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Socialist Party news and analysis
Council cuts continue… So must the fightback
Boris Johnson says austerity is over. But who believes this pathological liar?
Police issue counter-terror guidance against campaigners including Socialist Party: Trade unions should demand the government withdraws these documents and the Prevent strategy
End climate change, end inequality, end capitalism!
On one side, the global rich elite wine and dine at their annual shindig in Davos. On the other, millions around the world face poverty, war and environmental destruction
Capitalism fails NHS services in Liverpool: scrap PFI!
The outsourced hospital should have been open and treating patients with state-of-the-art equipment by now
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. Billionaires, housing, health, Lords, and more.
What we think
To win back working-class trust Labour must take the ‘Liverpool road’
Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1070: The five Labour leadership candidates at the first hustings pursued a common theme – how can Labour win the trust of the working class. But it’s a tragedy that no mention of Liverpool’s vital socialist lessons was made
International socialist news and analysis
Eyewitness report: workers’ struggle in France on the boil
After more than 45 days of strikes and 62 weeks of ‘gilets jaunes’ protests, French workers’ appetite for struggle endures
France striker speaks: real, deep anger needs union strategy
For the moment, the strike relies on the workers’ determination – we need to discuss demands to generalise the strike, and a political alternative
Iraq – a brutal legacy of imperialist intervention
The Iraqi people have endured horrors from iron dictatorship to brutal imperialist occupation to dysfunctional and corrupt rule by local sectarian parties
India: Huge general strike but a missed opportunity
This year’s planned general strike on 8 January was massive. It broke all previous records in the numbers involved in united class action in India
Workplace news and analysis
Royal Mail workers to reballot for strike action
The Communication Workers Union has announced that talks with Royal Mail management have broken down and the union will be reballoting our membership for industrial action
Broad Left Network is not just an electoral organisation; its goal will be to raise the confidence and consciousness of our union’s reps, for a real member-led union
A win against academisation in east London
St Angela’s school in Newham won’t become a privately run academy – but other Catholic schools are yet to win
Belfast Hovis workers’ all-out strike
Hovis workers in the BFAWU and Unite trade unions have voted for an all-out strike in Belfast, Northern Ireland for better pay
Westex strikers read the Socialist
Members of Unite at the Westex Carpets factory in Cleckheaton have been on strike for two months over pay
Ealing tax office strike continues
Ealing tax office staff were out on strike again on 15 January. The campaign continues to save a local office against government cuts
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Make a stand: set legal no-cuts council budgets
Defend jobs, services and communities. Reports from Carmarthenshire, Peterborough, Swansea, Enfield
“If you think bus and rail services are crap, sign our petition to take them back”
Sheffield Socialist Party branch decided to start a campaign about public transport
Building Tamil Solidarity with youth and the unions
Tamil Solidarity AGM: It is evident that young people have begun playing leading roles in the campaign
Readers’ opinion
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Labour leadership; pensions struggle; political policing; university stress
Robert Burns: of the people, for the people
Burns was ‘just’ a poor farmer and low-paid public sector worker – we celebrate the 18th century radical democrat