9 March 2021

NSSN meeting: NHS workers fighting back

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24 February 2021

Facebook v Australian government: nationalise the bosses' media!

In a fit of pique, tech baron Mark Zuckerberg purged all news from Australian Facebook feeds. But while Australia's right-wing Liberal government poses as defender of the little guy, this is really a battle between competing media billionaires.

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22 April 2020

RMT: Lift the suspension of Steve Hedley

A statement in Red Lines - the bulletin of Socialist Party members in the RMT transport union - calls for the lifting of the union executive's suspension of Assistant General Secretary Steve Hedley.

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25 March 2020

Coronavirus news in brief

Coronavirus news in brief

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24 March 2020

Protest against Facebook censorship

A CWI video has been blocked on Facebook in an act of political censorship.

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4 December 2019

Keep up to date with our election coverage

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13 November 2019

Readers' opinion: Twitter's banning of political ads threatens workers' voice

On 30 October, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, announced in a tweet that Twitter plans "to stop all political advertising" on its platform. His apparent reasoning behind this was his belief that "political message reach should be earned, not bought."

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8 August 2018

Tax-dodging tech bosses make billons ... while 6m workers fear the scrapheap

Nationalise the big tech firms: Every ten seconds, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes the median salary of one of his employees: $28,000

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20 June 2018

Wrenford centre: Stop heartless Tory cuts

Heartless Tory-run West Sussex county council is proposing to close the much-needed Wrenford Centre in Chichester.

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23 March 2018

Social media - the potential and the limits

Facebook's release of information scandal raises questions on how social media operate, and the broader implications.

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21 February 2018

Facebook sides with state repression - reinstate the Tamil Solidarity page

This is an attack on freedom of speech

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25 October 2017

What we saw: May on Facebook

May gave an interview about Brexit and the EU and on Facebook it was just angry reacts the whole time, writes Find out more and book tickets at socialism2017.net.

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22 February 2017

What we saw

What we saw including an appalling Tory attack on the homeless, an NHS tale, refugee solidarity and a train robbery.

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9 November 2016

HyperNormalisation: Arbitrary selection of ideas to confirm feelings of powerlessness

The most recent creation of documentary-maker Adam Curtis revolves around the idea of "hypernormalisation", which he applies to recent history.

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2 November 2016

What we saw

The Guardian, house newsletter of the Labour right and hypocritical zero-hour-contract employer, has been trying to attract 'members' again

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7 September 2016

What We Saw

The junior doctors received a steadfast defence on Sky News on 1 September from the Socialist Party's Rob Williams. And it seems you can vote for whoever you want in the Labour leadership election - as long as it's Owen Smith!

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13 July 2016

What we saw: Angela Eagle Facebook meme

Labour right winger Angela Eagle's bid to topple Jeremy Corbyn did not start well. Press walked out of her launch conference halfway through due to developments in the Tory leadership race. Meanwhile, her Alan Partridge-esque "I'm with Angela" Facebook meme has attracted thousands of comments. Almost every one is some variation of "#ImWithCorbyn". At time of writing, there's over 44,000 of them.

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22 June 2016

Stay Voiceless: Manics' punk spirit is alive and well

Music review: Stay Voiceless: 'Those kids have no idea whatsoever of what went on at Stalingrad' is a song title that leaves you as curious as the name is long. You certainly take away more from it than the three minutes 32 seconds dose of punk rock you get.

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18 May 2016

University of Facebook

The Tories plan to lift the cap on tuition fees and allow tech firms to establish private universities

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6 April 2016

Uber and Facebook tax dodge scandal

International taxi firm Uber is registered in a tax haven. And Facebook could spend years not paying UK corporation tax, due to £21 million of deferred tax relief.

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