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19 January 2022
Demonstrating against the Tory anti-protest bill
As Parliament continues to debate the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which aims to further restrict the right to protest, demonstrations took place on 15 January around the country.
12 January 2022
Don't Look Up: An entertaining satire on corporate power and the US establishment
Film: 'Don't Look Up': The movie satire, 'Don't Look Up', became a major hit over the Christmas holiday season. The dark comedy, written and directed by Adam McKay, concerns a desperate attempt by scientists to alert the
12 January 2022
South Yorkshire bus strikes spreading and getting stronger
After two one-week strikes before Christmas, and now indefinite strike action since the New Year, the South Yorkshire Stagecoach busworkers' strikes are getting stronger
6 January 2022
Scunny scaffs enter twelfth week of strike action
Before Christmas, the 60 or so scaffolders who work at British Steel Scunthorpe finished their twelfth week of strike action with a protest demonstration outside the offices of their contractor, Actavo, in Wakefield
8 December 2021
Film review: The Harder They Fall
'The Harder They Fall' is a new Western on Netflix. The movie sets are stylised and the gunfights are majestically choreographed. But the film also stands out for its all-black cast, something that is
1 December 2021
RMT strikes against abolition of night tube train operators
Imposed arrangements means more fatigue, more weekend working and threatens jobs: London Underground workers in the RMT union walked out across London on several tube lines on 26-27 November
17 November 2021
Fresh strikes on East Midlands Railway
RMT has announced a new 24-hour strike from midnight on 4 December on East Midlands Railway.
13 October 2021
College strikes continue into third week
UCU strikes have continued into their third week at five FE colleges
13 October 2021
Oaks Park pickets vote for more strikes to defeat bullies
Strikers at Oaks Park secondary school in Redbridge, east London, have told bosses they'll fight bullying till the bitter end.
29 September 2021
Black history month and its relevance today
Since 1987 in the UK, October has been Black History Month. It's a month specifically to learn, share and celebrate the proud black history of Britain. For socialists, we focus on remembering the struggles
22 September 2021
TV Review - Help: Heart-wrenching portrayal of Covid care home crisis
'Help' is a heart-wrenching story of a care home in Liverpool for people with dementia. When the Covid-19 crisis hits the home, the main protagonist, Sarah, is faced with loss, pressure and difficult
15 September 2021
Weetabix - workers have had enough
Engineering workers, members of the Unite union, will walk out for 48 hours from 21 September at two sites - Kettering and Corby, both in Northamptonshire.
25 August 2021
Martin Eden is an Italian film based on Jack London's 1909 novel. I highly recommend it. Jack London set his novel in the US, the film moves the story to Naples in the 1920s and 1930s.
25 August 2021
East Midlands rail strikes continue
RMT senior conductors and train managers took strike action again on Sunday 15 and 22 August on East Midland Railways (EMR) and Intercity
7 July 2021
"It's great to be back": Come to a Socialist Party in-person meeting
We're using the opportunity of easing Covid restrictions to organise safe, socially distanced Socialist Party meetings
7 July 2021
Road closures: Hackney residents have not been consulted
400 people took part in an anti-road closure demo in Hackney, east London, on 26 June. The protesters we spoke to recognised that something had to be done about the pollution, but felt that the way the
7 July 2021
Exhibition: What next for the statue of slave trader, Edward Colston?
No longer standing tall: A current exhibition asks: "What next for the statue of slave trader, Edward Colston?" A year after the battered and graffiti-covered statue was hoisted out of the River Avon, it now lies supine - and still toppled - in a harbourside museum
7 July 2021
Derby academies closed by strikes against brutal cuts and changes
Teachers, members of the National Education Union (NEU) at two Derby schools - Lees Brook Academy and Merrill Academy - were out on strike for a full day on 1 July
30 June 2021
The Socialist Party has consistently argued that the working class is the only force which can solve the enormous social and economic capitalist crises in the Middle East, and end the occupation and repression of the Palestinian people
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