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What we think
Westminster sexual harassment scandal: symptom of a rotten system
Eight years after Westminster was engulfed by the expenses scandal a new outrage is threatening to swamp parliament
International socialist news and analysis
Catalonia: Rajoy’s furious response to proclamation of Republic
The proclamation of the Catalan Republic provoked an immediate, furious response from Spain’s right-wing PP government as well as from the ex-social democratic Psoe
Socialism 2017
Socialism 2017: ideas to change the world
Workshops will include plenty of time for everyone to contribute, raise disagreements and ask questions
Socialist Party news and analysis
Take the wealth off the 1%! The combined wealth of the world’s billionaires has now reached an eye-watering $6 trillion
Fight for free education: join the budget day protests!
Socialist Students has written to Labour’s shadow education secretary Angela Rayner calling for them to put a free education amendment to the Tory budget
Tories u-turn on social housing benefit cap and borrowing to build
Strikes can end this zombie government: Theresa May’s backtrack on capping housing benefit for social tenants is the latest in a catalogue of u-turns
Unions must fight workplace mental health crisis
300,000 a year forced to leave work: Workers with mental health problems are leaving their jobs at a rate of 6% a year
No to ‘Carebnb’ privatisation of hospital beds
The villains are not vulnerable people stuck in hospital beds. It’s cuts and sell-offs that suck the lifeblood out of the NHS and social care
Handouts for sexist charity v cuts to women’s refuges. Big pharma sues NHS while doctors plead for medicine.
This ad for boots in a Hong Kong shopping centre is a little on the nose
Workplace news and analysis
Coordinated strike action on five rail networks against driver-only operation
Rail workers’ union RMT has announced coordinated strikes on five different networks to defeat the threat of driver-only operation (DOO)
Arriva bus workers’ dispute continues
PCS pay cap ballot closes soon
The civil servants’ union PCS is stepping up its pay campaign by holding a consultative ballot, timed to coincide with the autumn budget
North east England blacklisting conference success
Campaigners discussed the fight against bosses and even some union officials who break the law to prevent trade unionists from being hired
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Teachers, students and parents demand an end to the schools funding crisis
Over 1,000 teachers, staff, parents and students put the question to MPs on 24 October: “What are you going to do to end the school funding crisis?”
The “club no-one wants to be part of” – march by families of those killed in police custody
It was heartbreaking to take part in the annual march of Unite Families and Friends Campaign, made up of those affected by deaths in custody
Derby: expenses for councillors, cuts for everyone else
The publication of allowances and expenses of Derby city councillors for 2016-17 should cause more than a few raised eyebrows
Health campaign groups come together in Barnsley to protest closures and downgrades in the NHS
The decision to demonstrate was taken due to the impending closure of the Mount Vernon hospital by the end of this year
Anger over plan to build housing on Yorkshire flood plain
One resident at a recent meeting in Todmorden shouted out at Tory MP Craig Whittaker: “We know who you are Whittaker – a friend to the builders!”
Socialist readers’ comments and reviews
New play celebrates Grunwick strike
‘We Are the Lions, Mr Manager’ celebrates the first major strike by Asian women in this country
Skipton show proves draw of socialist art
How did we manage to attract nearly 100 people and local press coverage to a political arts event, the ‘Bad Art’ Skipton exhibition?
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. “He’s our neighbour”; Gunpowder plot drama.
