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THE SOCIALIST PARTY SAYS

Super-rich get richer, while we can't make ends meet. Join the fightback!

12 January The richest 1% of households were getting richer even before the pandemic, taking their average wealth to £3.66 million. The wealth gap has widened further since. More...

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Socialist Party members joined the picket lines of striking bin workers in Coventry fighting for better pay. January 2022

NEWS AND SOCIALIST ANALYSIS

12 January 2022

Energy price crisis: nationalise energy giants to save us from £600 hit

The energy price cap is expected to increase by over 50% More...

12 January 2022

Kazakhstan: Working-class revolt only suppressed by massive mobilisation of troops

Kazakh state forces, backed by Russian paratroops, are enforcing a military grip in Almaty More...

12 January 2022

Blow to establishment as jury backs Colston Four

There were jubilant scenes outside Bristol Crown Court as the four were cleared More...

6 January 2022

TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections

Fighting trade unionists, socialists, and working-class community campaigners can offer an anti-austerity alternative at the ballot box More...

More news and analysis...

REPORTS AND CAMPAIGNS

12/1/22 NHS

Low pay, stress and Covid drive: NHS staff crisis Over 20 NHS trusts have declared critical incidents amidst staff shortages. More...

12/1/22 London

10,000 tube workers vote to strike over jobs, terms and pension cuts London Underground bosses refused to give assurances on jobs, pensions and working conditions. More...

12/1/22 Education

Covid, stress and cutbacks fuel school staff shortages Covid is running rampant and unchecked through many schools More...

12/1/22 Leeds

People's Budget: We beat council cuts before, we will again Leeds Labour council is preparing to pass on another round of Tory austerity. More...

12/1/22 Hillsborough

Anne: Hillsborough and the fight for justice Kevin Sampson's short TV series portrays the crusade for justice by the family of one of the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster's victims More...

More reports and campaigns...

The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party

The Socialist newspaper, 12 January 2022, issue 1162

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The Socialist issue 1162

News

spot Super-rich get richer, while we can't make ends meet. Join the fightback!

spot Blow to establishment as jury backs Colston Four

spot Covid, stress and cutbacks fuel school staff shortages

spot Tories concede under cladding pressure but don't go far enough

spot Low pay, stress and Covid drive: NHS staff crisis

spot Shameless Johnson partied through lockdown

spot Energy price crisis: nationalise energy giants to save us from '£600 hit

spot Energy bosses: 'Jump, cuddle and eat porridge while we raise prices'

Kazakhstan

spot Kazakhstan: Working-class revolt only suppressed by massive mobilisation of troops

spot Solidarity with workers protesting in Kazakhstan

Campaigns news

spot Protests against BBC transphobia

spot Leeds People's Budget: We beat council cuts before, we will again

spot Communities fight back against Rio Tinto mine

spot North London NHS - "It's going to be us who saves it"

spot Southampton student vote for online exams must be accepted

Workplace news

spot Coventry bin workers' pay strike

spot 10,000 tube workers vote to strike over jobs, terms and pension cuts

spot East Mids rail conductors force concessions, train managers' dispute continues

spot Carmarthenshire gritters take action as Plaid-led council reneges on agreement

spot Jobcentre Coronavirus outbreak leads to reps meeting call

spot South Yorkshire bus strikes spreading and getting stronger

spot Weetabix workers defeat 'fire and rehire' and ballot on improved pay offer

spot Invergordon Royal Mail mutiny wins

Reviews

spot Don't Look Up: An entertaining satire on corporate power and the US establishment

spot Anne: Hillsborough and the fight for justice

spot Money Heist: A Robin Hood tale set in modern-day capitalism

Readers' opinion

spot War criminal Tony Blair knighted

spot Bullying weighing room culture at the races

spot Free prescriptions? Maybe when you're older

Obituaries

spot Obituary - Pauline Wall

spot Obituary - Ethan Bradley 1993-2021

The Socialist newspaper, 6 January 2022, issue 1161

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The Socialist issue 1161

News

spot Tories' cost of living squeeze - build the workers' fightback

spot NHS Covid staff crisis

spot Blair knighted for services to the rich and powerful

spot Tory test shortage failure

spot More fares misery for passengers - renationalise the railways

spot Schools: union action needed for Covid safety

Capitalism in crisis

spot Britain in 2022: Build a coordinated working-class fightback

Workplace news

spot Strike threat forces Tesco to improve pay offer

spot West Mids metalworkers strike over pay

spot Sheffield JustEat couriers escalate dispute

spot Scunny scaffs enter twelfth week of strike action

spot S. Yorks Stagecoach workers start indefinite strike

spot Invergordon posties mutiny

International news

spot Chile's working class delivers a landslide vote against ultra-right Kast

Socialist history

spot New unionism - when mass workers' action changed Britain

Local elections

spot TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections

Campaigns news

spot Coventry: Private profits from hospital parking

spot Fighting Fund - 162% of target, £162,000 raised

spot Trinity Centre: Shameful eviction by Newham council

Obituary

spot Obituary: Kate Jones - 1953-2021

The Socialist newspaper, 15 December 2021, issue 1160

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Issue 1160 frontpage

spot Tory cuts and privatisation leave NHS in crisis

spot Unions must fight for Covid workplace safety

spot Councils to make workers pay, again

spot Assange faces extradition

spot Global inequality grows

spot Split Tories and spineless Starmer

End of the USSR

spot The legacy of the collapse of Stalinism

spot Stonewall attacked by the establishment

spot Sharon Graham: 100 days as Unite general secretary - the challenges ahead

spot Fighting union leadership needed to win NHS pay rise

spot Support tube workers fighting back

spot South Wales Stagecoach victory

spot Yorkshire Stagecoach strikers confidence growing

spot Welcome support for striking Scunthorpe scaffolders

spot Guards fight for their grades on CrossCountry rail

spot London colleges victory

spot Coventry bin workers strike against Christmas holiday cut

spot Sheffield couriers escalate and spread action

spot Uni support staff strike ballot

spot Tesco strike action latest

spot Barts health workers to strike for a pay rise

spot Worksop Wincanton depot strike builds

International news

spot Sudan: End military rule and poverty

spot Nana's eviction: Community vs heartless Labour council

spot London solidarity protest: Rio Tinto out of Serbia

spot Save St Mary's Leisure Centre in Southampton

spot Why we joined the Socialist Party

spot Selling the Socialist - Waltham Cross and Boscombe

spot Posters, car boot and socialist guided tour - some ideas to raise funds

Readers' opinion

spot TV review: Vaccine Wars: The Truth About Pfizer

spot Christmas quiz of 2021

The Socialist newspaper, 8 December 2021, issue 1159

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The Socialist issue 1159

News

spot Unite to fight for pay and NHS we deserve

spot Government social care plans: Where is the money?

spot Uni staff and students must unite to end marketisation and for free education

spot Covid news in brief

What we think

spot Workers' politics needed to exploit Tory scandal and splits

People's Budgets

spot Building People's Budgets: An alternative to Tory and Labour cuts

International news

spot Chile presidential election - stop the far-right candidate

spot Unprecedented floods in British Columbia

spot Wider working-class and union struggle needed to win St Vincent nurses' strike

spot Defending abortion rights in the US

Workplace news

spot Universities strike - build the action and stand united to win

spot Thousands of Tesco warehouse workers to strike

spot Sandwell bin workers beat Serco and win pay rise

spot Panasonic workers break company pay freeze

spot Clarks strikers defeat 'fire and rehire'

spot Organise to win the NEU's 8% pay demand

spot Yorkshire Stagecoach bus workers' week-long strike

spot Worksop Wincanton logistics workers on strike

spot Newham Sixth Form College begins strike against academisation

spot Sheffield Just East couriers picket and march for pay rise

spot Napo ballots for trade dispute

Campaigns news

spot Affordable housing for all

spot Challenge cutters and evictors in Waltham Forest Council

spot Remembering Tony Davison

spot Fighting Fund: Help us reach over £50,000

spot Defying unjust laws - a rich history of struggle

spot Mail attacks tube strikers by stealing socialist's image

Review

spot Film review: The Harder They Fall

The Socialist newspaper, 1 December 2021, issue 1158

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Issue 1138

spot NHS Critical

spot Covid-19: New variant emerges but same old capitalist disease

spot 27 dead in channel migrant tragedy

spot Bulb bailed out, nationalise energy to solve price crisis

spot Khan threatens further London transport cuts

spot Kickstart scheme 'insufficient and flawed'

spot Tories strengthen repressive laws

spot After COP26: where next for the climate movement?

spot Argentine elections see deepening polarisation

spot Wales: The Labour-Plaid Cymru agreement - jam tomorrow, maybe

spot Behind the rural idyll - the problems of everyday life

spot NHS workers - vote yes for action to win a decent pay rise

spot Staff and students unite against university bosses' attacks

spot UCU higher education disputes

spot Education unions lead campaign against Leicester academisation

spot RMT strikes against abolition of night tube train operators

spot South Yorkshire Stagecoach drivers strike against measly 1% pay offer

spot Nottingham and Mansfield trade unions rally against cuts and for better pay

spot Oaks Park school strike ends following forced concessions

spot East London mass non-payment wins housing victory

spot Marching to stop violence against women

spot Housing campaigners protest CEO champagners

spot Building a political alternative to Tory and Labour cuts

spot Stop the cuts to Uni arts funding

spot Plymouth: Hundreds attend vigil for Bobbi-Anne McLeod

spot Socialism 2021: How we reached our fighting fund appeal target

spot End fuel poverty

Readers' opinion

spot TV review: Valley of the Tears

The Socialist newspaper, 24 November 2021, issue 1157

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The Socialist issue 1157

News

spot Workers' action can defeat weak and divided Tories

spot Working class strangled by price rises and pay cuts

spot Poorer pensioners fleeced by social care cap

spot Tories hammer nail in pensions triple lock coffin

spot HS2 eastern route cancelled: Fight for a workers' plan for public transport

spot Cricket's history of racism and elitism

NHS

spot Midwives march against unsafe staffing and for adequate funding

spot Tories responsible for NHS staff shortages

Violence against women

spot End sexism and violence against women

Socialism 2021

spot Socialism 2021: A steely determination to change society

spot What did you think of Socialism 2021?

Workplace news

spot Support uni workers' walk-out on pay and pensions

spot RMT to strike in London night-tube dispute

spot Panasonic workers strike against pay freeze

spot Tesco warehouse workers ballot for strike action

spot Sage care home workers' pay victory

International news

spot Historic victory of India's farmers

spot Sudan: "Hamdok has sold the revolution!"

spot USA: Right-wing vigilante Rittenhouse acquitted - capitalist courts will not defend the working class!

Working class history

spot Chartism: The world's first working-class movement

spot The struggle for accessible workplaces and an inclusive society

Obituary

spot Obituary: Ted Austin (1940-2021) - working-class socialist stalwart

Campaigns

spot Victory! Hackney children's centres saved!

spot West Sussex: Payouts for council bosses, cuts for us

spot Newham: Durning Hall - another shameful act of Labour gentrification

spot Slough: Adult service cuts will leave vulnerable homeless

spot Northampton: Phoney consultation to mask cuts

spot Selling the Socialist

The Socialist newspaper, 17 November 2021, issue 1156

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Issue 1156 frontpage

spot Cuts drag NHS to brink

spot NHS workers must take action now to save our NHS

spot Outsourced Barts health workers in strike ballot for a pay rise

spot Health and care staff shortages worsened by Tory vaccine sacking threat

spot Fund the fight for socialism

spot London MPs' second home swindle while workers and students struggle

spot Tory sleaze scandal continues, an ex-workers' MP responds

spot University bosses' pay piles up while workers are forced to strike

spot Youth fight for well-paid green jobs and socialist change

spot Sunak's climate finance agenda typifies capitalism's COP26 failure

spot China: Bureaucracy grapples with new crises

spot Ten years on - where has Podemos's radicalism gone?

spot Belarus refugees - caught between a rock and a hard place

spot S Wales Stagecoach bus drivers win £10.50 an hour

spot DVLA ballot turnout falls short of threshold

spot Striking Scunthorpe steel scaffs up the ante

spot Leeds cab drivers protest against taxi rank move

spot Fresh strikes on East Midlands Railway

spot An appeal to trade union members to stand as anti-cuts candidates

spot Clarks workers fight 'fire-and-rehire' pay cut

spot London couriers take action

spot St Mungo's report fails to address bullying and victimisation of workers

spot Resisting evictions in east London

spot Leeds solidarity protest says stop Sudan coup

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party

spot Why am I coming to Socialism 2021?

spot Birmingham People's Budget

Readers' opinion

spot Readers' opinion

The Socialist newspaper, 10 November 2021, issue 1155

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The Socialist issue 1155

COP26

spot Capitalism's COP26 failure: socialist planning vital

spot Thousands march in Glasgow and elsewhere to save the planet

Housing

spot Socialist planning to meet housing need

spot 75 years after the first new town

News

spot Fight together for a pay rise

spot Council workers ballot on pay offer that's really a cut

spot School staff need a pay rise

spot Harsh Tory regime for benefit claimants and workers

spot Tories under pressure in bid to remove pension triple lock

What we think

spot Sleaze and pay a toxic mix for Tories

Socialism 2021

spot Why I'm coming to Socialism 2021

Workplace news

spot CWU conference debates political strategy

spot RMT AGM: Delegates focus on the looming battles

spot University workers vote for action in two disputes

spot Sheffield bin workers strike: "End rubbish pay!"

spot Support for all-out scaffs strike spreads

spot Weetabix workers escalate action in crunch dispute

International news

spot Portugal's government falls: Left must adopt a new course

Review

spot John Barnes on class and capitalism. What's missing?

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Genuine communism: see Marxism, What is it?

Historical materialism

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Lenin: On Marxism

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