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Ledbury Tenants Fight For Decent Homes

The Socialist has previously reported that the Ledbury estate in Southwark, following the Grenfell Tower fire, was declared wholly unsafe by structural engineers and residents told they may have to temporarily leave. This was due to large cracks which you could fit your whole hand into in the fabric of the four 13-storey tower blocks.

Sampson Allegations Show Overhaul Needed In Women's Football

At the start of the summer women’s football was riding high. In the build up to the European Championships, England, for the first time in a very long time (in men’s or women’s football), were one of the favourites. A crushing semi-final exit to the hosts and eventual winners, the Netherlands, ranked 12th in the world to England’s fifth at the time, ended hopes of the title.

Lecturers Vote Yes To National Strikes Against Pension Cuts

Sam Morecroft Sheffield UCU anti-casualisation officer

PCS Executive Agrees Next Steps In Pay Campaign Following Historic Vote For Action

Marion Lloyd PCS national executive committee member and PCS Left Unity chair (personal capacity)

Defend Louise Harrison - Save Yorkshire Women's Services!

Amy Cousens Women’s Lives Matter campaign and Leeds Socialist Party

Jobcentre Walkout To Save Whitley Bay Office

Two days of strike action took place on 17 and 18 August organised by the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), that represents staff in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), against the closure of the Whitley Bay Jobcentre.

Defiant Barts NHS Workers Fight To Stop Serco Sabotage

Socialist Party industrial organiser

Amazon Tax Halves As Revenues Soar - Nationalise Now!

Tech giant Amazon paid 50% less tax in the UK this year compared to last year despite the company’s turnover rising by 54%.

Bosses Divided - University Pension Strikes Can Win!

Sheffield UCU anti-casualisation officer (personal capacity)

Facebook Sides With State Repression Reinstate The Tamil Solidarity Page

Facebook shut down the Tamil Solidarity campaign page on 9 February.

Northants Council Crisis - Protesters Demand An End To Cuts And Privatisation

Northants Socialist Party

May Day, May Day!

North West Socialist Party paper organiser

German Engineering Strike Puts Shorter Week On Agenda - But Could Have Won More

Socialist Party industrial organiser

Fight Tuition Fees

Tories in retreat - kick them out

Deal Concludes Barts Health Strike

“We have raised our heads high”

Birmingham Bin Workers Vote To Continue Action Following Rally

Several hundred supporters, including a large contingent of bin workers, assembled on  17 September outside the very building in Birmingham where the decision to issue 113 redundancy notices and deprive some workers of up to £5,000 a year was made by the Labour council.  

Tata Pension Deal

Tata steelworkers have reluctantly accepted a ‘gun to the head’ pension deal which will end their final salary pension scheme and see it being replaced by an inferior defined contribution scheme.

Rail: Fares Up, Bosses' Pay Up - Delays And Cancellations Up

Greenwich and Bexley Socialist Party

Blairite Haringey Council 'All Ears' To Rich Property Developers

Nick Auvache North London Socialist Party

Amy Murphy For Usdaw President Vote For A Fighting And Democratic Union

Socialist Party members in Usdaw

What's Behind The Surge In Eating Disorders?

Many will have been shocked by recent NHS figures showing the doubling over the last six years of hospitalisations due to life-threatening eating disorders.

Victory Against Government's War On Eastern European Homeless

Paul Heron Solicitor, Public Interest Law Unit (personal capacity)

Universal Credit: Set Up To Fail

Only a few days after the roll-out of the Tories’ new ‘universal credit’ benefits system, the working poor, disabled and most vulnerable in our society are already suffering. Ronnie, an income officer for a housing trust in Halton, Merseyside, spoke to the Socialist Party’s Stephen Armstrong about the difficulties encountered by claimants and her own organisation.

Netherlands: Heavy Defeat Forausterity Government

Build a mass workers’ party that fights for socialism.

Victory: Low-Paid Workers Beat Bank Of England Bosses!

Unite the Union members at the Bank of England have won a historic victory.

I've Been Placed In Charge Of Wards Without Defibrillators

Kick out all the cutters and private profiteers

Barts Hospital Workers Force Serco To Negotiating Table

As we go to press, talks are underway between Unite the Union and Serco over the long-running Barts hospitals dispute.

Bus Safety: We Won't Be Distracted From Public Ownership

Twenty-five deaths and nearly 12,000 injuries have been caused by buses on the capital’s streets in just two years. The lethal pressures heaped on bus drivers are shown in a new report ‘Driven to Distraction’, by the London Assembly’s Transport Committee.

Readmit The Socialists - For A Federal Labour Party

The Socialist received a letter over the summer from a reader questioning our application to work with the Labour Party in an inclusive federation. Socialists always welcome serious debate on the strategy and tactics we should employ, and so we asked Dave Nellist, the former Labour MP who is now a member of the Socialist Party national committee, to make a contribution.

When We Fight - We Win!

Interview with leader of students’ union in the Spanish state