The Socialist 27 July 2016

No compromise with Labour right

No compromise with Labour right wing

Mood to defeat the Blairites

Anger against Blairite 'traitors' sweeps Portsmouth Momentum

'Defend Corbyn' rally

Corbyn's 'rock-star welcome' in North West

End Victorian working conditions

Tories plan further fee hikes for uni students

Them & Us

What we saw: UB40 backs Corbyn

Europe and the workers' movement after Brexit

Why the Socialist Party opposed the EU

Turkey: no to military rule, no to Erdoğan's rule

Barcelona 1936: the people's Olympics

Fawley refinery strike against 'race to bottom'

Unite policy conference backs reselection of Labour MPs

Brookes workers continue the fight against 2Sisters

Workplace news in brief

Black Lives Matter demo shakes Leeds

Sheffield solidarity with Black Lives Matter

Huntingdon anti-racist rally

Pent Valley school closure judicial review blocked

Reverse Derby council cuts

An explosion in sales of the Socialist

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An explosion in sales of the Socialist

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Just like Martin Reynolds (issue 910), I've seen an explosion in sales of the Socialist since the EU referendum, I have sold 135 copies!

Key to this has been getting out on the streets to talk to people, whether street campaign stalls, at demonstrations or doing our now regular paper sale at the city centre train station before our branch meeting. 20 copies have been sold this way, with people seeing us the following week to get the latest issue and giving us their details to come to meetings.

We have attended pro-Corbyn rallies including helping to initiate the first one in Leeds. Our red Gazebo and placards helped us stand out and saw lots of people coming over before and after the rally to discuss with us.

We have also supported four strikes that took place and they're keen to support the Socialist as a workers paper. One striking branch officer gave me a tenner for two copies for him and the other strike leader.

There's also been movements against racism, including big anti-racism demonstrations in both Leeds and Bradford, and #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations in both Leeds and Huddersfield on consecutive nights - at these last two I sold 20 and 17 papers respectively, with six people giving their details to join the Socialist Party.

There's a massive thirst for ideas to lead people out of the impasse that the Tories (and Blairites) austerity policies have driven us to. If anything it can be difficult to be able to talk to everyone who is interested in what the Socialist Party has to say. That's why we need everyone possible to carry copies of the Socialist prominently and ask everyone we meet to buy one and join us in the struggle for socialism.