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What we think
May facing Brexit vote catastrophe
Corbyn must put workers’ movement on a war footing!
The Tories are at each other’s throats – now let’s get them out!
Socialist Party news and analysis
After Grenfell, thousands still in high-rise firetrap blocks
Cladding off now! Landlords and Tories must pay! Across England, 437 high-rise buildings are still covered in combustible cladding
Universal Credit: robbing the working class
The fundamental problem with Universal Credit is austerity
30% of English secondaries in deficit
Almost one in three council-maintained English secondary schools were in budget deficit in 2017-18, according to damning new figures
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. Cancer waiting times; outsourcing explosion; tube pollution; Universal Credit
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Unions should be visibly campaigning at the front of the movement to oust the Tories instead of subcontracting the business
A key task – strengthen Tamil Solidarity campaign
Tamil Solidarity campaign had a very successful Annual General Meeting on 13 January
Council cuts
Glasgow: huge turnout to fight closure of Whitehill pool
Council cuts: In total, seven pools/gyms are threatened plus libraries, golf courses and bowling greens
Surrey: save our children’s centres
Council cuts: Surrey has just concluded a consultation over £250 million of cuts
Caerphilly: right-wing Islwyn Labour councillors fight to impose cuts
Council cuts: A battle is raging inside and outside the Labour Party in Caerphilly council against the cuts
Nothing to declare? Dodgy councillors hide vested interests
59 of our 62 listed local councillors had claimed ‘special dispensation’
North Tyneside: march to save our footbridge
Council cuts: The second meeting of the Save Borough Road Footbridge campaign took place on 12 January
Socialist history
The 1979 ‘Winter of Discontent’
It was the biggest stoppage in Britain since the 1926 general strike
International socialist news and analysis
USA: federal workers without pay – but immediate mass action can end shutdown
On 22 December, Trump shut down the government, demanding $5.7 billion for his infamous ‘border wall’
India: biggest general strike ever
Why did 200 million workers strike on 8-9 January?
France: union-led action and assemblies can defeat Macron
After a slowdown over Christmas, it seems the ‘gilets jaunes’ movement is back in full swing.
Mexico: police silence on horrific attack on CWI member
On 20 December 2018, one of our members was raped, robbed and kidnapped for more than an hour
Workplace news and analysis
Unions must fight and demand nationalisation to save thousands of car industry jobs
Bridgend Ford bosses have said over 1,000 workers will lose their jobs over the next two years, with 370 to go this spring
Hundreds join Manc RMT picket line in solidarity after far-right attack
This followed the recent attack on pickets by a far-right group
UCU: Vote Yes and Yes in the higher education pay and equality ballot
In October we voted by 70% for strike action – but Tory anti-union laws mean we don’t have a legal mandate
Opinion
Sorry to Bother You: “Socialist film Botox that made me feel young again”
Film review: Union organisation and action in telesales are the backdrop to the film
Brexit: The Uncivil War – an interesting but inaccurate portrayal of EU referendum
TV review: Not an accurate portrayal, or even a good drama
Letters to the editors: Do you have something to say? Keresley shooting, debt crash, BT tribunal
