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13 January 2021
Global capitalism at most dangerous conjuncture since the 1930s
The pandemic has wreaked havoc across the globe, causing over two million deaths and unleashing enormous economic and social crises
6 January 2021
UNICEF feeds children in the UK for the first time
"It is a real scandal that UNICEF should be playing politics this way" was the response of millionaire and Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg to the announcement that UNICEF will be responsible for feeding children in the UK for the first time in its history
6 January 2021
Engels on the origins of women's oppression
In the final article in our series to commemorate 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, Christine Thomas looks at the relevance of his important work 'The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State' for the struggle today to end women's inequality and oppression.
6 January 2021
Books that inspired me: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Millions of workers in the US and globally find themselves out of work, unable to afford the basics, and at the mercy of capitalist crisis
16 December 2020
No surprise, poverty is rising
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that 2.4 million, including half a million children, experienced "destitution" in 2019 - before coronavirus reached the UK
9 December 2020
Luxury for some, poverty for the rest of us
Many of us won't have much to cheer about this Christmas. In 2020 we've lost people to a pandemic which is still hurting us. One-in-twenty young people are currently unemployed.
9 December 2020
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2 December 2020
Better for billionaires. Worse for workers
Back in August, Boris Johnson promised a "world beating" track-and-trace system. Most people agree that didn't happen but the government and economy are 'world beating' in other respects.
2 December 2020
Scotland: Campaign wins end to period poverty
In a first of its kind globally, the Period Products (Free Provision) Scotland Act was enshrined into law in Scotland on 24 November, laying the foundations for eradicating period poverty for Scottish women.
2 December 2020
Review: Friedrich Engels - Condition of the working class in England
The second in our series on socialist pioneer Friedrich Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Socialist Party national committee member Helen Pattison reviews one of the first books he wrote.
11 November 2020
Covid and poverty rising - Welsh lockdown ends with little progress
Wales emerged from a two-week lockdown on 9 November. There is little evidence that the 'firebreak' introduced by the Welsh government had much impact on the spread of the virus.
28 October 2020
BAME Covid deaths due to capitalist inequality, confirms government
Death rates are up to three times as high for BAME people.
28 October 2020
Don't let Tories starve our kids
Big business got billions - Fight for what we need:
21 October 2020
Millennials disillusioned with 'democracy'
Millennials across the globe are more discontented and more disillusioned with how democracy works than any generation in living memory
5 August 2020
Doncaster: Vigil for murdered women
Women and men attended a vigil in Doncaster on 22 July organised by the Women's Lives Matter campaign, after the alleged murder of five women from the town in the last two months
8 July 2020
Poverty rises again - especially for BAME workers
100,000 more people fell into poverty in 2018-19, reports the Social Metrics Commission. Black, Asian and minority ethnic households were more than twice as likely to have been pushed below the breadline.
24 June 2020
Act now to cancel Covid crisis rents and debt
Private sector rents in England hit a record high as the country headed into lockdown
24 June 2020
Lifting the lockdown: workers must not pay the price
Who pulled society through the lockdown? The working class. Who suffered most from the lockdown? The working class. Who will pay the price as the lockdown eases? ...
24 June 2020
A timely read about a pandemic that overwhelms society
Fiction: The Scarlet Plague: It's timely to read Jack London's short story about a virulent pandemic that sends human civilisation into the abyss
24 June 2020
Over 30% of children living in poverty
Even before the pandemic, austerity policies had pushed an increasing number of families into poverty
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