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31 May 2020
Outrage spreads globally following US police murder of George Floyd
Protesters have taken to the streets across the US - and internationally - following the killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man
27 May 2020
Chinese state's imposition of draconian law reignites Hong Kong protests
Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators poured onto the streets of Hong Kong last weekend, not only defying social-distancing regulations, but confronting police armed with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon, writes Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers' International.
27 May 2020
Economic collapse leads to renewed protests across Lebanon
After a pause for a little over a month with the Covid-19 lockdown, new protests have erupted as the situation for ordinary workers in Lebanon has become desperate, writes Iain Dalton, Socialist Party national committee.
29 April 2020
Irish police use Covid-19 emergency powers to disperse Dublin shop workers' protest
In the main, there is support among the working class for the lockdown measures in Ireland. Workers recognise the imperative of defeating Covid-19, and that this will often necessitate severe constraints
22 April 2020
Tory think tank proposes attack on pensions
It was inevitable that the Tory government would try to offload the costs of dealing with the coronavirus crisis from their rich backers and onto the backs of working people, writes Roger Bannister, Liverpool Socialist Party.
14 April 2020
MPs get £10k each for lockdown expenses - where's ours?
MPs can claim up to £10,000 - on top of their salaries and other expenses - for remote working costs under lockdown. This is on top of the £26,000 a year MPs already get for office expenses!, writes Lindsey Morgan, Leicester Socialist Party.
1 April 2020
As coronavirus crisis intensifies, class antagonisms deepen
After the pandemic crisis, things will never be the same again. This will be similar to the situation after the two world wars of the 20th century.
1 April 2020
Fully fund hospices to care for vulnerable children
I am a parent of a child with a terminal diagnosis.
25 March 2020
State intervention shows what is possible
The Tories cut - but now they spend. They privatised - but now they nationalise.
11 March 2020
Swansea: Ask anyone about state of services, you will hear the real story
Ask any Swansea resident about the state of social care, education and refuse collection and they will tell you the real story, writes Gareth Bromhall, acting secretary of Swansea Trade Union Council.
26 February 2020
Germany: Right-wing terror attacks - fight racism, fight capitalism!
The murder of nine people in two shisha bars in the German town of Hanau by a fascist gunman is the third fatal right-wing terrorist attack in the country in just nine months. But as Sasha Staničić (Sol - CWI, Germany - national spokesperson) explains, the laments of establishment politicians over such attacks will not eradicate the far-right threat.
19 February 2020
Couldn't pay, wouldn't pay, didn't pay: the battle to defeat the poll tax
30 years ago the historic struggle against the hated poll tax was reaching its peak.
19 February 2020
Coronavirus crisis shakes Chinese regime
Will the regime's initial denial of the problem and punishment of those who raised the alarm have major political consequences?
5 February 2020
Israel/Palestine: Trump 'peace plan' promises further conflict
The recent 'deal' announced by US President Donald Trump and enthusiastically endorsed by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was billed as a 'Middle East peace plan'. But as the Economist journal wrote: "As a blueprint for a two-state solution it was dead on arrival".
29 January 2020
TV review: The Trial of Christine Keeler
Benjamin Disraeli, two-time Tory prime minister in the nineteenth century, once said: "A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy". The Christine Keeler story on BBC1 would seem to bear out that analysis.
29 January 2020
Johnson's Huawei internet deal underlines world trade tensions
As expected, Boris Johnson has approved Chinese tech giant Huawei gaining licences to build 5G web network infrastructure in Britain.
22 January 2020
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Labour leadership; pensions struggle; political policing; university stress
22 January 2020
Eyewitness report: workers' struggle in France on the boil
After more than 45 days of strikes and 62 weeks of 'gilets jaunes' protests, French workers' appetite for struggle endures
22 January 2020
Police issue counter-terror guidance against campaigners including Socialist Party: Trade unions should demand the government withdraws these documents and the Prevent strategy
15 January 2020
Union lawyer arrested on security guards' picket line
The United Voices of the World (UVW) union, whose members are striking for 48 hours at St George's Hospital, University of London, are taking legal action after its lawyer was arrested on the picket line
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