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The renewed relevance of Engels' classic Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

This short pamphlet by Friedrich Engels is, along with the Communist Manifesto, one of the best and most significant introductions to Marxism. It greatly adds to our understanding of the roots of socialism and the tasks of the working class to fundamentally change society.

Fully fund mental health services now

Stigma around mental health is decreasing, and that's definitely a good thing. But it's not nearly enough when services are being cut to the bone and most of us have been left without crucial lifelines.

Tory and Trump hypocrisy over murder of Saudi Arabian journalist

The disappearance and presumed death of US-based, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has provoked a worldwide reaction.

No to fat-cat top judges' £59k pay hike - fight for decent pay for criminal justice workers

The Senior Salaries Review Body recommends that salaries for High Court judges be increased by 32%, taking them from £181,500 to £240,000 a year. The establishment pay board says this is needed to recruit future judges.

Toxic fracking gets the go-ahead while protesters jailed

After seven years of an England-wide ban on fracking, high court judge Justice Supperstone has overturned a request for an injunction on the soon to be opened fracking site in Lancashire run by Cuadrilla.

Homeless driven from Windsor streets for royal wedding: abolish the monarchy and end homelessness now!

Quick, look rich - the royals are coming! Yet again the homeless of Windsor were moved on in preparation for another royal wedding on 12 October.

Socialism - the podcast of the Socialist Party

A weekly Marxist podcast analysing the big issues of the moment for politics and society.

Fight racism: fight for jobs, homes and services for all

Today, racism at work, racist attacks, racist immigration laws, deportations and police racism, are facts of life for millions of workers and young people

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. Brett Kavanaugh, wage depression, deaths

Tories' crisis conference - Corbyn must fight for general election

Dancing distractions, Brexit boos, Johnson leadership bids: The Tories are afraid. Of the Brexit negotiations, and of a general election

Workers' action wins Amazon pay rise

Nationalise Amazon! £10 an hour now! Collective workers' action has forced billionaire boss Jeff Bezos to concede pay rises - £9.50 an hour in the UK and $15 in the US

Workers in UK do £1.2trn of unpaid housework and care

People in the UK do unpaid domestic labour equivalent to almost half of GDP - and the growing burden still falls mainly on women

Super-rich flee to Monaco to evade Corbyn

Britain's very wealthiest are already moving their trusts and setting up more offshore accounts in tax havens

12 years to halt irreversible climate disaster. Capitalism's time is up

Real and immediate horrors face humanity even if the world limits global warming to the current target of 2°C.

Fight the right - fight for socialism

After ten years of capitalist crisis, socialist ideas are making a comeback.

Tory Brexit Blues festival

The Tories are planning a 'Festival of Brexit Britain' in 2022

Maximus profitus: disabillity profiteering scandal

While extracting huge profit from disabled-worker employer Remploy, Maximus made a further 100 employees redundant

NHS pay discrimination - militant union action can achieve fair pay for all

The recent report on the pay gap between black and white NHS medical workers also highlighted the appalling disparity when it came to pay across all NHS occupational groups

Zombie Tory government: general election now

Tory conference was a picture of a party in crisis. Rows and rows of empty seats highlighted the dire state of what was once the most successful capitalist party in the world

Labour conference shows: Blairites must be ousted

If the popular policies put forward at Labour Party conference are to be enacted, it will entail struggle