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8 July 2020
Hong Kong: The fight for democratic rights
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong on the 23rd anniversary of the settlement between London and Beijing
8 July 2020
Books that inspired me: The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin's 'The fire next time' is a series of short essays describing the author's experiences of being black in America in the 1950s and 60s
1 July 2020
From slavery to Black Lives Matter - racism and capitalist injustice exposed
TV review: 13th: I was encouraged to watch this documentary by my daughter who has recently been motivated to go to her first protest, the Black Lives Matter demos against racism.
1 July 2020
On 25 June, Google announced a "new licencing programme to support the news industry". The programme pays publishers for high-quality content in an effort to remove paywalls. A "new news experience"
1 July 2020
I left Labour and want to end capitalism - join us in Socialist Party
I feel fortunate to have been raised by socialist parents. In my house in the 1990s and 2000s, Blair was as dirty a name as Thatcher.
30 June 2020
A new movement for system change
Assessing the new upsurge in the #Black Lives Matter movement, Hannah Sell argues that fighting racism does mean a fight to replace capitalism with a new society, socialism.
24 June 2020
Lessons from the Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party marked the high point of the Civil Rights movement - what are the lessons for today?
17 June 2020
More than £500 has been donated to the Socialist Party during Black Lives Matter protests around the country in the last few days
17 June 2020
Film: Da 5 Bloods - entertaining but politically constrained
Spike Lee's new film 'Da 5 Bloods', featuring four black American army veterans of the Vietnam War who meet up again in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, has been released on Netflix just as racism and the class system that ferments it are in the forefront of the minds of millions of people
10 June 2020
Roosevelt's New Deal programme - reforms to save capitalism
The present coronavirus crisis is tipping the USA into an economic depression which threatens the worst eco-nomic deprivation for Americans since the 1930s
10 June 2020
Black and white youth rise up against racism - US protester speaks to the Socialist
At this stage, violence almost exclusively stems from the police. Despite these attacks, the movement has won incredible victories from the capitalist class in a couple of weeks that were almost unimaginable
3 June 2020
Going viral: Socialist comments and letters
The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed
3 June 2020
USA - another cop killing of unarmed black man sparks widespread protests
On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014.
3 June 2020
Pandemic doesn't stop Socialist Party educating organisers: northern meeting
From campaigning to keep the schools closed until safety can be guaranteed, to battling job losses and demanding proper PPE for essential workers, Socialist Party members have been hard at work during this crisis in fighting for the working class!
2 June 2020
Furlough: We are not 'all in the same boat'
The hospitality industry has been downsized. For some, the furlough scheme came too late and workers were already cut, or businesses had shut their doors for good.
2 June 2020
"Test, trace, isolate, support" - the Tories' scheme fails on all counts
I checked my emails late on 27 May and was surprised to see one from the NHS. The new test and trace system was going 'live' - not 1 June as expected, but 8am the next day!
31 May 2020
Outrage spreads globally following US police murder of George Floyd
Protesters have taken to the streets across the US - and internationally - following the killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man
27 May 2020
Going viral - Socialist comments and letters
The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed
27 May 2020
Chinese state's imposition of draconian law reignites Hong Kong protests
Tens of thousands of angry demonstrators poured onto the streets of Hong Kong last weekend, not only defying social-distancing regulations, but confronting police armed with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon, writes Clare Doyle, Committee for a Workers' International.
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