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May’s EU speech kicks the can down the road
The closing line of Theresa May’s speech – “now let’s get on with it” – will have led to jeers of frustration from any workers listening.
Socialist Party news and analysis
NHS: public health – not private profit
The Tories make dangerous claims like ‘we’re all living longer’ and ‘people are demanding more treatment’. Of course people want the most up-to-date and effective treatment, it’s 2018.
Snow chaos showed the bosses’ coldness – but also workers’ grit
Toys R Us, Maplin: worsening retail crisis claims more jobs
Trade unions must fight for public ownership: Big high street retailers Toys R Us and Maplin have gone under, with a number of other familiar names like Mothercare rumoured to follow
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us – featuring China’s haves and have-nots.
International Women’s Day 2018
Capitalism oppresses women – fight for socialism!
International Women’s Day: When the twenty first century dawned, young women in the US and much of Europe were being told that equality was within their grasp.
Women’s oppression: the struggle goes on
The Socialist inbox: International Women’s Day
A special International Women’s Day collection of letters to the Socialist’s editors.
Socialist Party workplace news
As University and College Union (UCU) members hit the midpoint of our 14-day programme of escalating strikes, it’s pretty clear from the picket lines that years of fees, cuts and marketisation have created an army of low-paid and casualised lecturers, tutors, researchers and support workers, and a supporting cast of furious students.
National lecturers’ pension strike continues
Whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in Merseyside DOO dispute
Saturday 3 March saw another solid strike across the Arriva Northern and Merseyrail railway franchises by guards defending their jobs
PCS: Re-elect the left and fight for decent pay
Hull workers united against bosses
In a determined and clear show of solidarity, more than 150 workers in Hull rallied in support of University and College Union members from Hull University on strike to defend pensions, railway workers from the RMT striking to keep a guard on every train and the FCC strikers battling to win sick-pay rights.
International socialist news and analysis
Syria: No ceasefire for ‘hell on earth’ eastern Goutha
Eastern Goutha, outside Damascus, is “hell on earth”, according to United Nations (UN) chief Antonio Guterres.
Japan – toxic legacy of the Fukushima disaster
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Salford nurseries consultation delayed
After a huge public meeting of 250 angry parents and staff demanded that Salford council “fight for the five” remaining council-run nurseries, mayor Paul Dennett has agreed to do just that
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Hands Off HRI campaign group meets Corbyn and Ashworth
40 hardy souls from the Hands Off HRI campaign braved the bitterly cold and snowy weather at 6am to climb aboard a coach from Huddersfield to London to meet with Jeremy Corbyn and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth on 28 February.
TUSC plans to stand on Waltham Forest anti-monster block platform
Socialist Party activists and local residents attended a meeting on 3 March organised by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in Walthamstow.
Derbyshire says: No fracking way!
“No fracking way” was the chant by the hundreds of people from groups all over Derbyshire and Yorkshire at the end of a three-mile march between Clowne and Bolsover on 24 February
Coventry shows solidarity with the Syrian people
A protest was held in Coventry to stand in solidarity with the people of Eastern Ghouta, Syria – where large numbers of people are being killed and injured by bombing.
Socialist Party comments and reviews
Fighting sexual harassment in entertainment
Following the exposure of appalling, systemic sexual harassment and assault in show business, entertainers’ union Equity has launched a campaign.
