
The Socialist 17 February 2021
'If you want to stay healthy - you've got to fight back!'

Tory consultation on home-use abortion pills
Tory cladding money will not make us safe
Sham inquiry into 'progressive extremism' will not stop movements against capitalism
Cumbria mine: How can we fight for jobs and stop climate change?
Cryptocurrency bubble: Insanity of capitalism
Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses
SNP's independence referendum 2 'roadmap'
NHS white paper: no solution to failed Tory policies
Boot private companies out of our NHS
Derby Toyota plant Covid crisis
Hackney teaching assistants strike against cruel and unnecessary job cuts
Manchester Go North West bus drivers in all-out strike over fire and rehire dispute
London bus drivers set to strike over pay and conditions
Strike back for free education
Socialist Students conference - Sunday 28 February
Socialist Party Black and Asian caucus
Remembering Mohamud Hassan - continuing the fight against police brutality
How you can amplify the Socialist's voice - Help us build subscriptions to the Socialist
Swarming the London Mayor's question time
Southern new members meeting - a vivid illustration of the appetite for socialist ideas
Doing all we can to fund the anti-cuts stand at the ballot box
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Strike back for free education
Come to Socialist Students online conference
Sunday 28 February 1pm
This year, students have been shafted. We've been used as scapegoats by the government, treated as the personal piggy banks of the higher education sector, and many of us have been completely isolated from our peers and communities of support.
In spite of this, student voices have been some of the most prominent throughout this pandemic. Students are the ones organising strong rent strike campaigns up and down the country that have led to accommodation rebates and refunds from universities. Socialist Students have played a key part in this.
However, it is not enough for us to only be organising on the immediate issues, this is just the start of the crisis. We need to get organised and connect ourselves and our immediate concerns to our community and workers' struggle.
This is why I am going to the Socialist Students national conference. It will be an opportunity to connect young people in schools, universities, and colleges to make sure that we are prepared to fight for free education.
Kat Gwyther, Leeds Socialist Students
I'm going to the Socialist Students national conference this year because there is an ongoing crisis on university campuses that only Socialist Students as a group seems interested in addressing.
Despite the increased need for mental health services, access to university facilities and extra funding for courses, the availability of these things has been restricted to the detriment of all students.
It is clear that the market university model has consistently failed students. This fact is clearer than ever.
Socialist Students conference is an opportunity to learn more about how to fight back against the profit-driven university system; to learn from other students across the country how to build a successful student movement that fights for free education for all.
Tom Green, Birmingham Socialist Students
I will be attending the Socialist Students conference because I believe that if enough students organise in solidarity against our corrupt and broken system, our collective voice could make a real difference in fighting for change.
This past year has highlighted not only how inept our leaders are, but how capitalism itself is failing so miserably. Socialism presents a real alternative, in which people will be put before profit, so we can all work together for a fairer world.
Hal Kelly, Brighton Socialist Students
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In this issue
News
Tory consultation on home-use abortion pills
Tory cladding money will not make us safe
Sham inquiry into 'progressive extremism' will not stop movements against capitalism
Cumbria mine: How can we fight for jobs and stop climate change?
Cryptocurrency bubble: Insanity of capitalism
NSSN meeting
Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses
Scotland
SNP's independence referendum 2 'roadmap'
NHS
NHS white paper: no solution to failed Tory policies
Boot private companies out of our NHS
Workplace safety
Derby Toyota plant Covid crisis
Workplace News
Hackney teaching assistants strike against cruel and unnecessary job cuts
Manchester Go North West bus drivers in all-out strike over fire and rehire dispute
London bus drivers set to strike over pay and conditions
Socialist Students
Strike back for free education
Socialist Students conference - Sunday 28 February
Campaigns
Socialist Party Black and Asian caucus
Remembering Mohamud Hassan - continuing the fight against police brutality
How you can amplify the Socialist's voice - Help us build subscriptions to the Socialist
Swarming the London Mayor's question time
Southern new members meeting - a vivid illustration of the appetite for socialist ideas
Doing all we can to fund the anti-cuts stand at the ballot box
Readers' Opinion
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Socialist Students open letter to Rent Strike network
Tories target universities in free speech shakedown
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Fees frozen at £9,250 a year, fight for free education
How militant trade unionism defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act
GMB members continue fight against 'fire and rehire' in British Gas
Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses
Johnson's 'road map' for schools: Act together to protect safety
Scrap fees, refund rents and pay a living grant
University workers ballot for action against in-person teaching