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19 February 2020
Cuts and climate change cause floods
Two storms in a week brought some of the worst floods in living memory, killing at least five people and damaging thousands of homes.
Big business didn't send the rain. But the distorted priorities of the profit-obsessed capitalist system are to blame for the misery that ordinary people must endure because of it.
20 November 2019
Major funding for flood risk management needed
The recent large floods in Derbyshire, South Yorkshire and other areas have resulted in damage to thousands of houses
4 September 2019
Austerity anger feeds movement for Welsh independence
In the second of our series of articles exploring Brexit and the 'national question' Dave Reid secretary of the Socialist Party in Wales examines the situation there.
3 July 2019
Nationalisation is answer to Southern Water cover up
An investigation into Southern Water by the industry regulator Ofwat has demanded that the company pay a £126 million penalty package, the largest it has ever imposed. The Environment Agency is now also looking into pressing criminal charges.
8 May 2019
Water bosses plan to undermine nationalisation: no compensation for fat cats!
It is urgent that water and all utilities are fully nationalised, under democratic workers' control and management
29 August 2018
Nationalise the energy giants to combat global warming
The oldest, thickest, most frozen sea ice in the arctic, to the north of Greenland, remains frozen all year. But this year it has broken away - twice! This has never been seen before.
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.
11 July 2018
Britain bakes as water pipelines leak
June was the driest month on record in south east and central southern England, while Scotland recorded its highest ever temperature of 33.2C in Motherwell.
30 May 2018
England facing water shortage due to underinvestment
Nationalise water and utilities!: Serious leaks, rising domestic use, and massive consumption by an unsustainable energy sector, mean much of England could see water shortages in the coming decades, says the Environment Agency.
14 February 2018
No to profiteering from water crisis! Cape Town is facing its worst drought in almost 100 years
13 December 2017
Movement growing against fracking giant Ineos
Ineos has been allowed to bypass planning procedures with elected councillors
15 November 2017
We're freezing: reverse cuts to boiler replacement schemes!
Nationalise the energy firms: The market has failed and will go on failing to provide the basics of food, heat and shelter to millions
6 September 2017
Hurricane Harvey: A tragedy made far worse by capitalism
In the following article Socialist Alternative members (US co-thinkers of the Socialist Party) report on the devastating impact of Hurricane Harvey and the failure of establishment politicians and capitalism to prepare for such increasing extreme weather events
10 May 2017
Jobstown Not Guilty trial round-up
The trial of Jobstown protesters in Ireland is an attack on the right to protest, but it is also an attack on the working class communities of Tallaght
19 April 2017
Protest is not a crime: back Jobstown Not Guilty
On 24 April the biggest political trial in Ireland for a generation will begin
12 April 2017
Schools are under the greatest threat for more than a generation and an equally powerful response is needed. In the next couple of months, the scale of the cuts will be evident
12 April 2017
Ireland: Bury the water charges
Simon Coveny, the Fine Gael Minister responsible for Water Charges in Ireland, endured a torrid time in the Dáil (Irish Parliament) on 6 April as Socialist Party member and Dublin South West TD (MP) Paul Murphy exposed his party's attempts to smuggle the iniquitous water charges in through the back door.
5 April 2017
Talk of Britain 'going to war' with Spain, EU politicians telling each other not to 'lose their cool' - can all seem surreal. The chaos shows that there is no cohesive approach to Brexit within the British or European ruling classes
22 February 2017
Web series review: Cooked - "How capitalism ruined eating"
The title 'Cooked' doesn't exactly sound like essential political viewing. But in this adaptation of Michael Pollan's 2013 bestselling book of the same title, the author examines the contribution of cooking to human development and progress.
21 February 2017
Defend the right to protest: "We are more akin to a banana republic, and the rotten nature of the Irish state has been exposed." These were the words of TD (MP) and Socialist Party member Ruth Coppinger in the Irish Parliament on 15 February as she rose to question Taoiseach (prime minister) Enda Kenny.
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