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From The Socialist newspaper, 3 June 2020
Pandemic doesn't stop Socialist Party educating organisers: northern meeting
The Socialist Party, photo Mary Finch (Click to enlarge)
Jeremy Davidson, Hull Socialist Party
From campaigning to keep the schools closed until safety can be guaranteed, to battling job losses and demanding proper PPE for essential workers, Socialist Party members have been hard at work during this crisis in fighting for the working class!
75 members from across the Yorkshire, Northern, North West and East Midlands regions attended the Socialist Party's first online, cross-regional branch organisers' school on 31 May. The meeting raised over £700 for the fighting fund.
It was also attended by members from our US co-thinkers, the Independent Socialist Group. They gave a report on their work in the recent protests which have gripped the US following the brutal police murder of George Floyd.
Overall, the event was a great success and positively received by all who attended. The current situation does not deter the Socialist Party from efforts to educate and organise our members, and the important political work continues!
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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.
The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.
- The Socialist Party's material is more vital than ever, so we can continue to report from workers who are fighting for better health and safety measures, against layoffs, for adequate staffing levels, etc.
- Our 'fighting coronavirus workers' charter', outlines a programme to combat the virus and protect workers' living conditions.
- When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.
Inevitably, during the crisis we have not been able to sell the Socialist and raise funds in the ways we normally would.
We therefore urgently appeal to all our viewers to donate to our special coronavirus appeal.
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Schools... no going back until it's safe
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Coordinated union struggle needed to save jobs and nationalise JCB
Reject the university employers' offer on pay, workload and casualisation
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Equity union general secretary election
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Pandemic doesn't stop Socialist Party educating organisers: northern meeting
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