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This bosses’ government must go
No compromise with Tories or Blairites: Fight for mandatory reselection now, organise and strike for Corbyn’s anti-austerity policies
Socialist Party news and analysis
Grenfell stitch-up: unions should call independent inquiry
Survivors of the fire are still homeless, and blocks around the country are unsafe
G20 betrays refugees created by its own policies
This year is on course to become the deadliest on record for refugees crossing the Mediterranean – and the G20 has done nothing
Socialist Party feature
Striking Barts health workers show ‘fighting trade unionism’
“We want a famous victory for the east London working class!” declared Unite branch secretary and Socialist Party member Len Hockey
Workplace news and analysis
Vote for action to save Ford plant
Ballot papers go out at the end of this week to Bridgend Ford workers
Low-paid cabin crew protest during 16-day stoppage
In a vengeful act, BA imposed sanctions on strikers: removing bonus payments and staff travel concessions
Wales: DWP announces office closures and job losses
Civil service union PCS has reacted with anger to the announcement that the Department for Work and Pensions intends to close and merge jobcentres across the country resulting in 750 job losses
BMA doctor’s union in shift to left at conference
This year’s annual representatives meeting, the conference of the BMA doctors’ union, saw some of the most left wing policy agreed by the BMA so far
Strike against driver-only operated trains continues
Continued coordinated action against driver-only operation on three rail networks has continued, with strikes on Merseyrail, Northern and Southern starting on 8 July
Durham TAs reject council’s pay offer
Durham teaching assistants in education unions Unison and the ATL have voted to reject the latest divisive offer from Durham council
Socialist Party feature
The left unions and the Labour Party affiliation debate
A political voice for workers: We must urgently build on Jeremy Corbyn’s election campaign to really transform Labour – does that mean the non-affiliated left unions should now affiliate?
Socialist history
July Days 1917: battles with counterrevolution
Massive demonstrations involving nearly a million people erupted in Petrograd on 2-3 July 1917, in a colossal outburst of anger and discontent
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Lots of discussions at the Miners Gala on the way forward
Crowds of up to 250,000 flocked to a sun-soaked Durham for the 133rd Durham Miners Gala
The Socialist spring offensive
Sales of the Socialist hit a six-year high this spring thanks to the tireless work of Socialist Party members and supporters during the recent general election
Southampton Labour must reverse council cuts
The new funding formula threatens to cut a further £3 billion from school budgets – in Southampton, that would mean losing over 350 teachers
Waltham Forest – fighting school cuts
A joint meeting of workplace union reps was held on 4 July to discuss a strategy to fight school cuts in Labour-run Waltham Forest, London
Fighting corporate takeover at London Pride
“Build a fighting socialist movement for LGBT+ rights!”
Chingford: Corbyn attacks pay freeze during tour
Save our NHS
Huddersfield parties in the park to save hospital A&E
The second annual Hands Off Huddersfield Royal Infirmary ‘Party in the Park’ attracted thousands to Greenhead Park in opposition to the hospital’s A&E closure
Leeds campaigns to save NHS on its 69th birthday
Leeds Keep Our NHS Public and its supporters gathered outside the Leeds General Infirmary on 5 July and later outside St James University Hospital to celebrate the NHS’s 69th birthday
Socialist readers’ comments and reviews
School students’ remarkable tribute to workers’ Spanish Civil War bravery
Theatre review – Ocho: The story told of bravery and the cast itself showed a brave approach to the work
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Scrap the pay cap; keep guards on trains; responses to the 1 July anti-Tory demo, Homeland’s poor politics; sickness stats; Poland and Trotskyism