27 November 2019

Minimum wage debate

The Socialist is running a debate. How can we end low pay and what minimum wage level should we be fighting for? In this issue, readers share their thoughts.

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13 November 2019

Socialism 2019 - what you thought

The big annual weekend of discussion and debate took place on 2 and 3 November...

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13 November 2019

Help socialist ideas spread this election: donate!

Socialist Party members and supporters raised a record £42,445 at the Socialism 2019 rally on 2 November. This was a fantastic result, and showed determination to ensure we have the resources we need to produce campaigning leaflets, posters, placards and other materials as we go into the general election.

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13 November 2019

Socialism 2019 rally: "Socialist change needed to end climate change"

The panel of speakers at the climate change rally at Socialism 2019 was introduced by chair James Ivens, part of the editorial team of the Socialist newspaper. He opened by saying that capitalism has failed to stop climate change, and change is essential.

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8 November 2019

New book: In Defence of Trotskyism

Available now; Order from Socialistbooks.co.uk, £10.

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6 November 2019

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall: How a mass revolutionary movement for genuine socialism was diverted

The build-up to the official celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary have, as before, been dominated by anti-socialist propaganda.

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6 November 2019

Elections, strikes and revolutions: Socialism '19 - daring to fight

"Just two words: At last!" This year's Socialism event - Socialism 2019, came as the parliamentary logjam finally burst apart into a general election.

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30 October 2019

How working-class tenants beat Gentrification

Every time I drive up Lea Bridge Road in Walthamstow, east London, I pass the Butterfields estate. I look with pride to the 'Butterfields won't budge' poster still displayed in the window of one of the tenants.

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30 October 2019

Donate to fund the fightback at Socialism 2019

We are asking all our members and supporters to donate to the Socialism 2019 financial appeal.

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29 October 2019

Socialism 2019: Major rally to plan how to get Corbyn elected with socialist policies

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23 October 2019

Join us for a festival of ideas

Socialism 2019 is taking place at a time when the suffering inflicted by capitalism is at horrendous levels.

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23 October 2019

Socialists attract support at first Newton Abbot meeting

The Socialist Party held its first public meeting in Newton Abbot on 15 October: 'Political parties in crisis, living standards falling - the case for socialism!'

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23 October 2019

Join the party that dares to fight for socialism

More than a decade on from the world economic crash, the ongoing capitalist crisis is ravaging lives across the planet - with wars, homelessness, poverty and inequality

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16 October 2019

Major new book out in November: In Defence of Trotskyism

Since the financial crisis of 2007-08, many different movements have developed against oppression, austerity, neoliberalism and capitalism - with mixed success.

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16 October 2019

China after the 1949 revolution: the benefits of the planned economy stifled by bureaucracy

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese revolution. In the second of a series of articles marking that event, Tom Baldwin looks at the period following the declaration of the People's Republic of China.

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16 October 2019

Tony Mulhearn 1939-2019: Courageous fighter for the working class and socialism

Tony Mulhearn was a titan, a courageous leader of the working-class movement in Liverpool and Merseyside, as well as a life-long proud member of Militant, now the Socialist Party.

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9 October 2019

Huge opposition to Barry rehab ward closure

"That was challenging and uncomfortable" - the Cardiff and Vale Health Board chief executive's closing remark at a public engagement meeting on NHS cuts in Barry, South Wales.

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9 October 2019

Socialism 2019: why I'm going... and why you should too!

We asked people who have bought tickets for Socialism 2019 why they are coming. Their answers show how this festival of ideas taking place on 2 and 3 November is an unmissable event for everyone wanting to fight the bosses and the Tories and to defend working-class living standards.

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9 October 2019

Socialism: The alternative to capitalist austerity, low pay and crisis

Capitalism means chaos for the majority of us, while the bosses get rich off the work we do.

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2 October 2019

Socialism 2019: An unmissable event

Socialism '19 is about the questions confronting us and socialist ideas to point a way forward

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