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Mark Best's focus is on government and politics, with a specific emphasis on socialist perspectives and labor rights. His coverage includes significant attention to government announcements and legal policy regulation.
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As storms Austen and Boelo leave communities flooded, transport networks disrupted and, at the time of writing, more than 160,000 people without power, households are told to prepare for future emergencies by stockpiling bottled water and tinned food.
By: Mark Best
For the third time in the space of a few months, there has been a massive mobilisation in Vienna by university students and staff against the budget cuts planned by the government.
Students are scrimping to cover their sky-high rents. Universities are full of overcrowded lecture theatres, many of which are teetering on the financial edge. University workers have had over a decade of attacks on their pay and conditions – demanded by governments of austerity. And when you leave university and enter the graduate job market apocalypse, you are saddled with a lifetime of student debt.
Andy Burnham's new Labour government has announced a complete U-turn on the 2024 manifesto pledge to not approve any new licensing to drill for oil and gas in Britain by giving approval to the Adura-owned Rosebank oilfield.
Teddy Sheperia, Manchester and Salford Socialist Students Socialist Students went to a high school in south Manchester to leaflet regarding the 20 November walkouts.
Socialist Party members to take part in walkouts in Italy Dock workers' unions have announced an international day of action for 30
Young people across Europe are taking to the streets. Education, housing, war, corruption… the specific ignition varies. But all are fuelled by resentment that we are constantly asked to pay for crisis with public service cuts and rising prices. Meanwhile the super-rich capitalist bosses get richer.
The National Executive of the National Education Union (NEU) has unanimously passed a motion to “Support the International Youth Strike: ‘Fight for our future, not their wars'”.
By: Mark Best
Earlier this month, Andy Burnham revealed Labour's plan to axe the pensions triple lock in 2030, aiming to reduce state spending. Their proposal is to weaken the state pension, meaning that, by 2050, retirees will have had an estimated £50 billion pinched off of them.
On 20 November, hundreds of thousands of school, college and university students, across Europe and beyond, will strike or walk out of lessons under the slogan ‘fight for our futures, not their wars'. In Britain, Socialist Students is playing a leading role.
