News and socialist analysis

PCS conference 2018: building on the union's militant record

An interview with Socialist Party member Chris Baugh - three times elected PCS assistant general secretary - who will again be seeking the support of Left Unity to be its candidate in next year's election.

Breast cancer screening scandal

Tory ministers seldom apologise. Women over 70 - the most likely to die of breast cancer - are still not routinely screened, just as young women are not screened for cervical cancer.

Use TUC march as launch pad for action on pay

National strike action is possible if the unions build a real fighting campaign for it.

Local election results are a major warning sign for Labour

The task of removing the Blairites and transforming Labour into a democratic, mass working class socialist party is overdue and now posed extremely urgently.

Reject the mega-supermarket merger: nationalise to save jobs

Workers in Sainsbury's and Asda were shocked to hear on Saturday 28 April that their employers were at an advanced level of merger talks, confirmed as a deal agreed on the morning of 30 April.

Young people trapped in private rental

Housing costs force workers out of London: It's a tough time to be a young person in Britain. Almost two-fifths of Millennials, young people born by 2000, rent privately at 30

Labour members' fury at expulsion of anti-racist activist Marc Wadsworth

Marc Wadsworth has been expelled, after 22 months suspended on charges of bringing the Labour Party into disrepute.

Windrush: Whitehall demo shames Tories and Blairites

Vote TUSC to fight racism, cuts and privatisation: Hundreds of people marched in Brixton when the Windrush scandal broke, and then an important protest took place in central London on 28 April, called not by any organisation but by individuals who see the need to fight

100k more zero-hour contracts in just a year

Strike to win secure work!: The number of zero-hour contracts in Britain rose by 100,000 in just a year

Lib Dems backed benefit sanctions to win 5p carrier bag charge

A Lib Dem wonk has claimed credit for the plastic bag charge - saying all it took was agreeing more attacks on welfare

Rudd resigns; May and Tories must go

Amber Rudd made an "inadvertent" mistake. That was the ludicrous claim made in her resignation letter.

May Day Greetings

The Socialist Party sends May Day greetings to all its members and supporters and to workers across the trade union and labour movements in Britain and internationally.

RMT Labour Party affiliation debate - where do socialists stand?

Dialogue with the Labour Party is welcome, but it must be honest. Unfortunately, many of the replies to the RMT's questions dress up the reality of the position, and are sometimes completely misleading

Windrush scandal: Tories and Blairites must go

Windrush workers who became pillars of public services now find themselves denied access to the NHS, sacked from jobs they've held for a lifetime, detained for undefined periods, and some even deported

Tories out!

Vote against austerity, privatisation and racism: vote TUSC! Act against the Blairite saboteurs! For eight years Tory-led governments have tried to create a 'hostile environment' for all working class people

Enoch Powell's racist 'Rivers of Blood' rant 50 years on

Tory MP Enoch Powell made his infamous 'Rivers of Blood' racist rant 50 years ago - we say the struggle against racism must also be the struggle for socialism

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another for the rest of us. World's first billionaire; banker frets about Marx; paupers' funerals; fake apprenticeships

Billions for the bosses, benefit cuts for us

Capitalist wealth distribution is now at its most unequal and set to widen further

1,400 beds empty as patients lay in corridors: health unions must act now

1,429 beds are now in 82 'ghost wards' - unusable despite overcrowding in hospitals over the winter crisis

Young people need homes

Vote TUSC to fight youth homelessness and the housing crisis:
Youth homelessness is on the rise - the housing crisis and delays in benefit payments are major factors