Reviews and comments
28 October 2020
Callous and cruel Tories
Matt Hancock, with his sickly insincere smile, retorted that £63 million had been given to local councils, which could be used to help children over the holidays who get free school meals.
28 October 2020
Books that inspired me: Germinal
I sold the Militant newspaper at the entrance to Snowdown pit in Kent throughout the 1984-85 miners' strike, and until the pit's closure in 1987.
14 October 2020
Obituary: Raph Parkinson 1958-2020
Socialist Party members in Liverpool and elsewhere, and Unison activists, members and staff, are shocked and saddened by the death, as a result of coronavirus, of our comrade Raph Parkinson.
14 October 2020
Hannah Sell's article ' Worldwide Capitalist Crisis Deepens' (socialistparty.org.uk) exemplified the Tories' 'magic money tree', "EasyJet was given access to more than $750 million in government money in April"
14 October 2020
Non-fiction: This Land - the story of a movement
The 2017 general election surge for Corbyn's anti-austerity manifesto was a high point for many workers and youth desperate for an alternative to Tory cuts
14 October 2020
Students speak out: isolation and uncertainty reign
'Hollow and empty' higher education: Hollow and empty is how I would describe the first week of my higher education.
7 October 2020
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7 October 2020
Non-fiction: 'Why I no longer talk to white people about race'
'Why I no longer talk to white people about race' by Reni Eddo-Lodge, written in 2014, is a personalised, honest and thought-provoking read about racism in Britain
7 October 2020
Film: 'Sick' - 'They've got people looking in the wrong direction'
'Sick' is a heart-wrenching drama/documentary that uses the real stories of benefit claimants battling, and sometimes losing to, the system to claim Personal Independence Payment, and also work capability assessments for Employment Support Allowance.
30 September 2020
Send your news, views and criticism, in not more than 150 words, to [email protected] - or if you're not online, PO Box 1398, Enfield EN1 9GT
30 September 2020
Why I joined the Socialist Party: Labour moved right and left me behind
I considered myself a socialist long before I joined the Socialist Party. Socialism embodies my values - equality, compassion and justice.
23 September 2020
A day in the life of a salon worker
I work in a salon in Cardiff. It was bad before the pandemic began, and some employers are using the crisis to either drag more work out of their staff for little to no more rewards, or to cut hours, cut
23 September 2020
Why we joined the Socialist Party
Why I became and remain a socialist: In the early 1950s, I joined a trade union. Although I didn't realise it, like a lot of youth today, I was thinking along socialist lines before that.
23 September 2020
TV: The English Game - how the working class made football the people's game
The English Game tells the story of how football was transformed in the 19th century. It was revolutionised from the Southern-dominated amateur, public school sport, dominated by individualistic, dribbling
23 September 2020
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16 September 2020
Non-fiction: Left Out - the inside story of Labour under Corbyn
Retreat and hesitation could not beat the relentless right wing
9 September 2020
Video game developer attacks Black Lives Matter
Just two months ago, French video game giant Ubisoft joined the hollow chorus of corporations exclaiming that black lives matter
2 September 2020
No one could watch this five-part documentary series about the Iraq war and come away with the feeling that the war was anything but a catastrophe for the people of Iraq, the Middle East and humanity as a whole.
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