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The Socialist newspaper, 20 October 2021, issue 1152

News

spot Fight for a socialist recovery

spot Tories to blame for GP crisis

spot Container delay carnage makes the case for socialist planning

spot Socialist nationalisation not bailouts for the bosses

Workplace news

spot Unite union policy conference

spot University workers ballot for strike action

spot Unite and fight for 30,000 permanent DWP jobs

spot Gwent valleys Stagecoach bus drivers strike for fair pay

spot Reinstate Gary Evans! Llanelli postal workers strike

spot Napo AGM 2021: Union placed on war footing

spot Scunthorpe scaffs strike for pay

People's budgets

spot People's Budgets - a socialist answer to cruel cuts

spot Brighton bin workers' victory in sight against Green-led council

spot Fight to defend homelessness services

spot Ealing People's Budget - cuts can be resisted

spot Northampton People's Budget - cuts and privatisation is a failed strategy

spot Fighting the cuts at the ballot box in Liverpool

Fall of apartheid

spot The fall of Apartheid in South Africa

Climate change

spot COP26: Trade unions must fight for a socialist transition to renewables

spot Save the planet from capitalist climate catastrophe

International

spot Austria: Chancellor Kurz resigns amid allegations of corruption

Obituary

spot Obituary - Tony Davison: "I work for Militant, but Laing's pay my wages"

Campaigns

spot "Are you the socialist cabby?"

spot Housing crisis: Tories and Labour are not on our side

spot Liverpool arms fair: Hundreds of protesters defy police 'dispersal zone'

spot Hackney children's centres - more education cuts are devastating

spot Biggest protest yet to save Stratford Circus

spot Doncaster: Vigil condemns violence against women

Readers' opinion

spot I'm unemployed: For me vacancy crisis is a lie

spot TV review: Squid Game

The Socialist newspaper, 13 October 2021, issue 1151

We need a pay rise!

spot Fight for the pay rise we deserve

spot Workers need a pay rise

What we think

spot Cynical Johnson government no friend of workers

News

spot Pandora property speculators fuel housing crisis

spot Social care funding needed now

spot News in brief

Workplace news

spot Who runs Unison: lay members or the paid officials?

spot Place Unite at the head of the anti-Tory movement

spot Oaks Park pickets vote for more strikes to defeat bullies

spot National Education Union deputy general secretary election

spot College strikes continue into third week

spot 60 steelworks scaffs march in second week of all-out strike

spot DVLA: Workers ballot on further strike action

COP26

spot Build a mass working-class climate movement with socialist policies

Youth Fight for Jobs

spot Hundreds march with Youth Fight for Jobs

Winter of Discontent

spot The 'winter of discontent' - When workers could take no more

Campaigns news

spot Hackney: Stop closure of children's centres

spot Durning Hall: Hands off our community space

spot March to save Stratford arts jobs from Newham Labour attacks

Readers' opinion

spot Newcastle United takeover - no to billionaire Ashley or Saudi despots

spot Ridley Road: An engaging story of fighting fascism

spot Readers' comments

The Socialist newspaper, 6 October 2021, issue 1150

What we think

spot Bakers' union disaffiliates from Labour

News

spot Sarah Everard trial reveals police abuse of power

spot Tories plunge millions further into poverty with Universal Credit cut

spot Capitalist climate hypocrisy

spot Railway bosses cook the books in another capitalist market failure

spot Glasgow's equal pay battle set to re-erupt

spot Pay NHS and care staff to address worker shortages

Workplace news

spot NEU: National executive agrees campaign on pay

spot Coordinated FE strike against measly pay offer

spot Unison LG members reject insulting pay offer

spot Unite health members say no to 3% and vote for action

spot Tesco warehouse rep fighting for reinstatement

spot Scunthorpe steel scaffolders strike for pay rise

spot Brighton waste workers walk out

Economy

spot Capitalism's economic instability in the 'new normal'

Youth Fight for Jobs

spot Fighting for our future

spot Youth Fight for Jobs - why we're marching on 9 October

spot Ten years since our 330-mile Jarrow March for Jobs

Campaigns news

spot Barking NHS: "Sorry, please try again later"

spot We have the right to breathe fresh air

spot Nottingham: Punish Labour for cruel cuts

spot London protest for Texas abortion rights

spot North West socialists join march against Tory conference

spot Fighting Fund target smashed - �31,703 raised

Obituary

spot Obituary - Dave Hardaker, 1952-2021

Review

spot Caffeine and capitalism - a symbiotic relationship

The Socialist newspaper, 29 September 2021, issue 1149

What we think

spot Starmer consolidates post-Corbyn Blairite transformation of Labour

International

spot German election: A change of capitalist government, but disaster for Die Linke

People's budgets

spot Save our services

News

spot End profit-fuelled crisis

spot NHS workers reject 3% pay insult

spot Driver shortages - a view from the inside

spot News in brief

Black history month

spot Black history month and its relevance today

Climate change

spot CWI livestream rally report

Workplace news

spot NEU deputy general secretary election

spot Corby and Burton Latimer Weetabix engineers strike

spot Fightback to save Birmingham GKN jobs!

spot Flexibility to suit workers not the bosses

spot College workers walk out in pay dispute

Campaigns

spot London tenants v greedy contractors

spot Bromsgrove protest for NHS fair pay

spot Sabina Nessa vigil: End violence against women

Youth and Students

spot Join the fight for our future

spot Sunak's student special

spot More market chaos: York students given digs in Hull

spot Lots of sign-ups for Socialist Students at freshers

spot Youth climate protests are back

The Socialist newspaper, 22 September 2021, issue 1148

What we think

spot Workers' politics won't come from Labour

News

spot Working class under attack

spot NHS workers reject 3% insult

spot Energy market chaos makes the case for nationalisation

spot Tory cuts to Universal Credit: we need a union fightback

spot Interview: Bakers' union to vote on Labour disaffiliation

spot Tax fraud could be over �20 billion annually

spot Life expectancy falls - a condemnation of capitalism

Feature

spot Socialists and the four-day week

Occupy

spot 10 years since Occupy

Workplace news

spot End the teaching workload crisis

spot MOJ pay deal accepted - we demand 10%

spot Workers at 13 colleges to strike over pay

spot New strike dates in EMR guards dispute

spot Stop press: Sparks walk out

spot Oaks Park strikers call eleven days' more action

International

spot German general election

Campaigns

spot Unemployment, low pay, rip-off uni fees, climate change... Join the fight for Socialism

spot Yorkshire Youth Fight for Jobs relaunched

spot W Sussex 'disability tax' - protest not going away

spot Fighting evictions in Cornwall

spot Leeds taxi drivers and disabled passengers unite to fight station changes

spot Socialist Students: Youth lit up when they saw us

spot York: Non-binary and trans rights protest

Readers' opinion

spot TV Review - Help: Heart-wrenching portrayal of Covid care home crisis

spot Gleision mine deaths: Still fighting for justice

spot Corbyn had a social care plan

spot Who pays for the climate crisis?

spot Famine in Madagascar

The Socialist newspaper, 15 September 2021, issue 1147

What we think

spot We need a new political party for workers and youth

spot What's behind the worker shortages, and what can be done about it?

News

spot Social care plans: A sticking plaster instead of surgery

spot Hands off the Universal Credit uplift

spot Unite young and old to defend the pensions triple lock

Climate change

spot Climate change, capitalism, and the struggle for socialism

Youth and students

spot We won't pay for capitalism's failings

spot Scrap tuition fees - end university marketisation

spot Returning to campus: Students need to fight

spot Campaigning for socialism at Oxford Brookes Uni

spot Youth Fight for Jobs launches campaign in Brighton

Workplace news

spot NSSN trade union rally reflects working-class anger to fight back

spot Oaks Park school: Redbridge Labour council backs strike-breaking bullies

spot Save jobs and services - nationalise rail

spot Weetabix - workers have had enough

spot Carmarthenshire Unison: 'Recognise our union!'

spot Goodlord dispute: Labour's leadership weasled out of backing strike action

NHS

spot Take the wealth off the super-rich to fund: NHS and social care, pay and benefit rises

spot Deaths of despair: Health crisis - capitalism in the dock

spot On the frontline, and still fighting for the NHS

spot Solidarity to the striking workers at Charit� and Vivantes hospitals in Berlin

Campaigns

spot Putting socialism on the map in Chichester

spot Reclaiming Pride as protest in Nottingham

spot Fighting fund target reached: Help us continue to raise our banner and programme

Review

spot Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

spot TV review - Grenfell: The Untold Story

The Socialist newspaper, 8 September 2021, issue 1146

NHS and social care

spot NHS and social care - make the rich pay, not the workers

spot Workers shouldn't pay for health and social care plans

spot End service cuts and care charges

spot Families demand rights for care home residents

spot Whipps Cross hospital workers reject the 3%

What we think

spot A pivotal moment for the trade union movement

Socialist Party news and campaigns

spot Socialist Party national council - members enthused by excellent in-person meeting

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party

Education

spot Union action needed to make schools Covid safe

spot Fighting NEU leadership needed to tackle school funding crisis

spot Schools funding crisis fails vulnerable children

spot University bosses push through pension cuts proposal

9/11 twenty years on

spot 9/11 and the 'War on Terror' twenty years on

Workplace news

spot Bexley bin workers win big gains after six-week strike

spot Equity protest to save arts centre forces talks from Newham Council

spot DWP: Demand safe working and more jobs

spot DHL workers to strike against wage theft

Youth Fight for Jobs

spot Organising to defend our future: 9 October- Youth fight for jobs day of action

spot Building Youth Fight for Jobs in the South West

International news

spot Libya - ten years after Gaddafi's overthrow

spot US Supreme Court refuses to challenge Texas abortion ban

spot Keep fascists out of Portland: Build a mass movement to fight the right

Readers' opinion

spot The street I live on

spot Socialist change, not climate change

spot Vigil: A nuclear sub murder mystery

Obituary

spot Obituary: Roger Henshaw, comrade and class fighter

The Socialist newspaper, 25 August 2021, issue 1145

What we think

spot Afghanistan disaster - Unite to fight for funding for refugees and local communities

Afghanistan

spot Afghanistan in crisis:

spot Afghanistan: The Taliban takeover - what are the lessons for the workers' movement internationally

News

spot NHS Pay

spot UK hospitals in danger of collapse

spot University of Leeds students bribed to stay away while staff are under attack

spot Exam results: grade gap widens

Lessons from Poplar 100 years on

spot Lessons from Poplar 100 years on

Workplace news

spot NEU: Oppose the pay freeze with action not just words

spot Care workers struggle for a pay rise and trade union recognition

spot Reject the Ministry of Justice pay offer

spot East Midlands rail strikes continue

spot Homelessness workers fight for better pay and conditions across sector

spot Woolwich ferry strikers - the action necessary to win

spot Liverpool university strike saves jobs

International

spot Nigeria: Comrade Omomeewa, student leader and socialist campaigner, killed by armed assailants

spot SNP-Green deal will not deliver for workers and youth

spot Reflections on the Lebanese tragedy one year on

Campaigns

spot Biggest in-person socialist event this year!

spot Ealing by-election: Labour council has not opposed Tory cuts

spot Why I rejoined the Socialist Party

spot Councils declared climate emergency - now act like it!

spot Wales: Gearing up for 9 October youth marches

spot Liverpool: Stop the arms fair!

spot Marching for Kashmir's liberation

spot Donate to stop Tories clawing back crumbs

Readers' opinion

spot Film Review: Martin Eden

spot TV review: Revolutionary Love

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