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News
Unemployment and Covid rising – the crisis is not over – Fight for jobs and safety
The beginning of a mass vaccination programme has raised hopes of an end to the Covid crisis.
Mass testing – we need trade union oversight and full pay for all
Rich countries hoarding vaccine is danger to us all
No to Tories’ new anti-protest law
Maternity unit deaths – democratic, public ownership needed
The recently published Ockenden report into the deaths and serious injuries of mothers and babies at the maternity units in Shropshire and Telford Hospital NHS Trust exposes a very dark side of the lack of accountability in the NHS
Met police investigate British mercenary war crimes against Tamils
No surprise, poverty is rising
Education
Cancel exams for class of Covid
Welsh schools close for safety after union pressure
Effective testing and properly funded safety plan needed in schools
East London shows the way: strikes are how to fight for state education
Two strikes in Newham, east London have the future of publicly owned and run education at their heart
Determined strikers at Leaways school
Workplace News
Openreach and EE: Massive vote for action
Openreach and EE (now owned by BT) CWU members have retuned a massive 97.9% ‘yes’ vote on a 74% turnout in a consultative ballot on whether they wish to take industrial action against compulsory redundancies, site closures, reduction of terms and conditions, and a race to the bottom.
PCS union conference stripped of powers by NEC
Unite launch ballot over sacked London bus rep
Unite the union is running a consultative ballot on 16-17 December to launch the campaign to get Judith Katera reinstated
Christmas redundancy shock at L&Q housing association
Workers at highly profitable housing association L&Q were shocked to be told of major restructuring and the threat of large-scale redundancies.
Stop ‘fire and rehire’ at British Gas
New Technology
Can green technology and AI save capitalism?
Engels
‘Socialism – Utopian and Scientific’ by Engels
In the fourth article in our series marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, Ross Saunders looks at one of Engels’ best known work.
Reports & campaigns
Protests in solidarity with Indian farmers
Book: The national question – a Marxist approach
90 socialists from Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland, and even from as far afield as the US, attended an online book launch public meeting organised by Socialist Party Scotland on 10 December.
School boy assaulted by police in Tottenham
People woke up to a horrific video on Friday 11 December. It was of a 16 year old black boy in his school uniform, being assaulted by a police officer in Tottenham, north London. A protest was quickly
TUSC relaunch in the north west
Protest against immigration enforcement centre in Newham
Tremendous fighting fund reflects confidence
Socialist Party members and supporters have done brilliant work over the whole of 2020 in making sure we smashed through our fighting fund target for the year
Quiz