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Issue 1355, 12 February 2026

END THIS ROTTEN SYSTEM
The working class needs its own party

Analysis and editorials

Epstein files plunge Starmer’s crisis to new depths

Starmer and Mandelson’s New Labour: The working class needs its own party

News

Filton 24 verdict: mass workers’ action can defend the right to protest

Working-class people singing out for an alternative to rotten capitalist system

Labour pushes back fire and rehire ban

Student loan crisis: Scrap the debt! Fight for free education! Make the super-rich pay!

Capitalism’s flawed model means environmental catastrophe

Youth and Student

Students: Why you should join the Socialist Party

‘Circuit No’ – end rip-off laundry charges

Why we’re coming to Socialist Students conference

ICE anger echoes all the way to west London

Campaigns

Enfield people’s budget – ‘the money is there’

Merseyside socialists win support for no-cuts stand

Leicester campaigns defy Labour council ban to protest cuts

West Mids socialists meet to organise

Newcastle – growing rage at Starmer

Fight council tax rises and cuts

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Workplace and trade union

Stage is set for the battle for the future of Unite

UCU further education campaign strengthened at FE committee

Stop closure of Essex Uni’s Southend Campus

Solent uni strike: No to sham subsidiary employment!

Fighting 120 job cuts at London Met uni

Probation workers at breaking point: Vote ‘Yes’ in the pay ballots

Usdaw members at Tetrosyl fight pay catastrophe

International

Your Party Scotland launched – build the socialist election challenge for Holyrood

Documentary film review: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Readers opinions and reviews

Film review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Film review: I Swear