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Take the wealth off the super-rich!

80 billionaires own half the world: The charity Oxfam has produced a report showing that the richest 1% of people on this planet are on course to own more than 50% of the world’s wealth by 2016 – a testament to the inherent greed and inequality of the capitalist system

Labour Party won’t protect our NHS

A political alternative is needed: As waiting times at A&E’s hit their highest levels since records began, Labour’s lead over the Tories on the NHS has widened to 18 points

Youth unemployment: anxiety and anger

A new report by the Prince’s Trust shows the devastating impact of unemployment on young people in Britain

Oil price crashes as world economy slows

World capitalism faces a gloomy future according to recent reports issued by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank

Care home scandal: When profit comes first…

The privately run Parklands House care home in Rochdale was so bad that according to the Manchester Evening News: “Residents were seen sitting in soiled clothing, medication was left lying around and some patients were not receiving the right prescriptions.”

Them & Us

Greece: Syriza victory would raise workers’ hopes

On 19 January, 6 days before the Greek general election, the Socialist spoke to Andros Payiatsos from Xekinima (CWI in Greece

Opposing establishment parties is not ‘wasted vote’

On 24 January, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is meeting to discuss the 2015 elections. Clive Heemskerk, TUSC national election agent, puts the case for the biggest possible challenge in both the general election and local council contests on 7 May

Don’t just boo – help fund the fightback!

At a Doncaster Care UK strikers’ reunion this month, any mention of local MP and Labour leader Ed Miliband’s name was booed. This is because of his refusal to publicly support their fight against a 35% pay cut and privatisation of the NHS

Striking NHS workers say: ‘Give us pay we can live on’

Angry NHS workers are due to take a further 12 hours strike action on 29 January and go out again for a full 24 hours in February, writes a London mental health worker.

Safeguarding PCS against vicious Tory attacks

As the Tories threaten to increase Britain’s draconian anti-trade union laws beyond the general election, thousands of trade union reps across the trade union movement are even now facing huge cuts in their facility time

Unison activists discuss reclaiming the union

UCU: Clear strategy needed to reignite pensions action

Barbour workers accept improved offer

Essex FBU fight lockout

Cardiff happy to get the blues

Cardiff City fans are celebrating their club’s return to blue. Billionaire owner Vincent Tan, who changed the strip to red in June 2012, was forced to back down by a mass campaign of supporters

Hackney women give TUSC their blessing

“Before I heard about TUSC, I was thinking I wouldn’t vote in the elections. Now I have a reason to.” That was the reaction of one attendee at a Christian women’s community meeting in Hackney.

5,000 residents force council debate on pool closure

Derby TUSC is fighting Derby council’s closure of Moorways sports complex, including two swimming pools

Tesco: every little cut helps

In a small store such as ours, managers often end up working side by side with ordinary staff, all doing the same job. It’s called “rumble”, and can be a fun activity, joking and chatting, writes a Tesco worker.

Halt the cutbacks in hearing aid provision

In Devon, NHS patients who suffer from deafness have been told that they can in future only have one hearing aid

Privatisation worsens NHS crisis

The growing crisis in Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments is the result of government policies, as well described in the Socialist

TTIP it into the Atlantic

50,000 people marched in Berlin in opposition to the proposed TTIP treaty and new farming technologies

Why I joined the Socialist Party

I moved to London from San Francisco in October 2014. I had been a member of an unrelated socialist group in the US