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Analysis and editorials

Socialist Party congress 2022: Social explosion is inevitable

19/05/2022

Northern Ireland Assembly election: a political turning point

19/05/2022

TUSC stand pioneering the fight for a new mass workers’ party

Campaign to make 18 June TUC demo a big success

News

We are the 99% - Take the wealth off the 1% Socialist Party placard, credit: Paul Mattsson

Windfall tax: a weak capitalist solution to a big capitalist problem

19/05/2022

A windfall tax, or any half-measure to take from the bosses, would not deal with the core problem.

Half a million go without social care in worker shortage market failure

19/05/2022

Tory and Labour governments guilty for ambulance shortage deaths

19/05/2022

High-rent, unsafe, insecure housing won’t be fixed by Queen’s Speech hot air

19/05/2022

Price rise nightmare – we demand a real pay rise

19/05/2022

Tories talk up social housing sell-off

19/05/2022

Tory MP: ‘It’s your fault you’re poor’

19/05/2022

Campaigns

Southampton leisure centre saved

19/05/2022

News that Southampton Labour council intends to re-open St Mary’s Leisure Centre is a victory for all those who have campaigned to protect this popular, well-used council leisure facility

Northampton – winning support for socialists in Unison

19/05/2022

Youth and students

Youth priced out while bosses profit

19/05/2022

Young workers make up the majority in some of the most precarious sectors, like retail, accommodation, and food services

Tories plunder graduates’ pockets

27/04/2022

Workplace and trade union

PCS conference: Prepare to fight on jobs and pay

19/05/2022

A week before PCS conference began, the Tory government made the incredible announcement that it wants to cut over 90,000 jobs from the civil service.

RMT ballot on the railways

19/05/2022

CWU begins to build for national action in Royal Mail

19/05/2022

South London bus drivers rebuilding militant traditions

19/05/2022

Walthamstow: School worker “warriors” winning even more support of parents

19/05/2022

International

Northern Ireland Assembly election: a political turning point

19/05/2022

Israel: Brutal repression at funeral of murdered journalist provokes Palestinian rage

19/05/2022

Sri Lanka: Biggest mass movement and strike forces prime minister’s resignation

11/05/2022

Women

TV review: Sex, Mind and the Menopause

19/05/2022

I had high hopes then that the follow up ‘Sex, Mind and the Menopause’ would be worth watching and would push the boundaries on women’s health

US: Build a movement to defend and expand abortion rights

11/05/2022

A draft opinion suggested that millions of women in the United States could lose access to abortion.

Black and Asian

Tories instruct teachers to wipe Britain’s real history

23/02/2022

The Department for Education is issuing guidelines about impartiality in the classroom

TV: ‘Death of Two Black Men: Police in the Spotlight’

16/02/2022

The documentary shines a light on the horrific deaths of Mohamud Hassan and Mouayed Bashir.

Socialist history

The ‘Great Unrest’ 1911-1914: When the working class shook Britain

04/05/2022

The ‘Headscarf Revolutionaries’: Fighting for safety at sea

04/05/2022

How mass working-class action established the ‘right to roam’

27/04/2022

The Socialist issue 1180

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Socialism Today

VIDEOS AND PODCASTS

Dave Nellist - former 'Workers' MP on a Worker's Wage' discusses the Tory sleaze scandal

What now for the Struggle for socialism? Socialism 2021 rally

122. Afghanistan in crisis: A colossal failure of western capitalism

The Struggle for World Socialism launch

15% for NHS workers

109 End violence against women

Socialism 106. Black workers’ charter

Socialism 108. SNP warfare – what does it represent?

International Women's Day Rally

Socialism 107. 1971: how workers beat anti-union laws

Environment

Kirkby neglected for decades – now it’s fighting back against incinerator

04/05/2022

75 Kirkby residents marched to protest plans to build an industrial incinerator just across the border from Knowsley in Lancashire.

Johnson’s energy plans – strategically flawed

13/04/2022

LGBTQ+

Cardiff protest against conversion therapy

04/05/2022

150 protested outside government and BBC offices in Cardiff calling for a ban on conversion

School workers take action against LGBTQ+ prejudice

04/05/2022

Readers' opinions and reviews

Take the bereavement industry out of the hands of the profiteers

19/05/2022

I would say this industry needs local authorities to take branches of funeral directors, crematoriums and cemeteries in-house, so that an affordable, cost-effective service can be made possible for many more people

TV review: Sex, Mind and the Menopause

19/05/2022

Socialism and Marxism

The Permanent Revolution: Trotsky’s writings have many lessons for today

Why are things the way they are?

Books that inspired me: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists

Poverty increasing. Welfare state in crisis. Do we need a new Beveridge Report?

The Communist Manifesto – A guide to understanding society, and how to change it

Building the Socialist Party

Donate so our no-cuts socialist message is heard everywhere every week

11/05/2022

Fund the socialist alternative to billionaire crumbs

04/05/2022

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