31 May 2020

Outrage spreads globally following US police murder of George Floyd

Protesters have taken to the streets across the US - and internationally - following the killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man

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18 March 2020

TV: Noughts and Crosses

Our reviewer gives the BBC TV series the thumbs down, but recommends the original book

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18 March 2020

South Africa: 60 years marking the Sharpeville Massacre

The beginnings of revolutionary working-class struggle against a brutal capitalist regime

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4 March 2020

India: Bloody pogrom fuelled by Modi's sectarianism

Coinciding with US president Donald Trump's official visit to India, Hindu nationalist mobs - fired-up by ruling party BJP agitators - carried out a bloody pogrom in Muslim neighbourhoods of the capital New Delhi

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26 February 2020

Germany: Right-wing terror attacks - fight racism, fight capitalism!

The murder of nine people in two shisha bars in the German town of Hanau by a fascist gunman is the third fatal right-wing terrorist attack in the country in just nine months. But as Sasha Staničić (Sol - CWI, Germany - national spokesperson) explains, the laments of establishment politicians over such attacks will not eradicate the far-right threat.

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26 February 2020

Immigration: For a system that meets the needs of the majority, not a rich elite

There has been a lot of controversy in the capitalist media about the Tory government's proposed 'points based' immigration system

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12 February 2020

Windrush deportations: end the hostile environment

Two years after the Windrush scandal, the Home Office has operated a charter flight to Jamaica forcibly deporting Jamaican-born British citizens. Tragically, this will tear many families apart.

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29 January 2020

Protest against Modi's racist law

Tamil Solidarity called a demonstration involving various organisations to protest the racist, anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act in India.

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30 November 2019

Unite against terrorism, racism, war and austerity

Another terrible attack in London. Two people stabbed to death, three more injured. The Socialist Party completely condemns this horrific attack

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13 November 2019

Attacks show elite fear a Corbyn election win

A study into the press coverage of Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 by the London School of Economics media department has found, unsurprisingly, that is was overwhelmingly biased against him.

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30 October 2019

Black Liberation... Only possible through socialist struggle

To mark Black History Month, Hugo Pierre looks at the historic struggle for black liberation and the lessons we can draw from it for today.

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30 October 2019

Obituary - Bob Lee: 1954 - 2019

It was with great sadness and shock that I learnt of the death of Bob Lee, a former black member of the Militant Tendency (forerunner of the Socialist Party).

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23 October 2019

Boot racism out of football - reclaim the game!

Football fans were shocked and disgusted when play was stopped twice during the Bulgaria v England Euro 2020 qualifying match on 14 October due to racist chanting from a section of Bulgarian fans.

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14 August 2019

Far right seen off at Oxford Circus

Socialist Party members joined several hundred others at a counter-demonstration opposing supporters of the jailed far-right provocateur 'Tommy Robinson' on Saturday 3 August.

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17 July 2019

The 45th anniversary of the strike

How oppressed workers fought back against racist 'divide and rule': This year marks the 45th anniversary of the 14-week Imperial Typewriters strike which had national repercussions.

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15 May 2019

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.

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1 May 2019

Swansea anti-far right protest

A rally by far-right For Britain leader Anne Marie Waters, an openly racist islamophobe and political ally of Tommy Robinson, was held in Swansea on 27 April

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24 April 2019

Northern Ireland: killing of Lyra McKee

Trade union movement must act: A mass, trade union-led campaign must oppose both the repression and the dire social conditions which drive young people into armed groups

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20 March 2019

New Zealand mosque terror atrocity

Millions woke up on the morning of 15 March in shock to learn of the mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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20 March 2019

Union fightback key to movement against racism and austerity

The annual anti-racism demonstration marched through central London on 16 March. The demonstration is called to mark the United Nations day against racism.

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