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From The Socialist newspaper, 7 September 2016
London fighting fund BBQ success
The bake-off photo Helen Pattison (Click to enlarge)
For the second year running, London Socialist Party held a successful BBQ social raising over £150 for the fighting fund partly through the 'Great Socialist Bake-off' organised by Amalia Loizidou. The 12 entries were all delicious but Michael Wrack's Bakewell Tart (with homemade jam!) took the top spot. 25 people took part in a five-a-side football tournament, with some playing football for the first time. The Football Feminists and East Thames Trots lost in the semi-finals, leaving the South London Reds to scrape a victory against Dynamo Walthamtov by two goals to one. The rain held off and it was a great way to end a busy summer of campaigning in London.
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The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.
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In The Socialist 7 September 2016:
#KeepCorbyn
#KeepCorbyn: build the movement against austerity
Break with Blairites essential to defeat split Tories
Should socialists give electoral support to Labour right?
#KeepCorbyn: reports from the campaign
Socialist Party news and analysis
Apple told to pay £11bn: nationalise all the tax dodgers!
Refugee crisis: for homes, jobs and services for all
Women lose out in the workplace
London bailiff use soars by half
TUC congress 2016
Organise mass working class resistance to austerity
International socialist news and analysis
Brazil: impeachment farce only serves big business
Workplace news and analysis
Junior doctors plan to continue contract struggle
Premium pay cuts are not just any cuts, they are M&S cuts
Royal Mail wildcat strike against bullying bosses
Socialist readers' comments and reviews
Socialism, black liberation and cricket - the life of CLR James
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Huge turnout in support of Huddersfield NHS campaign
Grantham on the march against 'life and death' cuts to health service
London fighting fund BBQ success
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