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What strategy can end the retail jobs massacre?

The last few years have seen swathes of closures of shops across the UK as whole chains have collapsed while others close considerable numbers of stores.

Austerity anger feeds movement for Welsh independence

In the second of our series of articles exploring Brexit and the 'national question' Dave Reid secretary of the Socialist Party in Wales examines the situation there.

Bury expelled from football league: Boot out the bosses ruining our game

After 134 years, two FA cups and three league titles, Bury Football Club has been expelled from the football league and is teetering on the edge of existence.

Money doesn't make up for cuts - education unions must organise for funding and against Tory attacks

You know there's an election in the offing when the Tories say they will raise spending on education despite decimating school budgets in their previous terms of office.

Tories out now - Corbyn in with socialist policies

In parliament this week a major showdown is taking place between parliament and the prime minister

Boot out Boris and all the Tories

Unelected prime minister's parliamentary games:
Jeremy Corbyn and the trade union movement need to urgently launch a mass campaign to demand an immediate general election.

Brexit and the border in Northern Ireland - will there be a return to the 'Troubles'?

Brexit has started a hare running over the consequences for the integrity of the UK.

Interview with Sean Hoyle - left candidate in RMT general secretary election

As new strikes begin on South Western Railway, in the long running industrial dispute over guards and the result of the transport union RMT general secretary election is announced, the Socialist spoke to Sean Hoyle, the left candidate in the general secretary election.

Imperialist tensions escalate as world economy teeters

In a special report that scrutinised the increasingly tense breakdown in geopolitical and economic relations between the United States and China, the Economist sombrely concluded on 18 May that the world has entered "a new kind of cold war."

Notts child abuse scandal: Socialist Party demands action programme to prevent future cases

The decades-long Nottinghamshire child abuse scandal and cover-up shows the need to fight public service cuts and for a society that values people, not private profit.

Stop the latest Tory attack on our pensions

Pensioners are under attack. The Centre for Social Justice, a right-wing think tank, is proposing that pensioners should in effect work until they drop.

Workers' movement must launch a campaign for a general election

On 3 September parliament returns from its long summer holiday, sitting for less than two weeks before it breaks again for the party conference season.

Amazon fires: Big business is destroying the environment

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is battling massive forest fires. They are so extensive they can be seen from space.

The 'national unity' threat to Corbynism

A rising sense of panic is gripping the strategists of British capitalism as the 31 October Brexit deadline draws ever closer

General election looms... Capitalists in chaos: Fight for socialism

Despite the historic crisis for British capitalism represented by a looming Brexit with no reliable party to represent it, so far the chaotic Tory government farce has rumbled on.

Tory bribes don't hide destruction of NHS

In 2010 every Tory candidate in our county, Gloucestershire, received a donation from a hedge fund manager with interests in private healthcare, yet at the same time there was a Cameron-led election campaign pledging full support to the NHS.

Boot out Boris and all the Tory toffs - fight for socialist policies for the 99% not the 0.1%

What should be done when the Tories are in historic crisis?

Tories look in wrong place for climate solutions

Extreme heat caused misery for those stuck in blisteringly hot workplaces as well as thousands of stranded passengers, as our poorly funded infrastructure ground to a halt

Build a working-class movement to force an election

Johnson is keen to present himself as a representative of ordinary people - but his policy announcements are anti-worker through and through

Lib Dems: little bosses' party elects eager pro-austerity leader

Jo Swinson has eagerly put her hand up for austerity, privatisation, fracking, war and the bosses' European Union