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The huge turnouts to the anti-Trump ‘women’s marches’ on 21 January shocked even the organisers. It is now vital and urgent that that this is used as a launchpad to build a sustained, democratic, international movement with a strategy to win and a vision of a socialist alternative.
NHS under attack
NHS SOS: Save the Women’s Hospital
The threatened closure of Liverpool Women’s Hospital has stirred up a storm of opposition
Defiant mood at North Tyneside STP consultation
Socialist Party members have played a leading role in the establishment and growth of the Save North Tyneside NHS.
Lancashire: Hospital workers protest consultation
Despite millions being spent on state of the art buildings in 2007 and 2013, NHS England is now proposing closing all or most of them and building new hospitals in a different location.
“My son was assessed four months ago but is still waiting for a carer,” a mother told a packed consultation meeting – the St Austell leg of the Sustainability and Transformation Plan public relations tour
Paignton: organising against hospital closure
One brave nurse described the nightly pressures of being so understaffed that it is bringing workers to their knees and putting them in incredibly compromised in dangerous situations.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Reject Surrey’s 15% council tax increase
Surrey’s Tory council wants residents to fork out a whopping 15% council tax rise to pay for the crisis in social care
Bristol police taser own race relations adviser
Fight for community control of police policy and hiring: Unbelievably, the victim was charged with assaulting a police officer despite video evidence showing the opposite.
2016 hottest year on record, air poisonous
Only socialist planning can end profit-driven pollution: There is strong evidence that 2016 was the hottest year on record. Meanwhile, in 2017, part of London breached EU limits on annual hours of toxic air in just five days
Wales council votes to buy back homes
Flintshire county council in North Wales has decided to buy back 55 council houses sold since 2005 when they become available on the market
Isle of Wight independents resign over cuts
Come to the TUSC national conference 2017!
TUSC national conference 2017 agenda
International socialist news and analysis
Huge anger internationally on marches against Trump
Mass action across the USA: These were the largest simultaneous protests ever recorded in US history, with millions taking to the streets
India: struggle against land grab in Pune
Socialists and villagers wage tireless battle: India, especially in the past 25 years of neoliberal onslaught, has witnessed the massive plunder of land under the guise of major infrastructure projects. Nonetheless, such land-grabbing has provoked mass resistance movements.
Short stories from other sections and co-thinkers of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI), the global socialist organisation which the Socialist Party is affiliated to. CWI stands in Northern Ireland elections; socialists gather in Latin America; anti-sexism campaign launched in Belgium.
Workplace news and analysis
RMT determinedly continues Southern strike
Although drivers’ union Aslef unfortunately suspend its 3 planned strike days on Southern Rail for talks with management, the RMT continued its action alone on 24-26 January despite only a minority of drivers being RMT members.
Incensed BA cabin crew strike and protest over pay
Despite freezing temperatures, striking British Airways mixed fleet cabin crew were out in big numbers at the start of their second set of strike days
Steely opposition growing to Tata pension offer
Steelworkers in Tata plants across the UK will be voting on a potential agreement
2017 Unite general secretary and executive elections
For the Socialist Party, this election is a fundamental clash about the political and industrial strategy of the biggest union in the country
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Don’t we need competition to spur on progress?
Capitalist myth-buster! Human beings have always striven to understand more about our world, to test ourselves and to improve our lives
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Huge anger against Trump across Britain
In Britain over 100,000 people marched in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington
Firefighters pointed out that the Staines fire engine is the busiest engine in the county. And that the local borough of Spelthorne has the busiest airport in Europe; the highest concentration of tower blocks; the worst record of fire deaths in Surrey, and many more high risk factors.
South London: march to save community centres
150 south London residents marched to oppose the closures of their community centres
Obituary: Bernard Roome 1947-2017
Socialist readers’ comments and reviews
Ed Balls: ‘Speaking Out’ for capitalism
Non-fiction review – Speaking Out: Ed Balls elicits sympathy for his battle against his stammer. His view that anyone who disagrees with him is a communist will probably elicit less sympathy.
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist’s editors. Pensioner poverty; troublesome taxes; private profiteering.
