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Local election results must mean Corbyn campaign is stepped up
The local election results will have disappointed many Corbyn supporters, but he can still win – if he fights on a bold socialist programme. The full weight of the workers’ movement must be thrown behind this
Socialist Party news and analysis
Tories wrecking our NHS: kick them out!
Pay cap forces health workers to quit: This general election is the most important in a generation. The NHS is at breaking point
Corbyn pledges freeze on ‘STP’ health cuts
These announcements are good, and go some way to addressing the chronic underfunding of the NHS – Corbyn also needs to pledge reversal of all cuts and sell-offs
Corbyn pledges council powers to take over academies
May’s grammar school inequality exposed: Jeremy Corbyn has pledged to give powers to councils to take over academies. This is a very good start, but he will also need to pledge full public ownership and mass investment in schools
Tories forced to publish useless plans on toxic air
Corbyn must campaign on emergency measures to phase out diesels: The May government’s proposals are vague and toothless, just a cynical attempt to avoid the subject while the election campaign is going on
1,000 super-rich own £658 billion!
Our world is endless austerity. Yet it’s not everyone’s world. If you are one of the 1,000 richest people in Britain, then things are different
Corbyn promises to scrap hospital parking fees
Jeremy Corbyn has promised to make parking at NHS hospitals free. He called the current charges “a tax on serious illnesses.”
Corbyn would limit TV junk food ads
Jeremy Corbyn has also pledged to curtail the rights of big businesses to push unhealthy food on children
Some permanent degenerative medical conditions “do get better,” according to one Tory MP
International socialist news and analysis
France: Macron won’t solve economic & social crises
Fightback and socialist policies vital: Pro-capitalist former banker Emmanuel Macron is president of France after defeating Marine Le Pen of the far-right Front National
Local elections 2017
TUSC’s anti-cuts message finds positive response
4 May local elections: Whatever lies ahead, TUSC, and the model of an inclusive coalition it has provided, will be a player in the events to come
Liverpool city region mayor election – almost 8,000 votes for TUSC
Tories win West Midlands mayor – the complete failure of the Labour right
It is clear from this result that the Labour right have nothing to offer in terms of winning elections
Labour hangs on in Wales despite cuts councillors
Doncaster TUSC’s campaigning against cuts goes on
Workplace news and analysis
Tube strike at London Bridge over unfair dismissal
The 24-hour strike by RMT members was in response to an incident in which a fare-dodger was violent towards staff. Two who intervened were disciplined while another lost his job
After the Unite elections – now turn outwards
Workers fight back against race to the bottom!
Many strikes and protests are taking place in the run up to the general election
Royal Mail walkout over suspension of union reps
Good debate and response at radiographers’ union conference
Radiographers discussed the NHS cuts and pay cap, tribunal fees, and the right to protest
Socialist readers’ comments and reviews
US: women ice hockey players’ strike threat wins living wage
On 15 March, a group of women in the US announced a strike that became headline news across the country
Featured letter: disabled workers want our voices heard, not charity
I’d like to thank John Gillman and the editors of the Socialist for making an audio version of the paper available at socialistparty.org.uk
Foreign aid corruption: capitalism to blame
To justify calls to reduce the foreign aid budget, parts of the capitalist establishment have pointed to the corruption that permeates the business of aid
Why I joined: raising the ideas of socialism
“I eventually chose to join the Socialist Party because it is the party that is currently doing the most work to raise the idea of socialism”
Theatre review: Fracked! Political satire skewers frackers
‘Fracked!’ is an interesting and topical play, and puts forward good environmental arguments against the use of fracking for our future energy sources
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors about the general election
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Campaign launch: “rip-off bosses and greedy bankers – enough is enough!”
“An upgraded economy run for the many, not the few,” was the promise from Jeremy Corbyn at Labour’s official general election campaign launch in Manchester on 9 May
Overflowing Corbyn rally in Leicester
Labour had booked a large meeting room at the Tigers Stadium, holding 800 people. The room was packed full, with people standing at the back
Hundreds rally for Corbyn in Leamington
One Housing tenants force housing association back
Jobstown Not Guilty trial round-up
The trial of Jobstown protesters in Ireland is an attack on the right to protest, but it is also an attack on the working class communities of Tallaght
Yorkshire meeting in solidarity with the #JobstownNotGuilty campaign
People from across Yorkshire came together to discuss the background of the Jobstown trial and the impact that the verdicts could have on Ireland and beyond
Socialists tell free marketeers
Students at Durham debated the proposition ‘free market capitalism is the way forward’ – Elaine Brunskill, representing the Socialist Party, gave those supporting the motion a cold shiver down their capitalist spines
Packed Socialist Party meeting discusses the general election
Sutton Coldfield socialist campaign stall
Birmingham Central Socialist Party branch held its first ever campaign stall in the uncharted territory of ‘Royal’ Sutton Coldfield