5 May 2021

Police attempt to intimidate Newcastle protesters

I was arrested at one of the 'Kill the bill' protests at Grey's Monument in Newcastle for trying to help a fellow protester

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5 May 2021

Covid, capitalism and mental health

Covid poses the "greatest threat to mental health since the second world war", according to the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

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7 April 2021

Childcare in crisis: A socialist solution

Over the last year, Covid-19 has magnified the vast deep-rooted inequalities in the capitalist system. One problem which has been felt most acutely by working women is that of childcare.

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31 March 2021

No start for life

Tory MP Andrea Leadsom announced her 'Start for Life' proposal last week. Her plan to establish a 'new service' for children up to age two is being trumpeted as an innovative service

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31 March 2021

Football abuse scandal: Reclaim the game for justice and democracy

Four years after the explosive and powerful testimony of ex-footballer Andy Woodward, an independent review into child sexual abuse in football between 1970-2005 has been published by the Football Association (FA).

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10 March 2021

Workers respond to 'back to school'

A mockery of everything we've done: Schools opened on Monday 8 March, and we don't know if we are inhaling or exhaling. Here we go again - bubbles, disinfectant, and social distancing in tight spaces.

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24 February 2021

W. Sussex children's centres on the chopping block

Conservative West Sussex County Council is planning to axe 32 children's centres and twelve youth centres

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24 February 2021

"I'm here to fight for the future education of children in Hackney"

Teaching assistants (TAs) in Hackney, east London took strike action against redundancies on 10-12 February

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17 February 2021

Tory consultation on home-use abortion pills

One in three women will have an abortion before the age of 45. The abortion pill is a safe and uncomplicated medical procedure carried out in the first ten weeks of pregnancy.

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3 February 2021

Workplace news in brief

Workers in two separate industrial disputes affecting schools in east London will take three days of strike action in February.

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3 February 2021

Children in care: Privatisation is not working

Many people would think that children, who are in the care of a local authority, would be safe, well cared for and free from the risks of sexual or criminal exploitation

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27 January 2021

Schools: 'We have to fight for everything'

Two teachers explain the ongoing struggles.

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20 January 2021

Teachers: On the front line, in their own words

I've been working from home this lockdown, looking after the virtual classrooms. Some of our pupils struggle to access the work from home, as their parents need to work too. And some have a lot of illness

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6 January 2021

UNICEF feeds children in the UK for the first time

"It is a real scandal that UNICEF should be playing politics this way" was the response of millionaire and Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg to the announcement that UNICEF will be responsible for feeding children in the UK for the first time in its history

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2 January 2021

Organise a mass refusal to attend unsafe schools on Monday

There should be no return to work until safety can be assured.

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16 December 2020

Effective testing and properly funded safety plan needed

The health secretary hopes mobile testing units can stop the Covid tide

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2 December 2020

Review: Friedrich Engels - Condition of the working class in England

The second in our series on socialist pioneer Friedrich Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Socialist Party national committee member Helen Pattison reviews one of the first books he wrote.

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18 November 2020

System failing thousands of children in care

The children's commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, has described the residential care home system as broken, and accused the Tory government of a "deep-rooted institutional ambivalence" to the plight of vulnerable children in care

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11 November 2020

Readers of the Socialist react to effects of lockdown

"My hopes of secure employment killed": I was left stunned, shocked and bewildered when, on 9 October, Cineworld temporarily closed all 127 of its sites across the UK, putting 5,500 jobs at risk

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11 November 2020

Tory U-turn: Free school meals

Less starvation for us, more humiliation for the government: In its latest U-turn, the government finally agreed a £170 million package to support children - children largely made vulnerable as a result of the Tories' capitalist system.

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