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THE SOCIALIST PARTY SAYS

How to resist Tory attacks on local communities

12 February One of the reasons why Labour lost seats in the North and Midlands in the general election was because Labour councils have carried out ten years of Tory government cuts. More...

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Fighting government cuts to sixth form colleges: Picket line at City & Islington sixth form college, London, 12.2.20

NEWS AND SOCIALIST ANALYSIS

12 February 2020

Trade unions - new decade, new challenges

The unions and their members are facing serious challenges - not least a Boris Johnson-led Tory government with a working majority. More...

12 February 2020

Sinn Féin harnesses working-class anger to top poll

The general election in Ireland saw a seismic change in the electoral landscape, with a big surge in support for Sinn Féin. More...

5 February 2020

'Post-Brexit' era of crisis ahead

Brexit Day has been and gone. Now Johnson is promising the "dawn of a new era". More...

More news and analysis...

REPORTS AND CAMPAIGNS

12/2/20 Climate change

Tackling climate change: Johnson emits huge quantities of hot air! Socialist policies needed to create green jobs and net-zero carbon emissions as part of a sustainable economy. More...

11/2/20 UCU

University strikers walk out for better pay and pensions The University and College Union announced 14 days of further action More...

5/2/20 Domestic violence

Refuges turn away 64% of women - set no-cuts budgets now! The number of refuge bed spaces in England is now 30% below the number recommended. More...

5/2/20 Bromley

Victory for library workers after 241 days on strike! Bromley library workers achieved a victory after eight months on continuous strike More...

More reports and campaigns...

The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party

The Socialist newspaper, 12 February 2020, issue 1073

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The Socialist issue 1073

News

spot Tackling climate change: Johnson emits huge quantities of hot air!

spot Windrush deportations: end the hostile environment

spot Streatham attack: Johnson's bill can't stop terror

spot What We Heard

NHS

spot NHS: Fight for full funding!

spot Unnecessary surgery scandal shows need for democratic control of NHS

spot NHS debt so high it can't be repaid - so don't pay it!

spot Callous Tory cuts to children's speech therapy in Nottinghamshire

Trade unions

spot Trade unions - new decade, new challenges

Workplace news

spot Big Unison south east regional meeting votes for anti-cuts position

spot PCS union: Uniting the left around a leadership that can win for members

spot Westex workers win increased pay offer in 11th week of strike

spot University strikers walk out for better pay and pensions

spot East London school strikes against academisation continue

spot Foreign Office workers' strike

spot Solidarity with Turkish workers

spot Lambeth Unison letter

spot London NSSN meeting

spot Solidarity with victimised bus rep Moe

spot Support Clive Walder

Cuts

spot How to resist tory attacks on local communities

spot Cuts councillors are the real problem

spot Council houses - not private property developers

International

spot Sinn Fein harnesses working-class anger to top poll

spot Lebanon - mass protests cut across sectarian division

Campaigns

spot Build independent workers' media with May Day greetings

spot Building a working-class movement for Tamil rights

spot Hackney: We don't want homes and retail units working-class people can't afford

spot 20 years of housing failure

spot Socialist Sellers

Universal Credit

spot New BBC series - Insight or whitewash?

spot Nottingham: death of vulnerable claimant

spot UC stopped without warning

The Socialist newspaper, 5 February 2020, issue 1072

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The Socialist issue 1072

News

spot 6.5 million working poor: Fight to end low pay

spot Labour leadership contest and public ownership

spot Coronavirus exposes capitalism's weaknesses in healthcare and economy

spot Record dissatisfaction with democracy: capitalism's dead end

spot Refuges turn away 64% of women - set no-cuts budgets now!

spot Grenfell watch: Unions challenge 'mockery of justice'

Rail

spot Nationalise the railways: For an integrated public transport system

spot Expensive, overcrowded and unreliable: Renationalise the railways!

spot Cancel the franchise, not our trains

spot Will the North get investment and transport infrastructure?

What we think

spot 'Post-Brexit' era of crisis ahead

Workplace news

spot Huge victory for Bromley library workers after 241 days on indefinite strike!

spot 14 more days of university strikes over pensions, pay and conditions

spot 500 BBC journalists' jobs under threat

spot Newham council tax workers' pay victory

spot No to academisation of east London schools!

spot Ealing tax office workers strike against closure

NHS

spot Outrageous waiting times will put lives at risk

spot NHS: Save stroke beds in Coventry and Warwickshire

International

spot Syria: Assad regime consolidates power after brutal counterrevolution

spot Israel/Palestine: Trump 'peace plan' promises further conflict

Campaigns

spot Socialist Party calls anti-austerity protest on Budget Day

spot Sadiq Khan "out-Tories" himself to defend tech firms' tax bonanza

spot Socialist Sellers

spot Reading Labour council: Stop privatising our leisure services

spot The rich fund the Tories and Blairites, so help fund the working-class fightback

spot Support the working-class press in 2020

spot Defend and fight for warm, safe housing for Samira and everyone

spot Alternative Burns Night success

Readers' opinion

spot Liverpool council: "No more cuts" - Is Joe Anderson serious?

spot Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 29 January 2020, issue 1071

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The Socialist issue 1071

What we think

spot No 'blank cheque' for Labour leadership candidates

News

spot End health and wealth divide - fight for our NHS

spot Unite union nominates Long-Bailey and Burgon

spot Coronavirus: capitalism limits response to viral outbreaks

spot HS2 debacle: nationalise rail and construction!

spot Johnson's Huawei internet deal underlines world trade tensions

Workplace news

spot University and College Union: Pensions, pay and conditions dispute reach a crucial stage

spot PCS union elections: Nominate candidates fighting austerity and for union democracy

spot Interview with a forestry worker

spot Westex carpet strike

Brexit and the economy

spot Brexit and British capitalism - why Johnson's juggernaut is set to jackknife

Stop the cuts

spot Fight the closure of Royal Glamorgan A&E

spot Save Hampden Nursery in Camden

spot We need socialists in London's City Hall

spot Unite regional committee votes to support anti-cuts Enfield councillor

spot Cuts to women's services cost lives

Campaigns

spot Socialist sellers: Opposing the Tories & fighting cuts

spot London protest against Modi's racist law

International news

spot Libya: Civil war and chaos follow interventions by world and regional powers

spot Trump's trashing of the environment - Dump the capitalist profit system!

spot CWI round-up

Readers' opinion

spot TV review: The Trial of Christine Keeler

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 22 January 2020, issue 1070

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The Socialist issue 1070: Council cuts continue... So must the fightback

Socialist Party news and analysis

spot Council cuts continue... So must the fightback

spot Protesting is not terrorism

spot End climate change, end inequality, end capitalism!

spot Capitalism fails NHS services in Liverpool: scrap PFI!

spot To win back working-class trust Labour must take the 'Liverpool road'

International socialist news and analysis

spot Eyewitness report: workers' struggle in France on the boil

spot France striker speaks: real, deep anger needs union strategy

spot Iraq - a brutal legacy of imperialist intervention

spot India: Huge general strike but a missed opportunity

Workplace news and analysis

spot Royal Mail workers to reballot for strike action

spot Renewing the left in PCS

spot A win against academisation in east London

spot Belfast Hovis workers' all-out strike

spot Westex strikers read the Socialist

spot Ealing tax office strike continues

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spot Make a stand: set legal no-cuts council budgets

spot "If you think bus and rail services are crap, sign our petition to take them back"

spot Building Tamil Solidarity with youth and the unions

Readers' opinion

spot The Socialist inbox

spot Robert Burns: of the people, for the people

The Socialist newspaper, 15 January 2020, issue 1069

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The Socialist issue 1069

What we think

spot Labour Party leadership contest: Fight for a mass anti-austerity, workers' party with a socialist programme

spot Labour leadership race: Reverse Unison's undemocratic nomination of Blairite Starmer

News

spot Low Pay, Long Hours. Bosses rip us off. Organise the fightback now!

spot Build for strikes to save NHS

spot No free ride for the airline bosses - nationalise Flybe now!

Workplace news

spot Hackney school bus workers win pay increase following strikes

spot PCS: Time to rebuild the left

spot Northern Ireland: Thousands of nurses continue to strike for better pay

spot Westex Carpet strike reaches two month mark

spot London bus drivers ballot to strike

spot Union lawyer arrested on security guards' picket line

Campaigns

spot We need socialists in London's City Hall

spot Stop gentrification in Newham: "We are here, you have consulted us and we're not going anywhere!"

spot Massive Scottish independence demo marks new stage in struggle

spot Young people who voted for Corbyn's manifesto will now ask... How can we win those ideas?

spot London: Protesters return to oppose Middle East war

spot Cladding scandal: Government steps up defence of landlords

spot Nottingham: Youth protest against Barclays £64 million fossil-fuel investments

spot Socialist Party national committee meeting

International socialist news and analysis

spot Renewed protests shake Iranian leaders

spot France: Strike wave over pensions - Macron government in retreat

Readers' opinion

spot Sustainable food production and the need for socialism

spot TV Review: Apocalypse Cow

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 8 January 2020, issue 1068

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The Socialist issue 1068

Iran

spot Suleimani's assassination - Middle East thrown into turmoil

spot Trump attacks Iran - London protest: We need workers' action against war and austerity

Defend the right to strike

spot Build union resistance to Tory attacks

spot Defend the right to strike

spot Defend the right to strike! - RMT and NSSN lobby parliament

What we think

spot 2020: Class struggles and capitalist instability will intensify

spot Labour leadership election

News

spot Capitalism must go - fight for socialism

spot Trouble ahead for Johnson: Brexit is far from 'done'

spot Tory minimum wage hike not enough

spot Northern Rail franchise in question: nationalise the railways!

spot Children need intensive care? We don't care!

spot Shell pays £0 corporation tax, and plans huge hike in fossil output

spot Ignore the hype - austerity goes on: organise to resist

spot International wave of revolt continues

Workplace news

spot What next after the general election, for PCS and the left

spot Council concedes to striking winter gritters' demands

spot West Midlands RMT guards jobs saved

spot All we want for Christmas is a no-strings pay rise

spot Anti-academy strike action in Newham

Campaigns

spot Socialist Party members out on the streets

spot £50,240 - a new fighting fund record

spot Avenue of trees saved!

Readers' opinion

spot The Socialist Inbox

The Socialist newspaper, 13 December 2019, issue 10671

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The Socialist 2019 post-election special supplement: Stand firm for socialist policies to stop Tory attacks

spot Stand firm for socialist policies to stop Tory attacks

spot PCS general secretary election

The Socialist newspaper, 4 December 2019, issue 1067

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The Socialist issue 1067

What we think

spot Prepare now for the struggles after 12 December

International socialist news and analysis

spot Hong Kong's uprising

spot South African Airways workers win wage increase after strike action

Big Pharma

spot End profiteering from health - nationalise big pharma

News

spot Unite against terrorism, racism, war and austerity

spot Hillsborough justice eluded

spot News in brief

spot Keep up to date with our election coverage

Workplace news

spot SWR dispute: It's a strike to ensure the safety of the travelling public

spot Solid support for guards on West Midlands Trains

spot UCU strikes: more determined than ever

spot Royal Mail court ruling - national reps meeting and solidarity action essential

spot Jared Wood overwhelmingly elected to RMT executive

spot PCS union general secretary election

spot Northern Ireland: Health workers take action

spot Workplace news in brief

Socialist Party reports and campaigns

spot Fight for your future - join the socialists

spot Selling the Socialist

spot Climate strikes: Students and trade unionists protest together

spot Why I joined: "Proud to be a socialist"

spot Socialist Students conference: Students and workers united in struggle

spot Climate change election debate

spot Carlisle election meeting: Education - time to make the mega-rich and corporations pay

Quiz

spot The Great Big Socialist Party Quiz 2019

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