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Lockdown
Health before profit – Work or full pay
Wales ‘firebreak’ lockdown fails to protect workers
Liverpool lockdown: suspicion and anger
Newcastle lockdown: stress and breakdowns
After the initial shock wore off, my family settled into a routine. We argued a lot. There was a cycle of us taking turns having mental breakdowns.
Leicester lockdown: disillusionment and anger
Leicester has been under some form of lockdown since March. We were the first city to go into local lockdown
Unison
Why the Socialist Party is backing Hugo Pierre for Unison general secretary
International
Nigeria protests: ‘This movement needs to fight the whole rotten capitalist system’
News has emerged from Nigeria of a massacre of unarmed protesters by the military at the Lekki toll plaza in Lagos
Horrific murder in Paris: fight intolerance and racism!
South Africa: Mass day of action for permanent jobs and a living wage
News
Tories reduce winter homeless funding: reverse the cuts,use the empty homes!
World capitalism’s terrified strategists abandon austerity – for now
Coronavirus
Test and Trace U-turn on stopping local case reporting
Oxbridge gets private Covid tests: pool resources to test us all!
Millennials disillusioned with ‘democracy’
Workplace
RMT: Programme to fight redundancies and cuts
Action on Covid transmission in schools now
FCC dismiss Unison activist Tony Smith
Optare workers strike over pay broken ‘promise’
Unite members at bus manufacturer Optare, in Sherburn in Elmet, on the outskirts of Leeds, took the first strike in a series of discontinuous 48-hour strikes starting on 15 October, alongside a continuous overtime ban.
Solidarity with Deliveroo Couriers in York
Campaigns
For a 15% pay rise – For a fully funded NHS: Failed by a Covid testing catastrophe. Left to face the pandemic in underfunded, understaffed hospitals. NHS staff have been handed a real-terms pay cut
Students: Give us our money back
Fight for your future at the online rally
Youth unemployment has reached 13%. On 25 October, students and young workers will be come together from across the country in an online rally hosted by Young Socialists and Socialist Students
Southampton: Coxford community condemns racist attack
Socialism 2020: Will you help our finance appeal?
Selling the Socialist: increase in NHS anger
On 17 October, the Socialist Party brought two campaign stalls to campaign to end hospital parking charges
Truth about Zane: Cover-up Tories crack
Kent: Chaotic privatised asylum process
Teignmouth hospital closure threat … again!
Teignmouth Hospital was the first hospital to be rebuilt by the NHS, in 1954. Over the years, local residents have raised millions to buy equipment and beds, and refurbish large parts of it.
Readers’ opinion
Books that inspired me: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“I have fought for what I believe in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.”
Beware the billionaires bearing gifts
Disabled students let down by “rotten education system”
The UK’s capitalist university system is rotten to the core. Universities’ prime aim is not to provide education for students – but to generate income for their vice chancellors and management