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‘Paradise’ for billionaires – austerity for us
Fight for socialism! The Paradise Papers have reignited working class anger at massive inequality under capitalism
Socialist Party news and analysis
Westminster sexual harassment scandal
Rotten establishment must go: Revelations could still trigger the collapse of this weak Tory government – and as we predicted, they affect all the major parties
Walk out against tuition fees!
Budget day education shutdown: The Autumn Statement is fast approaching, and Socialist Students is preparing for walkouts against tuition fees
Bosses say 217 years to close pay gap – workers’ struggle can close it now!
This is the first time figures have shown the situation is going backwards
16 and 17-year-olds will remember the Tories blocked their democratic rights
Child poverty set to hit 5.2m – unions and Corbyn must act now
Welfare cuts are set to make child poverty soar over the next five years to 5.2 million kids
Jo Brand silences Ian Hislop’s sniggering sexism; Trump’s Twitter shutdown; Trump Jr’s ‘socialist’ Halloween
Workplace news and analysis
Pay cap decisively rejected by PCS union members
Members of civil servants’ union PCS have delivered a stinging rejection of Tory pay restraint, and shown they are willing to take action against it
BA mixed-fleet workers show strikes get results
The heroic mixed-fleet cabin crew at Heathrow and Manchester airports have finally forced a settlement from British Airways
Unite union sector conferences: coordinate action over pay
Unite should join the PCS union in calling for the Trade Union Congress to coordinate strike ballots
Picturehouse strike: “evil corporations are evil”
The dispute has now lasted over a year
Arriva bus drivers and engineers in Runcorn were out in force for their fourth one-day strike
International socialist news and analysis
US: Minneapolis Socialist chimes with voters
Ginger’s slogan of “not for sale” has drawn in many volunteers and donors from Minneapolis
Ireland: rail workers demand share of ‘recovery’
Ireland: dangerous ideas for the ruling class
Spain: Madrid rally celebrates October revolution
250 workers and youth attended a vibrant rally to celebrate the centenary of the October Russian revolution in Madrid
Sweden: ‘Revolution2017’ success
Revolution2017 took place in Stockholm on 4 November and was a great celebration of the Russian revolution linking up to today’s class struggles
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Health campaign discusses strategy to save NHS
Over 400 health campaigners and trade unionists attended Health Campaigns Together’s conference on 4 November – more than double its last conference
Chatsworth neuro-rehab ward still open – unions join the campaign
In July, Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust announced this Mansfield Community Hospital ward would close in early November. It didn’t!
Housing campaigners ask Corbyn to instruct Labour council regeneration ballots
Losing your home or child’s play space is something that can’t wait until an election – more importantly, it is within Labour councils’ power to stop
Thousands march in London for Palestine
This year marks a century since imperialism’s ‘Balfour Declaration’, 50 years since Israel’s 1967 war on Palestine, and the tenth year of the blockade of Gaza
Opposition to new academy school being built on Leeds playing fields
Leeds council should not just accept the diktats of the Tory government
Orgreave campaigners’ Halloween ‘Death of Justice’ march
Sheffield trees campaigner sentenced to prison
Sheffield trees campaigner Calvin Payne was sentenced to three months in prison, suspended for one year, for peaceful protest
Brum meeting celebrates centenary of 1917
50 attended the Birmingham Socialist Party public meeting to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution
Socialist readers’ comments and reviews
Obituary: Derek Robinson, car workers’ leader, 1927-2017
Derek Robinson, one of the most famous trade unionists of the 1970s, has died aged 90
Welsh update of Chekhov an engrossing tale of 1980s class conflict
Theatre – The Cherry Orchard: Part of ‘R17’, a series of arts events in Wales to mark the centenary of the Russian revolution, this adaptation is worthy of the connection
Obituary: Paul Randall, 1959-2017
Paul Randall was a former sheet metal worker and founding member of our Huddersfield branch in the 1980s
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