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Build a mass movement against the war: Theresa May, leading a Tory government with no majority, used ‘royal prerogative’ to authorise the bombing of Syria, afraid of losing a vote in parliament
Labour Party
For a fighting, democratic Labour Party
The Socialist Party has written to Jennie Formby, the new left Labour Party general secretary, to discuss the Socialist Party’s right to affiliate to Labour
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Give us your change (and more) to fight for system change!
Socialist Party members strained every sinew to try and reach the target of £30,000 for the first quarter of the year; in the end we fell just short, raising £28,372
Building fund: £150,000 milestone smashed!
As of last week we have smashed through £150,000 in pledged donations – this is an incredible feat of collective sacrifice by determined working class fighters
The Socialist – a fighting, campaigning, workers’ paper
We need to ensure that the Socialist is at the forefront of our campaigning
Hull says no to war, no to austerity
Around 200 people turned out at short notice in Hull on 14 April to protest against the bombing of Syria
Victorious Fearnville Fields campaigners thank the Socialist
“We would like to express our thanks to your paper for its coverage of our campaign”
Socialist Party news and analysis
Vote TUSC to fight youth homelessness and the housing crisis: Youth homelessness is on the rise – the housing crisis and delays in benefit payments are major factors
1,400 beds empty as patients lay in corridors: health unions must act now
1,429 beds are now in 82 ‘ghost wards’ – unusable despite overcrowding in hospitals over the winter crisis
Catalonia: 1m marchers demand self-determination
Billions for the bosses, benefit cuts for us
Capitalist wealth distribution is now at its most unequal and set to widen further
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. World’s first billionaire; banker frets about Marx; paupers’ funerals; fake apprenticeships
Local elections 2018
Labour councillors could stop unsafe ‘driver-only operation’ tomorrow
In favour of cutting guards’ critical safety duties are profit-seeking companies, greedy Tory politicians… and local right-wing Labour politicians
Grimsby local paper reveals Labour candidate ‘tried to defect to the Tories’
A Grimsby Labour councillor tried to defect to the Conservatives after Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election as leader – following a suggestion from TUSC some local Labour members are proposing to put out a leaflet supporting the TUSC candidate
TUSC campaigners challenge youth club cuts
Hounslow’s Labour-led council has recently decided to chop a further £27.4 million from the 2018-19 budget including slashing all funding for youth clubs, meaning they will close in the next few months
Huddersfield TUSC takes on the Blairites
The TUSC campaign in Huddersfield is focusing on two seats held by Blairite candidates in Ashbrow and Crosland Moor
Butterfields tenants join TUSC campaign
In 2016 Socialist Party members helped Butterfields tenants fight eviction – they achieved a famous victory
Haringey TUSC fights Blairite cuts
Socialist history
Enoch Powell’s racist ‘Rivers of Blood’ rant 50 years on
Tory MP Enoch Powell made his infamous ‘Rivers of Blood’ racist rant 50 years ago – we say the struggle against racism must also be the struggle for socialism
Workplace news and analysis
Usdaw conference 2018: time for new era of fighting trade unionism
President-elect Amy Murphy writes for the Socialist: “We need to support our members who want to take industrial action in defence of pay and conditions”
UCU members vote to end pensions dispute
Universities UK has been forced to state that 100% defined contribution pensions are off the table
Bromley libraries – indefinite strike action continues
Bromley workers have responded magnificently – but outrageously GLL has bussed in strike breakers from other boroughs
PCS rejects Acas offer – further strikes announced
PCS served notice to conciliation servuce Acas on 11 April to start a programme of industrial action if the employer does not offer to improve chronic short staffing, downgrading and moving jobs out of London
Vote for a left, fighting PCS leadership
It is vital that local reps act quickly to persuade members to vote for the Democracy Alliance slate
Avenue School strikers and parents win judicial review
Striking staff and the parents that support them are demanding a ballot, which the governing board seems to be scared of granting – as it’s clear the majority of parents oppose academisation
Workers’ victory over anti-union Scottish council
The Scottish National Party administration in West Dunbartonshire has reversed cuts to trade union convenors and union facility time
Opinion
Vital depiction of fight for Aids prevention and treatment
Film – 120 BPM: Activists in ‘Act Up’ in the 1980s and 90s organised militant political action against the ongoing Aids crisis
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