24 February 2021

Nigeria: Abbey Trotsky on trial for assisting workers' struggle

Socialist Party members protested outside the Nigerian Embassy in central London on 22 February to protest against the 'show trial' of Abbey Trotsky - a leading member of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI in Nigeria) - that was taking place that day

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24 February 2021

Tories target universities in free speech shakedown

The government recently announced plans to introduce a 'Free Speech Champion' to the board of the Office for Students to regulate the approach to free speech on England's university campuses

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10 February 2021

Turkey: Bogaziçi university students protest appointment of government loyalist as rector

Demonstrations have been continuing at Bogziçi University since January 2021.

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3 February 2021

New anti-protest law: State forces want more power to crush the protests that are coming

The Tories are widening their attack on our democratic right to protest.

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2 February 2021

Caerphilly & RCT Socialist Party: Defend the democratic rights to protest and strike

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20 January 2021

Police use Covid laws to intimidate BLM protesters

On Saturday 16 January, around 15 Black Lives Matter activists gathered by Parliament Square, in London, to protest the tragic death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan after being released from police custody in Cardiff

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20 January 2021

Plymouth rent strike continues

We have now surpassed 400 signatures for our rent strike, with over £710,000 pledged to be withheld. For students there is no equivalent to the furlough scheme, and we're expected to hand over the majority

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20 January 2021

Justice for Mohamud Hassan!

Black lives matter: Hundreds of people have marched and rallied at Cardiff Bay police station to protest the death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan shortly after being released from custody at the police station

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16 December 2020

No to Tories' new anti-protest law

The Tories are looking at more ways to restrict the right to protest.

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16 December 2020

School boy assaulted by police in Tottenham

People woke up to a horrific video on Friday 11 December. It was of a 16 year old black boy in his school uniform, being assaulted by a police officer in Tottenham, north London. A protest was quickly

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16 December 2020

Protests in solidarity with Indian farmers

Around 300 people from the city's Indian Sikh community turned out in Cardiff Bay on Saturday 12 December to protest in solidarity with farmers in Punjab, India, taking action against the brutal right-wing regime

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16 December 2020

Protest against immigration enforcement centre in Newham

The Tory government is trying to build an 'immigration enforcement centre' in Docklands, east London

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9 December 2020

Tenants and workers unite to take on landlords

Unite members, together with tenants and housing activists, gathered outside the HQ of 'One Housing' last Friday to protest against the unfair treatment this anti-social housing association gives out to its workers and tenants

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9 December 2020

York students determined to build for rent refunds and free education

Students held a protest in York city centre against their ongoing treatment by the government and university management

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2 December 2020

Pay freeze protest Homerton Hospital

Around twelve NHS staff held a socially distanced protest at Homerton Hospital against Rishi Sunak's pay freeze, on Wednesday 25 November

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11 November 2020

Southampton trade unionists demand: "We won't pay for Covid"

Southampton Trades Council held a protest rally on Saturday 7 November, which in the circumstances of lockdown was small, but with a bold, positive spirit.

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4 November 2020

Leeds protesters demand "Buhari must go!"

For the second weekend in a row, protesters gathered in Leeds in solidarity with the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria

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28 October 2020

"We need a leadership that comes from the movement"

Socialist Party organiser Tessa Warrington discussed the anti-SARS protests with a Nigerian student at De Montfort University, Leicester, who is co-organiser of the #EndSARS solidarity protest.

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28 October 2020

Solidarity with the movement in Nigeria

The organisers of the Birmingham protest against Nigeria's notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) police units emphasised that the event was peaceful, with no "attacks on anybody's character"

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28 October 2020

Bristol jobs protest: We want 100% pay

Bristol and Gloucester Unite Community held a rally for jobs in the centre of Bristol to protest against mass unemployment on 24 October

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