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Climate change
How can we build workers’ action to support the climate strikes?
Editorial of the Socialist: The idea of a ‘general strike’ has caught hold among layers of activists – it is very positive that young people are talking about workers taking strike action
Climate change protests reach important stage
Britain’s fifth climate strike took place on 21 June. Reports from York, Newcastle, Nottingham, London, Leeds and Brighton
Socialist Party news and analysis
No to Boris, no to Hunt: general election now
We need a general election, not a no-choice coronation of Boris or Hunt. What do they offer that is any different to the brutal austerity policies of May and Cameron?
Universal Credit forces women into prostitution
A Tory minister has been forced to retract an official statement that there was no link between Universal Credit and people being pushed into to the sex trade to survive
Charging scandal in Warrington and Halton NHS Trust
The trust recently announced that 71 elective treatments would no longer be available free to patients
Union action can tackle 58% working poverty rate
Almost two-fifths of those in poverty in the UK are also in work
Unsafe, unaffordable housing scandal
It is a disgrace for people to be living in unsafe and dangerous housing in the fifth richest country in the world
It’s one world for the super-rich and another for the rest of us.
International socialist news and analysis
Ratcheting up of Iran-US tensions
Neither imperialism nor regional powers offer a way forward for Middle East workers and poor
London demo applauds call for a democratic, socialist Sudan; no trust in imperialist powers in Leeds
Workplace news and analysis
Coordinate the fightback! Come to the 2019 NSSN conference
Strikes get results: The National Shop Stewards Network conference on 6 July is a fantastic opportunity to coordinate the trade union fightback
Unions and campaigners discuss fight to end education crisis
Loud applause for Jo Grady, newly elected general secretary of the University and College Union, calling for national coordinated strikes to stop education cuts, shows what is needed
Striking workers defy the race to the bottom at Glasgow and Aberdeen airports
The strikes for pay and pensions justice at Glasgow and Aberdeen airports are a fight for every trade unionist and worker in Scotland and beyond
Bridgend NSSN meeting determined to fight for Ford workers
A very successful National Shop Stewards Network public meeting in Bridgend brought solidarity and support to the Ford workers in their efforts to save their plant and jobs
Unison conference: Socialist Party members call for anti-cuts fight and build left challenge
Despite the right-wing leadership’s stunts, the union’s call for a general election was saved and 200 attended the campaign meeting for a fighting, democratic Unison
Salisbury South Western Rail strikers determined
RMT transport union guards striking on South Western Rail are determined to carry on the fight to keep the guards
Midlands mental health workers walk out against privatisation
“If this goes through, things will never be the same again. It’s the beginning of the end,” said one Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust picket
Notts college contract dispute
More than 80 teachers would be £1,000 worse off in addition to increased teaching hours, removal of workload protections, and cuts in holiday and sick pay
Colloids workers strike to support sacked rep
Over 150 Colloids workers turned out for the fifth consecutive week for an organised day of action and mass support in the dispute with Colloids in Kirkby over the sacking of Unite the Union rep George Gore
Harrogate academy workers strike against cuts
“If it hadn’t been for this school I would have ended up in prison” were the words of one former student who came to support the picket line on 20 June
Socialist history
35th anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave
The Great Miners’ Strike 1984-85: The Battle of Orgreave on 18 June 1984 involved nearly 10,000 pickets. 4,000 police, including mounted police, attacked them
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Angry Barking fire victims demand action from landlords and authorities
Around 30 flats were destroyed – only now are the combustible balconies at other flats being stripped away by the builders
Hull trade union festival a great success
Hull Socialist Party members were central in organising a hugely successful trade union festival, ‘Engage for Change’, on Saturday 22 June
Stop the Devon and Somerset fire service cuts
Firefighters in Devon and Somerset have reacted with fury to swingeing cuts in which will cut the fire service ‘to the bone’
Opinion
Opinion: capitalism’s Fukushima showed same recklessness as Stalinism’s Chernobyl
While lauding the marvellous TV series Chernobyl, the capitalist press has gleefully criticised ‘socialism’, and even Corbyn, for the Ukrainian nuclear disaster
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