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Black Lives Matter
Fight racism and class inequality. “Seize the time!”
Anti-racist protests are sweeping across the country and the world. A diverse and powerful movement, it feels stronger and more radical than we have seen for years.
Black Lives Matter protests sweep country: How can the movement win?
Black and white youth rise up against racism – US protester speaks to the Socialist
Capitalism = racism: “You fight capitalism with socialism”
“We’re going to fight racism and capitalism with socialism”
France: 20,000 rally against Paris’s killer gendarmes
Socialists call for trade unions to join the fight
We raised a motion urging the union to state support for “the demonstrations that are being called across the UK, with suitable social distancing and other protective measures, including in Cardiff at the weekend, Belfast on Monday, and Glasgow and London on Wednesday
Schools
Tories backtrack in England – Stand firm for school safety
Oppose the Welsh government’s reckless return to school plan
Workplace news
Non-essential retail to open – Organise at work
Boris Johnson has announced government plans to relax lockdown further, with a wider opening of non-essential retail on 15 June.
Debenhams: Workers made to pay for Covid-19 crisis
As a warning of the coming recession we are now entering, Debenhams went into administration in April last year, with 22 stores closing, and all but 39 of the remaining stores having rent reductions
Workers’ union and campaign group fights Derby Rolls-Royce job cuts
Homerton Hospital – withdraw private contract
News
Test-and-trace fiasco – the ringing of the cash till
Coronavirus pandemic news in brief
“There is no privatisation of the NHS on my watch”, said serial bullshitter health secretary Matt Hancock in January
BAME coronavirus deaths – an indictment of capitalist inequality
Lessons from history
Roosevelt’s New Deal programme – reforms to save capitalism
Obituary
Ken Douglas: A tireless and determined fighter for socialism
The Socialist Party collectively is grieving deeply the loss to cancer of our much-loved national treasurer, Ken Douglas
Campaigns and reports
Why we joined the Socialist Party
Donate so we can raise our socialist message
We’ve printed tens of thousands of leaflets explaining our socialist response to the killing of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police
Readers’ opinion
As a health worker, I had to march against racism
Readers’ opinion: Things will never be the same
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