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What we think
End of the Corbyn era – Organise to fight for socialist policies
Workers take action while union leaders call truce with government and bosses
“And I want to thank them (key workers) and also the leaders of the trade unions who represent them…”
International news
Coronavirus: Amazon workers threaten revolution!
Coronavirus, capitalism and fighting for socialism worldwide
The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI – the socialist international organisation the Socialist Party is part of) is posting regular updates from its sections around the world
Coronavirus news
Dispatches from the front: shortages of NHS staff, equipment – and union leadership
The temptation to come home and cry at the end of every shift is sometimes overwhelming. As part of diagnostics, my department touches on most of the hospital
Expired PPE relabelled for NHS use
The minimum wage must go up! Fund coronavirus workers, not bosses’ profits!
Minimum wage workers include many of the frontline staff dealing with the pandemic, writes Karen Smith, care worker.
Capitalism causes crisis profiteering: fight for workers’ oversight and public ownership
The government’s laissez-faire attitude towards supplies, in effect contracting out any control of this to the major retailers, means there have been opportunities abundant for speculators to rip people off, writes Iain Dalton, Yorkshire Socialist Party.
Under the microscope: Pandemic news in brief
The hospital oxygen supply in Hertfordshire came within inches of failing due to a huge increase in demand
Workplace news
Where’s the PPE Welsh Assembly?
EE puts workers’ health and safety at risk
EE is making it very clear why we can’t leave it to the bosses to control our response to the coronavirus crisis, writes Ross Saunders, Cardiff Socialist Party.
Things will never be the same again
“This certificate provides confirmation you are classified as a Sky key worker…Thank you for …help[ing] keep Sky’s critical services running for our customers”
Anger as London local authorities bulldoze through powers to discipline workers
A day in the life of a frontline worker
Victory for Medway bin workers
Socialists in Unite meet via Zoom: Struggles continue in the workplaces
World War Two
Class collaboration and worker militancy in World War Two Britain
Campaigns
Labour leadership election: Starmer wins but the fight for socialism goes on
Coronavirus crisis finance appeal
May Day greetings: we need to fund independent workers’ media now more than ever
Getting the Socialist out safely under lockdown
Readers’ opinion
The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed, and workers and communities are organising in
