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Boris's new big deal

Boris Johnson has attempted to grab the headlines by bigging up his government's £5 billion post-pandemic spending programme on schools, hospitals and infrastructure.

Benefits system being used to force return to unsafe workplaces

As previously reported in the Socialist, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which oversees the payment of unemployment benefit to millions, had previously eased the requirements for claiming Universal Credit

A new movement for system change

Assessing the new upsurge in the #Black Lives Matter movement, Hannah Sell argues that fighting racism does mean a fight to replace capitalism with a new society, socialism.

Act now to cancel Covid crisis rents and debt

Private sector rents in England hit a record high as the country headed into lockdown

Victory for Royal Glamorgan A&E!

A 24-hour A&E department is to be retained at Royal Glamorgan Hospital

Lifting the lockdown: workers must not pay the price

Who pulled society through the lockdown? The working class. Who suffered most from the lockdown? The working class. Who will pay the price as the lockdown eases? ...

Young people fighting back: Jobs and homes, not racism

What is the Socialist Party fighting for to improve things for young people?

International aid: Johnson's pie in the sky

Boris Johnson has announced the merging of the Department for International Development into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Over 30% of children living in poverty

Even before the pandemic, austerity policies had pushed an increasing number of families into poverty

Them & us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us: update on the lockdown economy

News in brief

Cladding off now; failure app; Labour untogether; shopping scandal

Fight back to stop Tories scrapping protections for children in care

The Tories have been using Covid-19 to attack safeguarding procedures in our frontline services

Towards an anti-racist school curriculum

The Black Lives Matter movement has quite correctly posed the question of black history in our schools and public life

Tories sinking in Wales but no enthusiasm for Welsh Labour

Mark Drakeford's Welsh Labour government has made much of the "four nations approach" to tackling the Covid-19 crisis, claiming to plot a different course to the Tory Westminster government

Reading workers' movement responds to knife attack

A horrific knife attack took place in Forbury Gardens in Reading on 20 June, killing three people, reportedly LGBT+, and injuring others

Which way forward for Black Lives Matter protests?

Boris Johnson's announcement of yet another review will give no confidence to protesters that their struggle is no longer needed.

Contact tracing fiasco: You can't believe a word the government tells us

Oppose racist symbols and the racist system

Cheers filled the air as the statue of slave-trader Colston in Bristol was pulled down

Scotland and coronavirus - a catalogue of government failure

The devastating impact of coronavirus in Scotland was underlined on 11 June when National Records of Scotland reported that 4,000 people had so far died from confirmed or suspected Covid-19.

Capitalism = inequality. Fight for socialism!

So Boris Johnson is going to set up yet another inquiry into racism and inequality. That's the last thing we need! It will end up in the bin along with all the others that have gone before it.