Reports and campaigns

Right lose control in national executive council election

The election results have been announced for the national executive of Unison

Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis

Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis

Fight for a socialist leadership in PCS, build a fighting, democratic union!

PCS annual conference convenes on 13 June

"Rights are won not given" - London refugee wins housing debt campaign

Lawanya Ramajeyam, an asylum seeker, was unable to make rent on her room

Workplace news in brief

Woolwich Ferry workers are walking out over a victimised rep. The Woolwich Ferry, is now run by Transport for London (TfL). The workers have taken seven days action in May and June, with the final date

Post-Brexit trade deals: Workers' mobilisation needed to stop corporate extortion

Since the UK's departure from the European Union, the Tory government has come under pressure from its backers in big business to establish trade agreements with as many countries as possible

G7 green hypocrisy

As the G7 summit arrives in Cornwall, it's been found that the group of seven rich capitalist nations has bailed out highly polluting aviation and car industries to the tune of $115 billion.

New book - coming soon: The Struggle for World Socialism

Thousands of people, especially the young, have taken to the streets across the world in opposition to the naked greed by the ruling elite, and growing impoverishment of the mass of people

Hundreds march to scrap Silvertown Tunnel project

Chanting 'Hey mayor, we want clean air' and 'Stop the tunnel now', several hundred people marched through Canning Town, in Newham east London, on 5 June, calling for the Silvertown Tunnel project to be scrapped.

Shame on Clarion - another exploitative landlord

East London Socialist Party and the Social Housing Action Campaign (Shac) attended a London Renters Union demo outside Clarion Housing in London Bridge on 1 June.

We're building for 3 July NHS protests

Waltham Forest: Burnt out but fighting back: Burnout among NHS workers - evident before the pandemic and greatly exacerbated during it - underlines the urgency for the national leaderships of the health unions to link up a coordinated response, including strike action

Goodlord striker speaks out: How we unionised and fought the bosses

A section of workers at property services company Goodlord have been on indefinite strike since 22 February, and were sacked by the company on 19 May

Revolt against 'social partnership' at Wales Trades Union Congress 2021

Trades councils again played an important role pushing a fighting agenda forward at the Wales Trades Union Congress (TUC)

Douwe Egberts workers strike against pay cuts of up to £12,000 a year

Socialist Party members witnessed an incredible atmosphere of solidarity visiting the Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) factory picket line in Banbury on 5 June

London workers prepare to fight Khan's transport cuts

The Tory government and Transport for London (TfL) have reached a new agreement to implement more savage cuts to the jobs, pay, and terms and conditions of TfL workers, in return for a further £1.08 billion bailout

Raising Fighting Fund in Southern region

Given we spent most of the last year in lockdown, our election campaign was magnificent. The Socialist Party produced hundreds of thousands of leaflets, thousands of posters and dozens of banners.

York students demand democratic control of schools

On Wednesday 26 May, York Young Socialists organised a 30-strong protest campaigning for reformation of the school system

Cladding danger: Protest 5 June!

The tragic Grenfell Tower fire is approaching its fourth anniversary

Unite general secretary campaign: Left candidates speak to the Socialist

The two left candidates outline why they are standing

Crimes go unpunished

During more than thirty years of campaigning, the families of the 96 killed at Hillsborough and the Hillsborough Justice Campaign uncovered the truth: that 96 football fans were unlawfully killed