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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 Ł20 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 Charité 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

The Socialist newspaper, 11 August 2021, issue 1144

NHS

spot Defend the NHS. Fight the Tory pay insult. Prepare strike action!

spot NHS: Kick out the privatisers, Fight for funding, Build for strike action

News

spot Tory government nationalises Sheffield steel plant

spot Tory cuts worsened crime and Johnson 'blitz' won't help

spot Fight energy price hike

spot Thanks to the miners - an example of workers' struggle and solidarity

spot News in brief

Comment

spot Olympic 'success' masks cuts and inequality in sport

spot Starmer's faithful Guardian

Campaigns news

spot Capitalism = climate catastrophe

spot Rising against a rigged and rotten system - Socialism 2021

spot London Pride cancelled - pandemic shows protest Pride is necessary

spot London: Hundreds protest for trans rights

spot Save Newham's theatres from Labour council cuts!

spot Socialist Party young members summer school

spot A day in the life of a young hospitality worker

spot West Midlands: austerity and capitalism offers no future for young people

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party

spot Don't privatise Dudley libraries

spot Socialist Party: Solely funded by the working class

spot Review - The Struggle for World Socialism

Housing

spot Waltham Forest: Fighting for a home for Nadia and homes for all

History

spot August 1991 - The aborted military coup in the 'Soviet Union'

Workplace news

spot Ballot majority essential to continue DVLA strike action

spot Night tube strike suspended to allow talks - scrap compulsory duties!

spot RMT strike solid on East Midlands rail

spot You need a union when the time comes to fight

spot Unions protest at exploitative Leicester company Food Attraction

spot Over 3,000 votes for fighting socialist programme in CWU

spot NSSN to lobby TUC

International news

spot Beirut's devastating port explosion one year on

The Socialist newspaper, 28 July 2021, issue 1143

News

spot Labour expulsions confirm need for new mass workers' party

spot 'Pingdemic' exemptions

spot Tories and Labour fail on child poverty

spot Nationality and borders bill

spot London floods: Privatisation and heavy rain are a dangerous mix

spot Jobs and homes for all

International

spot Cuban protests - what do they represent?

spot Flood devastation in Europe

spot Israel: Hospital ancillary workers' strike suspended

spot In brief: News, reports & analysis from the CWI

Public sector pay

spot Public sector pay - Prepare for action!

spot Unite to fight Tory pay insults

spot New left NEC meets - Organise the fight back now

spot Government departments move to impose pay cuts

spot Further education set for industrial action over pay

Trade union

spot Sheffield Uni UCU fights archaeological dept closure

spot Bexley bin workers strike for better pay

spot Fight Freeports to stop bonfire of workers' rights

Campaigns

spot Thousands march to Reclaim Pride

spot Tower Hamlets Labour backs Tory cuts

spot East London resident fighting eviction again

spot Barnsley 'Big Green Space' protest

spot Youth Fight for Jobs is officially relaunched

spot Selling the Socialist

spot Scottish socialist breaks running record

Readers' Opinion

spot TV Review: Stateless blames mismanagement rather than system

The Socialist newspaper, 14 July 2021, issue 1142

NHS

spot NHS: Kick out the privatisers - Fight for a 15% Pay rise

spot Scrap the privatising health and care bill

spot Tories threaten to axe free prescriptions for older workers

Covid

spot We cannot trust this government over Covid: Fight for a new workers' party

spot Trade unions must continue the fight for Covid safety

LGBTQ+

spot Pride is protest - Build a mass movement for LGBTQ+ liberation and socialism

spot LGBTQ+ workers' charter

Workplace news

spot Dagenham school workers strike against 'fire and rehire' pay cuts

spot St Mungo's strikers end 12-week strike

spot Telecoms workers angry at CWU deal with BT

spot GKN Birmingham workers rally against plant closure

spot Brush workers into eighth week of strike

spot Workplace round-up

International

spot New wave of radicalisation in Latin America

spot Putting the Olympic gravy train ahead of public health

spot Kazakhstan: Solidarity with protesters attacked by regime forces

News

spot Keep the Universal Credit uplift

spot Defend the triple lock - Fight to end poverty pensions

spot Wealth chasm widens

spot Right-wing study concludes youth like socialism

Campaigns

spot Youth Fight for Jobs is back

spot We need councillors who will end housing crisis - vote TUSC in Staines on 22 July

spot Stop Pimlico gentrification

spot Why I joined the Socialist Party

spot Everyone can spot Socialist Party in Stoke

spot Socialist Party meetings say: We're ready to go out and campaign

Readers' opinion

spot England football team

spot Farewell Leicester Square - the story of Britain's first black bus driver

spot Readers' comments

The Socialist newspaper, 7 July 2021, issue 1141

What we think

spot Batley & Spen byelection: Another condemnation of Starmer's New Labour

The Struggle for World Socialism

spot The struggle for world socialism

NHS

spot Fight is on to save our NHS

spot NHS workers' protests

News

spot Fund the measures needed to stop the Covid spread in schools

spot Manchester death rate caused by deprivation

spot Bristol: Police to blame for protest violence

Workplace news

spot Royal London Hospital strike win

spot Morrisons private equity takeover proposals - Usdaw needs to move to a war footing

spot Safety campaign in DWP: What has happened to our ballot?

spot Striking Brush workers continue to protest 'fire and rehire'

spot Striking Ealing parking attendants rally outside council

spot Derby academies closed by strikes against brutal cuts and changes

spot Oaks Park strikers rally

Socialist history

spot Terry Fields MP, Prisoner DV 3695 - The jailing of 'poll tax' rebel and Militant

International news

spot COP26: Socialist change to end the climate crisis

spot Israel: Hospital ancillary workers strike over pay parity and workload

Campaigns news

spot Rising against a rigged and rotten system

spot Why did I choose the Socialist Party?

spot Housing: Join the service charge 'strike'

spot Stop environmental destruction in Barnsley

spot "It's great to be back": Come to a Socialist Party in-person meeting

spot We need funds to fight Tory NHS attacks

spot Road closures: Hackney residents have not been consulted

Reviews

spot The story of Joe Clough - Britain's first black bus driver

spot Exhibition: What next for the statue of slave trader, Edward Colston?

spot TV - Statue wars: one summer in Bristol

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