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Fight the health and care bill

The future of the NHS hangs in the balance. Nearly five million people are waiting for treatment. Covid has pushed our health services to the limit, but years of underfunding meant it was already in crisis

Interview with newly elected Unison NEC member

Hospital worker Naomi Byron speaks (pc) to the Socialist following her election

Urgent need to build alternative to pro-capitalist politicians

The myth of Johnson's electoral golden touch has been shattered by the Chesham and Amersham byelection

NHS in crisis - 'It's time for action'

Join protests on 3 July. 15% pay rise now

Tories' derisory 1% pay offer to NHS staff is only the latest in a long list of injuries that healthcare staff have had to endure

Building back better? Fight for a socialist recovery

As society slowly emerges from lockdown, Boris Johnson and the Tories are busy preaching that they plan to 'build back better'.

Northern Ireland and Brexit

Edwin Poots, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest party in Northern Ireland, has resigned just three weeks after he won the position

Tory review won't deliver justice for rape victims

'Rape has been decriminalised'. This was a 2019 assessment of a situation where just 1.6% of rapes result in someone being charged. Each year around 128,000 people are victims of rape but only just over

Unite general secretary contest: Vote for Sharon Graham

The Socialist Party is supporting Sharon Graham for Unite general secretary. The ballot opens on 5 July. Many of the most combative workers are increasingly being drawn towards her campaign as they look

Furlough reduction risks job losses

Despite the Tory government extending coronavirus restrictions until 19 July, rather than bringing them to an end on 21 June, the furlough scheme will continue to be downgraded and gradually dismantled as planned

Tories deliberately underfund childcare

The cost of childcare is rocketing. Access to places is being squeezed. The funding local authorities receive from the government to deliver free childcare for three and four-year-olds is not enough. And

Anti-protest bill breaches human rights

Even Parliament's human rights committee (JCHR) has lambasted the Tories crime and policing bill. Restricting the right to protest will breach human rights laws and criminalise peaceful protesters, it

Sacking non-vaccinated care workers will not save lives

The Tories' announcement that care home workers will have to be vaccinated to retain their jobs is a deliberate, if somewhat botched, attempt to distract attention from their appalling safety record on Covid-19

Leicester private healthcare tragedy

Private healthcare is embedded in the provision of accident and emergency treatment at the Leicester Royal Infirmary

TUSC calls for local 'People's Budget' campaigns

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) All-Britain Steering Committee is calling on all local TUSC groups, individual members, supporters and affiliated groups in areas where they are active, to begin to lay plans for the year ahead - focusing on local 'People's Budget' campaigns.

Unite general secretary contest: Vote for Sharon Graham

The fighting programme that is much needed can win this election.

Women's health matters

The Cumberlege review last year was just one example of the devastating impact of the 'gender health gap'

Tamil Solidarity asylum victory

Sri Lanka: Political campaigning now grounds for asylum: In a recent landmark ruling, the Upper Tribunal - responsible for judicial reviews of Home Office decisions - has proposed new 'country guidance' used for determining asylum cases of refugees from Sri Lanka

Beth Roper inquest: Train company failures ignored

Two years and six months ago we tragically lost a brilliant comrade and a wonderful friend, Socialist Party member Bethan Roper

Make vaccine technology public, nationalise big-pharma

G7 vaccine promises fall short: G7 leaders have pledged to donate 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine to poorer countries by the end of 2022. Boris Johnson's Tory government, for its part, has pledged 100 million doses.

Neonatal leave introduced: Unions must fight for extensions and full pay

The birth of any child is an intense and stressful time for most parents, and that applies even more if babies are born prematurely