Archive for June 2021
2 June 2021
Save jobs, save livelihoods, save GKN Automotive - nationalise the plant!
On 28 January, not even a full month into 2021, over 500 GKN Automotive key workers based at the company's Erdington plant received the devastating news that their jobs and livelihoods are to be axed
2 June 2021
Around 1,300 staff at the University of Liverpool began three weeks of strike action on 24 May, in a fight over cuts to jobs in the faculty of health and life sciences, said the University and College Union
2 June 2021
University funding reform: Fight for free, fully funded education for all
Tories plan to attack university arts funding: University students and staff across the country have been left outraged at the Office for Students' proposed cuts to university teaching grants as part of the government's 'reprioritisation' strategy for universities.
2 June 2021
Stop Israeli state terror: solidarity protests continue
After people showed support for the Socialist Party demands on our campaign stall against Israeli state terror, we left some of our posters up so the message would remain visible
2 June 2021
Protests against anti-protest bill
The Socialist Party joined protests against the Tories' new police bill, which will curtail the right to protest if passed.
2 June 2021
Pimlico Academy protest demands elected governors
Parents at Pimlico Academy have picked up the fight against racism after students protested last term
2 June 2021
Colombia: General strikes continue
For over one month, Colombia's workers and poor have taken to the streets against the repressive capitalist government of President Ivan Duque
2 June 2021
Belarus: Lukashenko's desperate attempt to silence opposition
Dramatic recent events saw a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania forced to land in Belarus. The military operation has been described as an unprecedented 'hijacking', and has seen European Union
2 June 2021
The day of protest on 3 July - the anniversary of the foundation of the NHS - should be the launch of a fight on pay and to save our NHS. Let's build the protests around the country and demand a real fight from trade union leaders.
2 June 2021
During more than thirty years of campaigning, the families of the 96 killed at Hillsborough and the Hillsborough Justice Campaign uncovered the truth: that 96 football fans were unlawfully killed
2 June 2021
Unite general secretary campaign: Statement from Sharon Graham
The nomination stage of the Unite the Union general secretary election campaign ends on 7 June. The Socialist Party invited the two left candidates, Sharon Graham and Howard Beckett, to outline why they are standing
2 June 2021
Unite general secretary campaign: Statement from Howard Beckett
The nomination stage of the Unite the Union general secretary election campaign ends on 7 June. The Socialist Party invited the two left candidates, Sharon Graham and Howard Beckett, to outline why they standing
2 June 2021
Unite general secretary campaign: Left candidates speak to the Socialist
The two left candidates outline why they are standing
2 June 2021
Cladding danger: Protest 5 June!
The tragic Grenfell Tower fire is approaching its fourth anniversary
2 June 2021
York students demand democratic control of schools
On Wednesday 26 May, York Young Socialists organised a 30-strong protest campaigning for reformation of the school system
2 June 2021
Its workers, not Cummings, who can expose them.
Read what was written in the Socialist, when responding to the crisis during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
2 June 2021
Will Biden's 'green' agenda avert an impending climate change catastrophe?
The US president announced that the US would re-join the Paris agreement on climate change, among other measures
2 June 2021
Raising Fighting Fund in Southern region
Given we spent most of the last year in lockdown, our election campaign was magnificent. The Socialist Party produced hundreds of thousands of leaflets, thousands of posters and dozens of banners.
8 June 2021
'Let's fight to win on NHS pay and funding'
Local protests and demonstrations are being organised on the NHS's birthday, 3 July
9 June 2021
G7 tax deal won't challenge corporate power
Ahead of the G7 summit, the media brought news of a 'historic' plan to impose a global minimum tax rate on large companies
9 June 2021
Dea-John Reid murder: Jobs, homes and services, not racism
14 year-old Dea-John Reid was tragically murdered on the streets of Kingstanding, Birmingham, on the evening of 31 May.
9 June 2021
We're building for 3 July NHS protests
Waltham Forest: Burnt out but fighting back: Burnout among NHS workers - evident before the pandemic and greatly exacerbated during it - underlines the urgency for the national leaderships of the health unions to link up a coordinated response, including strike action
9 June 2021
Goodlord striker speaks out: How we unionised and fought the bosses
A section of workers at property services company Goodlord have been on indefinite strike since 22 February, and were sacked by the company on 19 May
9 June 2021
Revolt against 'social partnership' at Wales Trades Union Congress 2021
Trades councils again played an important role pushing a fighting agenda forward at the Wales Trades Union Congress (TUC)
9 June 2021
Douwe Egberts workers strike against pay cuts of up to £12,000 a year
Socialist Party members witnessed an incredible atmosphere of solidarity visiting the Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) factory picket line in Banbury on 5 June
9 June 2021
London workers prepare to fight Khan's transport cuts
The Tory government and Transport for London (TfL) have reached a new agreement to implement more savage cuts to the jobs, pay, and terms and conditions of TfL workers, in return for a further £1.08 billion bailout
9 June 2021
The 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilders occupation and work-in
Lessons from history: In June 1971, the privately owned shipyards of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders collapsed into receivership. But instead of accepting redundancy, the large workforce occupied the affected sites and began its famous
9 June 2021
Woolwich Ferry workers are walking out over a victimised rep. The Woolwich Ferry, is now run by Transport for London (TfL). The workers have taken seven days action in May and June, with the final date
9 June 2021
Post-Brexit trade deals: Workers' mobilisation needed to stop corporate extortion
Since the UK's departure from the European Union, the Tory government has come under pressure from its backers in big business to establish trade agreements with as many countries as possible
9 June 2021
As the G7 summit arrives in Cornwall, it's been found that the group of seven rich capitalist nations has bailed out highly polluting aviation and car industries to the tune of $115 billion.
9 June 2021
New book - coming soon: The Struggle for World Socialism
Thousands of people, especially the young, have taken to the streets across the world in opposition to the naked greed by the ruling elite, and growing impoverishment of the mass of people
9 June 2021
Hundreds march to scrap Silvertown Tunnel project
Chanting 'Hey mayor, we want clean air' and 'Stop the tunnel now', several hundred people marched through Canning Town, in Newham east London, on 5 June, calling for the Silvertown Tunnel project to be scrapped.
9 June 2021
Shame on Clarion - another exploitative landlord
East London Socialist Party and the Social Housing Action Campaign (Shac) attended a London Renters Union demo outside Clarion Housing in London Bridge on 1 June.
9 June 2021
TV review: Mrs Thatcher vs the miners
History as written by the bosses: 'Mrs Thatcher vs The Miners, the Battle for Britain', a documentary recently screened on Channel 5, is a transparent attempt by the bosses to rewrite history
9 June 2021
For the last ten years, the number of people who work, yet are still considered to live in relative poverty has been steadily climbing as working people's wages fail to keep pace with the soaring cost of living
9 June 2021
Palestinian self-determination - is the solution one state or two?
This is the second in a series of articles on Israel-Palestine following last month's brutal war on Gaza by the Israeli regime
9 June 2021
G7 Can't solve poverty, Covid and climate change - join the struggle for Socialism
A lot has happened since the G7, a group of rich capitalist nations including the UK and US, last met in summer 2019
9 June 2021
Tory splits and infighting growing
As society moves out of lockdown, all the pent-up political and economic processes that have accumulated over the last 15 months are starting to be unleashed.
9 June 2021
"Rights are won not given" - London refugee wins housing debt campaign
Lawanya Ramajeyam, an asylum seeker, was unable to make rent on her room
9 June 2021
If unions give a lead, workers are fully prepared to fight and win victories
A year ago, the trade union leaderships collapsed into national unity with the Tory government and the employers.
9 June 2021
Left candidate needed for Unite general secretary election
The nomination period for the Unite general secretary election has closed with all four candidates gaining enough branch nominations
9 June 2021
Fight for a socialist leadership in PCS, build a fighting, democratic union!
PCS annual conference convenes on 13 June
9 June 2021
Fight for the funding our schools and colleges need
The Treasury refused to foot the bill that Kevan Collins deemed necessary
9 June 2021
Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis
Cladding safety: Protests demand developers and government pay
Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis
11 June 2021
Right lose control in national executive council election
The election results have been announced for the executive of Unison
15 June 2021
Response to Observer article on China
Peter Taaffe, an executive committee member of the Socialist Party and its former general secretary, wrote the following letter to the Observer on 7 June 2021
16 June 2021
Make vaccine technology public, nationalise big-pharma
G7 vaccine promises fall short: G7 leaders have pledged to donate 1 billion doses of coronavirus vaccine to poorer countries by the end of 2022. Boris Johnson's Tory government, for its part, has pledged 100 million doses.
16 June 2021
Majority of BFAWU members vote to break from Labour
53% of members of the BFAWU bakers' union believe that the union should no longer be affiliated to Labour. Just 7% strongly believe that Labour still represents them.
16 June 2021
Now is the time to fight for the NHS
I first became aware of a problem with our healthcare provision, and the appalling treatment of our NHS workforce, when our 120 year-old hospital was suddenly closed here in Dartmouth in 2017
16 June 2021
Save Leicester General Hospital
Leicestershire NHS bosses have made the decision to close Leicester General Hospital, one of the three main acute hospitals in Leicester, selling off most of the land, and also St Mary's Maternity unit in Melton Mowbray
16 June 2021
Schools need resources to tackle 'routine' sexual harassment
As a student support worker in a secondary school, when I read the reports that Ofsted has found that sexual harassment and abuse is "routine" for school students, I was disgusted, but not surprised.
16 June 2021
Neonatal leave introduced: Unions must fight for extensions and full pay
The birth of any child is an intense and stressful time for most parents, and that applies even more if babies are born prematurely
16 June 2021
Leicester University workers strike against redundancies
UCU staff have been in dispute with their employer for months over compulsory redundancies and academic freedom
16 June 2021
Redbridge school walkout over victimised union rep
Teachers and support staff working at Oaks Park High School in Redbridge have walked out in defence of their union rep who has been sacked and three other workers (including a pregnant woman) who have been told they will not have jobs in September
16 June 2021
Will Biden's new foreign policy change the direction of US imperialism?
Biden's first international meetings and visit to Europe as US president were certainly different from Trump's visits, but how much in substance has really changed?
16 June 2021
Tamil Solidarity asylum victory
Sri Lanka: Political campaigning now grounds for asylum: In a recent landmark ruling, the Upper Tribunal - responsible for judicial reviews of Home Office decisions - has proposed new 'country guidance' used for determining asylum cases of refugees from Sri Lanka
16 June 2021
Beth Roper inquest: Train company failures ignored
Two years and six months ago we tragically lost a brilliant comrade and a wonderful friend, Socialist Party member Bethan Roper
16 June 2021
International solidarity protests
Leeds 'greets' G7: A socially distanced protest calling for global justice, aimed at the G7 meeting in Cornwall, took an unexpected turn on 11 June
16 June 2021
Queues at Socialist Party stall in Cov
The Socialist Party is out campaigning against parking charges at University Hospital Coventry, while promoting the NHS protest on 3 July. We have had a fantastic response from the community.
16 June 2021
Books that inspired me: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
"A scathing, humorous and urgent call to arms in the fight for socialism": 'The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists' by Robert Tressell, published in 1914, portrays with compassion the plight of the working class in the early 1900s
16 June 2021
A truly capitalist donation: The G7's pledge to donate 1 billion vaccine doses isn't as generous as the media is painting it. Truthfully, it makes me sick. The G7 countries have been actively blocking efforts to suspend vaccine
16 June 2021
Who represents the Palestinians?
The eleven-day Israeli air bombardment of the Gaza Strip and retaliatory Hamas rockets fired into Israel, ended with a shaky ceasefire and both sides claiming victory
16 June 2021
Birmingham Clean Air Zone a tax on the poor
We need affordable, publicly owned public transport: In Birmingham a new tax has been forced on the city that will hit the poorest hardest, takes no account of income or ability to pay, and which is causing growing anger among the community
16 June 2021
We may all say things we don't mean when we want to impress our peers in a sun-drenched luxury hotel in Cornwall.
16 June 2021
The so-called eviction ban ended at the end of May. But a legal ban on evictions, even when enforced, did not prevent tens of thousands becoming homeless during the pandemic. Over 130,000 households in
16 June 2021
The Cumberlege review last year was just one example of the devastating impact of the 'gender health gap'
16 June 2021
Socialist Party to the fore at Unison LG conference
At the conference on 13 June, our region had two motions on the agenda, which I moved.
16 June 2021
We held a very enthusiastic national online meeting for Socialist Party finance organisers on 13 June, with 50 members taking part
16 June 2021
Left candidate needed for Unite general secretary election
The nomination period for the Unite general secretary election has closed. All four candidates - Steve Turner, Sharon Graham, Howard Beckett and Gerard Coyne - have gained enough branch nominations to
16 June 2021
Enfield byelection: We need councillors prepared to resist
Vote TUSC in Bush Hill Park on 1 July: North London Socialist Party member John Dolan is standing in the by-election in Bush Hill Park in Enfield on 1 July. John is the candidate for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC).
16 June 2021
Underpaid, overworked - NHS workers say: 'Enough is enough'
NHS staff have been on the Covid front line since last March. "As workers, we need to make our voices heard".
16 June 2021
Rank-and-file construction electricians have yet again defeated the deskilling agenda of the big contractors.
16 June 2021
Conference 2021: Divide between union leaders and rank-and-file exposed
The PCS 2021 conference lasted just two days
16 June 2021
Engineers in fourth week of strike action
Management at Brush Electrical Machines is attacking pay, terms and conditions
18 June 2021
Unite general secretary contest: Vote for Sharon Graham
The fighting programme that is much needed can win this election.
22 June 2021
Protesting in Enfield, London, in support of electricians sacked by contractor SIS Systems at Amazon's warehouse under construction at Follingsby Park, Gateshead. 21.6.21
Protesting in Enfield, London, in support of electricians sacked by contractor SIS Systems at Amazon's warehouse under construction at Follingsby Park, Gateshead. 21.6.21
23 June 2021
Unite general secretary contest: Vote for Sharon Graham
The Socialist Party is supporting Sharon Graham for Unite general secretary. The ballot opens on 5 July. Many of the most combative workers are increasingly being drawn towards her campaign as they look
23 June 2021
Furlough reduction risks job losses
Despite the Tory government extending coronavirus restrictions until 19 July, rather than bringing them to an end on 21 June, the furlough scheme will continue to be downgraded and gradually dismantled as planned
23 June 2021
Leicestershire engineers' fifth week of strikes against fire and rehire
Service engineers at Brush Electrical Machinery are in the fifth week of their strike against a 'fire and rehire' attack on pay and conditions (see ' 23 June 2021 Exeter Trades Council has agreed to support the demonstration in Exeter on 3 July. The time for clapping our NHS staff is over. Clapping does not put food on the table or pay the rent! The miserable proposedExeter Trades Council backs NHS protests
23 June 2021
Tories deliberately underfund childcare
The cost of childcare is rocketing. Access to places is being squeezed. The funding local authorities receive from the government to deliver free childcare for three and four-year-olds is not enough. And
23 June 2021
Anti-protest bill breaches human rights
Even Parliament's human rights committee (JCHR) has lambasted the Tories crime and policing bill. Restricting the right to protest will breach human rights laws and criminalise peaceful protesters, it
23 June 2021
Sacking non-vaccinated care workers will not save lives
The Tories' announcement that care home workers will have to be vaccinated to retain their jobs is a deliberate, if somewhat botched, attempt to distract attention from their appalling safety record on Covid-19
23 June 2021
Outsourced London hospital workers fight for better pay
Catering workers have walked out for five days at the Royal London Hospital, part of Barts NHS Trust in east London
23 June 2021
Leicester private healthcare tragedy
Private healthcare is embedded in the provision of accident and emergency treatment at the Leicester Royal Infirmary
23 June 2021
Warehouse workers fight 50% cut in redundancy pay
Workers at the DHL depot in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, members of Usdaw, have taken two rounds of 24-hour strike action in a dispute over redundancy payments as the site is being shut down
23 June 2021
Carmarthenshire: Fighting for trade union recognition at council-owned company
Plaid Cymru-led Carmarthenshire County Council needs to instruct Cwm Environmental to implement a Trade Union Recognition Agreement (TURA) immediately.
23 June 2021
TUSC calls for local 'People's Budget' campaigns
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) All-Britain Steering Committee is calling on all local TUSC groups, individual members, supporters and affiliated groups in areas where they are active, to begin to lay plans for the year ahead - focusing on local 'People's Budget' campaigns.
23 June 2021
London Socialist Party young members' day school
Young members of the Socialist Party met in Hyde Park, London, on Saturday 14 June to discuss the issues facing young people in the city and the youth campaigns that we can launch over the summer.
23 June 2021
'Socialism is the hope of the world'
On 13 June, the annual general meeting of the National Clarion Cycle Club took the decision to support a motion from Tuxford Clarion that outrageously removed a "divisive" reference in its constitution to socialism
23 June 2021
But we still need more campaign funds: Congratulations to all Socialist Party members and supporters for making sure that we have already broken through the fighting fund target for this campaign quarter.
23 June 2021
'An unsentimental depiction of the brutality and inhumanity of capitalism': 'Shuggie Bain', written by Douglas Stuart, is a novel that at times makes the reader stop and reflect
23 June 2021
Edwin Poots, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the largest party in Northern Ireland, has resigned just three weeks after he won the position
23 June 2021
Tory review won't deliver justice for rape victims
'Rape has been decriminalised'. This was a 2019 assessment of a situation where just 1.6% of rapes result in someone being charged. Each year around 128,000 people are victims of rape but only just over
23 June 2021
Women and the criminal 'injustice' system
In April of this year, the Ministry of Justice released a report responding to the 'growing mental health crisis' for women in prison
23 June 2021
Are Biden's immigration policies a break with Trump's?
In the fourth article of our continuing series on the new Biden administration, the Independent Socialist Group (CWI, USA) critically examines the new president's immigration policies.
23 June 2021
Ebrahim Raisi's election as president, openly described in Iran as 'engineered', revealed the regime's weak popular support.
23 June 2021
Building back better? Fight for a socialist recovery
As society slowly emerges from lockdown, Boris Johnson and the Tories are busy preaching that they plan to 'build back better'.
23 June 2021
Oaks Park school strike against bully bosses
Bully bosses looked agitated as Oaks Park High School pickets belted out 'Solidarity Forever' to the peals of a union rep's trumpet on 22 June.
23 June 2021
NHS in crisis - 'It's time for action'
Join protests on 3 July. 15% pay rise now
Tories' derisory 1% pay offer to NHS staff is only the latest in a long list of injuries that healthcare staff have had to endure
23 June 2021
Young workers and students across the country are building up the Youth Fight For Jobs campaign
23 June 2021
The dispute at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency over Covid safety is now in its third month
23 June 2021
Urgent need to build alternative to pro-capitalist politicians
The myth of Johnson's electoral golden touch has been shattered by the Chesham and Amersham byelection
23 June 2021
Interview with newly elected Unison NEC member
Hospital worker Naomi Byron speaks (pc) to the Socialist following her election
23 June 2021
NSSN conference 2021: When given a lead workers will fight
Up to 200 striking workers, trade union reps, campaigners and socialists met virtually on 20 June
25 June 2021
Rank and file sparks at the Amazon construction site at Follingsby Park, Gateshead, protesting on the day before they achieved victory by being reinstated.
29 June 2021
Eviction resistance in Walthamstow, London, 29.6.21. Nadia addressing the crowd after bailiffs say they're not entering her home today!
Eviction resistance in Walthamstow, London, mobilised by Waltham Forest Socialist Party and supported by Waltham Forest trades council, 29.6.21. Nadia addressing the crowd after bailiffs say they're not entering her home today!
30 June 2021
Keep private hands off NHS patient data
On 12 May, NHS England released its plans for a new system called "General Practice Data for Planning and Research"
30 June 2021
Channel 4 is again under threat of privatisation. The government is considering options as part of broader media reform proposals, responding to market disruption as well as Tory political and ideological
30 June 2021
Gateshead: Sacked electricians reinstated
There has been a victory for rank-and-file sparks at the Amazon construction site at Follingsby Park, Gateshead
30 June 2021
As soon as the prime minister announces his 'full confidence' in a government minister in a pickle, you know they're doomed.
30 June 2021
Fight the health and care bill
The future of the NHS hangs in the balance. Nearly five million people are waiting for treatment. Covid has pushed our health services to the limit, but years of underfunding meant it was already in crisis
30 June 2021
We don't want a USA-style healthcare system
The health scrutiny committee on Labour-led Wakefield Council returned on 24 June for its first physical meeting since the Covid outbreak.
30 June 2021
Support Gary Clark for CWU executive
Gary Clark is a candidate for the Communication Workers Union's (CWU) national executive and postal executive
30 June 2021
End bullying and victimisation at Oaks Park school
Tuesday 29 June saw the start of another three days of strike action by staff at Oaks Park High School - a large community school in Redbridge, east London, - over the victimisation of a trade union rep, and against a wider culture of bullying
30 June 2021
Unite members step up action against bullying Mungo's managers
Property service workers at St Mungo's charity are entering their tenth week of indefinite strike action against workplace bullying
30 June 2021
Reject the 1% pay insult: NHS staff are angry. We face continuous mistreatment and devaluation of the essential work we do. The Tory government has shown that it has no intention of addressing the staffing crisis, and does not
30 June 2021
Millionaires multiply during pandemic
There are now more millionaires than there ever has been, an extra 5.2 million of them. It turns out, if you own high-value property, or have substantial investment in stocks and shares, the economic bailout
30 June 2021
York residents demand land for local community needs
70 people gathered to protest the violent eviction of a group of squatters on 26 June. The group was trying to reclaim deserted land near the Barbican Centre in central York as a community space.
30 June 2021
Young Socialists march in London
"You can't trust Starmer's Labour Party - we need a new mass workers' party". Young members of the Socialist Party in London led a loud and colourful contingent at the People's Assembly demo on Saturday
30 June 2021
Pride is a campaign, not a business opportunity
Thousands of trans and non-binary people, and supporters, marched in London on 26 June at Trans+ Pride. The mood was determined and militant, with anti-Tory chants to the fore.
30 June 2021
Dalian Atkinson - police found guilty of killing ex-footballer
PC Benjamin Monk was found guilty on 23 June at Birmingham Crown Court of the manslaughter of ex-Aston Villa footballer Dalian Atkinson, in a trial lasting six weeks
30 June 2021
Post-pandemic railway battles loom
Britain's railway network has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic. Passenger numbers plunged by 80% as a result of the first lockdown and have only recently reached 40% of pre-pandemic levels.
30 June 2021
Senior conductors on East Midlands Railway are striking every Sunday until at least 15 August as part of a long-running dispute over contracts and Sunday working arrangements.
30 June 2021
You know when you switch on Freeview just on the off-chance that with all those channels there will be something good on
30 June 2021
In these days of deskilling and constant attacks on workers' pay and conditions, it came as an unusual surprise when our shift supervisor informed us that management would like to thank us for our efforts in hitting the monthly budget for the first time ever (production is still in its early stages
30 June 2021
German Greens: The image and reality
In Germany, the Green party is riding a wave of popularity. Following the selection of Annalena Baerbock as its candidate for Chancellor (Prime Minister) it hit 28% in the opinion polls.
30 June 2021
Striking workers at the Royal London Hospital are showing the way forward for the NHS unions.
30 June 2021
NHS after 3 July protests: Trade unions must organise serious action
The NHS protests on 3 July should be the start of building a mass campaign for decent pay and to save the NHS.
30 June 2021
A look at one of the most contentious issues in the USA today - policing
30 June 2021
Socialist candidate wins NIPSA general secretary election
Carmel Gates has been elected general secretary of Northern Ireland's largest union
30 June 2021
Support Sharon Graham for Unite general secretary
The Socialist Party is supporting Sharon Graham in the Unite general secretary election. Ballot papers are posted out on 5 July.
30 June 2021
Brighton: Moulsecoomb strike against academisation
Deaf to the overwhelming opposition of parents, students, staff and their unions, the local community and council, Lee Mason-Ellis and the Pioneer Academy chain are intent on taking over Moulsecoomb Primary School in Brighton in September
30 June 2021
Sandwell Leisure workers: No to 'fire and rehire'
On 25 June, Unison union members working for Sandwell Leisure Trust (SLT), West Midlands, organised a strike at a number of leisure centres across the borough
30 June 2021
Israel: Hospital ancillary workers strike over pay parity and workload
Ancillary staff at government hospitals in Israel are taking strike action after three years of negotiations with the ministry of finance
30 June 2021
The Socialist Party has consistently argued that the working class is the only force which can solve the enormous social and economic capitalist crises in the Middle East, and end the occupation and repression of the Palestinian people
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