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What we think
Corbyn must launch struggle to kick out Blairites and fight for socialist policies
Labour right plotters must go: Getting rid of this rotten Tory government is not the priority for the Blairites
Socialist Party news and analysis
Universal Credit out – Tories out!
Corbyn should call on Labour councils to set no-cuts budgets now to protect working-class people from the effects of Universal Credit
Mass pressure wins light sentence for ‘Stansted 15’
To end climate change we need to fight for socialist change!
15 February youth strike for climate: We welcome the call for a youth strike, and believe mass collective action is what is required
Marx memorial attack shows socialist ideas are on the rise
The real answer to poverty, division and despair is a new society based on public ownership and democratic socialist planning of resources
Fossil fuel subsidies for the bosses… rising sea levels for us
International socialist news and analysis
France: striking workers confront Macron as historic gilets jaunes movement approaches “Act XIV”
The gilets jaunes have awoken, on the part of millions, a deep will to revolt – even to make a revolution
Socialist Party feature
Ten years since Lindsey strike: when militant action stopped the ‘race to the bottom’
The refinery strike showed how, on the basis of class struggle, workers can democratically negotiate solutions to supposedly conflicting interests
Workplace news and analysis
Victory to Birmingham bin workers
Deselect the Blairites! Bin strikers have caough Brum council red-handed at blacklisting
Heroic RMT guards beat back Northern rail in fight against dangerous driver-only operation
47 days of determined industrial action have won a significant breakthrough
Fight for a socialist-led PCS – fight to win the national pay campaign
The strike ballot’s key demand is a 10% pay rise -and we need a socialist leadership to deliver it
Glasgow: nationalise the threatened ‘Caley’ railway depot
Over 200 skilled jobs are threatened by the possible closure of the St Rollox ‘Caley’ historic railway yard in Springburn
Leicester college workers refuse to accept cut in terms and conditions
“Management has attempted to appeal directly to staff rather than negotiating with elected workplace representatives”
Enfield: striking against academisation – fighting for a no-cuts budget
Big picket lines, lots of support from parents, lots of solidarity visits from other trade unionists – four days of action
Workplace and union news in brief
Glasgow strike victory; Bradford bus victory; union action in Hackney; oil tanker strike; Irish nurses strike; home care doorstepping; Woolwich ferry walkout
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Southampton: Labour plans £15m cuts – vote Socialist in Coxford by-election
We want our £136 million stolen by the government back, and the council must link up with the unions to mobilise a fight for it
Newham: women’s refuge funds halved – Labour must use the £500m reserves
We call on Rokhsana Fiaz to set a real “people’s budget” – one which uses reserves and borrowing to end austerity
Arrest Brigadier Fernando – defend the right to protest
Tamil Solidarity and Socialist Party members will be protesting again outside the court – join us
Why I joined: “why is their life so different from mine?”
Why can’t we have this for everyone? Why do some people have more than others, and why is their life so different from mine?
New pamphlet: 1919 – Red Flag over the Clyde
Celebrating Robert Burns 1759-1796
‘Shac’ campaign fights for housing
300 turn out for Corbyn in Nottingham marginal
The meeting was friendly, and we sold 19 copies of the Socialist
Liverpool: 200 march to commemorate Robert Tressell
The event remembered the celebrated author of ‘The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’
‘Spot’ conference opposes authoritarianism in Turkey
London Socialist Party members participated in the annual ‘Solidarity with the People of Turkey’ conference
Opinion
‘Green Book’ film: a timely reminder of racism in the USA
It’s been called a buddy/road trip film in the tradition of ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ – it is much more than that and yet, perhaps, less than it could be
‘Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’: comedy and tragedy judiciously mixed
Non-fiction: ‘This is Going to Hurt’: Adam Kay defends the NHS against the privatisers and he does it in a witty and engaging way
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