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27 January 2021
Save Our Square from New Labour gentrification
Community campaign Save Our Square E17 has successfully resisted Waltham Forest Labour council's plans to build a monster block in Walthamstow town square for six years
28 October 2020
Waltham Forest Save Our Square:
Mass outside meeting draws up battle plan: A breath of fresh air. After being huddled over a computer in endless Zoom discussions for nine months, it was great to be outside again in the town square, doing what the Socialist Party has been doing
16 September 2020
Covid and the third sector: for public planning, not charity stopgaps
The government has shown the potential for a coordinated, fully funded, public effort - but refused to deliver it
19 August 2020
Tory planning deregulation: a charter for building profitable slums
Under the slogan 'build, build, build', the Tories have announced that the old system of urban planning is to be scrapped
13 May 2020
Socialist planning is the alternative
With planning, key products like ventilators and PPE should have been easy to provide
18 March 2020
Coronavirus: socialist planning, not capitalist chaos!
What kind of society can best meet the challenge of a newly spreading virus?
9 October 2019
'The little people can win' - Leeds tenants push back demolition
After over two years of campaigning, the residents of Woodsworth Drive and Sugar Hill Close in Leeds have had plans to demolish their homes voted down unanimously by Leeds City Council's planning committee.
12 July 2019
Land privatisation, the largest neoliberal grab in Britain since Margaret Thatcher came to office in 1979, has scarcely been debated
30 January 2019
Keep profiteering developers out!
Walthamstow: Hands off our public amenities: 'We aren't going away'. That was the mood of the public meeting of around 60 people organised by the Save Our Square campaign on 26 January.
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
16 November 2018
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
12 September 2018
10 years since the financial crash - the socialist answer to capitalist crisis
On 15 September at a secret London venue top bankers who were part of Lehman Brothers will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their bank's 2008 collapse with "cocktails and canapes".
29 August 2018
Fracking companies backed by government and courts
A lot has happened on the fracking front in recent months. Notably, fracking companies Cuadrilla and Ineos have been awarded High Court injunctions which, in effect, restrict many forms of legitimate protest.
25 July 2018
Plastic waste - capitalism's Frankenstein monster
Plastic waste is now penetrating every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and including the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth.
30 May 2018
Letters to the Socialist's editors including benefit cuts, Prince Charles, train toilets and developers' charter
7 March 2018
Derbyshire says: No fracking way!
"No fracking way" was the chant by the hundreds of people from groups all over Derbyshire and Yorkshire at the end of a three-mile march between Clowne and Bolsover on 24 February
24 January 2018
Turn Carillion crisis into movement against privatisation and capitalism
Outsourcing, PFI, privatisation, as in Carillion, is 'reverse socialism'. It is nothing other than a highly efficient wealth transfusion system. We need a movement to kick out these profiteers from public services
10 January 2018
Debate: should tower blocks form part of socialist housing policy?
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower atrocity, Salford Socialist Party began discussing whether there is a role for tower blocks in a socialist housing policy. There were differing views so we organised a debate.
6 September 2017
Extreme weather events and global warming
Is global warming worsening events such as the monsoon floods in Northern India and Bangladesh and Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico?
5 July 2017
Transport strategy: London's mayor is no visionary
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan recently released his 'Mayor's Transport Strategy' for public consultation.
8 March 2017
One million workers on zero-hour contracts
Fight for secure jobs for all: 910,000 workers in Britain are on zero-hour contracts - a six-fold increase since 2008 - according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation think-tank.
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