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News
Covid spreading, poverty rising, rich get richer, fight for socialism!
Health, Covid and the vaccine: It’s a class issue
Poverty wages: When workers can’t afford to self-isolate
Fees frozen at £9,250 a year, fight for free education
DVLA Covid outbreak: They only care about output and productivity
Jaguar Land Rover: West Midlands superspreader
Schools
Schools: ‘We have to fight for everything’
Martin Powell-Davies for NEU DGS: “We need to use our collective strength”
What we think
Biden, Labour, and the need for a new mass workers’ party
Workplace news
Sage care workers strike again: Billionaires refuse to pay up
Unison NEC elections: United left challenge needed to fight slaughter of jobs and services
Steel site scaffolders strike for the ‘rate of the job’
Merseyside: DHL workers at Burton’s Biscuits strike against half-baked pay deal and bullying bosses
British Gas engineers continue strike against fire-and-rehire plans
“You need to support this because you could be next”
Low-paid hospital workers strike
Two disputes by low-paid hospital workers in Birmingham and Reading are taking place. Heartlands hospital workers in Birmingham work directly for the NHS, and those at the Royal Berkshire are contracted
NHS
Overwhelmed, underfunded, underpaid, and still fighting for safe PPE
On the front line we’re seeing whole wards being wiped out with staff sickness. In my own trust, at the start of January, there was approximately 9% staff absence.
Health worker cooperation in the face of the pandemic
Arab Spring
Ten years since the ‘Arab Spring’
TUSC
TUSC is up and running for May elections
Come to the TUSC local elections conference – 7 February
Why I’m leaving Labour and campaigning for TUSC
Councillors in Surrey resign from Labour and look to stand independently
Campaigns
Solidarity meeting with Mohamud Hassan
On Thursday 21 January, nearly 70 people attended an online meeting hosted by Socialist Party Wales in solidarity with Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, who died shortly after leaving police custody in Cardiff
Save Our Square from New Labour gentrification
Help fund a challenge to austerity at the ballot box – donate today!
International socialist news and analysis
Mass protests in Russia against Putin regime
Review
I remember the first time I heard about being gay outside of jokes in the playground. It was looking at pictures of Kaposi’s sarcoma patients in a science textbook page on HIV/Aids.
