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EU referendum
The EU doesn’t protect workers’ rights: Ten trade union leaders in a letter to the Guardian naively called for the EU to change. Millions of impoverished Greek workers could tell them: it is a bit too late for that.
Youth must fight for their future
Switched off, disengaged and bemused: these are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe the way young people are reacting to the current EU referendum debate
Northern Ireland: Biggest trade union supports EU exit
The Public Services Union (Nipsa) in Northern Ireland has voted to oppose continued membership the EU.
Letter to the Socialist: EU referendum
Most of the capitalist class has consistently defended what it originally called the ‘Common Market’, but tried to develop and make more palatable as the ‘European Economic Community’ and then the ‘European Union’
The socialist case against the EU: TUSC tour continues
“The Tory government could be brought down if Brexit triumphs” declared Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe to a packed London meeting
Socialist history
China’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ 1966-67
50 years ago the ‘Cultural Revolution’ began in China. Here we carry an edited version of article written by Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe for Militant (predecessor of the Socialist) in February 1967.
Socialist Party review
Left-wing Brexit campaign Trade Unionists Against the EU has released a 12-song compilation album, ‘No to TTIP’
Socialist Party news and analysis
Austerity-hit Greek workers struck back with a pay victory on 3 June. Athens bus cleaners had already undertaken 15 days of strike action against their contracted employer Link Ap over months of unpaid wages and being underpaid
Exploitation Britain: Unionise and fight for a living wage
As well as Muhammad Ali’s sporting achievements, many will mourn the loss of an activist of the 1960s’ anti-war and black liberation movements
Housing: Let’s reclaim our right to dream again!
Britain’s housing crisis affects many but in particular the generations after the ‘baby boomers’ of the 1950s and 60s, writes Amalia.
Nationalise the rip-off drug companies
Nothing quite exposes the rotten and intensely selfish and individualist nature of the capitalist system like the amount of wealth generated by the pharmaceutical industry
Millionaire and former government minister Iain Duncan Smith claimed that cutting welfare payments and capping benefits would ‘incentivise’ unemployed people to find work – the Tory equivalent of a cattle prod
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Link the strikes – come to the NSSN conference
On Saturday 2 July trade unionists will meet at the te National Shop Stewards Network conference
Momentum Youth and Students: Witch hunts won’t take movement forward
Momentum held the launch of its youth and student organisation on Sunday 5 June.
An intense and energetic fightback against oppression. That best describes this year’s Solidarity Day – organised by Tamil Solidarity at the Unite headquarters in London, on 4 June
Student nurses march to oppose bursary cut
Pensioners fight ageist Tory cuts
Dangerous, dirty and damp: the unseen world of temporary accommodation
Socialist Party workplace news
RF Brookes walk out over pay cut
Over 80 workers, members of the BFAWU bakers’ union, rallied at the picket line at RJ Brookes
Pennine Foods strike: “Business NOT open as usual – Again!”
Junior doctors’ dispute: New offer falls short
Junior doctors are being consulted by their union the BMA over the government’s offer to settle the longstanding dispute over the new contract
PCS campaign against Land Registry privatisation
The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union campaign against Land Registry privatisation has stepped up a gear