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1 April 2020
All in this together? The 'Blitz spirit' myth
In the first of a series of articles on 'war, global crises and working-class struggle', Chris Holmes exposes the myth of class unity during the World War Two
25 March 2020
30 years since the huge anti-poll tax demo... And how mass non-payment of the tax was built
On 31 March 1990, a massive demonstration surged into central London. It was the culmination of months of organisation and defiance of the Tory government's hated poll tax by millions of overwhelmingly working-class people.
4 March 2020
300 branch delegates and visitors participated in democratic discussion and debate at the Socialist Party national congress
12 February 2020
Sinn Fein harnesses working-class anger to top poll
The general election in Ireland saw a seismic change in the electoral landscape, with a big surge in support for Sinn Féin.
12 February 2020
Hackney: We don't want homes and retail units working-class people can't afford
Angry residents, from Hackney east London, packed into a meeting at the Dan West Trelawney estate community hall. Labour mayor Philip Glanville tried to justify the council's decision to ask a private developer to revamp the site of the local Tesco.
12 February 2020
Building a working-class movement for Tamil rights
On 4 February, Tamil Solidarity called a protest outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in London. This protest marked a black day for Tamils.
5 February 2020
The rich fund the Tories and Blairites, so help fund the working-class fightback
The Socialist Party needs you to increase your subs.
5 February 2020
Support the working-class press in 2020
Which paper details a fighting industrial strategy to beat the anti-union laws? Who explains how councils can set budgets that defy the Tory cuts? Where can you read about the practical programme needed to reconstitute a mass party for working-class political representation?
5 February 2020
'Post-Brexit' era of crisis ahead
Brexit Day has been and gone. Now Johnson is promising the "dawn of a new era".
8 November 2019
New book: In Defence of Trotskyism
Available now; Order from Socialistbooks.co.uk, £10.
30 October 2019
How working-class tenants beat Gentrification
Every time I drive up Lea Bridge Road in Walthamstow, east London, I pass the Butterfields estate. I look with pride to the 'Butterfields won't budge' poster still displayed in the window of one of the tenants.
9 October 2019
Socialism 2019: why I'm going... and why you should too!
We asked people who have bought tickets for Socialism 2019 why they are coming. Their answers show how this festival of ideas taking place on 2 and 3 November is an unmissable event for everyone wanting to fight the bosses and the Tories and to defend working-class living standards.
25 September 2019
Standing up for the needs of working-class people
An interview with socialist no-cuts councillor Tolga Aramaz
28 August 2019
Workers' movement must launch a campaign for a general election
On 3 September parliament returns from its long summer holiday, sitting for less than two weeks before it breaks again for the party conference season.
14 August 2019
The Peterloo Massacre was perhaps the most significant atrocity carried out by the British authorities against their own people.
3 July 2019
TV: Years and Years - Engaging family drama pushes confused, reactionary message
The six-part political and family drama Years and Years follows one family from the present day over 15 years.
3 July 2019
New opportunity to build working-class fightback after voters punish Erdogan
Voters in Istanbul on 23 June struck a big blow to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the authoritarian leader of Turkey, amid a deepening economic crisis. This is the first time in Erdogan's 17-year rule that his right-wing capitalist party, AKP, has been defeated in an election.
5 June 2019
Protesters condemn Tory candidate
Around 20 people gathered outside the Brown Cow pub in Bingley on 30 May, where former Department for Work and Pensions minister Ester McVey was launching her Tory premiership campaign tour.
3 April 2019
Cuts and chaos. Enough. General election now!
Pro-capitalist politicians are united in wanting to keep Corbyn out. They are afraid of the millions of working-class people who could be mobilised if they see the opportunity to fight for socialist change.
13 March 2019
Memorial to working-class fighters who fought fascism
During the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War in 2016, the International Brigades Memorial Trust asked that areas which have a memorial or plaque to commemorate it by laying a flower or a wreath.
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