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13 June 2018
Retail crunch: more giants on their knees - nationalise them now
House of Fraser plans to close 31 of its 59 stores, leading to the loss of 6,000 jobs, and Poundworld has appointed administrators, putting a further 5,100 jobs at risk
7 June 2018
East London Socialist Party: 'Made in Dagenham' - Ford women workers' pay strike 50 years on
30 May 2018
Wales TUC 2018: Socialist Party members challenge leadership at undemocratic conference
It was Socialist Party members who brought some life to the Wales TUC congress, speaking in numerous debates and appealing for basic democratic rights. This went down well with delegates.
30 May 2018
Broad Left candidate elected as Usdaw deputy general secretary
Dave McCrossen, the Broad Left candidate in Usdaw's deputy general secretary contest has been elected
23 May 2018
Solid strike at Tesco Dagenham distribution centre forces pay talks
Heavy security presence and a profusion of steel fencing didn't deter angry, vocal pickets striking for decent pay at Tesco Dagenham distribution centre on 17-18 May.
16 May 2018
A huge Socialist Party "Tories Out!" banner greeted 20,000 marchers
16 May 2018
A week-long series of strikes by Lidl workers in Belgium has led to increased staff at stores across the country. A strike broke out at one store in Oostkamp over the dismissal of a sales manager, which also raised the issue of workloads.
16 May 2018
Strike at Tesco Dagenham for better pay
Workers at Tesco Dagenham distribution site are striking over pay from 10pm on Thursday 17 May. Following over a year of negotiations between Tesco and the retail and distribution workers' union Usdaw, bosses have refused to improve their initial offer which was worth less than 3%.
9 May 2018
Use TUC march as launch pad for action on pay
National strike action is possible if the unions build a real fighting campaign for it.
2 May 2018
In the run up to Usdaw's annual delegate meeting (ADM) rank-and-file activists discovered that the Socialist paper was denied a press pass to cover the conference.
2 May 2018
Reject the mega-supermarket merger: nationalise to save jobs
Workers in Sainsbury's and Asda were shocked to hear on Saturday 28 April that their employers were at an advanced level of merger talks, confirmed as a deal agreed on the morning of 30 April.
2 May 2018
100k more zero-hour contracts in just a year
Strike to win secure work!: The number of zero-hour contracts in Britain rose by 100,000 in just a year
25 April 2018
Retail union backs zero-hour ban, leaders oppose rank-and-file coordination
Usdaw conference 2018: The left is making steps forward while the right-wing bureaucracy continues trying to hold back struggle at the annual delegate meeting
18 April 2018
Usdaw conference 2018: time for new era of fighting trade unionism
President-elect Amy Murphy writes for the Socialist: "We need to support our members who want to take industrial action in defence of pay and conditions"
14 March 2018
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including Hinkley sit-in victory and Newham academies battle
14 March 2018
Sainsbury's raise really a cut: fight for £10 with no strings!
Supermarket Sainsbury's announced on 6 March that it will increase the wages of its 130,000 store workers.
7 March 2018
Toys R Us, Maplin: worsening retail crisis claims more jobs
Trade unions must fight for public ownership: Big high street retailers Toys R Us and Maplin have gone under, with a number of other familiar names like Mothercare rumoured to follow
19 February 2018
Usdaw victory - Socialist Party member Amy Murphy wins presidential election
The many Usdaw members and shop workers who expressed support for Tesco worker Amy and her policies will be delighted by this massive step forward.
14 February 2018
I'm now a 'manager' and I can barely manage!
I work in a well-known high street chain and I was promoted a little while ago and thought to myself "finally, things might get a bit easier!" How foolish I was!
31 January 2018
Supermarket's slash jobs - union fightback needed
Two of so-called 'Big Four' supermarkets - Tesco and Sainsbury's - have announced job losses running into the thousands.
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