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Vote for a working class voice

Getting under Labour’s skin in Southwark

Your financial support is vital

Fight back at the ballot box: The Socialist Party is asking all those who support building an electoral alternative, a voice for the working class based on the 99% and not the super-rich 1%, to donate to our election appeal

Election Appeal: £2,148 raised so far

USA: reviving working class traditions

Fighting for $15 an hour and for socialism: 15Now hosted what can only be described as a marathon of a conference which ran from 11am to nine at night, write CWI reporters.

Ukraine: skirmishes threaten wider conflict

A South Wales miner remembers

Tyrone O’Sullivan, currently chair of Tower Colliery and Secretary of Tower NUM during the great miners’ strike spoke to another NUM militant about the 30th anniversary of the strike.

May Day 2014 – Step up the fight for a socialist world!

May Day: Remembering Bob Crow and Tony Benn

This year’s May Day has been dedicated to the memories of Bob Crow and Tony Benn. Here the Socialist carries again its editorial from issue 803, 20-26 March

May Day greetings in The Socialist 2014 – pdf

Cost of living crisis: Scrap zero-hour contracts!

UKIP – a pro-cuts party for the 1%

Ukip leader Nigel Farage has his eyes on the prize. On 22 May, he hopes to see his party romp home to victory in the European elections and gain a healthy smattering of brand new councillors.

Them & Us

United against the far right in Brighton

On Sunday 27 April, a collection of far-right groups descended on Brighton for the annual ‘March for England’, writes a Brighton trade unionist.

Save Leicester Race Equality Centre

Fighting Library cuts in south Wales

Around 100 people, including Unison members, library users and anti-cuts campaigners gathered outside the Civic Offices in Barry on 28 April to protest against the Vale of Glamorgan council’s plans to inflict brutal cuts on the library service

Newsnight – socialist teacher demands right of reply

BBC TV’s Newsnight feature on the ‘Left in the NUT’ angered NUT members from right across its broad spectrum of political views.

Why I joined the Socialist Party

I grew up in the 1980s under the Thatcher government. I lived on an estate in Rochdale. My parents were unemployed and we were living on benefits so I know first hand what effect the cuts that the present government is making will have

Defending pensions, jobs, pay, services… Back the strikes!

Following national strikes in November and February, firefighters are once again demonstrating their refusal to accept the pension robbery on offer

Workplace safety: It’s big business as usual

Usdaw conference – fighting democratic union needed

From 4 to 7 May, around 1,000 reps and activists in shop and distribution workers’ union Usdaw will meet for our Annual Delegate Meeting (ADM) in Blackpool, writes an ADM delegate.

Care UK strike: Miliband shows workers can’t rely on Labour

Workplace news in brief

A strike ballot among workers covered by the National Joint Council for local government will run from 23 May to 23 June