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4 January 2013
Fired up by Fire in the Blood - a story of big business cruelty and neglect
Paul Heron reviews the film 'Fire in the Blood', directed by Dylan Mohan Gray.
5 September 2012
Standing waiting for the first tube train at 6.30am on a Sunday morning I was surrounded by low-paid workers, writes a Paralympic volunteer.
Remploy workers protest
29 August 2012
Paralympics, Atos scandal, Remploy closures... Con-Dems win gold for hypocrisy!
Millions are watching the 2012 Paralympics. The Games aim to inspire young disabled people to take up sport and compete at the highest level
29 August 2012
Sheffield's disabled join Paralympic protest
Disabled people put on a united front against the government's chosen Paralympics sponsor
6 June 2012
We won't be a lost generation - Fight for jobs and education!
Jubilee exploitation: Driven 100 miles from home, told to sleep under a bridge and get changed in public at 5.30am, then work a 14 hour shift for no pay...
6 June 2012
On the Saturday of the Jubilee weekend, while the BBC might have us believe that everyone was hanging up bunting or baking cupcakes for street parties, members of Lincolnshire Socialist Party held a stall with "abolish the monarchy" proudly emblazoned on the front, writes Dave Tompkins.
6 June 2012
YFJ condemns use of slave labour during Jubilee weekend
30 unpaid workers and another 50 on just £2.80 an hour were forced to work 14-hour shifts in illegal conditions on the day of the Jubilee Thames flotilla
30 May 2012
Monarchy - not just a 'harmless relic'
The government will be hoping that the Jubilee flotilla of 1,000 ships on the river Thames will serve as a useful distraction while it pushes through more swingeing cuts...
Cocaine Unwrapped, a film by Rachael Seifert
9 May 2012
Film review: 'Cocaine Unwrapped'
Cocaine Unwrapped, a documentary film directed by Rachel Seifert, went on general release from 5 May, writes Paul Heron
30 April 2012
Swansea trades council May Day march and rally
A May Day march in Swansea on Saturday reflected the changeable weather South Wales has suffered recently; however, it was representative of some important struggles taking place
18 April 2012
Book/Film review: The ruins of North America have been transformed into the totalitarian state of Panem: twelve districts, in abject poverty, surround the utopian Capitol, a centre of glamour and decadence, writes Mary Finch.
4 April 2012
Greater London Assembly election
TUSC candidate - 'Privatisation can be defeated': Teaching unions are warning that school dinners are getting smaller, less healthy and sometimes run out before all the children have had their meal...
15 March 2012
'Westenders' - omnibus edition
We are being badgered to celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth on the throne by a never-ending propaganda offensive, writes Rob Bishop, Gloucestershire Socialist Party and Cheltenham Against the Cuts.
15 March 2012
Celebrate International Workers' Day by supporting the paper that fights all cuts with a May Day greeting in the Socialist...
15 March 2012
European Court rules on Kettling case
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the case of the protesters who were kettled by police at Oxford Circus in London on May Day 2001. However, there were three dissenting judges...
7 March 2012
Revolution through Arab eyes - the Factory
Film review: David Johnson reviews a new documentary showing the history of struggle in the Middle East's largest factory...
7 March 2012
Torquay NHS campaign: Over 40 activists from Bracknell, Reading, Ascot and Windsor attended a Bracknell public meeting on 29 February organised by Defend Our Community Services to save Heatherwood Hospital from closure, writes Terry Pearce
29 February 2012
May Day Greetings in the Socialist
Support the paper that fights all cuts with a 2012 May Day (international workers' day) greeting in the Socialist...
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