Reports and campaigns

Hugo Pierre, a candidate in Unison's general secretary election, speaking at Socialism 2020, 21st November 2020

How will Socialism 2020 work?

Socialism 2020, from Friday 20 to Monday 23 November, will be like no other event you will attend this year

Optare: Right to strike defended

Unite members at Optare in Yorkshire returned to the picket lines on 16 November for the first day of their now escalated four-days-a-week strike at the bus manufacturers.

Selling the Socialist

The Socialist Party has been out in Cardiff continuing the campaign for a 15% pay rise for NHS workers

Manchester student occupation - end rip-off rent, free education now

Socialist Party members in Manchester visited the 25 students occupying 'The Tower' at Manchester University to show our solidarity on 15 November

Stop Leicester hospital closure

Leicester's NHS bosses seem scared about the 'Save Our NHS Leicestershire' campaign's attempts to put forward alternative views on their proposals to reorganise our hospitals, including the closure of the Leicester General Hospital.

#SpyCops inquiry - Revealing police violence against Socialists

Six years since it was first announced, the Undercover Policing inquiry finally started taking evidence from witnesses last week

Young Socialists organising for our future

Young Socialists fighting for jobs: As capitalism plunges into a new period of crisis, young people face a potential future of unemployment and hardship

Race disparity gets worse - fight to improve living standards for all

Disparities in racial progress are getting worse, according to a recent report 'Black people, racism and human rights', by a committee of mainly Tory MPs and unelected Lords.

Overcrowded Little Ilford School strikes against more expansion

A huge picket line, 50 strong, launched the strike against forced expansion of Little Ilford School on Thursday 12 November.

Strike action ballot at UEL over job cuts

The University and College Union (UCU) has warned the University of East London (UEL) of potential industrial action over the university's decision to push ahead with compulsory job cuts.

Hackney council parking services brought in-house

Hackney Council has been forced to bring its parking wardens in-house, ending a 16-year arrangement with private company APCOA, following a campaign and strike action by the workers, members' of union Unite.

Fight Tata Steel jobs threat - nationalise now!

Once again the jobs of thousands of Tata UK steelworkers are threatened

Ex-MP Chris Williamson joins TUSC

TUSC's steering committee welcomed five new members who are on the NECs of trade unions, and former Labour MP Chris Williamson.

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Trump out! But mass workers' struggle needed

The nightmare of Trump's presidency and the chaos of the US presidential election represent, at root, the crisis of US capitalism - which is in decline as a world superpower - and of the capitalist system itself which cannot escape its crisis since the 2007-8 crash

RMT union AGM votes to defend union democracy

This year's RMT transport union's annual general meeting (AGM) was like no other I have ever attended.

The struggle for a new mass workers' party

Socialist Party Wales moved quickly to respond to news of Corbyn's suspension, with all branches calling meetings to discuss what the working class must do next, now that it's clear that the road to transforming Labour is blocked.

Unison general secretary candidate and Socialist Party member Hugo Pierre speaking during an anti-racism demo in 2017. Click here for the latest article in the Socialist on the general secretary contest.

Sainsbury's and Argos: Closures, cuts and soaring sales

The news of over 3,000 job cuts will have been a bombshell to many Sainsbury's and Argos workers