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Labour Party conference
Corbyn must boldly back mandatory reselection, and mobilise party members and the wider movement to fight to implement this and other democratising measures in Labour
The struggle to transform Labour
Correspondence between Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe and Labour general secretary Jennie Formby: It is urgent that the Labour Party is transformed so it can bring together all those who want to fight in the interests of the working and middle class majority
Momentum’s ‘The World Transformed’ blocks discussion on Liverpool council struggle
The legacy of the socialist Labour councillors who defied Thatcher, refusing to pass on cuts, is not important enough for Momentum’s bureaucratic leadership
Socialist Party news and analysis
Big drugs companies dodge £3 billion pounds in tax
Big pharmaceutical companies may be dodging up to £3 billon in tax, contributing to crises in health systems worldwide, including our NHS
250,000 families in “non-decent” homes
A quarter of a million families are bringing up children under the age of four in “non-decent” homes according to a recent report
Billionaire Jeff Bezos claims his new philanthropy fund will help the homeless – after a fighting a tax meant to pay for homes
Rail firm Arriva Trains Wales has reversed a policy of charging customers ‘commission’ for returning lost property
Young Socialists out in Birmingham
International socialist news and analysis
South Africa: new workers’ formations herald fightback against Ramaphosa’s capitalist agenda
Exclusive interviews with Workers and Socialist Party activists: What is the state of working class in South Africa?
Catalonia: ‘Diada’ 2018 an immense show of strength for republic
For a socialist Catalan republic of the working class and youth! Barcelona’s Avenida Diagonal thoroughfare overflowed with around two million people in an unprecedented mass mobilisation
Socialist Students
Mobilise mass student fightback
Fight for education, Tories out now: The Tories – the politicians responsible for trebling students’ tuition fees, decimating our public services, and presiding over a generation-defining housing crisis – are in chaos, writes Theo Sharieff, Socialist Students national chair.
Socialist Students campaigns at Hull freshers fair
Students were delighted to see socialists campaigning at Hull University
Workplace news and analysis
POA walkout over government failure to make prisons safe
Interview with the POA DGS Joe Simpson: Prison workers have protested around the country
RMT strikers ready to up the ante over rail safety
More coordinated strikes against removal of safety-critical train guards took place on 15 September
University pay ballot: vote yes for strike action!
The vast majority of union members at virtually all universities across the UK are being balloted for strike action over pay
Birmingham home carers’ protest demo
“Are you Tories in disguise?” was directed at Birmingham’s Blairite council on 15 September at another fantastic rally for striking home care workers
York health workers say no to privatisation
Unite union members at York NHS Trust voted by a massive majority to strike against privatisation
Liverpool airport workers demand decent pay
Over 80 workers – members of the GMB union – are taking strike action at Liverpool’s John Lennon airport, as the employer insists on holding wage rises to below the rate of inflation
Leicester UCU fights redundancies
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Join our Socialist sales drive for issue 1011
We want to finish this sales quarter with as big a flourish as possible by linking up with our Fighting Fund ‘collectathon’ and selling 500 extra copies of the Socialist issue 1011
March to save threatened Liverpool Women’s Hospital
The much-loved Liverpool Women’s Hospital is still earmarked for closure, under the false flag of ‘moving’ it to the new Royal
Socialists and campaigners protest Leicester NHS cuts
Leicester Socialist Party, as part of Save Our NHS Leicestershire, is protesting against plans to cut intensive care beds at the general hospital, writes Andrew Walton
Hundreds of Newcastle United fans attend Mike Ashley Out meeting
Hundreds of Newcastle United football fans attended a public meeting to discuss the way forward in the continued Mike Ashley Out campaign
Huddersfield Socialist Party opposes racist EDL
Instead of offering any genuine solutions to sexual abuse, the EDL offers only racist scapegoating
Lewisham: binning the rates rise
Opinion
How Irish strikers fought apartheid – and establishment anti-apartheid leadership
Non-fiction – Striking Back: “This movement was not led by affluent men, well-educated lecturers or powerful politicians… instead it was led by us, a predominantly female group of working class citizens”
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Blairites’ hypocrisy; next recession due; NHS across generations.
