14 April 2021
NHS pay: reject Tories' miserly 1% 'offer' - Fight for full 15% rise
The 1% increase is effectively a pay cut.
14 April 2021
'Covid passports' discriminatory and questionable - fight for workplace safety
The government hasn't yet clarified how 'passports' would work, but the dangers are apparent.
14 April 2021
Support the Broad Left Network for a democratic, fighting union leadership
The ballot for PCS president and NEC opens on 22 April
14 April 2021
Covid inquiry? Workers must decide
Put Tories and capitalism in the dock: Boris Johnson has presided over a coronavirus catastrophe that has left over 127,000 people dead - the highest number in Europe and one of the highest globally
14 April 2021
Tensions escalate in Northern Ireland
Images of young people rioting in Belfast and elsewhere, countered by police using water cannon, conjured up scenes from the period of the 'Troubles'
14 April 2021
How to deal with the tax-dodging mega-rich? Nationalise!
Global media company Forbes recently published its 'World's Billionaires List'. When compared with Unicef's prediction that 140 million children will fall below the poverty line as a result of the
14 April 2021
Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, lost an attempt to unionise their workplace. This disappointing ballot result is understandable given the vicious anti-union campaign waged by Amazon chiefs, and the
14 April 2021
Tory hypocrisy over housing benefit cut
Tory MPs have claimed £3 million in housing rent payments at the same time as voting to effectively cut housing benefit for low-income households in the private rental sector.
14 April 2021
US cops shoot dead another black man
Incredibly, in the middle of the trial of white cop Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering unarmed black man George Floyd, a Minnesota white cop shot dead 20-year-old black motorist Duante Wright, who had been stopped for a traffic violation.
7 April 2021
Sexism in education: It shouldn't be like this!
The posts on the website 'Everyone's Invited' are shocking and heartbreaking.
7 April 2021
Elect a socialist leadership to fight for national action and a united campaign
This year's elections for the executive of the biggest education union, the NEU, come at an important time for educators.
7 April 2021
Racism exists! Unite to fight all inequality
The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities concluded that claims of institutional racism are "not borne out"
7 April 2021
Vote socialist on 6 May
100,000 nurses could quit the NHS. Yet the government offers only an insulting 1% pay deal. The health unions, supported by the wider trade union movement, must call a national demonstration - to prepare for strike action if necessary.
7 April 2021
Childcare in crisis: A socialist solution
Over the last year, Covid-19 has magnified the vast deep-rooted inequalities in the capitalist system. One problem which has been felt most acutely by working women is that of childcare.
7 April 2021
GMB general secretary election: A fighting, socialist leadership needed
The GMB general trade union has begun the election process for a new general secretary. It is a year since the toxic environment around previous general secretary Tim Roach was exposed, and it is no accident
7 April 2021
Report condones vigil police violence - democratic community control a necessity
On 13 March, Socialist Party members were among the thousands who participated in a respectful but determined act of mass defiance following the ban on the vigil for Sarah Everard
7 April 2021
Low-paid workers shouldn't pay for Covid crisis
On 1 April the minimum wage was increased from £8.71 to £8.91 an hour for those aged 23 and over. For low-paid workers this was welcome news. However, for myself and fellow furloughed workers this wasn't
7 April 2021
Pimlico Academy protests: "Run by racists for profit"
Anger has been growing in schools for a long time. Decades of underfunding, increasing class sizes and growing pressure around exam results have created schools which feel more like exam factories then
7 April 2021
Academy schools have become business ventures
The process of selecting a secondary school for your child can be an agonising one for many parents. In 2005 I viewed about a dozen and chose Pimlico. The headteacher seemed a nice guy and the leadership
31 March 2021
Preparing for the revolts to come
While the Covid pandemic continues to ravage the globe, the capitalist classes are - if anything - even more frightened of what they will face as the virus's grip lessens. The pandemic has revealed the failings of their system to billions of people.
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