28 November 2018

Wonderful socialist play finds Edwardian poverty not in past

Theatre: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists: On a cold November evening, myself and other Newcastle Socialist Party members went along to see The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. To say it was wonderful is an understatement

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14 November 2018

Theatre: The Last Seam - a lasting tribute to Mary Jackson

The Last Seam is a piece of theatre with a script based on interviews that relate the story of a Yorkshire pit community throughout the miners' strike of 1984-85 and afterwards

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28 February 2018

Mary Jackson: funeral and memorial meeting

150 people attended Mary's funeral, including a delegation from transport union RMT, reflecting the enormous love and respect she was held in by family, friends and comrades

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22 January 2018

Red Mary - a Force of Nature

Longstanding Doncaster Socialist Party member Mary Jackson was a working class fighter and an eternal optimist in a socialist future

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1 February 2017

UK textile workers on £3 an hour!

The Guardian and BBC news have exposed garment manufacturers in Leicester employing thousands of workers on £3 an hour, less than half the minimum wage.

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14 December 2016

Doncaster: cuts give rise to 'tent city'

Homelessness in the UK has reached epidemic proportions. Homelessness in Doncaster is no worse than other towns but a few enterprising folk have set up a tent city to protect the town's homeless.

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24 August 2016

The Socialist inbox

Letters to the Socialist's editors. SDP splitters, no to nukes, Brexit's bullying bosses, mammoth pay, PLP panic.

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1 July 2015

Osborne's budget cuts will devastate low-income households

The Tory chancellor's budget of £12 billion extra welfare spending cuts will have a terrible impact on low-income households.

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28 April 2015

Meet the TUSCs taking on the austerity-mongers

Who are the TUSCs? Not career politicians but nurses, teachers, rail workers, firefighters, low-paid young workers ...

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1 April 2015

The Great Money Trick: Another World is Possible

Book review: If you have read Robert Tressell's the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, then this book is for you. And if you haven't, you will still enjoy it

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4 May 2013

TUSC Doncaster Mayor candidate wins 1,900 votes in Ed Miliband's backyard

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate Mary Jackson polled 1,916 votes, coming in ahead of the Lib Dems

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