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Coronavirus crisis: Tests, full pay and funding - for all now

25 March The coronavirus crisis has exposed the complete inability of the capitalist market economy, based on profit and competition, to meet the needs of working-class people. More...

NEWS AND SOCIALIST ANALYSIS

25 March 2020

State intervention shows what is possible

The Tories cut - but now they spend. They privatised - but now they nationalise. More...

25 March 2020

Coronavirus plunges capitalism into global turmoil

A CWI statement on the new era of upheaval that has opened up and the need for socialism. More...

25 March 2020

We need tests for all now! Nationalise production and research

"Test, test, test" said the World Health Organisation. More...

25 March 2020

Union independence must be maintained - a reply to the TUC

There should be no blurring of class lines More...

19 March 2020

The new crisis and its consequences

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As global markets reel in the face of the developing coronavirus pandemic it is difficult to see how these events will not be the trigger for a new world capitalist economic downturn, with all its social and political consequences More...

More news and analysis...

REPORTS AND CAMPAIGNS

27/3/20 Coronavirus

The self-employed need 100% of their income, and now! The government has relented to pressure by bringing in a support scheme for the self-employed More...

25/3/20 Coronavirus

Construction site bosses put profits first Construction bosses have been telling workers to go to work despite the health risks More...

25/3/20 Coronavirus

Southampton: University workers win full pay for casual staff All three campus trade unions wrote to the vice-chancellor More...

24/3/20 Coronavirus

Protest against Facebook censorship A CWI video has been blocked on Facebook in an act of political censorship. More...

23/3/20 CWU

Corona crisis brings new issues into the postal dispute CWU members have - for the third time in two years - returned a massive yes vote for industrial action More...

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The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party

The Socialist newspaper, 25 March 2020, issue 1079

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The Socialist issue 1079

What we think

spot Coronavirus crisis: Tests, full pay and funding - for all now

spot State intervention shows what is possible

Coronavirus news

spot Coronavirus and domestic violence: a double threat to women's lives

spot Coronavirus news in brief

Coronavirus workplace news

spot We need tests for all now! Nationalise production and research

spot Retail and the coronavirus outbreak - organise to defend workers interests

spot Transport union RMT demands action for coronavirus tube safety

spot Organising in the workplace in the time of coronavirus

spot Union independence must be maintained - a reply to the Trade Union Congress

spot University workers win full pay for casual staff

spot Bosses not workers should pay for JCB shutdown

Social care

spot Social care: "Not good enough by miles"

Poll Tax

spot 30 years since the huge anti-poll tax demo... And how mass non-payment of the tax was built

Coronavirus organising

spot Coronavirus: What role could community support groups play?

spot Selling the Socialist

spot Like what we say, help us keep saying it - fund the Socialist

spot 'Meeting' to discuss socialist ideas - more vital than ever during the crisis

Readers' opinion

spot Going viral: Socialist letters and comments on the coronavirus crisis

The Socialist newspaper, 18 March 2020, issue 1078

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The Socialist issue 1078 - Coronavirus: workers must not pay the price

Workplace news and analysis

spot Stop Press: postal workers deliver massive strike vote and offer to become additional 'emergency service'

spot East London bin workers strike to get back unpaid holiday pay

spot Determined St Mungo's homelessness workers strike for three days

International socialist news and analysis

spot French local elections: CWI candidate elected

spot New pamphlet: constituent assemblies and the revolutionary programme

Socialist history

spot South Africa: 60 years marking the Sharpeville Massacre

spot Coronavirus: workers must not pay the price!

spot Capitalist crisis and corona: Johnson's budget for the bosses

spot Coronavirus - a workers charter 2020

spot Coronavirus: socialist planning, not capitalist chaos!

spot Coronavirus housing emergency - suspend rent and mortgage payments, seize empty homes

spot PCS union demands better deal for benefits claimants

spot Councils must break austerity rules

spot Action needed to protect shop workers and access to essential goods

spot Coronavirus hospital worker: amazing response from staff - but worst still to come

spot 'Health not profit' strike wave sweeps Italy

spot United States: private healthcare exposed as Trump throws money at markets

spot Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid

spot Coronavirus - waste processing employers putting us at risk

spot Bexley bin workers strike over lack of hand sanitiser

spot Going viral: socialist letters and comments on the coronavirus crisis

spot Under the microscope: socialist coronavirus news in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spot Help us fund the Socialist

spot Stop gentrification of Lea Bridge

spot Tory student plot defeated at Cardiff uni

spot Nottingham uni occupation ends

spot Socialist Students speaking tour

spot Selling the Socialist

Readers' opinion

spot TV: Noughts and Crosses

The Socialist newspaper, 11 March 2020, issue 1077

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The Socialist issue 1077

Coronavirus

spot Coronavirus: Full NHS funding now

spot Coronavirus infects the world economy

spot Flybe collapse: nationalise to save jobs threatened by Covid-19 and downturn

spot Coronavirus: international cooperation needed, not capitalist competition

spot Supermarkets are ruled by profit - unions should control supply limits

spot For full pay during isolation: for public health as well as workers' wallets

spot Self-isolation patients speak: NHS facilities and advice not up to it

spot Italy on lockdown: lack of resources and democracy causes panic

spot South Korea shows capitalism has money to respond to coronavirus

spot Coronavirus news in brief

News

spot Domestic Violence bill: We still need to fight to save our services

spot News in brief

Workplace news

spot Postal workers mobilise to win strike reballot

spot Homerton Hospital workers fight for sick pay

spot Fighting to transform the union in my warehouse

spot Argos workers in Sainsbury's stores threatened with losing collective bargaining

spot Homeless charity workers to strike against intransigent management

spot Southampton trade unionists say "defend the right to strike!"

spot Strong support for PCS Broad Left Network

spot East London uni and bin worker strikes

US election

spot How can Trump be ousted from the White House?

Campaigns and party news

spot Salford 'no-cuts' budget includes cuts and tax rises

spot Stoke council unions beat pay cuts - now let's stop all cuts

spot Is there an anti-cuts rebellion in Scotland?

spot Socialist Party joins International Women's Day protests

spot Housing workers explain reality to idiot Boris Johnson

spot Swansea: Ask anyone about state of services, you will hear the real story

spot Camarthenshire: Councillors' 'walk of shame'

spot Student occupation in support of striking workers

spot Selling the Socialist

spot Socialist Party executive committee positions

International news

spot Greece-Turkey border refugee crisis

Women's and trans rights

spot Women's rights, trans rights and the labour movement

Readers' opinion

spot Film: Greed directed by Michael Winterbottom

spot Childcare - costly, inadequate and hard work

spot Book: Why you should be a trade unionist by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 4 March 2020, issue 1076

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The Socialist issue 1076

Coronavirus

spot Covid-19: A socialist response to the Coronavirus crisis

International Women's Day 2020

spot International Women's Day: Fighting sexism and austerity

spot A legacy of women workers and the class struggle

Workplace news

spot Uni strikers determined to defeat the bosses

spot Defend the right to strike! Southampton solidarity meeting

spot Strike wave around London - this is why we need socialists in city hall

spot West London parking workers' strike

spot Charity workers' strike

spot Electricians pay victory

spot Anti-academy strikes kick off in Redbridge

Campaigns

spot Royal Glam A&E: Victory is within our grasp

spot What will we do if they cut Camden nurseries?

spot Labour councils miss opportunity to stop Tory cuts

spot 30,000 strike for the climate in Bristol

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party: I resent the 1% and the system that allows them to exist

spot Secret cuts meeting couldn't prevent protests in Newham

Socialist Party Congress

spot Socialist Party Congress 2020: A world in turmoil and weak British capitalism faces working-class anger

International news

spot India: Bloody pogrom fuelled by Modi's sectarianism

Readers' opinion

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 26 February 2020, issue 1075

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The Socialist issue 1075

News

spot Austerity kills

spot Average wages recover to pre-crisis levels - but we're still over a decade behind

spot Bezos gives $10bn for climate - nationalise the rest!

spot Weinstein found guilty

What we think

spot Immigration: For a system that meets the needs of the majority, not a rich elite

Universities strike

spot Solidarity with striking university staff

spot University workers' strike over pay, pensions and workload escalates

Council cuts

spot Coventry: A socialist councillor who will vote against cuts

spot Number of women killed by current or ex-partner rises

spot Leicester: We can't take any more cuts, any more misery, and we are fighting back

spot Students and workers out together on Budget Day, 11 March

spot Stop the council cuts

spot Council cuts could cost Labour another general election

Workplace news

spot Packed meeting of workplace militants, strikers, socialists and trade union leaders

spot All out to win Royal Mail strike reballot

spot PCS union relaunches pay campaign

spot Workers call on Interserve bosses to recognise union

spot Anti-academy strikes growing

International news

spot Germany: Right-wing terror attacks - fight racism, fight capitalism!

spot Northern Ireland's strike wave

The BBC

spot This is the BBC: fight the cuts - and the capitalist media

Campaigns

spot Congress 2020 appeal: Donate to help us renew vital resources

spot Housing cuts cost lives

spot Socialist sellers

Readers' opinion

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 19 February 2020, issue 1074

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The Socialist issue 1035: Cuts and climate change cause floods

spot Javid's departure foreshadows deeper Tory divisions

Socialist Party news and analysis

spot Cuts and climate change cause floods

spot 'Roses are red, violets are blue, BP and Shell - we're coming for you'

spot Socialist Students says democratise the climate strike movement

International socialist news and analysis

spot Coronavirus crisis shakes Chinese regime

spot Yemen's desperate civil war fuelled by imperialism and regional powers

Socialist history

spot Couldn't pay, wouldn't pay, didn't pay: the battle to defeat the poll tax

Workplace news and analysis

spot UCU: Striking to fight education cuts and marketisation

spot CWU: Build for a massive Yes vote in Royal Mail

spot Unite union executive council elections

spot Sixth-form strikers stand firm for increased funding

spot Peterborough food workers picket and protest

spot Hackney parking wardens strike for £15 an hour

spot East London anti-academy strikes escalate

spot Support Clive Walder

spot London bus rep dismissal update

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spot The Socialist: Ideas to change society

spot Keep the pressure on to save Royal Glam A&E

spot Stop Newham Labour's cuts and gentrification

spot Socialist sellers

spot Labour Party and trans rights

Readers' opinion

spot Brilliant Korean film exposes class inequality

The Socialist newspaper, 12 February 2020, issue 1073

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The Socialist issue 1073

News

spot Tackling climate change: Johnson emits huge quantities of hot air!

spot Windrush deportations: end the hostile environment

spot Streatham attack: Johnson's bill can't stop terror

spot What We Heard

NHS

spot NHS: Fight for full funding!

spot Unnecessary surgery scandal shows need for democratic control of NHS

spot NHS debt so high it can't be repaid - so don't pay it!

spot Callous Tory cuts to children's speech therapy in Nottinghamshire

Trade unions

spot Trade unions - new decade, new challenges

Workplace news

spot Big Unison south east regional meeting votes for anti-cuts position

spot PCS union: Uniting the left around a leadership that can win for members

spot Westex workers win increased pay offer in 11th week of strike

spot University strikers walk out for better pay and pensions

spot East London school strikes against academisation continue

spot Foreign Office workers' strike

spot Solidarity with Turkish workers

spot Lambeth Unison letter

spot London NSSN meeting

spot Solidarity with victimised bus rep Moe

spot Support Clive Walder

Cuts

spot How to resist tory attacks on local communities

spot Cuts councillors are the real problem

spot Council houses - not private property developers

International

spot Sinn Fein harnesses working-class anger to top poll

spot Lebanon - mass protests cut across sectarian division

Campaigns

spot Build independent workers' media with May Day greetings

spot Building a working-class movement for Tamil rights

spot Hackney: We don't want homes and retail units working-class people can't afford

spot 20 years of housing failure

spot Socialist Sellers

Universal Credit

spot New BBC series - Insight or whitewash?

spot Nottingham: death of vulnerable claimant

spot UC stopped without warning

The Socialist newspaper, 5 February 2020, issue 1072

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The Socialist issue 1072

News

spot 6.5 million working poor: Fight to end low pay

spot Labour leadership contest and public ownership

spot Coronavirus exposes capitalism's weaknesses in healthcare and economy

spot Record dissatisfaction with democracy: capitalism's dead end

spot Refuges turn away 64% of women - set no-cuts budgets now!

spot Grenfell watch: Unions challenge 'mockery of justice'

Rail

spot Nationalise the railways: For an integrated public transport system

spot Expensive, overcrowded and unreliable: Renationalise the railways!

spot Cancel the franchise, not our trains

spot Will the North get investment and transport infrastructure?

What we think

spot 'Post-Brexit' era of crisis ahead

Workplace news

spot Huge victory for Bromley library workers after 241 days on indefinite strike!

spot 14 more days of university strikes over pensions, pay and conditions

spot 500 BBC journalists' jobs under threat

spot Newham council tax workers' pay victory

spot No to academisation of east London schools!

spot Ealing tax office workers strike against closure

NHS

spot Outrageous waiting times will put lives at risk

spot NHS: Save stroke beds in Coventry and Warwickshire

International

spot Syria: Assad regime consolidates power after brutal counterrevolution

spot Israel/Palestine: Trump 'peace plan' promises further conflict

Campaigns

spot Socialist Party calls anti-austerity protest on Budget Day

spot Sadiq Khan "out-Tories" himself to defend tech firms' tax bonanza

spot Socialist Sellers

spot Reading Labour council: Stop privatising our leisure services

spot The rich fund the Tories and Blairites, so help fund the working-class fightback

spot Support the working-class press in 2020

spot Defend and fight for warm, safe housing for Samira and everyone

spot Alternative Burns Night success

Readers' opinion

spot Liverpool council: "No more cuts" - Is Joe Anderson serious?

spot Socialist Inbox

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