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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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Analysis and lead reports

News

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Food prices soar while supermarket bosses rake it in

Over a decade of restrained wages and relentless Tory austerity has left millions in food insecurity

£2 a litre fuels working-class anger

Grenfell five years on: The fight goes on for safe homes

Government social care plans fall £10bn short

Fully fund children’s mental health services

Campaigns

Tories wreck Derbyshire care services

Tory Derbyshire County Council is pushing ahead with its plans to close seven care homes, it is also seeking to close eight day centres

Protests oppose Rwanda deportation flight

Youth and students

As bills outstrip wages… Fight for £15 an hour minimum wage

By the time the new minimum wage came into effect in April, it had already been outstripped by rising costs.

Leeds student occupation ends after management agrees to meet unions

Workplace and trade union

Unison conference – Right wing exploit left NEC mistakes to win votes

Unison reps and activists met together in the union’s National Delegate Conference in Brighton on 14-17 June

‘The gloves are off’ as postal workers move towards strike vote

Yorkshire bus strike continues

Unite to fight for the pay rises we need

British Council workers strike to defend jobs

International

Women

Union action needed to close 38% gender pension gap

If you thought the gender pay gap was bad, there is an even bigger gender pension gap which has huge consequences for women

TV review: Sex, Mind and the Menopause

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

Black and Asian

Can’t trust bosses to end sweatshop conditions in Leicester

Many, mainly Asian, families attended an event organised by Fashion Workers Advice Bureau, a new workers’ rights organisation.

Tories instruct teachers to wipe Britain’s real history

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

Socialist history

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VIDEOS AND PODCASTS

Environment

Film review: Rebellion

Rebellion is the first feature-length documentary to go behind the scenes of climate campaign Extinction Rebellion (XR)

TV review – Meltdown: Three Mile Island

LGBTQ+

Pride is political

Socialist Party members ran a stall at Oxford Pride event. Despite the claims of some that Pride isn’t political, we ran out of leaflets in 10 minutes!

Tories attack trans pupils

Readers' opinions and reviews

TV review: Dispatches – the truth about Nike and Adidas

Garment workers are underpaid, overworked and mistreated and bosses at the top reap the benefits.

What it’s really like working in libraries

Socialism and Marxism

Building the Socialist Party

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