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What We Stand For

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Issue 1379, 20 August - 2 September 2026

School and college students fight for our future

Analysis and editorials

Fight for our futures, not their wars: Walkout 20 November

Anti-Austerity Summit hosted by Hackney council

Editorial: Sharon Graham re-elected as Unite general secretary

News

Jason Arday: A victim of a ruthless profit-driven system

School and college students: Fight for our futures

The climate crisis is here, our public services aren’t ready

Water companies: we need nationalisation not mutualisation

No watering down of the Employments Rights Act

A Level results: We need fully funded, high-quality free education

View / download as PDF

Workplace and trade union

No more roasting, no more waiting: London bus workers ready to shut the capital down

PCS NEC agreed major national campaign strategy – but the general secretary refuses to implement it

Unison local government pay ballot

East London housing workers fight fire and rehire

Young workforce at Greenwich Royal Museums on strike

Lobby the TUC: For a trade union fight against austerity

London bus workers take action for safety in the heatwave

Campaigns

A-level results day – ‘fight for our future’

Fantastic fundraiser for socialist ideas and to support strikers

Cannock’s dying high street

Homes – too hot in summer, too cold in winter

Readers opinions and reviews

Don’t blame the kids – kick out the parasites

Game review: Still Wakes the Deep – workers vs bosses

Building the Socialist Party

Mega socialist campaign stalls – 5 and 6 September

Yorkshire discusses international socialist event

Socialist history

Grunwick strike 50 years on – lessons of an epic battle

Obituary

Obituary: Alan Turner 1948-2026 – a fighter and Marxist to the end