The big Socialist quiz of 2024

  1. In the first issue of the year, what event did we correctly predict ‘beckoned’ in 2024?
  2. Also in the first issue of 2024, we reviewed a new Committee for a Workers’ International book commemorating what event on 11 September 1973?
  3. Which group of transport workers won the equivalent of £30 million following strike action?
  4. What is the name of the titular character in the drama about the subpostmasters scandal reviewed in the second issue of the year?
  5. What boozy animal claimed to be ‘all about the people’ but implemented pay cuts to its workers this year, prompting one angry reader to write in and call them “charlatans”?
  6. The biggest-ever strike in what place happened in January?
  7. A national TUC demo took place in what unlikely place in January?
  8. Which revolutionary’s death was marked in the Socialist at the start of the year, 100 years on?
  9. 2024 saw the launch of a new branch where in Wales?
  10. February 2024 saw the sad death of which Militant and Socialist Party cartoonist?
  11. Which social media billionaire got a $700 million payday in February, while the rest of suffered a cost-of-living crisis this year?
  12. Throughout the year we commemorated the 40th anniversary of a mighty strike by which group of workers?
  13. Twickenham rugby ground states on its stadium signage that weapons are prohibited from being allowed in, for what did they make an exception for in March?
  14. Which Socialist Party member won a fantastic five and a half thousand votes in the National Education Union’s vice-president election in March?
  15. Which unlikely figure opposed cuts in Nottingham in 2024?
  16. Workers, trade unionists and socialists marched throughout South Wales in February in defence of what?
  17. We said French president Macron set what Pacific territory “on fire” following a vote in Paris that prompted protests?
  18. In the May local elections, TUSC candidate Nadia Ditta won a third of the votes where?
  19. 2024 saw several changes in leader where: Wales or Scotland?
  20. May saw the Socialist organise its annual May Day Greetings, reflecting our links with and support for the workers’ movement, how much did we raise this year?
  21. In the general election this year, what proportion of the electorate voted Labour?
  22. The bloody Ukrainian war continued throughout all of this year. In August, Ukrainian troops invaded which area of Russia, famous for a World War Two battle?
  23. Members of our sister party led massive cost-of-living protests in Nigeria before being arrested and repressed by the state, they were outrageously charged with what?
  24. This autumn, the Socialist had two special ‘wraparounds’ on the paper, what for?
  25. Which Socialist Party member finally had his name cleared this year, after decades in a miscarriage of justice?
  26. In October, we had a headline ‘Game Over’. What was the article about?
  27. Simpsons character Jasper and his paddle featured on a placard in the Socialist in October, which union’s picket line was he attending?
  28. Which Socialist Party member spoke to Jeremy Kyle on the telly this year?
  29. How many people came to the Socialist Party’s fantastic Socialism 2024 event in November?
  30. And finally, the Socialist and its predecessor Militant celebrated a big birthday this year, how big?
Click to see how many you got right…
  1. A general election which arrived in the summer
  2. The 1973 Chile coup that overthrew the Chilean revolution
  3. Tube workers
  4. Mr Bates
  5. Beer company Brewdog
  6. Northern Ireland, when 150,000 workers struck over pay
  7. Cheltenham, commemorating the anniversary of the GCHQ union recognition struggle
  8. Lenin, who died in January 1924
  9. Rhondda Cynon Taff
  10. Alan Hardman, search for his name on our website to see his amazing artwork and learn more about his life
  11. Mark Zuckerberg
  12. UK miners who started their year-long strike in 1984
  13. An arms fair
  14. Sheila Caffrey
  15. The Sheriff of Nottingham
  16. Port Talbot steelworks
  17. New Caledonia, where France ramped up colonialist and repressive policies in May
  18. Bevois ward Southampton where TUSC won 32.3%
  19. Wales, Scotland narrowly misses out
  20. Over £8,500
  21. The lowest ever for a general election at 20.1%
  22. Kursk
  23. Treason. The fight to get the charges dropped continues
  24. To support Socialist Students at Freshers’ Fairs
  25. Oliver Campbell who has learning difficulties, was forced into a false confession by the police without a solicitor or appropriate adult present, later spending years in prison finally had his conviction quashed
  26. The Tory leadership contest won by Kemi Badenoch, how long will she last in 2025?
  27. In an article about university workers’ pay we used a photo of writer Mary’s homemade placard from a Unison strike in 2022
  28. TUSC and Socialist Party’s Dave Nellist was interviewed on Talk TV about the new Labour government
  29. Over 700, read more about the event online
  30. 60 years