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THE SOCIALIST PARTY SAYS

Our health and livelihoods before their profits

13 January 100% pay now!: The health crisis is now worse than at any time since the start of the pandemic. More people are in hospital and more are dying daily. More...

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Protesting in Cardiff following the death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, photo by Cardiff SP

NEWS AND SOCIALIST ANALYSIS

13 January 2021

Global capitalism at most dangerous conjuncture since the 1930s

The pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises More...

13 January 2021

How should socialists respond to the 6 January attacks on Capitol Hill?

Police in DC showed some sympathy to the pro-Trump protesters and refused to seriously restrain the partially armed crowd More...

7 December 2020

How far can the Starmer counter-revolution go?

Socialism Today, December 2020

And what are all those who have supported Jeremy Corbyn proposing can be done to reverse the tide? Read the editorials of Socialism Today More...

More news and analysis...

REPORTS AND CAMPAIGNS

15/1/21 Cardiff

Protests erupt at death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan Hundreds marched and rallied in Cardiff to protest the death More...

13/1/21 Schools

Act together to oppose unsafe numbers and rising workload The mass refusal to accept unsafe conditions forced a U-turn More...

13/1/21 GMB

British Gas workers strike against 'fire and rehire' plans The gas engineers received tremendous support at a Leicester picket More...

13/1/21 NHS

NHS pandemic warnings ignored - renationalise our NHS It wasn't the case that "nobody could have seen this coming". More...

13/1/21 Socialist Students

Refund student rent and fees - fight for free education and make the 1% pay A statement from the Swansea University rent strike More...

More reports and campaigns...

The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party

The Socialist newspaper, 13 January 2021, issue 1116

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The Socialist issue 1116

News

spot Our health and livelihoods before their profits

spot Londoners suffer and Khan piles on pressure

spot Bosses earn workers' annual wage in three days

NHS

spot NHS Emergency - Fight for a fully funded, publicly owned, socialist NHS

spot Dispatches from the front - health workers speak out

spot NHS pandemic warnings ignored - renationalise our NHS

Schools

spot Schools: Act together to oppose unsafe numbers and rising workload

Economy

spot Global capitalism at most dangerous conjuncture since the 1930s

Vaccines

spot Fully resource the vaccination programme now

spot Covid vaccine nationalism threatens pandemic response

International news

spot How should socialists respond to the 6 January attacks on Capitol Hill?

Retail

spot Lockdown 3.0 - fight to make our shops safe!

spot Ryan Aldred: Why I'm standing for Usdaw's EC

Workplace news

spot Unison get sec election shows left can win NEC

spot Royal mail management forced to make concessions

spot British Gas workers strike against 'fire and rehire' plans

spot Get stuck in to build a fighting, democratic PCS union

Youth and students

spot Refund student rent and fees - fight for free education and make the 1% pay

spot Exams scrapped again - young people need a future with jobs and free education

Campaigns and party news

spot Help us fund the fight for Socialism

spot TUSC to hold local elections conference in February

Review

spot Book Review: Humankind - Dispelling the myth that humans are too selfish for socialism

The Socialist newspaper, 6 January 2021, issue 1115

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spot 2020 - a year which drove home the catastrophic failures of capitalism

spot Workers' action wins Tory U-turn on school safety

spot 3 lockdowns, 20+ U-turns ... We can't trust the Tories

spot Nottingham City Council: Major battles against cuts ahead

spot UNICEF feeds children in the UK for the first time

spot News in brief

spot Hospital security staff on strike for £12 an hour

spot British Gas workers on strike against fire and re-hire pay cut

spot Protect the NHS - Funding, Pay, PPE, Public ownership

spot Protect lives and livelihoods, fight to defend the NHS

spot Engels on the origins of women's oppression

spot Universities: refund the rent, cancel the fees, for fully funded, publicly owned education

spot University teaching moves online in England

Reader's opinion

spot Books that inspired me: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

spot Technology and AI response: Capitalists only invest for profit

The Socialist newspaper, 16 December 2020, issue 1114

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spot Unemployment and Covid rising - the crisis is not over - Fight for jobs and safety

spot Mass testing - we need trade union oversight and full pay for all

spot Fight for NHS pay and funding

spot Rich countries hoarding vaccine is danger to us all

spot No to Tories' new anti-protest law

spot Maternity unit deaths - democratic, public ownership needed

spot Met police investigate British mercenary war crimes against Tamils

spot No surprise, poverty is rising

spot Cancel exams for class of Covid

spot Welsh schools close for safety after union pressure

spot Effective testing and properly funded safety plan needed in schools

spot East London shows the way: strikes are how to fight for state education

spot Determined strikers at Leaways school

spot Openreach and EE: Massive vote for action

spot PCS union conference stripped of powers by NEC

spot Unite launch ballot over sacked London bus rep

spot Christmas redundancy shock at L&Q housing association

spot Stop 'fire and rehire' at British Gas

spot Can green technology and AI save capitalism?

spot 'Socialism - Utopian and Scientific' by Engels

Reports & campaigns

spot Protests in solidarity with Indian farmers

spot Book: The national question - a Marxist approach

spot School boy assaulted by police in Tottenham

spot TUSC relaunch in the north west

spot Protest against immigration enforcement centre in Newham

spot Tremendous fighting fund reflects confidence

The Socialist newspaper, 9 December 2020, issue 1113

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News

spot Fund NHS, not Tory crony contracts

spot Covid vaccines only first step - fight job losses, austerity and 'virus' of capitalism

spot High street jobs, safety and pay: We have to fight

spot Super-rich tax evasion costs 34 million nurses worldwide

spot Luxury for some, poverty for the rest of us

What we think

spot Should Corbyn stand for London Mayor?

spot RMT gen sec election - vote for Steve Hedley

spot Further education workers win pay rise in Wales

spot HMRC pay talks - PCS needs to organise members now

spot Reinstate sacked Unite London bus rep Judith Katera

spot South London council workers vote to strike

International news

spot Right populism after Trump

spot Malaysia: Massive capitalist exploitation of migrant workers exposed by Covid pandemic

spot International news in brief

Engels

spot Engels and the answer to the housing question

Campaigns news

spot Welsh trades councils rally against the pay-freeze

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party

spot Tenants and workers unite to take on landlords

spot 'Oxford, Cut the Rent!' campaign kicks off

spot York students determined to build for rent refunds and free education

spot London Socialist Party hits the streets

Readers' opinion

spot TV review: Red, White and Blue

spot The Socialist Inbox

Obituary

spot Obituary: Roger Priest

The Socialist newspaper, 2 December 2020, issue 1112

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Issue 1112 front page

spot Spending Review. Unions must resist return to austerity

Spending Review

spot What will the spending review mean for me?

spot Napo kickstarts fight against pay freeze

spot Better for billionaires. Worse for workers

spot Arcadia and Debenhams closures: Nationalise to save jobs and pensions

spot Scotland: Campaign wins end to period poverty

spot NHS: Underfunded, understaffed, underpaid

spot News in brief

spot Where is devolution heading?

spot Don't let the festive season be one of misery for retail workers

spot Equity union conference calls for radical change - now lead a fight!

spot Solidarity with Brighton UCU strike - we won't pay for Covid crisis

spot East London teachers strike in support of victimised union rep

spot Heathrow workers strike against 'fire and rehire' plans

spot Hackney: Stop plan to halve school support staff!

spot Pay freeze protest Homerton Hospital

spot Unison general secretary ballot closes

spot 'Building back greener' - yet more Tory greenwash

International News

spot Conflict in Ethiopia: ethnic-linguistic divisions are the historical product of capitalist inequality

spot Review: Friedrich Engels - Condition of the working class in England

spot Socialism 2020 feedback

spot Wales TUSC plans to mount an electoral challenge

spot Rent strikers' victory in Manchester student halls

spot Labour meeting lets MP get away with 'Spycops' abstention

spot Selling the Socialist

spot Fighting fund target smashed!

Reader's opinion

spot TV: The Social Dilemma

spot Fast fashion, big profits, low pay

spot Diego Maradona - Working-class rebel, football genius

spot Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 25 November 2020, issue 1111

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Socialism 2020

spot Socialism 2020: Growing search for ideas to change the world

Pay freeze

spot Covid crisis: "We won't pay the price"

Friedrich Engels

spot Friedrich Engels: A revolutionary who played a pivotal role in the development of socialism

Workplace news

spot Little Ilford school strike stands firm - council must use reserves!

spot Heathrow workers to strike against 'fire and rehire' plans

Covid, vaccines and the NHS

spot Stop the Tories putting profit before health

TUSC

spot TUSC sets out core policies for May 2021 local elections

Readers' opinion

spot Mangrove: When the black community made a stand against state racism

spot CripTales: A painful reflection of a system that pits us against each other

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 18 November 2020, issue 1110

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The Socialist issue 1110

What we think

spot Tory crisis cannot be 'reset' - workers need a new mass party

News

spot Tories in turmoil... 'Reset' the whole system! Fight for socialism

spot Croydon Council declares bankruptcy - no cuts in Croydon or any other council

spot System failing thousands of children in care

spot Race disparity gets worse - fight to improve living standards for all

Covid

spot Covid, vaccines, 'big pharma' - and the need for socialism

Students

spot Tories student 'evacuation' plan will not work

spot Wales exams scrapped: What's behind the headline?

Schools

spot Campaign for school Covid safety must continue

Workplace news

spot Women workers need strong trade unions to defend their jobs, pay and services

spot Optare: Right to strike defended

spot Overcrowded Little Ilford School strikes against more expansion

spot Strike action ballot at UEL over job cuts

spot Hackney council parking services brought in-house

TUSC

spot After Corbyn: TUSC and the fight for working-class political representation

Campaigns

spot How will Socialism 2020 work?

spot Manchester student occupation - end rip-off rent, free education now

spot #SpyCops inquiry - Revealing police violence against Socialists

spot Selling the Socialist

spot Stop Leicester hospital closure

Youth

spot Young Socialists organising for our future

Obituary

spot Obituary: Paul Chettle

Letters

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 11 November 2020, issue 1109

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The Socialist issue 1109

News

spot Capitalists vs working class - not in it together

spot Tory U-turn: Free school meals

spot Tory U-turn: Furlough extended - not enough to save jobs

spot Covid and poverty rising - Welsh lockdown ends with little progress

spot Covid law used against striking workers - for workers' control of safety measures

spot Schools need union action for safety

US election

spot After the polarised elections - what way forward?

spot Trump out! But mass workers' struggle needed

spot Trump is out - our readers react

Spycops

spot Spycops inquiry : why the capitalist state feared and continues to fear socialism

Workplace news

spot Rolls-Royce: Lancashire workers' strike shows the way to fight aerospace cuts and job losses

spot RMT union AGM votes to defend union democracy

spot Sainsbury's and Argos: Closures, cuts and soaring sales

spot Fight the witch-hunt of Corbyn and his supporters

Campaigns

spot Donate to the Socialism 2020 appeal now!

spot Solidarity with Manchester students - fight for democratic control of campus safety

spot Southampton trade unionists demand: "We won't pay for Covid"

spot Labour movement conference to defend Corbyn and discuss new party

spot The struggle for a new mass workers' party

spot Selling the Socialist

Review and readers' opinion

spot Trotsky's ideas live on in the CWI

spot The Socialist Inbox

spot Readers of the Socialist react to effects of lockdown

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LINKS

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The Socialist Party is part of the Committee for a Workers‘ International (CWI) which fights for socialism world wide. www.socialistworld.net.

New book from the CWI

Leon Trotsky - A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn't Be Killed. A collection of new articles from the CWI. Published by Socialist Books.

Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party

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Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels

Communism, grotesque caricature: see Soviet Union. See also What About Russia?

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Genuine communism: see Marxism, What is it?

Historical materialism

How would a socialist economy work?

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