work techniques, those advances
have not been applied for the benefit of society as a whole. The
environment is getting worse while big business continues to pollute
and no government wants to undermine growth by investing in green
technology on a necessary scale. The ongoing economic crisis has
resulted in huge wasted potential across the world, with unemployment
rising, more and more people working very short hours or multiple
jobs, and the worst yet to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />In Britain all the mainstream
political parties agree that cuts have to take place. The government
argues that the cost of the benefit system and much of the welfare
state is unsustainable and must be reduced. We say this is hypocrisy,
why doesn't the government collect the tax which remains unpaid by
the super-rich? Instead of demanding the collection of an estimated
£90billion unpaid tax, mainly owed by the richest companies and
people within British society, the government cuts £3 billion
from the tax office, axing 10,000 jobs. When Google was confronted
over paying 3.2% tax its chairman, Eric Schmidt insisted he is
"very proud" of the company's tax structure, and said that
measures to lower its payments were just "capitalism".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is hard to imagine ordinary people acting in such a way and getting away with it! One of our members recently went
on ITV to debate the government's new jobseeker penalties which could
see benefits stopped for three months if an appointment is missed. The
Minister in charge of this failed to turn up to the interview because
he was still in bed; if he was a jobseeker he would have his benefits
cut, instead he and other MP's are clamouring for a 32% pay rise! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The government says that big business
must be handled with delicate hands because otherwise they will flee
the country, but that simply means the squeeze on everyone else,
those who don't have the wealth or the power to intimidate the
government, is even greater.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />At the same time the government
frequently argues that Britain is competing with China, India,
Indonesia. After years of plowing profits into finance instead of
investing in manufacturing and infrastructure, Britain is now trying
to catch up with other nations. However the 'edge' that these nations
have over Britain and America is the dreadfully low wages and
conditions of their workforces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />In our opinion this is the main
motivation behind the government's cuts: to reverse the gains of
working-class people in an effort to make them cheaper to employ
compared to the impoverished work-forces in the East. The
government claims we cannot afford the costs of public spending,
pensions, benefits and so on. They claim the burden is preventing the
economy from growing,. But if the cost of growth in a capitalist
economy is the degradation of living and working standards, aren't we
entitled to say we cannot afford the cost of the capitalist economy?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The government is cutting the debt
through attacking the gains of the working-class, they are doing this
to soothe the nerves of the holders of British government debt, to
reduce taxes for big business and to make workers cheaper to employ.
Good schools, good health, houses, working hours and conditions all
get in the way of this. That is the reality of capitalism, a reality
that is even starker across the world in countries without the
welfare state heritage of Britain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Socialists do not think the only
way to develop the economy is to make life harder for the
working-class and the poor. We ask the question; in whose interests
is the economy growing? Inequality has rocketed across the world in
the past three decades, and Britain is no exception. A UN report from
5 years ago said the total wealth held by the top 10% across the
world was 85%, while the poorest 50% own just 1% of the world's
wealth! This trend is worse as a result of the recession. In 2012, the world's 100 richest people became $241 billion richer, they are now worth $1.9 trillion: just a little less than the entire output of the United Kingdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the worst is yet to come, the
government has extended its cuts programme to 2018 while the economy
has barely registered any growth. While growth bumps along the bottom
all the ingredients of growth are sitting idle! There is currently
£700billion that British big business alone refuses to invest due to
the poor economic situation. Last year alone 60,000 construction
workers lost their jobs while overcrowding rises and 1.5m families
await decent affordable housing. That wealth and resources could be
put to good use for society, but is kept under lock and key until a
profit can be made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />We, along with others, point out
the short-sightedness of the current austerity policies, which
ignores poor consumption which is the biggest obstacles to growth.
Less money in people's pockets and the storm clouds of debt
discourage people from purchasing goods and services. Even the
International Monetary Fund, an organisation notorious for forcing
cuts on poor countries in exchange for so-called development loans,
has identified this as a problem, and has criticised the austerity of
Britain for being too short-sighted!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />However despite the high debt
levels people continue to borrow, and continue to live beyond their
means. But while an entire industry is dedicated to advertising the
means of purchase, or wages, we are provided by capitalism are
minimal and declining. We are not all at fault for the mountains of
debt accumulated over the years. Over the years the ability to borrow
to make up the difference was encouraged by government and the banks.
In fact, it was the lynchpin of their economic strategy and a handful
of people became incredibly rich as a result of it. We say that a few
simple ways to close that gap would have been to pay people decent
wages, build enough affordable houses and prevent the banks from
blowing finance bubbles many times larger than the global economy
itself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />However we cannot expect capitalism
to experience a sudden conversion – as these simple measures run
against the fundamental interests of the capitalist system. Some
people argue that calling for a socialist transformation of society
is going to far; that all we need to do is to clip the wings of
capitalism and teach it to behave. But it was the essence of
capitalism itself, the profit motive, that led it down this path; it
is no wonder that an inherently short-sighted system fails to adopt
more far-sighted measures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Others argue that now the crisis
has hit, and austerity is strangling the economy, more government
spending is necessary to put money in our pockets and boost growth.
This kind of spending took place to protect the banks, especially
after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. We campaign for public
ownership of the banks and to use those resources for the benefit of
society, however we have no illusions that the leopards will change
their spots. The government is in the pockets of big business and
finance and the voices of the working-class are not heard or listened
to. It would take a mass movement of the working-class to achieve any
kind of concession, and that mass movement could demand a lot more
than a few crumbs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Capitalism relies on the labour of
the working-class. Ultimately, it is this labour that is the source
of capitalist profits, assisted by technology and by the production
of the past. This reliance on labour as the source of profit is a
major weakness to capitalism, because the working-class can organise
and act together to pursue its collective interests. This can mean
striking for immediate improvements or for wider political ends.
Strike action (backed up by protests, boycotts and other actions) can
paralyse the economy and have a huge impact on capitalism, far
greater than even the best delivered argument. But such movements
also show how the working-class can run society without capitalism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />We argue the economy cannot be left
in the hands of capitalism. We want to build a movement that will
replace capitalism with a rational plan of production, where the
development of the economy is performed on the basis of democratic
decision-making by ordinary people within the economy itself, not by
a handful of un-elected bosses fighting it out in the market. We
argue for democratic control of the economy and for no single
individual or groups of individuals to privately own the forces of
production. If this was the case then development could take place
according to the needs of the population, not the blind anarchy of
the market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />This kind of democratic control of
the economy would be a world away from the top-down rule of
bureaucrats that existed in Soviet Russia and other so-called
Communist countries. We have nothing in common with those
dictatorships, which emerged because of the isolation and poverty of
Russia after 1917, when revolutions in other nations were defeated
and Russia, a poor and backward country, fell back on its own
resources. Socialism needs democracy like a body needs oxygen, and
without it the huge potential of a planned economy will be wasted in
controlling the population, in mismanagement and arms spending. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These
economies stagnated after they industrialised, and were delivered
back into the hands of global capitalism. While those dictatorships
fell, they have been replaced with massive inequality. The Lancet
medical journal estimated in 2009 that one million deaths and reduced
life expectancy resulted from the mass privatisation of the Russian
economy. The promise of liberal democracy in Russia became a reality
of gangster capitalism, poverty and repression of dissent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The economy is rotten ripe for a
socialist transformation – it is a global, social economy where
co-operation and common interests keep peeking through the seams of
the marketplace. It is so developed, complex and widespread that it
could easily be run consciously with human and environmental need at
the forefront of decision-making, and the advances in communication
technology could easily enable the democratic involvement of
everyone. However the present social organisation of capitalism
prevents this taking place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />In our opinion the reality of this
is forcing its way into the open. Mass revolts of the working-class
are taking place across the Middle-East and Europe, and they will
only develop and come closer to home as the crisis continues. The
role of our party, which is organised across the world, is to guide
those inevitable movements towards ending capitalism and constructing
a socialist society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The Socialist Party fights this
battle up and down the country, in schools, colleges, Universities,
workplaces and among service users. One of our main demands is for a
new workers party, to fill the hole in British politics to the left
of New Labour. We feel there is a need for a mass party of the
working-class which fundamentally opposes the pro-capitalist
arguments of all the major parties. That would be a big step forward
towards a mass, socialist political organisation in Britain. We also
argue for a general strike against austerity, and campaign inside and
outside the trade unions for it. For the working-class the best
weapon to use against the government and the bosses is a mass,
well-organised strike which is uncompromising in its aims and says:
stop the cuts, make the bankers and big business pay for their own
crisis!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />This is only a brief explanation of
our ideas, which leaves a lot of questions to be answered, so please
fire away!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />If you agree with the Socialist
Party or want to find out more, please get in touch:
info.bhsp@gmail.com - www.socialistparty.org.uk -
www.socialistworld.net</span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-36881975660399079032013-01-14T15:57:00.004+00:002013-01-14T15:58:27.504+00:00Brighton and Hove Socialist Party Branch Meetings JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013 (all at 8:00 PM) <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Brighton Socialist Party meets every Thursday at 8:00 PM in the Phoenix Community Centre, (2 Phoenix Place, Brighton BN2 9ND, close to St Peters’ church) to discuss a featured topic. These meetings are open to all and everyone is encouraged to join in and debate, so come along if you're interested. For more details: </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Phone us on 07894 716095, email: </span><a href="mailto:info.bhsp@gmail.com"><span style="color: #0068cf;">info.bhsp@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">, or visit our website </span><a href="http://brightonhovesocialistparty.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0068cf;"><b>www.brightonhovesocialistparty.blogspot.com</b></span></a><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"> </span></span></span></div>
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JANUARY</b></u></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 0.45cm;"><b>:
‘ASK THE SOCIALISTS?’</b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 0.45cm;">
</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 0.45cm;">This
meeting gives everyone an opportunity to ask the questions which
never seem to get answered: ‘do revolution inevitably degenerate?’,
‘why don’t more workers fight back?’, ‘is there a difference
between socialism and communism?’, ‘should racists and sexists be
banned or would that be undemocratic’? Come armed with two
questions you would like answered. We will put them all in a hat and
pull some out at random. Not every question gets answered, but it
should guarantee an unexpected and stimulating discussion….</span></span></div>
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JANUARY</b></u></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><b>: RAPE
CULTURE: Endemic to Capitalism? </b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">The
Jimmy Saville Case, the Julian Assange Extradition and the mass
movement against sexual violence in India have focussed attention on
violence against women. Are men ‘naturally’ sexually predatory or
is sexual assault and harassment a reflection of unequal economic and
power relations in our society. Is sexual harassment a ‘secondary’
or ‘personal’ issue for socialists? Or is its eradication at the
centre of the struggle for equality?</span></span></div>
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‘Socialist Dream’ or ‘Free Market Nightmare? </b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">As
China becomes and increasingly dominant economic power does its
position in world markets guarantee wealth for the Chinese masses or
is there a need to renew the struggle for economic, political and
social liberation in the world’s most populous nation?</span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">
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FEBRUARY</b></u></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><b>: BUILDING
FOR SOCIALISM IN BRIGHTON: Branch Annual General Meeting. </b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">At
this meeting we will review our work in 2012, and set targets for
2013. We will also elect our officers and delegates to attend the
Socialist Party’s National Congress in March. Only Socialist Party
members can take part in votes at this meeting, but visitors are
welcome if you phone or email us before (see over for contact
details).</span></span></div>
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HOW SHOULD A SOCIALIST PARTY BE ORGANISED: Democratic Centralism
Explained. </b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">As
part of our pre-conference discussion we will discuss how a
revolutionary party should organise. How do we reconcile full
democracy in decision making with maximum unity in action? Are
capitalist commentators correct to blame the ‘Leninist Party’ for
the degeneration of the Russian Revolution? Do we need new method of
organisation in the ‘internet age’?</span></span></div>
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FEBRUARY</b></u></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><b>:
NATIONAL LIBERATION AND THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION: The Right of
Nations to Self-Determination. </b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">Across
the World, from Palestine to Sri Lanka, and from Ukraine to the
Falklands the ‘National Question’ is the focus of wars and
revolutions. Is ‘Nation Liberation’ central to socialism, or a
‘chauvinist’ distraction? How would a socialist society meet the
political and cultural demands of national minorities?</span></span></div>
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28</b></u></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><sup><u><b>th</b></u></sup></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><u><b>
FEBRUARY: </b></u></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><b>SOCIALIST
PARTY CONGRESS 2013: Preparatory Meeting. </b></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;">On
the eve of our National Congress the branch will discuss the
resolutions put forward to the Congress and mandate our delegates.
Only Socialist Party members can take part in votes at this meeting,
but visitors are welcome if you phone or email us before (see below
for contact details). </span></span> </div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-63365816218111968052013-01-10T17:21:00.002+00:002014-04-05T13:16:10.998+01:00Britain’s Economic Decline - Review of Going South<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Going
South: Why Britain Will Have a Third World Economy by 2014<br />
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<span style="color: black;">By
Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0.21cm;">
<span style="color: black;">Published
by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, £14.99</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">LARRY
ELLIOTT and Dan Atkinson’s latest book, Going South, provides a
description of the “long, steady decline” of British capitalism.
It argues, largely by analogy, that this decline is reducing the
status of Britain to that of a developing nation. This argument is
clearly a sobering thought, although during the course of this
362-page survey the argument is snipped at by caveats.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">As
well as providing a useful summary of the decline of British
capitalism, this book suggests the shape the economy will take by
2014. In short: what Britain could look like after nine years of
crisis and austerity. The economic situation, of course, will provide
the backdrop for the likely general election in 2015, unless there is
a breakdown of the coalition before then.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">By
2014, the authors predict, Britain will be </span><span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="color: black;">a
country that cannot live with debt yet cannot live without it. It is
a country where the trend in the balance of payments is getting
steadily worse, and which has the income inequality of the United
States, without any of America's economic dynamism. It is a country
where the oil wells are drying up and all the state assets worth
anything have already been flogged off. It is a country where
long-term unemployment is having a scarring impact on the young for
the second time in 30 years, leading to outbreaks of unrest each
summer. It is a country where the trend rate of growth has fallen to
around 1% a year, yet the UK is curiously prone to higher inflation
than other nations. It is a country in deep crisis”.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a>They
compare the “beginning of the end” of the British empire on the
eve of the first world war in 1914 to its resultant “wasteland”
of 2014. Rooted in the English civil war, which laid the foundations
for the development of a capitalist economy, they briefly survey the
conditions which were necessary to implement technological advances
and drive the industrial revolution. They describe the turn towards
colonial markets and the subsequent competitive outstripping of
British industry by Germany and the US, along with the decline of the
British empire after the first and second world wars in terms of
naval power and colonial possessions.<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Later
chapters describe the relative resurgence of industry during the
post-war period underlining, however, the inability of British
industry to fully take advantage of new markets, to rationalise
industries or to develop leading companies. Support by the state in
supplying funds and markets to the ‘winners’ is also noted as a
key part in the success of pharmaceuticals and car production.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">An
annoyingly non-committal chapter on Margaret Thatcher “suspends
judgment”, although it does go over the role her government played
in attacking trade unions and unleashing the finance sector. The
bonanza provided to the banks by privatisation is noted, followed by
a description of the rise of the finance industry, deregulation and
an eventual reliance on credit to boost demand: </span><span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="color: black;">Around
three-quarters of the growth in the boom years that preceded the
financial crash came from financial services, the housing market, the
construction sector, public spending and retail. All of them are
struggling in an environment where household incomes are falling,
banks are not lending, and the government is cutting spending”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The
book is useful in that it places the rise of the neo-liberal
capitalist economy against the backdrop of the decline of
manufacturing and the breakdown of the post-war boom, instead of as
an aberration of policy. The argument that this amounts to a
‘de-developing' or submerging economy is compelling when looking at
the fate of hollowed-out British manufacturing and the subsequent
weakness of key areas of the economy with a reliance on finance,
services and diminishing wages of the working class: </span><span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="color: black;">...
by 2014 the UK will not have run a trade surplus in manufactured
goods for more than three decades”.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In
addition, Elliott and Atkinson attempt to argue that this - alongside
the growth of bureaucratic arrogance, rising unemployment, the
vacuous character of politics, the nervous encroachment on civil
liberties and so on - amounts to a nation that is starting to look
like many ‘developing’ nations around the world. They highlight
the dysfunction of the capitalist class and ruling political elite in
the face of this decline and crisis, as well as Britain's dependence
on foreign investment, food and energy. Yet, a key part of this
process does not even get a mention: the absence of a working-class
party and movement to challenge this decline and the present
political situation. </span>
</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Chapter
nine is a list of areas of the economic “wasteland” which Elliott
and Atkinson consider would be worth investing in. This includes
cattle and farms, because of food insecurity and poorly stocked
supermarkets, oil and other imported energy supplies, and
face-to-face methods of communication. After the doom-mongering of
the previous eight chapters, this reads like economists fantasising
about the apocalypse and assessing which investment decisions would
yield the highest results. It is a testament to the parasitism of the
capitalist system that </span><span style="color: black;">this</span><span style="color: black;">
can be seen as a silver lining! </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0.21cm;">
<span style="color: black;">A
handful of suggestions are put forward once the need for a
</span><span style="color: black;">development </span><span style="color: black;">model
has been outlined. Broadly, two models are proposed. One is the
Scandinavian, social-democratic model of high welfare spending, high
taxation and low inequality – although this has largely been
abandoned by recent governments implementing neo-liberal policies.
The other is to turn Britain into a 'special economic zone', where
any regulation of business is stripped away and the conditions of the
working class are degraded blatantly in the interests of big
business, in an effort to attract foreign investment. </span>
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<span style="color: black;">The
Greek government’s plans for the 'redevelopment' of its economy –
beyond the immediate bloodletting imposed by the troika (the European
Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund) –
set out a similar growth model. Elliott and Atkinson, however, all
but rule out a social-democratic model due to the “lack of
willpower” and the “lack of an external threat” along the lines
of that faced during the second world war. Their argument is reduced,
therefore, to growth through the destruction of working-class wages
and conditions, a completion of the neo-liberal project once the
store cupboards have been stripped bare through privatisation and
debt.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">That
will be the case unless a movement of the working class is built to
replace the capitalist system with democratic control of the economy
by the majority of the population instead of a tiny minority. Some of
the tasks of a socialist Britain would be the genuine redevelopment
of the economy not through the massive exploitation of the working
class but through a democratically planned economy alongside other
socialist states.</span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-50050080823908341492013-01-10T16:04:00.002+00:002015-01-07T18:13:51.958+00:00GMB Protests at Royal Sussex County Hospital<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">Brighton and Hove Socialist Party</span><br />
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">Before the last election, David Cameron promised that he and the Tories would “protect the NHS” - if it wasn't clear that this was a blatant lie two years ago, then the reality of what is happening to hospitals across the country has made it clear enough for all to see, with creeping privatisation, job cuts and pension cuts.</span><span class="ecxEOP ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">Cleaners and catering staff at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton are feeling first hand the effects of Cameron's broken promise. Farmed out to private contractor </span><span class="ecxSpellingError ecxSCX88892957" style="background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">Sodexo</span><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;"> in December 2012, the company gave it's new work force an early Christmas present of announcing 96 redundancies less than two weeks into the contract!</span></span></div>
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">On top of this, some of the workers who had their contracts transferred to </span><span class="ecxSpellingError ecxSCX88892957" style="background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">Sodexo</span><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;"> haven't received a full pay check since the move. Disgracefully, some of them have gone without pay completely over Christmas.</span></span><span class="ecxEOP ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">This is the brutal reality of NHS privatisation, and of the mantra of the Con-Dems and big business – putting profit before the interests of patients and workers.</span><span class="ecxEOP ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<div class="ecxParagraph ecxSCX88892957" style="color: windowtext; font-size: 6pt; margin-bottom: 1.35em; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">
<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">The GMB union who organises amongst the workforce has taken action over this, bringing </span><span class="ecxSpellingError ecxSCX88892957" style="background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">Sodexo</span><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;"> into dispute and balloting the affected workers for strike action over the redundancies. In the past week there has also been two solidarity demonstrations called by the GMB and local NHS campaigns, one, a morning picket of the hospital saw around 25 trade unionists, health workers and anti cuts campaigners gather outside the hospital, while a lunchtime demo later in the week saw over 50 people gather with banners outside the hospital.</span></span><span class="ecxEOP ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">Labour Party supporters attended both these events, including former city councillor Simon Burgess. </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">While all </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">s</span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">upport </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">for </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">the </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">campaign</span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">is welcome</span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">, </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">it should be made clear that the last Labour government ramped up the scale of privatisation within the health service, paving the way for companies like </span><span class="ecxSpellingError ecxSCX88892957" style="background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">Sodexo</span><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;"> to take up contracts. Not surprisingly Burgess, when interviewed</span></span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">,</span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> condemned </span><span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ecxSpellingError ecxSCX88892957" style="background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">Sodexo's</span><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;"> treatment of the workforce but made no mention of taking the workers back in house.</span></span><span class="ecxEOP ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;">This should be the demand of any campaign aiming to defend local NHS services, job cuts and unpaid wages are the direct result of NHS privatisation by this, and the last government. It is clear that health workers need their own political voice that stands for their interests, and against all cuts and privatisation, any campaign opposed to NHS privatisation needs to recognize this otherwise we will be fighting an endless battle against whatever party is in power.</span><span class="ecxEOP ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="ecxTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">At the second demo it was announced that </span><span class="ecxSpellingError ecxSCX88892957" style="background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;">Sodexo</span><span class="ecxNormalTextRun ecxSCX88892957" style="line-height: 20px; padding: 0px;"> had agreed to meet with GMB and would work towards paying back any unpaid wages. However the redundancies are still going ahead and the results of the strike ballot should be known by the time of printing.</span></span><span class="ecxEOP ecxSCX88892957" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; padding: 0px;"> </span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-17610062728211614752012-12-14T12:11:00.002+00:002012-12-14T18:28:36.978+00:00Lobby of BH Council against Cuts to Council Tax Benefits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A petition of 700 signatures opposing cuts to council tax benefit collected from across Brighton and Hove was presented to the council yesterday. The Socialist Party organised a lobby outside the council building to show our opposition to this cut and to all cuts.<br />
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The money that pays for council tax benefits is being cut by the government next April, in an effort to transfer more of the burden onto the shoulders of the poor (many of whom are in work, so the benefit makes up for low wages and minimal hours). In August it was reported that an 81 year old woman from Hove was jailed for 10 days for not paying her council tax, and last year <a href="http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10064708.Councils_send_bailiffs_in_every_15_minutes/">40 bailiff visits</a> took place per day across Brighton and Hove. It is estimated that up to half the revenue raised by cutting the benefit will be spent on enforcement! What lengths will the council resort to in collecting this money?<br />
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/may/31/council-tax-reforms-poll-tax-ifs">reported</a> that this cut will create conditions similar to the poll tax of the late 1980's and early 1990's. Thatcher expected people to pay the same tax regardless of their circumstances, in a move calculated to strangle local government finance and turn councils against the local population.<br />
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Militant (the forerunner of the Socialist Party) played the central role in organising a mass campaign of non-payment, backing those who could not pay and those who refused to pay with nationally co-ordinated and organised direct action. A <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/15/local-authorities-residents-council-tax">Guardian</a> article reports local authorities anticipate half of residents who will be expected to pay in April next year, will refuse to.<br />
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We have always argued that without a campaign against the cut in the budget and without a campaign for a budget that reflects the needs of the city (not the cuts of the government), the Greens would find themselves the reluctant administrators of the cuts. In collecting the signatures for this petition time and again we encountered the lost expectation that the Greens would stand against the government cuts. <br />
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In his speech to the council Paul Moorhouse made it clear that councilors have a choice to stand up to this government and wage a campaign for the return of central government funding. There is no magic button that councilors can press, but they are in a position to help build movements which can shake the government. The lack of a party nationally pledging to reverse the cuts is a big problem, and the Socialist Party in coalition with others are trying to build such a party that is rooted in the campaigns of the working-class and the poor (www.tusc.org.uk).<br />
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-59901259819803201532012-11-30T18:25:00.003+00:002012-12-02T21:52:21.095+00:00PCS Day of Action at DVLA and DWP 30/11/2012 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PCS members at the DVLA went on strike today against government plans to close all 39 offices, 10 enforcement centres and 3 processing units. This will not only result in 1,200 jobs being lost, but it will mean the loss of face-to-face services being provided, and poses the threat of privatisation. This is taking place despite the DVLA's own consultation revealing that 79% of respondents did not support the plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More details can be found in this video with Stephen Banfield <span style="line-height: 1.4;">Steve Banfield PCS Brighton DVLA office rep and Southern Region Chair - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPCW2hYY5AI&list=UUwskiAi6p_7_F74WntXK-nQ&index=1&feature=plcp">click here</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">PCS members also staged lunchtime protests today across East Sussex, in Brighton and around the country. <span style="background-color: white;">The protests are in opposition to plans to review all existing civil service terms and conditions - including hours and holidays, flexible and parental leave and other family-friendly policies - with a view to cutting them back.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The demonstrations are also over the public sector pay freeze, cuts to pensions - including a further increase in monthly contributions planned for April - and the tens of thousands of civil service jobs either already cut or in the pipeline.</span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Another year,
another cuts budget... </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 23.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">...but the cuts MUST be opposed! </span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Argus has reported that the overall
cut to council services has rocketed from £14m to £25m! They estimate
this will result in 250 job losses, significant cut to schools as well as bins,
libraries and care for older people. The details and impact of the cuts will be
revealed over the next few months and voted on in February next year, but their
impact will be felt much sooner. Jason Kitcat, Head of the Green council, is
quoted as saying,</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Cuts to the grants are starving local
government of funding and leaving councils with a growing funding gap. In an
effort to fill the gap council workers and service users are being shoved in,
while the government deepens and widens it year after year. There is no
doubt the government is aiming to destroy local government, but Cllr
Kitcat does not have a mandate to do their dirty work in Brighton. In fact
the Greens were elected to oppose the cuts! </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">B&H Council: Fight the Cuts – Don't
Make Them!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Since the Tories and Liberal Democrats
came to power Brighton and Hove Socialist Party has been arguing for a fight-back
against all the cuts to public services, including local government. We cannot
fall into the trap of saving one job or service by cutting another, but in
order to do that we have to oppose the overall funding reduction. In 2010 the
Greens claimed they would fight the cuts, what have they done?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ever since coming to
power they have claimed nothing can be done. We might have expected that
every avenue would be explored, including use of council reserves, that every tactic would be attempted to
frustrate privatisation and to build campaigns against each and every cut, no
matter how small. Most importantly we might have expected the Greens to
encourage a city-wide campaign among the council workforce and local population
to say to the government: <b>Give Us Back Our Funding!</b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7435798072450218257" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">GMB are seeking assurances there will be
no compulsory redundancies and it is UNISON policy to ballot for strike action
if any are made. In <span style="color: black;">addition a wider campaign is
needed to oppose all (voluntary and compulsory) redundancies and cuts to
services by recovering the funding</span> stolen from the city. Pressure
can be brought to bear on the council to adopt this position and campaign
against the government imposed cuts. Any such campaign must refuse to make the
cuts by passing a budget based on the NEEDS of the city, not the cuts dictated
by the government.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Council workers and service users -
along with workers and poor people across Britain – need a party worth voting
for. We think there is a desperate need for a new party that is rooted in the
struggles that are emerging across the country. At the moment we choose between
apologists or cheerleaders of the cuts. Instead, we need a party that aims to
build a movement through workplace and community organisation. We think that
the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition is the beginning of such a party and
we encourage you help us build it by standing at every election and raising the
need for an alternative. See www.tusc.org.uk</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What can you do?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 1.8pt; margin-left: 14.2pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0cm; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If not already a member, join your workplace union, and encourage others
to do the same</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 1.8pt; margin-left: 14.2pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0cm; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Get in touch as soon as you know how the cuts will affect you and your
workplace – info.bhsp@gmail.com</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 1.8pt; margin-left: 14.2pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0cm; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Encourage your union branch to join the call for a NO-CUTS council</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 1.8pt; margin-left: 14.2pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0cm; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Build pressure on the council to OPPOSE the cuts by building a movement
to get the funding back</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 1.8pt; margin-left: 14.2pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-line-height-alt: 10.2pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 0cm; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Help us produce a NEEDS budget</span></div>
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-31676321339193783612012-10-21T16:33:00.003+01:002012-10-21T16:35:17.776+01:00Large TUC demo opens new phase in the struggle against austerity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Workers travelled from across Britain to London today to express their fury at the Con-Dem government's vicious cuts in living standards.<br />
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The Trades <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Union" target="_blank">Union</a> Congress (TUC), which organised this march against austerity, estimates that over 150,000 attended in London, along with tens of thousands in Glasgow and Belfast.<br />
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The mood of the demonstrators was different to the previous <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/TUC" target="_blank">TUC</a> march 18 months ago. The reality of the cuts, combined with the experience of the previous year's struggle, has lead to a greater awareness of both the urgency of a fightback, and for it to go beyond demonstrating and onto the industrial plane.<br />
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While massive, this was nonetheless a smaller demonstration than on 26 March 2011 - when over half a million took to the streets.<br />
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Without doubt, having experienced the capitulation of the leadership of the TUC in the battle against pensions, some workers stayed away because they doubted that this demonstration would be the launch pad for an escalation of the battle against the Con-Dems.<br />
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The many who attended, however, came determined to make sure that it was more than a 'parade'.<br />
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Len McCluskey, general secretary of the union Unite, got the overwhelming endorsement of the crowd when he asked all those who supported the organising of a general <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/Strike" target="_blank">strike</a> to raise their hands.<br />
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Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT and seconder of the motion to 'consider a <a href="http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/keyword/General_strike" target="_blank">general strike</a>' that was passed at the recent TUC congress, got massive applause when he called for a 24-hour general strike.<br />
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Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, also called for coordination of strike action across the trade union movement.<br />
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Huge support was received for the campaign by the Socialist Party and the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) to demand that the TUC name a day for a 24-hour general strike and then launch a massive campaign to mobilise the working class behind this call.<br />
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In contrast to the enthusiastic reception given to leaders calling for general strike action, Labour leader Ed Miliband was booed by many in the crowd when he talked about the need for any government to make cuts, including Labour. <br />
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This demonstration opened a new phase in the war against austerity, giving a glimpse of a more hardened and militant working class.<br />
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There was a widespread interest in socialist ideas, with many applying to join the Socialist Party.<br />
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South East Socialist Partyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16625292708748934250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7435798072450218257.post-16449937200575739062012-10-05T13:05:00.000+01:002012-10-05T13:05:32.269+01:00No to Outsourcing at University of Sussex: What is TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006)?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> TUPE
is a piece of legislation that comes into force when workers
transferred from one employer to another. Such as when one company
buys another out or when a public service is privatised. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In
general it gives provision to protect the terms and conditions of the
transferred staff, essentially meaning that they should keep roughly
the same rates of pay, hours, place of work etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Similarly there is
provision for keeping staff within the same pension scheme, although
management have already stated that this will not apply at Sussex
University. There is even automatic recognition for the trade union
of transferred staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It is
a popular piece of legislation for managers to name check as a way
of reassuring staff that the looming changes are nothing to be scared
of as everything will stay the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Following
transfer TUPE legislation can be superseded and contracts changed if
the employer has a <i>Economic, Technical and Organisational</i>
reason to do so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This can be pretty much anything, there is no
technical definition but typically a the new company will claim that
it needs to restructure the service on some flimsy pretence, such as
making it run more efficiently or to make it more profitable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This
means that taking on public services becomes a lot more attractive to
private companies, transfer today, tear up staff contracts tomorrow.
It also means that the company can de-recognise a trade union.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Recently
in Hampshire Sure Start Centres (Children's Centres) were transferred
into the loving hands of a third party charity under TUPE. Within a
matter of days this charity (Action for Children) restructured the
service, shedding jobs and offering those staff new posts ,on their
own far poorer conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One worker based in Basingstoke was
offered an “alternative” post in the New Forest. Staff had been
promised by the County Council during the consultation prior to
transfer that their jobs and salaries would be safe, all because of
TUPE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> At
Sussex University the groundwork for privatisation has already been
laid, Catering and conference staff have had their hours of working
bought out and £100,000s has been sunk into a revamp of the
facilities. There has been a gradual erosion in the number of
security staff and cleaning, already part-privatised. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking over
services with shiny new premises or with staff cut back to the bone
is a lot more attractive to private companies, it saves them time and
money. Senior Management have been leaning on the heads of the
various professional services for the past few years with the warning
that they must break even.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Action
needs to be take now to prevent outsourcing ever taking place, that
means making it clear to University Governors that workforce will not
stand for privisation. A campaign should be waged as part the
necessary consultation that the University must undertake to make the
view of campus known.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Union
members should conduct a indicative ballot to show concretely that
mood is there for a fight with a view to building for a ballot for
industrial action if the University does not back down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Further
Reading</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1655">http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1655</a>
</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file20761.pdf">http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file20761.pdf</a>
</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/PCU_Organising_guide.pdf">http://www.unison.org.uk/acrobat/PCU_Organising_guide.pdf</a>
</span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/briefings/externalisation.html">http://www.unison-scotland.org.uk/briefings/externalisation.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Workers
in Jobcentres around the country will be trained up in the
government's new sanctions regime over the next few months, ahead of
their implementation on October 22<sup>nd</sup>. These include much
harsher penalties for claimants who fail to follow directions,
forget to attend meetings or when advisers doubt that claimants are
available for work or are “actively seeking” work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Penalties
for all of the above are being increased from one or two weeks to an
automatic four weeks for the first offence. Second offences will
carry an additional sanction of 13 weeks. New sanctions will also
apply to people claiming Employment Support Allowance, involving
open-ended suspension from benefits as well as a fixed period
penalty up to a maximum of four weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaving
a job or being sacked for “misconduct” (a flexible concept with
some employers) entail an automatic thirteen week sanction under the
new regime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Capping
the government's plans is a 3 year sanction – three years of
exclusion from benefits – for those who commit three “higher
level” offences; sacked for misconduct, leaving voluntarily,
failure to participate in mandatory work activity, neglecting to
avail of an employment opportunity or refusing / failing to apply
for a job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With
Slasher Osborne already moving to freeze benefits for two years, and
thereafter to remove the link with inflation, all of these measures
are about saving money, not about encouraging people to look for
work. Staff on the training day I attended expressed indignation
that yet again the government was simply trying to bludgeon people
out of the benefits system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much
of the education and training offered is held in low regard by DWP
staff, by claimants and by employers, and many of the jobs being
touted are short term, involve work in difficult conditions and/or
come with piddling salaries that even augmented with tax credits and
housing benefit are hard to live on. Both of those, by the way, have
been recently cut, and housing benefit is to face, apart from
tighter caps, a further 10% cut by 2014.</span></div>
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