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The Single Market: A Neolberal Tool Of The Bosses

Fight for a socialist Brexit

Hundreds Evacuated After Labour Council Dismisses Cracks In Tower Blocks

Fight for safe homes for all

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.

Three Major West Wales Hospitals Could Close

Corbyn and unions must fight Labour right

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.

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.

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.

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.

Strike To Save Our NHS!

Tories Retreat on Pay Cap - Nurses Demand More 

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.

Stand With The RMT

Unite against Southern Rail and the Tories.

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).

Northern Ireland Divisive Election A Warning To The Workers' Movement

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

Save Our NHS

Save Our NHS

Brexit Deal No Solution To Tory Rifts

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

Fearful Tories Mull Borrowing To Build

For a mass programme of council house building!

1967 Abortion Act Reflected Social Changes

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

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.

Tories Torn Bin Them Now

Fight for a socialist Brexit to bring the whole lot down

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Former British Leyland senior steward

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.

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.