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The Single Market: A Neolberal Tool Of The Bosses
The Socialist

The Single Market: A Neolberal Tool Of The Bosses

Fight for a socialist Brexit

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Issue 959, 24-30 August 2017
Hundreds Evacuated After Labour Council Dismisses Cracks In Tower Blocks
The Socialist

Hundreds Evacuated After Labour Council Dismisses Cracks In Tower Blocks

Fight for safe homes for all

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Issue 959, 24-30 August 2017
Walthamstow Save Our Square Occupation: 'This Land Is Our Land!'
The Socialist

Walthamstow Save Our Square Occupation: 'This Land Is Our Land!'

“Who is Walthamstow for?” asked David Gardiner, secretary of the Save Our Square campaign, in his opening speech at the campaign’s protest and occupation event in east London on 24 February.

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Issue 984, 1-7 March 2018
Three Major West Wales Hospitals Could Close
The Socialist

Three Major West Wales Hospitals Could Close

Corbyn and unions must fight Labour right

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Issue 984, 1-7 March 2018
Newham: Teaching Workers And Parents Determined To Halt Academies
The Socialist

Newham: Teaching Workers And Parents Determined To Halt Academies

Teachers and teaching assistants, with the active support of students and the public, have been taking strike action in the east London borough of Newham against the forced academisation of schools. On 26 February a hundreds-strong noisy and vibrant demonstration, organised by the local National Education Union (NEU) branch, marched to the town hall in East Ham to demand support from the recalcitrant Labour council and mayor.At the full council meeting following the march, Newham Labour council voted to reverse its long-held position of support for academisation. Unfortunately many Labour councillors abstained or refused to accept the anti-academy motion.

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Issue 984, 1-7 March 2018
Socialist Students Conference Highlights Successful Work And International Solidarity
The Socialist

Socialist Students Conference Highlights Successful Work And International Solidarity

Over 100 students at-tended the annual Socialist Students conference at Bir-mingham University on 24 February.

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Issue 984, 1-7 March 2018
Sun 'Commie Spy' Smear Corbyn Didn't Collaborate With Stalinism - But With Trotskyists Against It
The Socialist

Sun 'Commie Spy' Smear Corbyn Didn't Collaborate With Stalinism - But With Trotskyists Against It

Jeremy Corbyn stands accused of collaborating with Czechoslovak Stalinism. But in fact, his public backing of a Trotskyist call for workers’ democracy shows the opposite.

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Issue 984, 1-7 March 2018
Defuse The Consumer Debt Ticking Time Bomb: Nationalise The Banks!
The Socialist

Defuse The Consumer Debt Ticking Time Bomb: Nationalise The Banks!

Still recovering from the last crisis? Hold on to your wallet, Britain’s bankers are storing up another one. The Financial Conduct Authority has urged the government to tackle the explosion in consumer debt, now standing at £200 billion.

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Issue 963, 21-27 September 2017
Strike To Save Our NHS!
The Socialist

Strike To Save Our NHS!

Tories Retreat on Pay Cap - Nurses Demand More 

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Issue 963, 21-27 September 2017
Worried About Fake News? Start With Labour Councils Budget Lies
The Socialist

Worried About Fake News? Start With Labour Councils Budget Lies

‘Fake news’ is in the headlines - and while Trump is the most obvious purveyor of what used to simply be called ‘lies’, the method is alive and well among Bristol’s Labour councillors and mayor.

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Issue 937, 23 February - 1 March 2017
Stand With The RMT
The Socialist

Stand With The RMT

Unite against Southern Rail and the Tories.

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Issue 935, 9-15 February 2017
Universal Basic Income What Do Socialists Say?
The Socialist

Universal Basic Income What Do Socialists Say?

The idea of welfare benefits being replaced by a ‘universal basic income’ (UBI) has resurfaced in recent years - a welcome discussion because it raises the fundamental right of everyone to have an income that meets their basic needs. Exact proposals vary but they are all based on the idea of everyone in society receiving an unconditional, taxfree, regular payment, regardless of whether they are working or the composition of their household (see box).

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Issue 935, 9-15 February 2017
Northern Ireland Divisive Election A Warning To The Workers' Movement
The Socialist

Northern Ireland Divisive Election A Warning To The Workers' Movement

Socialist Party (Irish sister party of the Socialist Party in England and Wales)

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Issue 941, 23-29 March 2017
Save Our NHS
The Socialist

Save Our NHS

Save Our NHS

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Issue 975, 14 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
Brexit Deal No Solution To Tory Rifts
The Socialist

Brexit Deal No Solution To Tory Rifts

–  No divorce bill to subsidise capitalist elites of Europe–  For a socialist, internationalist Brexit

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Issue 975, 14 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
Labour 'Purge' Furore Really Just Democracy
The Socialist

Labour 'Purge' Furore Really Just Democracy

–  Momentum leadership not put forward strategy to defeat Blairites–  Communities won’t take any more excuses from councillors photo Paul Mattsson

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Issue 975, 14 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
Local Government Pay: Fight For The 5% Claim, Fully Funded
The Socialist

Local Government Pay: Fight For The 5% Claim, Fully Funded

Local Government Pay: Fight For The 5% Claim, Fully Funded

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Issue 975, 14 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
Totnes MP Uses Coffin Controversy To Distract From Brutal NHS Cuts
The Socialist

Totnes MP Uses Coffin Controversy To Distract From Brutal NHS Cuts

Torbay and South Devon Socialist Party and chair Save Our Hospital Services South Devon (personal capacity)

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Issue 975, 14 December 2017 - 3 January 2018
No, Trumpism Is Nothing Like Leninism
The Socialist

No, Trumpism Is Nothing Like Leninism

Steve Bannon, chief strategist to US President Donald Trump, once called himself “a Leninist” - to the delight of Victor Sebestyen, a journalist for the Times, Spectator and Standard.

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Issue 936, 16-22 February 2017
Fearful Tories Mull Borrowing To Build
The Socialist

Fearful Tories Mull Borrowing To Build

For a mass programme of council house building!

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Issue 968, 26 October - 1 November 2017
1967 Abortion Act Reflected Social Changes
The Socialist

1967 Abortion Act Reflected Social Changes

Fight for the right to choose when and whether to have children

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Issue 968, 26 October - 1 November 2017
Ireland: Fighting To Win The Right To Choose
The Socialist

Ireland: Fighting To Win The Right To Choose

On 28 October 2012, the barbarity of the Irish state’s attempt to ban abortion was exposed.

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Issue 968, 26 October - 1 November 2017
Tories Torn Bin Them Now
The Socialist

Tories Torn Bin Them Now

Fight for a socialist Brexit to bring the whole lot down

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Issue 967, 19-25 October 2017
Schools 'Can't Go Any Further' - Stop The Cuts: Set Deficit Budgets Now
The Socialist

Schools 'Can't Go Any Further' - Stop The Cuts: Set Deficit Budgets Now

“With less and less money to run schools, we are suffering enormously. Cuts have been made but we can’t go any further.

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Issue 967, 19-25 October 2017
No More Fire Deaths - Ensure Safety Now!
The Socialist

No More Fire Deaths - Ensure Safety Now!

In the early hours of Sunday 1 October a fire broke out on the ground floor of a three storey block of flats in Ringland Close, Hanley.

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Issue 966, 12-18 October 2017
Westminster Sexual Harassment Scandal Rotten Establishment Must Go
The Socialist

Westminster Sexual Harassment Scandal Rotten Establishment Must Go

Westminster continues to be buffeted by new waves of the sexual harassment scandal. One Tory minister - Michael Fallon - has been forced out, with others barely clinging on.

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Issue 970, 9-15 November 2017
Pay Cap Decisively Rejected By PCS Union Members In Ballot
The Socialist

Pay Cap Decisively Rejected By PCS Union Members In Ballot

In the run-up to the government budget, members of civil servants’ union PCS have delivered a stinging rejection of the Tories’ pay policy, and shown that they are more than willing to take action to overturn it.

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Issue 970, 9-15 November 2017
Obituary: Derek Robinson, 1927-2017 Courageous Struggle Of Car Workers' Leader
The Socialist

Obituary: Derek Robinson, 1927-2017 Courageous Struggle Of Car Workers' Leader

Former British Leyland senior steward

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Issue 970, 9-15 November 2017
Salford: Labour Mayor Needs To Stop All Cuts
The Socialist

Salford: Labour Mayor Needs To Stop All Cuts

Elected mayor of Salford City Council Paul Dennett has been seen by many as a welcome change. He is a self-described Corbyn supporter.

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Issue 964, 28 September - 4 October 2017
Birmingham Bin Strike Council Humiliated In Court Battle - But War Isn't Over Yet
The Socialist

Birmingham Bin Strike Council Humiliated In Court Battle - But War Isn't Over Yet

A Tyseley bin worker summed it up nicely: “We’ve taken the lead, but it’s only half time.

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Issue 964, 28 September - 4 October 2017