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Socialist Party news and analysis
City bosses’ £40m bonuses as Number of food banks hits 2,000
Low-paid work till lunch to make rent
Young workers in unions earn 20% more
General election 2017
Organise, strike, resist, to fight for Corbyn’s policies: Theresa May’s failed election gamble is a nightmare for the capitalist class – which had hoped she would dramatically increase her majority. [This article was expanded and updated on 13.6.17]
Northern Ireland: DUP propping up the Tories
For a real cross-community socialist alternative: Theresa May’s humiliating failure to win a parliamentary majority has placed the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at the centre of UK politics, with the party set to prop up the Tories through a ‘confidence and supply’ agreement, writes Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party Northern Ireland (CWI Ireland).
Scotland – SNP loses but Labour could’ve won more
The fight for socialist policies remains critical: The biggest loser in this election, aside from Theresa May, was the Scottish National Party (SNP). In a stunning contrast to the 2015 landslide when Nicola Sturgeon’s party won 56 of the 59 available
Wales: Corbyn’s left surge refutes right-wing Labour doomsayers
General election: what you thought about it
Corbyn’s support increases further during last week of campaign
Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-austerity, pro-working class policies have been attracting more support in the run up to polling day
Rallying in support of Corbyn’s policies
It was standing room only at the Leeds Socialist Party pre-election rally on Monday night
Large turnout to hear Jeremy Corbyn
Around 1,000 people gathered in the sunshine
International socialist news and analysis
France – Huge voter abstention belies Macron’s ‘landslide’ election
Socialist Party workplace news
NSSN conference: workers’ action to kick out the Tories
GMB conference: angry mood from delegates
Up to 800 delegates met in Plymouth from 4-6 June for the 100th congress of the general union GMB, writes Kim Hendry, GMB union PCS branch and GMB conference delegate (personal capacity).
Window strikers joined by second plant
Exploited agency workers organise
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
The fight goes on – let’s make it a socialist fight to win
Racist EDL humiliated for third time
The far right was once again completely humiliated in Liverpool on 3 June