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Socialist Party news and analysis
Lifting the lockdown: workers must not pay the price
Victory for Royal Glamorgan A&E!
Housing: act now to cancel Covid crisis rents and debt
Private sector rents in England hit a record high of £700 a month as the country headed into coronavirus lockdown
Over 30% of children living in poverty
End capitalism and inequality now. Fight for socialism! Even before the pandemic, austerity policies had pushed an increasing number of families into poverty
Fight back to stop Tories scrapping protections for children in care
The Tories have been using Covid-19 to attack safeguarding procedures in our frontline services
International aid: Johnson’s pie in the sky
Boris Johnson has announced the merging of the Department for International Development into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Reading workers’ movement responds to knife attack
Cladding off now; failure app; Labour untogether; shopping scandal
It’s one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us: update on the lockdown economy
Black Lives Matter
Young people fighting back: Jobs and homes, not racism
What is the Socialist Party fighting for to improve things for young people?
The Black Panther Party marked the high point of the Civil Rights movement – what are the lessons for today?
Towards an anti-racist school curriculum
Black Lives Matter protests: week three
Some of the local protests the Socialist Party has taken part in up and down the country.
International socialist news and analysis
South Africa: Building jobs and living wage campaign
On 17 June, hundreds of workers marched in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding permanent jobs and a monthly living wage of R12,500 (£580).
Wales
Tories sinking in Wales but no enthusiasm for Welsh Labour
Mark Drakeford’s Welsh Labour government has made much of the “four nations approach” to tackling the Covid-19 crisis, claiming to plot a different course to the Tory Westminster government
Workplace news and analysis
Why you should come to NSSN conference
The National Shop Stewards Network Conference on 4 July is always a vital forum for trade unionists
Fully fund schools – stand firm on safety
P&O: defend every job – nationalise the ferries
P&O Ferries wants to cut 734 jobs in Dover and 122 jobs in Hull after a severe downturn in demand
Workers need a ‘new deal’ – at least £12 an hour now!
The shop workers’ union, Usdaw, recently launched its ‘New Deal for Workers’ campaign
Renationalisation of the probation service
The renationalisation of our probation service is a victory, but just the start of what’s needed
Campaigns
It’s time to join the Socialist Party
New members explain why they have: Everyone I know has been hit by capitalist failures; we can only do so much alone
Selling the Socialist: we’re back!
Just some of the events where the Socialist newspaper was sold (with social distancing) in the past week…
Fighting fund: help us smash our target!
Without money we could not put out socialist ideas on the recent mass protests
Call for an increase in PIP due to Covid-19
Readers’ opinion
A timely read about a pandemic that overwhelms society
Fiction: The Scarlet Plague: It’s timely to read Jack London’s short story about a virulent pandemic that sends human civilisation into the abyss
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors
