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17 July 2019
The 45th anniversary of the strike
How oppressed workers fought back against racist 'divide and rule': This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 14-week Imperial Typewriters strike which had national repercussions.
5 June 2019
India: Modi victory underlines need for real socialist fightback
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and his party have scored a second general election victory.
29 May 2019
India: Modi victory - Socialist fightback needed
India's general election has returned Narendra Modi's far-right, Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party to government
1 May 2019
India General election shows crying need for independent socialist alternative
The huge exercise of India's 2019 general election is under way across its 29 states and seven Union territories.
16 January 2019
India: biggest general strike ever
Why did 200 million workers strike on 8-9 January?
31 January 2018
For a series that cricket fans look forward to for months, this year's Ashes was something of a disappointment - on the English side, at least. We lost 4-0, and were only saved from a 5-0 whitewash by a lifeless pitch ensuring a draw.
13 December 2017
Tamil Solidarity and Refugee Rights activists meeting
Tamil Solidarity's annual general meeting took place in London on 9 December followed by a public meeting titled 'South Asia and Britain - lessons to learn from struggles'
6 September 2017
Extreme weather events and global warming
Is global warming worsening events such as the monsoon floods in Northern India and Bangladesh and Hurricane Harvey in the Gulf of Mexico?
8 March 2017
Letters to the Socialist's editors including the Copeland byelection, benefits, India and pensions.
1 February 2017
Tamil Nadu mass protests against state repression
In December 2016 it was reported that India had surpassed Britain to become the sixth largest economy in the world. However, India is one of the most unequal countries with the richest 1% holding 58% of overall wealth. For the poorest and those suffering oppression, life in India is brutal.
25 January 2017
India: struggle against land grab in Pune
Socialists and villagers wage tireless battle: India, especially in the past 25 years of neoliberal onslaught, has witnessed the massive plunder of land under the guise of major infrastructure projects. Nonetheless, such land-grabbing has provoked mass resistance movements.
7 September 2016
Short stories from other sections and co-thinkers of the Committee for a Workers' International, the global socialist organisation which the Socialist Party is affiliated to. General strike in India, teachers' action in Pakistan, housing protest in Sweden.
24 February 2016
Short stories on workers' struggles around the world. A Marxist view of Modi's Hindutva in India; Irish election final push; Taiwan socialist conference.
27 January 2016
India: student death exposes caste oppression
The suicide of a Dalit PhD student Rohith Vemula has refocussed world attention on the discriminatory caste system in India, in which 180 million Dalits are the most oppressed.
9 December 2015
It's the quiz of 2015, compiled by the Socialist. The questions are drawn from articles covering events in the UK and internationally during the last year. Good luck and season's greetings.
9 December 2015
Floods reveal effect of government cuts
While the world's capitalist politicians in Paris prevaricate over measures to halt global warming, people from Carlisle in Cumbria to Chennai in India are suffering from extreme weather
18 November 2015
Thousands march against India premier's bloody sectarianism
Thousands gathered outside 10 Downing Street on 12 November to protest against the visit of Narendra Modi, prime minister of India.
11 November 2015
Fury as India's leader Modi plans to visit Britain
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, a religious sectarian responsible for brutal austerity, will visit Britain from 12 to 14 November.
9 September 2015
Short stories on workers' struggles around the world. Malaysia protests, Northern Ireland government crisis, India general strike.
5 August 2015
Can a future nuclear conflict be avoided?: Seventy years ago, on 6 August 1945, a single bomb dropped by a US bomber on the Japanese city of Hiroshima killed between 90,000 and 166,000 men, women and children.
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