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12 July 2019
Land privatisation, the largest neoliberal grab in Britain since Margaret Thatcher came to office in 1979, has scarcely been debated
30 January 2019
Keep profiteering developers out!
Walthamstow: Hands off our public amenities: 'We aren't going away'. That was the mood of the public meeting of around 60 people organised by the Save Our Square campaign on 26 January.
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
16 November 2018
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
12 September 2018
10 years since the financial crash - the socialist answer to capitalist crisis
On 15 September at a secret London venue top bankers who were part of Lehman Brothers will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their bank's 2008 collapse with "cocktails and canapes".
29 August 2018
Fracking companies backed by government and courts
A lot has happened on the fracking front in recent months. Notably, fracking companies Cuadrilla and Ineos have been awarded High Court injunctions which, in effect, restrict many forms of legitimate protest.
25 July 2018
Plastic waste - capitalism's Frankenstein monster
Plastic waste is now penetrating every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic and including the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on Earth.
30 May 2018
Letters to the Socialist's editors including benefit cuts, Prince Charles, train toilets and developers' charter
7 March 2018
Derbyshire says: No fracking way!
"No fracking way" was the chant by the hundreds of people from groups all over Derbyshire and Yorkshire at the end of a three-mile march between Clowne and Bolsover on 24 February
24 January 2018
Turn Carillion crisis into movement against privatisation and capitalism
Outsourcing, PFI, privatisation, as in Carillion, is 'reverse socialism'. It is nothing other than a highly efficient wealth transfusion system. We need a movement to kick out these profiteers from public services
10 January 2018
Debate: should tower blocks form part of socialist housing policy?
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower atrocity, Salford Socialist Party began discussing whether there is a role for tower blocks in a socialist housing policy. There were differing views so we organised a debate.
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?
5 July 2017
Transport strategy: London's mayor is no visionary
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan recently released his 'Mayor's Transport Strategy' for public consultation.
8 March 2017
One million workers on zero-hour contracts
Fight for secure jobs for all: 910,000 workers in Britain are on zero-hour contracts - a six-fold increase since 2008 - according to analysis by the Resolution Foundation think-tank.
8 February 2017
Universal basic income - what do socialists say?
The idea of welfare benefits being replaced by a 'universal basic income' (UBI) has resurfaced in recent years - a welcome discussion because it raises the fundamental right of everyone to have an income that meets their basic needs. Exact proposals vary but they are all based on the idea of everyone in society receiving an unconditional, tax-free, regular payment, regardless of whether they are working or the composition of their household.
25 January 2017
2016 hottest year on record, air poisonous
Only socialist planning can end profit-driven pollution: There is strong evidence that 2016 was the hottest year on record. Meanwhile, in 2017, part of London breached EU limits on annual hours of toxic air in just five days
7 December 2016
Newham council to sack up to 1,300
The all-Labour council in Newham, east London, is threatening to sack up to 1,300 of its workforce.
30 November 2016
The housing crisis - a toxic issue for the Tories
Almost everyone acknowledges there is a major housing crisis in the UK. As Paul Kershaw (Unite housing branch LE1111) explains, a chronic lack of affordable housing has been made worse by the government's
9 November 2016
Court slams Tory air quality plans
Only socialist planning can stop toxic air: It's supposed to be safe but it kills more people than obesity or alcohol - the air we breathe.
26 October 2016
Letters to the Socialist's editors including the Ched Evans case, Marmite brexit, NHS 'savings' and homelessness.
13 July 2016
Fight back is on to save NHS heart services
A massive attack has been launched on NHS congenital heart services in England. Patients, families and health workers will not accept it and we will fight back. As a parent whose 15-year old son had open heart surgery only seven months ago at one of the threatened units, Leicester Glenfield Hospital, I am furious.
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