Mark Best

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Iain Dalton, Socialist Party Yorkshire SecretaryDonald Trump unleashed chaos on the world economy by announcing massive tariffs on his ‘Liberation Day’ 2 April. Workers across the world will be looking at market volatility and dire warnings from the media with dread, remembering the impact of the ‘great recession’ in which working people were forced to pay for the bosses’ crisis with cuts, job losses and many losing their homes. The capitalist economy is at an impasse.

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Lottie Young, Waltham Forest Socialist PartyWaiting lists for a family-sized social home now exceed 100 years in a number of local authorities, a report from the National Housing Federation has found. 164,040 children in England are homeless and stuck in damaging temporary accommodation, a dire situation that is directly linked to the fact that in 32 local authorities waiting lists for social housing now exceed an entire childhood (18 or more years).

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Adam Harmsworth, Coventry Socialist Party‘Awful April’ has been a shock for every working-class household across the country. Bills have soared across energy, council tax, internet, and water, which is rising by as much as £200 a year. Millions of families already struggling to pay for the essentials – bills, rent, food, transport – cannot afford these obscene rises. They are now forced to debate what else they have to cut down on just to keep going. Put off replacing old clothes and shoes?

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Disabled people and carers across the country are trying, in vain, to contact MPs about the proposed disability cuts. Disabled people have been telling us that, at best, most Labour MPs deliver a copy and pasted standard letter with no engagement on any points raised. No matter where you are in the country, it’s always the same letter, or the same script. A ‘four-line whip’ direct from Labour party HQ?

1 week ago | socialistparty.org.uk | Mark Best

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1317As Unite members’ all-out strike action on the bins in Birmingham entered its sixth week on 14 April, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced that the Labour government was drafting in Army planners to try and organise to break the strike, following the Labour council’s declaration of an emergency in the city.