3 March 2021

Swansea BLM protest against racist police brutality

Eleven members of the Socialist Party and Socialist Students from Swansea and the surrounding area attended a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration, wearing masks and socially distancing, on 27 February

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17 February 2021

Socialist Party Black and Asian caucus

The Socialist Party Black and Asian caucus held its first meeting of the year on Saturday 13 February

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17 February 2021

Remembering Mohamud Hassan - continuing the fight against police brutality

On a freezing-cold Tuesday evening in February, over 100 people gathered outside Cardiff Bay police station

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16 February 2021

Sham inquiry into 'progressive extremism'

The BLM protests and school strikes on the climate have been portrayed as some kind of 'Marxist conspiracy'.

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27 January 2021

Biden, Labour, and the need for a new mass workers' party

There is undoubtedly widespread relief among workers and young people that Trump has gone. However, the lavish praise Starmer and co. are heaping on Biden is yet another indication of their desperation to show they can be relied on to defend the interests of the elite.

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20 January 2021

Police use Covid laws to intimidate BLM protesters

On Saturday 16 January, around 15 Black Lives Matter activists gathered by Parliament Square, in London, to protest the tragic death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan after being released from police custody in Cardiff

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20 January 2021

Justice for Mohamud Hassan!

Black lives matter: Hundreds of people have marched and rallied at Cardiff Bay police station to protest the death of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan shortly after being released from custody at the police station

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16 December 2020

No to Tories' new anti-protest law

The Tories are looking at more ways to restrict the right to protest.

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18 November 2020

Race disparity gets worse - fight to improve living standards for all

Disparities in racial progress are getting worse, according to a recent report 'Black people, racism and human rights', by a committee of mainly Tory MPs and unelected Lords.

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11 November 2020

After the polarised elections - what way forward?

In the US, and around the world, millions greeted Trump's defeat in the US elections. His probable removal from office, notwithstanding his legal claims, will be widely welcomed.

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9 September 2020

BLM: Socialist alternative to racist capitalism

Black Lives Matter (BLM) held a demo in Newport calling for justice for Jacob Blake, shot seven times in the back by police in Wisconsin, and Mercy Baguma, a Ugandan asylum seeker who was found dead in her Glasgow flat alongside her one-year-old malnourished son.

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9 September 2020

Video game developer attacks Black Lives Matter

Just two months ago, French video game giant Ubisoft joined the hollow chorus of corporations exclaiming that black lives matter

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2 September 2020

Fight racism, Trump and capitalism

Angry young people poured onto the streets of US cities following the police shooting of unarmed black man Jacob Blake in Wisconsin

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2 September 2020

Socialism on the rise

Staines Socialist Party members are seen by many as the 'go to' people on issues like fighting cuts in local services, and campaigns against racism and discrimination, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM)

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2 September 2020

Black Lives Matter: Fighting injustice, fighting for our rights

Protesters marched in Cardiff on 30 August, part of the wave of international solidarity for Jacob Blake after he was shot in the back by police in Wisconsin.

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19 August 2020

Black Lives Matter: this generation is willing to stand up and fight

Reports from West London and Brighton

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5 August 2020

North London: Socialist Party speaks at BLM protest

A lively Black Lives Matter protest in Edmonton, north London, on 25 July didn't shy away from politics. The event organiser said the whole lives of black people have been political for centuries.

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5 August 2020

80 years since the murder of Leon Trotsky rally

The global economic crisis and the pandemic is causing mass misery for millions around the world not seen since the 1930s.

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5 August 2020

Fighting to end racism and capitalism

Socialist Party black and Asian members' meeting: A very well-attended Socialist Party black and Asian members' meeting on 25 July was an opportunity to discuss the Covid crisis, the Black Lives Matter demos, and how we can build a mass working-class movement to smash racism

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22 July 2020

Hugo Pierre for Unison general secretary

Dave Prentis leaves a legacy of failures

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