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1 April 2020
Fully fund hospices to care for vulnerable children
I am a parent of a child with a terminal diagnosis.
31 March 2020
NHS workers speak out: austerity has left us unprepared
We have had many weeks to get ready to deal with coronavirus. It's a shame that only in the last couple of weeks things are actually happening, writes Lucy, a NHS worker.
25 March 2020
Coronavirus and domestic violence: a double threat to women's lives
As we entered 2020 the number of women murdered every week by a partner or ex-partner in the UK rose to three. On top of this, three women a week kill themselves to escape abuse
24 March 2020
Coventry socialist candidate wins votes against austerity
Coventry Socialist Party member Jane Nellist received 101 votes in Thursday's Upper Stoke byelection, in what was clearly extremely difficult circumstances
18 March 2020
Councils must break austerity rules
Labour councils must lead a fight for the immediate resources needed, linked to reversing all cuts and privatisation
11 March 2020
Book: Why you should be a trade unionist by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey
Len McCluskey's book 'Why you should be a trade unionist' is a lively and accessible account of the role trade unionism has played in the past, and the hope which workers' organisations provide for the future, writes Derek McMillan, East Grinstead.
4 March 2020
International Women's Day: Fighting sexism and austerity
International Women's Day feature, including young women, Women's Lives Matter, trade unions, and a programme to fight oppression
26 February 2020
Thieving cuts to incomes and services mean workers are dying younger and suffering sickness for longer. Austerity is killing us.
Meanwhile, since the world financial crash, the wealth of the super-rich has expanded like a monstrous tumour.
26 February 2020
Coventry: A socialist councillor who will vote against cuts
Socialist Party member Jane Nellist is standing as a candidate for Coventry council in the Upper Stoke by-election on 19 March. We print extracts from her leaflet
26 February 2020
Number of women killed by current or ex-partner rises
Labour councils 'balance' their budgets with cuts - they are "balancing with women's lives"
19 February 2020
Cuts and climate change cause floods
Two storms in a week brought some of the worst floods in living memory, killing at least five people and damaging thousands of homes.
Big business didn't send the rain. But the distorted priorities of the profit-obsessed capitalist system are to blame for the misery that ordinary people must endure because of it.
12 February 2020
Streatham attack: Johnson's bill can't stop terror
"It's only February and this has already happened." The response from Becky Smyths, a resident of Streatham where terrorist stabbings took place on 2 February.
5 February 2020
The rich fund the Tories and Blairites, so help fund the working-class fightback
The Socialist Party needs you to increase your subs.
31 January 2020
Socialist Party calls anti-austerity protest on Budget Day
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary said: "We are calling this protest to say austerity must end".
29 January 2020
PCS union elections: Nominate candidates fighting austerity and for union democracy
When I stood to be general secretary nearly 10,000 PCS union members voted for my campaign, to rebuild a fighting democratic union.
22 January 2020
Make a stand: set legal no-cuts council budgets
Defend jobs, services and communities. Reports from Carmarthenshire, Peterborough, Swansea, Enfield
22 January 2020
Council cuts continue... So must the fightback
Boris Johnson says austerity is over. So as councils prepare to set budgets next month, everyone - Johnson, the Labour leadership candidates, trade union leaders, councillors of every shade will be asked, "what are you going to do to stop council cuts?"
15 January 2020
The process to elect a new leader of the Labour Party is underway and poses an essential question. What will happen to the potential, opened up by Jeremy Corbyn's unexpected leadership victory in 2015, to win a mass party in the interests of the working class?
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