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12 May 2021
Bobby Sands - Nothing but an Unfinished Song
Forty years ago in May, Bobby Sands, provisional IRA prisoner and an MP, died on hunger strike in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland
5 May 2021
St Mungo's strikers had a warm welcome when they addressed the Hackney May Day march on 1 May. Jackie and Vicko spoke at the start of the march. The property services workers have been on continuous strike
5 May 2021
Beal High School strike against sick policy resumes
Beal High School workers have walked out for a further five days against a punitive, two-tier sick pay policy
5 May 2021
Defend the right to protest - to resist bosses' attacks
Bosses' fire and rehire, an end to the eviction ban, a public sector pay freeze, hiking council tax, the impending end of furlough: attacks on young people and workers are raining down
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
4 May 2021
TUSC eve of poll national public zoom meeting
Fight back with TUSC against Covid austerity at the ballot box - you can't trust the Tories or Starmer's New Labour!
28 April 2021
St Mungo's maintenance workers in London are on indefinite strike against victimisation and bullying
28 April 2021
India's health system in meltdown under Modi's misrule
Covid pandemic: An unmitigated public health disaster is gripping India. The daily number of people infected with Covid-19 has exceeded 350,000 for a week - the highest of any country since the pandemic began. Health
21 April 2021
Don't trust the Labour right's empty promises
Vote TUSC for a strategy and programme to defeat Covid austerity: What would you put on your election leaflet if you were a candidate for the Tories or Starmer's Labour
21 April 2021
Long Covid: Fight for jobs, benefits and services
Illness and disability lasting more than three months after Covid affects almost 700,000 people in Britain
21 April 2021
Covid and precarious workers - union organisation vital
The Trades Union Congress confederation has produced hard facts showing what the Socialist has long argued: namely, that workers on zero-hour contracts and in other precarious jobs are twice as likely to have died from Covid-19 compared to other, more secure, occupations.
15 April 2021
Latest podcast: PCS elections - the struggle for fighting trade unionism
14 April 2021
Covid inquiry? Workers must decide
Put Tories and capitalism in the dock: Boris Johnson has presided over a coronavirus catastrophe that has left over 127,000 people dead
14 April 2021
'Covid passports' discriminatory and questionable - fight for workplace safety
The government hasn't yet clarified how 'passports' would work, but the dangers are apparent.
7 April 2021
London: #BuhariMustGo protests are back
'Hypocrisy' was probably the most used word on the recent #BuhariMustGo protests in London.
7 April 2021
Low-paid workers shouldn't pay for Covid crisis
On 1 April the minimum wage was increased from £8.71 to £8.91 an hour for those aged 23 and over. For low-paid workers this was welcome news. However, for myself and fellow furloughed workers this wasn't
7 April 2021
Academy schools have become business ventures
The process of selecting a secondary school for your child can be an agonising one for many parents. In 2005 I viewed about a dozen and chose Pimlico. The headteacher seemed a nice guy and the leadership
7 April 2021
Marley Tiles workers strike against bullying bosses
"The highest-paid bullies in the world", was the view of a striker at Marley Tiles near Reading taking part in a 24-hour strike on 31 March.
24 March 2021
More cuts are coming - maybe to a local A&E, to street lighting, bus routes disappearing - and greater destitution.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill means the more effective your protest, the more you face the threat of fines or even jail.
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Ealing parking wardens strike against Serco over absence policy
Norwich City Council workers vote for strike action over broken promises on pay and conditions
Beal school strikers suspend action after possible victory
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