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What we think
Ditch the Tories – and austerity
Parliament is closed but there’s still open warfare in the Tory party. Meanwhile, in the real world, working-class people continue to suffer from austerity and exploitation at work
Trade union movement must put its stamp on swirling events
What we think: The courts are not ‘neutral’. Corbyn is being drowned out – he must stand firm, and the unions must mobilise, to bridge the Brexit divide
Climate change
Climate protests: which way forward after 20 September?
How can students and trade unions organise for success in the climate movement?
Climate change: what’s socialism got to do with it?
The capitalist class, and the capitalist state, will not allow the change we need. The profit interests of a tiny minority stand at the head of current society
Socialist Students
How students can fight and win
As university campuses reawaken for a new academic year, what are the major issues facing students – and how can they fight back?
Socialist Party feature
Northern Ireland: Campaign mounts over historic sexual abuse allegations cover-up
The fight for justice is intimately linked with challenging the culture of deference to authority which has held down and separated working-class people for too long
Socialist Party workplace news
PCS general secretary candidate: unions must mobilise to drive out Boris
Marion Lloyd: We cannot sit back and let the Tories go unchallenged. It is time for Left union leaders to urgently make a call for mass action before 31 October to force a general election
Strike back to stop bullying Royal Mail bosses
Preparations are continuing for the national strike ballot in Royal Mail against its newly installed, openly anti-union management
Lincolnshire health visitors strike boost
DVSA strike – employer asks for talks
The last day of strike action is 19 September and the union has made clear it is prepared to bring out members in other teams if there is not a satisfactory resolution
Nottingham College UCU – more strike action planned
Strikers are determined to defeat the employer’s draconian contract – pay cuts for 20% of teachers and savage cuts in conditions
PCS members at BEIS maintain just fightback
Members of the PCS union are continuing their indefinite strike at the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy government department for the London Living Wage
Ilford: strike forces school management to back down
After a series of strikes and a threat of more to come, management at Ilford County High School has agreed to withdraw its unacceptable proposals
International socialist news and analysis
Violence against women in South Africa
The rape and murder of a Cape Town student was the spark that lit a new wave of protests demanding an end to violence against women
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
South Yorkshire defeats fire cuts
After months of campaigning, lobbying and petitioning by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), Socialist Party and others, on 16 September the South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Authority voted not to proceed with the chief fire officer’s proposal to reduce crewing levels from five to four
Donate to help us move our press by October
Regular readers of the Socialist will know that the Socialist Party launched a building appeal in 2018, following our eviction from the premises we had occupied for nearly 20 years, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
March planned to save Bewdley Fire Station
The campaign to save Bewdley Fire Station continues to build, with a march and rally planned for Saturday 28 September, starting at 10.30am
London: packed public meeting discusses political crisis
A packed public meeting discussed the turmoil in British politics and the work of the Socialist Party in London
Just some of the events where the Socialist newspaper was sold in the past week..
Opinion
Peterloo – fighting for democracy and a better life
Non-Fiction – Peterloo: The English Uprising: This new work is crammed with detail on the economic, social and political circumstances behind the massacre
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Rape convictions; Jeffrey Boycott; climate change; Brexit and Yellowhammer