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THE SOCIALIST PARTY SAYS

Unite and fight for a decent pay rise

23 February While bad weather batters the country, another storm is raging. A growing number of workers are taking action as the cost of living squeeze tightens. This is the most significant strike wave for over a decade.
With real inflation heading towards 8% and energy costs set to explode on the back of the Tory NI hike, increasingly workers are forced to fight back. More...

SOCIALIST PARTY PHOTO

Dave Nellist talking with striking bin workers in Birmingham. Dave is standing for TUSC in the 3 March Erdington byelection. Click for details to help or donate.

NEWS AND SOCIALIST ANALYSIS

24 February 2022

For workers' unity against war in Ukraine

The main beneficiaries of war in Ukraine will be the billionaires and the oligarchs, the bosses of the arms industries and the capitalist profiteers. More...

23 February 2022

The Erdington byelection and the fight for a new mass workers' party

Five years on from 13 million people voting for Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity manifesto, Corbyn
is not allowed to sit as a Labour MP. More...

23 February 2022

Privatisation and crisis in the NHS

The Tories have used the cover of the Covid pandemic to speed up their agenda of opening up the NHS further to the profiteers in the private sector. More...

More news and analysis...

REPORTS AND CAMPAIGNS

23/2/22 UCU

University workers continue strike against bosses' attacks UCU members began the second round of action in the current national dispute on 21 February More...

23/2/22 Birmingham

Vote Nellist for a workers' MP in Erdington "I've already voted for him" said a young mother with a postal vote walking past the railway station More...

23/2/22 London

Tube workers strike in defence of pay, pensions and conditions Tube workers in London are facing some of the biggest attacks in decades. More...

23/2/22 Students

Workers and students unite and fight The NUS has called a national student strike on 2 March in response to growing anger More...

More reports and campaigns...

The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party

The Socialist newspaper, 23 February 2022, issue 1168

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The Socialist issue 1168

News

spot Unite and fight for a decent pay rise

spot Johnson scraps Covid safety measures

spot Tories instruct teachers to wipe Britain's real history

spot Bus services under threat

International news

spot Ukraine: Workers' unity against capitalist warmongers and imperialist meddlers

spot Canada: Prime Minister Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act to end 'Freedom Convoy'

spot One year after the military coup in Myanmar

NHS

spot Privatisation and crisis in the NHS

Erdington by-election

spot The Erdington byelection and the fight for a new mass workers' party

spot Vote Nellist for a workers' MP in Birmingham Erdington

Workplace news

spot Tube workers strike in defence of pay, pensions and conditions

spot University workers continue strike against bosses' attacks

spot Coventry bin strikers lobby strike-breaking Labour council

spot Scunny scaffs action forces bosses to the table

spot Usdaw: 'Reinstate Max' week of action

spot Trade union support for standing anti-cuts election candidates

spot Barts NHS workers to walk out again on 28 February

spot Just Eat couriers continue action to fight pay cut

spot Rail workers strike in Sheffield

Students

spot Workers and students unite and fight

spot Fighting fees and marketisation after 2 March student walkout

Campaigns news

spot Restore Cardiff's slashed services

spot Brighton Green and Labour cuts - workers and communities fight back

spot Surrey: Unions and campaigns say stand as an anti-cuts candidate

spot Newham City Farm - closed with no consultation

spot London Socialist Party women's meeting

spot 1 March: Socialist Party new website launch

Review

spot TV review: This is Going to Hurt

The Socialist newspaper, 16 February 2022, issue 1167

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Issue 1167 frontpage

spot Britain's economic growth figures mask fragile false recovery

spot 'Labour by name - Tory by policy'

spot Covid: Fight for full sick pay

spot Met police boss ousted

spot Tory stealth taxes burden 'packhorse generation'

spot Left Labour MPs under pressure over Erdington

spot 'Stand together and fight'

spot Neither Washington, London nor Moscow

spot Australian nurses strike against understaffing and low pay

Erdington by-election

spot Birmingham Erdington by-election

spot Campaigning in Birmingham Erdington by-election

spot From our history: 1972 miners' strike

spot PCS Elections 2022: Time for new union leadership

spot Barts NHS strike

spot NEU strike at girls' school chain over pensions

spot University workers striking back

spot "If we don't fight, we won't win!"

spot Just Eat strike spreads and forces concessions

spot Join the scaffs mass picket at Scunthorpe steelworks

spot Worksop Wincanton workers win pay rise after strike

spot West Sussex care campaigners' victory

spot Why I'm going to Socialist Students conference

spot Campaigning to make 2 March student walkout happen

spot Stop eviction of Camden homeless collective

spot East Sussex: Poverty and cuts bring people to Socialist Party

spot Save St Mary's Leisure Centre

spot Fund us to fight for socialism

Readers' opinion

spot TV: 'Death of Two Black Men: Police in the Spotlight'

spot TV: 'A Killing in Tiger Bay'

spot How Cardiff Bay's redevelopment led to 'social cleansing'

The Socialist newspaper, 9 February 2022, issue 1166

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The Socialist issue 1133

TUSC

spot No one in Westminster backs a pay rise for us...

spot Preparing for the council and Erdington elections

News

spot Cut our fuel bills - nationalise energy

spot 'I'm dreading trying to live on a nurse's salary'

spot Cuts created NHS waiting list crisis

spot Oxfam 'Inequality Kills' report

spot Tories' 'levelling up' falls well short

spot Tories' 'partygate' crisis continues - kick them out

What we think

spot Catastrophic energy bill hike - a crisis made by capitalism

Workplace news

spot Force back Serco and Barts management!

spot Support the university strikes!

spot Tesco slashes jobs and customer service

spot Just Eat couriers drive chief exec out of town as strike spreads

spot Scunthorpe scaffs mark 100 days of strike action with protests

spot Perfect storm brewing in education

spot PCS consultative pay and conditions ballot - vote 'Yes'

Campaigns news

spot King's student union refuses to back staff strike and NUS walkout

spot A socialist voice in Stanwell North

spot Tamil Solidarity protest against repressive Sri Lankan regime

spot Socialist Party youth meeting: Mood is changing - socialist ideas growing

spot Swansea Trades Council pledges to fight local government cuts

spot The Socialist: 25 years of assisting workers' struggles and fighting for socialism

International news

spot Pro-market Socialist Party wins Portugal's election

Debate

spot Does the fight for Trans rights conflict with women's rights?

The Socialist newspaper, 2 February 2022, issue 1165

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The Socialist issue 1165

News

spot Tories attack UC recipients with 'get any job' threat

spot NHS mandatory vaccination to be ditched

spot NI rise piled onto shoulders of the lowest paid

spot Gas and electric bills set to soar by 50% this year

spot Covering basic costs is hard, and it's getting worse

International news

spot Ukraine: Workers' unity needed

spot Northern Ireland: Bloody Sunday 50 years on

spot School students strike in Austria

spot Coup d'état in Burkina Faso

spot France: Education workers and students walkout

TUSC

spot Tories Out!

spot Dave Nellist standing for Birmingham Erdington

spot Why a socialist candidate for Birmingham Erdington is vital

spot Hackney Unison to encourage anti-cuts candidates

spot Essex cuts racket must end

spot Portsmouth: Council workers leaving and tenants' double whammy

spot TUSC by-elections round-up

Workers fighting back

spot The winter strike wave escalates as workers fight back and win

spot NHS workers begin strike for 15% and against outsourcing

spot Victory at NewVIc college! 'The picket line gives us power'

spot Coventry bins: all-out against strike-breaking Labour council

spot Scunny scaffs strike restarts with a bang, barricades and a win!

spot PCS 2022 elections

spot Workplace news in brief

Campaigns news

spot Tories sinking, workers rising - help fund the socialist fightback

spot May Day Greetings: Back the paper that backs the working class

spot Why I joined: I'm tired of austerity and status quo

spot Socialist Students getting organised for 2 March walkout

Review

spot Belfast: Worth watching portrayal of previously airbrushed workers' unity

The Socialist newspaper, 26 January 2022, issue 1164

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The Socialist issue 1164

What we think

spot We need a workers' alternative to big business Tories and Labour

News

spot Lords reject parts of anti-protest bill

spot News in brief

spot Social care providers put profit before residents' needs - nationalise care now

Cost of living

spot Cost of living crisis

Trade unions and the cuts

spot Trade unions and the fight against council cuts

Workplace news

spot Barts NHS workers strike back

spot Sheffield Just Eat strikers step up action and hold mass rally

spot Oaks Park School: valiant strike exposed state of schools

spot Education: Workload and inflation goes up, incomes fall

spot DWP reps demand action from PCS leadership

spot 10,000 tube workers vote to strike - don't make workers pay for TfL funding crisis

spot Strike action by Carmarthenshire winter gritters wins concessions from council

spot Universities: Strike action at 68 in two disputes

spot Worksop Wincanton logistics workers begin ninth week of strike action

International news

spot Trade unionists in the USA fighting back

Campaigns news

spot Hundreds protest to save St Mary's Leisure Centre in Southampton

spot Wakefield TUSC - Fighting for low-paid workers and NHS

spot Eviction resistance on the march in Waltham Forest

spot This is students' chance to fight back - help build 2 March NUS walkout

spot Selling the Socialist

Environment

spot Britain's waterways choked with a 'chemical cocktail'

Readers' opinion

spot War in Yemen, made in Harlow, profit for rich

spot Somers 'slaughterhouse' Forge

spot UK Covid-19 mortality similar to Spanish Flu

spot It's my party, and I'll lie if I want to

The Socialist newspaper, 19 January 2022, issue 1163

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Issue 1163 frontpage

spot Tories on the ropes

spot Want to fight austerity?

spot No trust in Tories to keep us safe

spot Tories hand cash to private health profiteers

spot Tory vaccine sacking threat set to deepen NHS staffing crisis

spot Employers use vaccine excuse to attack sick pay

spot News in brief

International news

spot Murder of Ashling Murphy sends shocks waves across Ireland and beyond

spot Northern Ireland: Workers fight threatened closure of women's hostel

spot US: Independent Socialist Group launches new paper

spot Eyewitness account of workers' uprising in Almaty, Kazakhstan

Public services

spot Mutual aid, the welfare state and the fight for a new mass workers' party

Marxist classics

spot Why are things the way they are?

spot Rob Windsor - remembering a tireless fighter for socialism

spot Theatre: Yes Yes UCS

spot Sheffield Just Eat couriers speak about strike

spot S Yorks Stagecoach strike results in "huge pay win"

spot Scunthorpe scaffs resume indefinite strike action

spot Coventry bin strike continues

spot Bus driver Tracey Scholes reinstated at Go North West

spot Royal Mail: Unofficial walkouts precede bigger battle to come on pay and workload

spot Newham college strike solid against bully privatisers

spot Somers Forge workers continue pay strike

spot Workplace news in brief

spot NUS walkout: Organise to fight for free education on 2 March

spot Demonstrating against the Tory anti-protest bill

spot Waltham Forest: Campaign unites families facing eviction

spot Newham council rejects using 0.03% of reserves to fund arts

spot Birmingham: Cuts consultations replaced by computer game

spot Southampton uni ignores staff and students in exam farce

spot Oliver Campbell - 31 years fighting for justice

spot Bournemouth - angry people not represented by capitalist parties

spot Pauline Wall memorial meeting

The Socialist newspaper, 12 January 2022, issue 1162

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News

spot Super-rich get richer, while we can't make ends meet. Join the fightback!

spot Blow to establishment as jury backs Colston Four

spot Covid, stress and cutbacks fuel school staff shortages

spot Tories concede under cladding pressure but don't go far enough

spot Low pay, stress and Covid drive: NHS staff crisis

spot Shameless Johnson partied through lockdown

spot Energy price crisis: nationalise energy giants to save us from '£600 hit

spot Energy bosses: 'Jump, cuddle and eat porridge while we raise prices'

Kazakhstan

spot Kazakhstan: Working-class revolt only suppressed by massive mobilisation of troops

spot Solidarity with workers protesting in Kazakhstan

Campaigns news

spot Protests against BBC transphobia

spot Leeds People's Budget: We beat council cuts before, we will again

spot Communities fight back against Rio Tinto mine

spot North London NHS - "It's going to be us who saves it"

spot Southampton student vote for online exams must be accepted

Workplace news

spot Coventry bin workers' pay strike

spot 10,000 tube workers vote to strike over jobs, terms and pension cuts

spot East Mids rail conductors force concessions, train managers' dispute continues

spot Carmarthenshire gritters take action as Plaid-led council reneges on agreement

spot Jobcentre Coronavirus outbreak leads to reps meeting call

spot South Yorkshire bus strikes spreading and getting stronger

spot Weetabix workers defeat 'fire and rehire' and ballot on improved pay offer

spot Invergordon Royal Mail mutiny wins

Reviews

spot Don't Look Up: An entertaining satire on corporate power and the US establishment

spot Anne: Hillsborough and the fight for justice

spot Money Heist: A Robin Hood tale set in modern-day capitalism

Readers' opinion

spot War criminal Tony Blair knighted

spot Bullying weighing room culture at the races

spot Free prescriptions? Maybe when you're older

Obituaries

spot Obituary - Pauline Wall

spot Obituary - Ethan Bradley 1993-2021

The Socialist newspaper, 6 January 2022, issue 1161

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The Socialist issue 1161

News

spot Tories' cost of living squeeze - build the workers' fightback

spot NHS Covid staff crisis

spot Blair knighted for services to the rich and powerful

spot Tory test shortage failure

spot More fares misery for passengers - renationalise the railways

spot Schools: union action needed for Covid safety

Capitalism in crisis

spot Britain in 2022: Build a coordinated working-class fightback

Workplace news

spot Strike threat forces Tesco to improve pay offer

spot West Mids metalworkers strike over pay

spot Sheffield JustEat couriers escalate dispute

spot Scunny scaffs enter twelfth week of strike action

spot S. Yorks Stagecoach workers start indefinite strike

spot Invergordon posties mutiny

International news

spot Chile's working class delivers a landslide vote against ultra-right Kast

Socialist history

spot New unionism - when mass workers' action changed Britain

Local elections

spot TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections

Campaigns news

spot Coventry: Private profits from hospital parking

spot Fighting Fund - 162% of target, £162,000 raised

spot Trinity Centre: Shameful eviction by Newham council

Obituary

spot Obituary: Kate Jones - 1953-2021

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