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Save #OurNHS
Build a movement to save our NHS
As well as helping to build demonstrations and community campaigns to save our NHS, which can raise the confidence of health workers, health trade unions need to prepare to organise coordinated strikes
Reinstate the bursaries for student nurses now!
The Tories’ scrapping of nursing training bursaries has already led to a 23% decline in university applications for this coming year for all nursing courses
Grantham: 1,000 march for reopening of A&E
NHS England missing paperwork scandal
NHS England chiefs tried to cover up more than half a million missing medical letters, it seems
Heart centre closure consultation ‘farce’
Families of heart patients at the threatened East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre at Glenfield Hospital have condemned NHS England for a “totally inadequate” public consultation
The Tories aren’t prepared to tolerate ‘loss-making’ public institutions like the NHS – unless the publicly owned body is the Royal Bank of Scotland
Socialist Party women
Fighting for liberation and socialism: Women are on the move. They’re on the move against Donald Trump in the US, and attacks on reproductive rights in Ireland and Poland
Women’s protests and walkouts around the world
#DayWithoutAWoman: The movement against Trump, and in particular the massive ‘women’s marches’ that took place in January, show the potential for a new phase of struggle against sexism
Lessons of Russia 1917 for women’s struggle today
The 1917 Russian revolution was a momentous moment in working class history, in which women played a pivotal and active role
Why I joined the Socialist Party
Immediately I felt empowered by being a part of something that was striving to stop the council cuts and trying to make a change
How black women fought racism and sexism at Nasa
Film review: Hidden Figures: Space rockets and the struggle against racism and sexism might seem an odd combination but Hidden Figures definitely pulls it off
Fight like Poplar’s women councillors to change the lives of family carers
Even in the heyday of the welfare state, parents of disabled children received little help, understanding or support. The Tories want to drive us back to the days when family care was the norm
What we think
Byelections: Break with Labour Blairism wasn’t on offer
It is Blair’s own toxic legacy that has led to the decline of the Labour vote in Copeland and Stoke
Socialist Party feature
Debates on building the anti-Trump movement
There are two rival groupings vying for the leadership of the new potential movement, neither of which offers a clear way forward
Workplace news and analysis
“I worked from 9am to 11.30pm with only one break”
A zero-hour contract worker speaks to the Socialist: The number of workers employed on zero-hour contracts is set to rise to over 1 million for the first time
Warehouse workers walk out over pay and pensions
GMB members at Spectrum for Arcadia in Leeds are on strike over pay
Derby teaching assistants continue fight against £6,000 a year pay cut
Derby’s teaching assistants and support staff are striking at schools across the city
Picturehouse strikers blockade Leicester Square
Ford workers demand answers to Bridgend plant sourcing questions
Ford workers in Bridgend, south Wales, want answers to the lack of sourcing which is putting the whole future of the Bridgend engine plant in doubt
Hearing into alleged rule-breaking by Unison ends
The hearing into rule breaking by public sector union Unison during the 2015 general secretary election ended on 22 February
Leeds: Protest against tip stealing
Mixed Fleet cabin crew announce more strike days
RMT plans protest against ‘driver only’ Merseyrail trains
Southern Rail strike continues
May Day greetings in the Socialist
Help fund the best workers’ newspaper in England and Wales by placing a May Day greeting in the Socialist
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Unions demand that Corbyn-supporting mayor protects services
Lobby calls on council to refuse to make cuts
Bristol cuts: the fight goes on
Protester bitten by council security: The £33 million of cuts in the budget passed on 21 February by the council are not acceptable to the people of Bristol
Tower Hamlets: There is an alternative, Mr Biggs
Just days before International Women’s Day, Tower Hamlets council voted through millions of cuts in children’s and youth services
Spelthorne: we need socialist councillors
York University: socialists prevent far-right hate speech
This event is an example of why it’s always important to contest the presence of the far right: especially when they threaten to spread hate on university campuses
Socialist Party Wales conference report
A combative mood was expressed throughout a well-attended Socialist Party Wales 2017 conference
Northern region Socialist Party conference
Our Northern regional conference set the tone for our work in the next period
Socialist readers’ comments and reviews
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Worse-off women; farm fiends; Trotsky and Poland.
Guardian ‘arts critic’ Jonathan Jones, fresh from condemning Russia’s 1917 socialist revolution, has rushed to the defence of a gallery which has been hosting ‘alt-right’ speakers
