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24 March 2021
Fighting sexual harassment and gender violence on campus
Given the appalling rates of sexual harassment and violence on university, college and school campuses, it is no surprise that young women and students have been at the forefront of recent protests and vigils called in response to the murder of Sarah Everard.
17 March 2021
Can the capitalist media prevent socialist change?
The first in an occasional series of socialist answers to the big questions.
17 March 2021
Violence against women - we will not be silenced
Defend the right to protest: Saturday 13 March. They came in their thousands, defying the undemocratic establishment ban on peaceful vigils. Women and men in towns and cities up and down the country were determined to remember Sarah Everard
16 March 2021
Justice for victims of gender violence
There was understandable outrage at the appalling scenes of police brutality against women peacefully taking part in the vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common.
13 March 2021
Oppose bans on vigils - Defend the right to protest
The high court upheld the Met police's ban on a vigil in memory of Sarah Everard
10 March 2021
The 'old normal' meant poverty for young people
The budget was another nail in the coffin for the prospects of young people. Pre-Covid Britain was nothing to write home about regarding youth unemployment.
10 March 2021
Trade unions must organise for strike action:
Staff are outraged. 1%, or an extra £3.50 a week for an experienced nurse, is not just a slap in the face for NHS workers, it's a pay cut compared to the cost of living.
10 March 2021
Super-deduction will help big business pay less tax
The Tories are introducing 'super-deduction' for the next two years before corporation tax marginally rises
10 March 2021
Workers respond to 'back to school'
A mockery of everything we've done: Schools opened on Monday 8 March, and we don't know if we are inhaling or exhaling. Here we go again - bubbles, disinfectant, and social distancing in tight spaces.
10 March 2021
Tories keep bailing out bosses, while piling pain on workers and public services
Reading the headlines about Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak's budget, some working-class people may have let out a small sigh of relief that at least the furlough scheme and the £20 increase in Universal Credit are continuing for a few more months
10 March 2021
NHS workers say: We are ready to fight Tory pay insult
I've struggled to comment on the insulting real-term pay cut proposed by the government. I'm not naive, during clap for carers, we said: "Claps don't pay the bills."
5 March 2021
Tories keep bailing out bosses, while piling the pain on workers and public services
Sunak's 2021 budget was a budget for the bosses. The working class has no alternative but to organise and fight back.
3 March 2021
Not a budget for the working class!
A social tsunami threatens Britain. Two million workers are already on the dole and five million more on furlough, facing an uncertain future when the scheme ends. But the Tories are intent on bailing out the rich.
3 March 2021
Working-class women have suffered enormously during the pandemic. We've been disproportionately hit by job losses, pay cuts, and the additional burden of home schooling and childcare.
3 March 2021
Public sector workers respond to the budget
"The financial outlook is volatile." This (under)statement, in Essex County Council's budget document for 2021, could be the strapline for the future of all local government services.
26 February 2021
Thirty five years ago Liverpool's council was leading a mass movement against Thatcher's Tory government.
24 February 2021
Johnson's 'road map' for schools: Act together to protect safety
- For a phased return based on infection rates not politicians' dates.
24 February 2021
Where's the road map to jobs and wages Boris?
Trade unions must fight for lives and livelihoods
Johnson's 'cautious' road map to reopen society from lockdown in England - after over 120,000 Covid deaths and a massive hit to incomes - won't lead to the needed restoration and improvement in living standards.
24 February 2021
Starmer's speech a return to New Labour
Keir Starmer's speech contained virtually no policy proposals. But it hammered home his message that the Corbyn era is over.
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