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15 May 2019
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.
1 May 2019
Knife crime - a product of capitalist misery
Several recent tragic deaths of teenagers in 'knife crime' incidents have raised concerns about the level of violence affecting young people in England and Wales.
23 January 2019
Wales is Europe's prisoner capital: capitalist cutters' crimes to blame
A socialist justice system would have rehabilitation and protection, not profit, as its goal
14 September 2018
POA walkout over government failure to make prisons safe
An interview with the POA DGS Joe Simpson
22 August 2018
Prison crisis: a catastrophe of cuts and privatisation
Birmingham Prison has become the latest in a long line of catastrophic failures of privatisation
15 November 2017
4,800 young people hurt after officers 'restrain' them
End assaults on inmates: Thousands of young people have been harmed while being 'restrained' by officers in secure facilities
13 September 2017
Rate of black imprisonment worse than US
Fighting racism means fighting capitalism: David Lammy's report highlights the oppression faced by black and Asian people without addressing its key causes
15 February 2017
The latest government statistics show yet another record high in prison deaths and violence
9 November 2016
Action needed to defend workers at the sharp end of prisons crisis
The latest national statistics on safety in our prison system were released recently. These quarterly figures have been breaking records and setting new "unprecedented highs" systematically since 2010 - a year which 'coincidentally' ties in with the culling of 7,000 prison officers' jobs.
2 November 2016
"I was encouraged to work - for £1 an hour" Tamil Solidarity activist Nandan, who recently spent several weeks in a Home Office detention centre, spoke to the Socialist about his experience of organising against the exploitation of inmates and the campaign to fight for refugee rights.
24 August 2016
Would you call G4S for help over discrimination?
The Tories have handed the contract for the government's Equality Advisory and Support Service discrimination helpline to notorious privatisers G4S.
13 July 2016
Prison officers in England and Wales staged unofficial walkouts on 8 July
9 March 2016
Letters to the Socialist's editors. Responses to International Women's Day and comments on the left case for EU exit.
4 November 2015
Transgender woman locked up in male prison
Tara Hudson, a transgender woman, was locked up in an all-male prison after her conviction for assault.
21 October 2015
Determined mood at Napo conference
Probation and family court workers organised in Napo left their AGM last week with a new mood of determination to rebuild their union.
14 October 2015
Probation and family courts workers - gathering in Eastbourne for their union Napo's conference - face an uncertain future as the full scale of cuts and privatisation comes into view.
8 July 2015
Migrants flee horrors created by capitalism
For the rich there are very few obstacles to migrating to Britain. It is altogether another story for the majority of those currently fleeing war, dictatorship and conflict in the Middle East and Africa.
3 December 2014
Sixth form students grill Grayling
During Tory Justice Minister Chris Grayling's flying visit to Greenhead College in Huddersfield on 14 November, sixth form Law and Politics students put him on the spot on a number of issues
10 September 2014
Government spending cuts deepen prisons' crisis
Government cuts, leading to massive staff shortages, are deepening the crisis in the prison service as John Hancock of the Prison Officers' Association (POA) national executive committee, explains
13 January 2014
The underbelly of prison privatisation
Private prisons and particularly Oakwood - run by G4S - have once again been in the news
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