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THE SOCIALIST PARTY SAYS

Where's the road map to jobs and wages Boris?

24 February
Trade unions must fight for lives and livelihoods
Johnson's 'cautious' road map to reopen society from lockdown in England - after over 120,000 Covid deaths and a massive hit to incomes - won't lead to the needed restoration and improvement in living standards. More...

SOCIALIST PARTY PHOTO

Leicester picket on the 21st strike day (22nd Feb) of around 7,000 British Gas engineers. They are fighting against 'fire and rehire' - designed to worsen terms and conditions. Photo by Steve Score, Leicester Socialist Party

NEWS AND SOCIALIST ANALYSIS

26 February 2021

Liverpool Labour meltdown - Fight for socialist policies

Thirty five years ago the national news bulletins most nights featured the leaders of Liverpool's Labour council, in which Militant (now the Socialist Party) played a key role More...

24 February 2021

Starmer's speech a return to New Labour

Keir Starmer's speech contained virtually no policy proposals. But it hammered home his message that the Corbyn era is over. More...

23 February 2021

The struggle needs an electoral arm

Socialism Today issue 246

Hannah Sell looks at the vital question of the struggle for working-class political representation and the approaches currently been taken. More...

More news and analysis...

REPORTS AND CAMPAIGNS

25/2/21 TUSC

President of 'big four' Labour-affiliated trade union joins TUSC committee Amy Murphy, outgoing Usdaw president, is now on the TUSC national steering committee More...

24/2/21 Schools

Johnson's 'road map' for schools: Act together to protect safety - For a phased return based on infection rates not politicians' dates. More...

24/2/21 Uber

Drivers win case - they are workers Uber drivers have won their rights case. More...

24/2/21 South Wales

Justice for Moyied Bashir For the second time in just over a month, a young man has died at the hands of south Wales police. More...

17/2/21 NSSN

Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses The National Shop Stewards Network held its 5th meeting during the pandemic More...

More reports and campaigns...

The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party

The Socialist newspaper, 24 February 2021, issue 1122

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The Socialist issue 1122

Covid

spot Where's the road map to jobs and wages Boris?

spot Johnson's 'road map' for schools: Act together to protect safety

spot Vaccine algorithm can't solve capitalist inequality

spot Garment workers and Covid: Dying for less than minimum wage

What we think

spot Starmer's speech a return to New Labour

News

spot Justice for Moyied Bashir

spot Uber drivers win case - they are workers

spot Social care: End privatisation and let workers decide how it's run

Lessons from history

spot How militant trade unionism defeated the 1971 Industrial Relations Act

Workplace news

spot Usdaw elections - right makes gains but Broad Left builds

spot HMRC: Divisive pay deal leads to expulsions

spot Hinkley Point electricians fight 'deskilling'

spot "I'm here to fight for the future education of children in Hackney"

spot London bus dispute against low pay, pay cuts and longer hours

spot GMB members continue fight against 'fire and rehire' in British Gas

spot Scunthorpe steelworks scaffolders: Fifth week of action

TUSC

spot Liverpool Unite branch supports 'no cuts' budget strategy

spot Scottish TUSC election campaign launch

spot Keep the fighting fund rushing in for a TUSC stand in May

Campaigns news

spot W. Sussex children's centres on the chopping block

spot Coventry success building subscriptions

spot Socialist Students conference - postering

spot Save John Carroll Leisure Centre

spot Getting the Socialist out in lockdown

LGBT+ history month

spot Pride flag is about unity in struggle

spot Tories tout toilet tensions

International news

spot Nigeria: Abbey Trotsky on trial for assisting workers' struggle

spot Facebook v Australian government: nationalise the bosses' media!

Readers' opinion

spot Film Review: The White Tiger

spot Tories admit guilt for asylum seeker neglect

spot Tories target universities in free speech shakedown

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 17 February 2021, issue 1121

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Issue 1121 front page

spot Tory consultation on home-use abortion pills

spot Tory cladding money will not make us safe

spot Sham inquiry into 'progressive extremism' will not stop movements against capitalism

spot Cumbria mine: How can we fight for jobs and stop climate change?

spot Cryptocurrency bubble: Insanity of capitalism

spot News in brief

spot Online workers' rally: Taking fight to the bosses

spot SNP's independence referendum 2 'roadmap'

spot NHS white paper: no solution to failed Tory policies

spot Boot private companies out of our NHS

Workplace safety

spot Covid workplace safety

spot Derby Toyota plant Covid crisis

spot Hackney teaching assistants strike against cruel and unnecessary job cuts

spot PCS: Reject the HMRC pay deal

spot Manchester Go North West bus drivers in all-out strike over fire and rehire dispute

spot London bus drivers set to strike over pay and conditions

spot Scaffolders' strike continues

Socialist Students

spot Strike back for free education

spot Socialist Students conference - Sunday 28 February

spot Socialist Party Black and Asian caucus

spot Remembering Mohamud Hassan - continuing the fight against police brutality

spot How you can amplify the Socialist's voice - Help us build subscriptions to the Socialist

spot Swarming the London Mayor's question time

spot Southern new members meeting - a vivid illustration of the appetite for socialist ideas

spot Doing all we can to fund the anti-cuts stand at the ballot box

Readers' Opinion

spot Film Review: Dear Comrades!

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 10 February 2021, issue 1120

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The Socialist issue 1120

News

spot Tories admit market failure - we want our NHS back!

spot Question mark over AstraZeneca's vaccine to protect against new Covid variant

spot Big Energy piles on the misery

spot News in brief

Racism

spot Black Workers' Charter: A programme to fight racism

Grenfell

spot Grenfell: Are we any closer to justice?

TUSC

spot TUSC online conference: Preparing to build a working-class force for the local elections in May

spot Ex-Labour socialists preparing to stand for TUSC in Devon

Workplace news

spot Striking British Gas workers fighting to win

spot PCS: Vote for rank-and-file socialist Broad Left Network candidates

spot Hackney schools workers to strike

spot York couriers call on council for protection from "fear of dismissal"

spot Court workers to ballot in fight for safety

spot NSSN meeting: Fight together against the Tories and bosses' Covid offensive

International news

spot Myanmar coup - For a workers-led struggle for democracy and socialism!

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

Campaigns and party news

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party - a nurse

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party - a student

spot London fire victims lobby Tory mayoral candidate

spot Why you should come to Socialist Students online conference

Readers' opinion

spot Covid and pregnancy

spot Book that inspired me: God's bits of wood

spot Starmer ditches Labour movement tradition for cheap trick

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 3 February 2021, issue 1119

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The Socialist issue 1119

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

spot Launching a political alternative to cuts, poverty and job losses

spot Why I am attending the TUSC local elections online conference

spot South Yorks TUSC ready for electoral fight

What we think

spot Workers' rights and safety: Trade union mobilisation could force more Tory U-turns

News

spot Socialist Students open letter to Rent Strike network

spot Children in care: Privatisation is not working

spot Multimillion-pound rental firm demands thousands from homeless asylum seeker

spot Covid outbreak at Kent asylum detention centre: Napier is not fit for purpose

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

Workplace news

spot Usdaw conference stripped of democracy by leadership

spot Usdaw Broad Left rally brings together those campaigning for a fighting union

spot Strong union lead needed to stop DVLA Covid spread

spot HMRC: We demand a pay rise without cuts to terms and conditions

spot Workers fight British Gas 'fire-and-rehire' plans

spot Vote Steve Hedley for RMT general secretary

spot The NEU's 'big announcement' - lessons need to be learned

spot Yorkshire aerospace workers strike against pay disparity

spot Workplace news in brief

The Communist Manifesto

spot The Communist Manifesto - A guide to understanding society, and how to change it

Rolls-Royce

spot 1971: Rolls-Royce crisis - when the Tories nationalised in order to www the interests of British capitalism

Readers' opinion

spot GameStop: Billionaires hurt at their own game

spot The Socialist Inbox

International news

spot Covid 'vaccine wars' underline failure of capitalist nation states to deal with the global pandemic

Campaigns news

spot New members meeting in the South West - preparing for the battles to come

spot Why I rejoined the Socialist Party

spot Help us raise the funds to fuel the working-class fightback

spot Save our square: we need social housing and public services

spot Stop Labour council's eviction of Stratford Circus arts centre

The Socialist newspaper, 27 January 2021, issue 1118

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The Socialist issue 1118

News

spot Covid spreading, poverty rising, rich get richer, fight for socialism!

spot Health, Covid and the vaccine: It's a class issue

spot Poverty wages: When workers can't afford to self-isolate

spot Fees frozen at £9,250 a year, fight for free education

spot DVLA Covid outbreak: They only care about output and productivity

spot Jaguar Land Rover: West Midlands superspreader

Schools

spot Schools: 'We have to fight for everything'

spot Martin Powell-Davies for NEU DGS: "We need to use our collective strength"

What we think

spot Biden, Labour, and the need for a new mass workers' party

Workplace news

spot Sage care workers strike again: Billionaires refuse to pay up

spot Unison NEC elections: United left challenge needed to fight slaughter of jobs and services

spot Steel site scaffolders strike for the 'rate of the job'

spot Merseyside: DHL workers at Burton's Biscuits strike against half-baked pay deal and bullying bosses

spot British Gas engineers continue strike against fire-and-rehire plans

spot Low-paid hospital workers strike

NHS

spot Overwhelmed, underfunded, underpaid, and still fighting for safe PPE

spot Health worker cooperation in the face of the pandemic

Arab Spring

spot Ten years since the 'Arab Spring'

TUSC

spot TUSC is up and running for May elections

spot Come to the TUSC local elections conference - 7 February

spot Why I'm leaving Labour and campaigning for TUSC

spot Councillors in Surrey resign from Labour and look to stand independently

Campaigns

spot Solidarity meeting with Mohamud Hassan

spot Save Our Square from New Labour gentrification

spot Help fund a challenge to austerity at the ballot box - donate today!

International socialist news and analysis

spot Mass protests in Russia against Putin regime

Review

spot TV Review: It's a Sin

spot TV review: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain

The Socialist newspaper, 20 January 2021, issue 1117

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Issue 1117 front page

spot Make the super-rich pay, not the poorest

spot Bosses profit out of 'starvation' food parcels

spot Teachers: On the front line, in their own words

spot Peace and Justice Project - no way forward for socialism

spot Millionaire tendency regains control of Scottish Labour

spot News in Brief

spot The Tory blame game: scapegoating the working class - 100% pay for all now

spot Covid: Bosses chase profit and put workers in danger

spot Vaccine confidence - a worker's response

spot Life in lockdown - being home from school when you're poor is hard

spot On the NHS front line

Black Lives Matter

spot Justice for Mohamud Hassan!

spot Police use Covid laws to intimidate BLM protesters

spot New Cross Gate fire 40 years ago

International News

spot USA in crisis - the need for a socialist alternative

spot Trump Twitter ban: only independent workers' voice can defeat right

spot PCS Broad Left Network conference

spot Rolls-Royce Barnoldswick factory future wwwd following strike action

spot Morrisons - £10/hr headline hides divisive pay offer

spot A day in the life of an agency worker

spot British Gas strike continues

spot Refund student rent and fees

spot Plymouth rent strike continues

spot Scrap fees, refund rents and pay a living grant

spot London's May elections: Tories and Labour's Khan both vying to slash public services

spot Socialist Party national women's meeting

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party

spot Christmas Crossword Competition

Readers' Opinion

spot Books that inspired me: The Road to Wigan Pier

spot Obituary - Jeff Edwards

The Socialist newspaper, 13 January 2021, issue 1116

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The Socialist issue 1116

News

spot Our health and livelihoods before their profits

spot Londoners suffer and Khan piles on pressure

spot Bosses earn workers' annual wage in three days

NHS

spot NHS Emergency - Fight for a fully funded, publicly owned, socialist NHS

spot Dispatches from the front - health workers speak out

spot NHS pandemic warnings ignored - renationalise our NHS

Schools

spot Schools: Act together to oppose unsafe numbers and rising workload

Economy

spot Global capitalism at most dangerous conjuncture since the 1930s

Vaccines

spot Fully resource the vaccination programme now

spot Covid vaccine nationalism threatens pandemic response

International news

spot How should socialists respond to the 6 January attacks on Capitol Hill?

Retail

spot Lockdown 3.0 - fight to make our shops safe!

spot Ryan Aldred: Why I'm standing for Usdaw's EC

Workplace news

spot Unison get sec election shows left can win NEC

spot Royal mail management forced to make concessions

spot British Gas workers strike against 'fire and rehire' plans

spot Get stuck in to build a fighting, democratic PCS union

Youth and students

spot Refund student rent and fees - fight for free education and make the 1% pay

spot Exams scrapped again - young people need a future with jobs and free education

Campaigns and party news

spot Help us fund the fight for Socialism

spot TUSC to hold local elections conference in February

Review

spot Book Review: Humankind - Dispelling the myth that humans are too selfish for socialism

The Socialist newspaper, 6 January 2021, issue 1115

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Issue 1115 front page

spot 2020 - a year which drove home the catastrophic failures of capitalism

spot Workers' action wins Tory U-turn on school safety

spot 3 lockdowns, 20+ U-turns ... We can't trust the Tories

spot Nottingham City Council: Major battles against cuts ahead

spot UNICEF feeds children in the UK for the first time

spot News in brief

spot Hospital security staff on strike for £12 an hour

spot British Gas workers on strike against fire and re-hire pay cut

spot Protect the NHS - Funding, Pay, PPE, Public ownership

spot Protect lives and livelihoods, fight to defend the NHS

spot Engels on the origins of women's oppression

spot Universities: refund the rent, cancel the fees, for fully funded, publicly owned education

spot University teaching moves online in England

Reader's opinion

spot Books that inspired me: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

spot Technology and AI response: Capitalists only invest for profit

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LINKS

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The Socialist Party is part of the Committee for a Workers‘ International (CWI) which fights for socialism world wide. www.socialistworld.net.

New book from the CWI

Leon Trotsky - A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn't Be Killed. A collection of new articles from the CWI. Published by Socialist Books.

Socialism Today, monthly magazine of the Socialist Party

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Left Books website

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN)

Youth and student

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CONTACT US

Phone our national office on 020 8988 8777

Email: [email protected]

Locate your nearest Socialist Party branch Text your name and postcode to 07761 818 206

Regional Socialist Party organisers:

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MARXISM

Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels

Communism, grotesque caricature: see Soviet Union. See also What About Russia?

Dialectical materialism

Genuine communism: see Marxism, What is it?

Historical materialism

How would a socialist economy work?

Lenin: On Marxism

Marxism: What is it?

Militant tendency

Philosophy, Marxism

Russian Revolution

The State and Revolution

Socialism: What is it?

Socialist Countries?

Socialist Party manifesto

Terrorism: Marxism Opposes Terrorism

Trotsky: On the Russian Revolution

What about Russia?

What is Marxism?

What is Socialism?

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