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1 July 2020
Boris Johnson has attempted to grab the headlines by bigging up his government's £5 billion post-pandemic spending programme on schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
24 June 2020
Cladding off now; failure app; Labour untogether; shopping scandal
24 June 2020
Reading workers' movement responds to knife attack
A horrific knife attack took place in Forbury Gardens in Reading on 20 June, killing three people, reportedly LGBT+, and injuring others
20 May 2020
Crisis in council services: Labour must fight or stand aside
A £10 billion financial black hole faces councils, according to a Labour Party report
22 April 2020
Why I joined the Socialist Party
I joined the Socialist Party two months ago. I've been interested in socialism and socialist politics for a number of years, writes Amy Sage, Bristol Socialist Party.
22 April 2020
Capitalist press attacks Tory incompetence
"Pandemic planning became a casualty of the austerity years."
21 April 2020
Councils must demand control of supplies and reversal of austerity
Despite their claims of "partnership" between central and local government, it's clear the Tories have not involved councils in their Covid-19 planning at all, writes Hugo Pierre, Unison union national executive committee member (personal capacity).
1 April 2020
Fully fund hospices to care for vulnerable children
I am a parent of a child with a terminal diagnosis.
1 April 2020
NHS workers speak out: austerity has left us unprepared
"Only in the last couple of weeks things are actually happening"
25 March 2020
Coronavirus and domestic violence: a double threat to women's lives
As we entered 2020 the number of women murdered every week by a partner or ex-partner in the UK rose to three. On top of this, three women a week kill themselves to escape abuse
24 March 2020
Coventry socialist candidate wins votes against austerity
Coventry Socialist Party member Jane Nellist received 101 votes in Thursday's Upper Stoke byelection, in what was clearly extremely difficult circumstances
18 March 2020
Councils must break austerity rules
Labour councils must lead a fight for the immediate resources needed, linked to reversing all cuts and privatisation
11 March 2020
Book: Why you should be a trade unionist by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey
Len McCluskey's book 'Why you should be a trade unionist' is a lively and accessible account of the role trade unionism has played in the past, and the hope which workers' organisations provide for the future, writes Derek McMillan, East Grinstead.
4 March 2020
International Women's Day: Fighting sexism and austerity
International Women's Day feature, including young women, Women's Lives Matter, trade unions, and a programme to fight oppression
26 February 2020
Thieving cuts to incomes and services mean workers are dying younger and suffering sickness for longer. Austerity is killing us.
Meanwhile, since the world financial crash, the wealth of the super-rich has expanded like a monstrous tumour.
26 February 2020
Coventry: A socialist councillor who will vote against cuts
Socialist Party member Jane Nellist is standing as a candidate for Coventry council in the Upper Stoke by-election on 19 March. We print extracts from her leaflet
26 February 2020
Number of women killed by current or ex-partner rises
Labour councils 'balance' their budgets with cuts - they are "balancing with women's lives"
19 February 2020
Cuts and climate change cause floods
Two storms in a week brought some of the worst floods in living memory, killing at least five people and damaging thousands of homes.
Big business didn't send the rain. But the distorted priorities of the profit-obsessed capitalist system are to blame for the misery that ordinary people must endure because of it.
12 February 2020
Streatham attack: Johnson's bill can't stop terror
"It's only February and this has already happened." The response from Becky Smyths, a resident of Streatham where terrorist stabbings took place on 2 February.
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