13 October 2021

Newcastle United takeover - no to billionaire Ashley or Saudi despots

For working-class control of football: The vast majority of Newcastle United fans were overjoyed on 7 October at the news that the 14-year reign of Mike Ashley, of Sports Direct infamy, was finally over.

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9 October 2021

Newcastle United takeover: No to billionaire Ashley or Saudi despots

The Saudi Public Investment Fund owns 80% of the club.

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11 August 2021

Don't privatise Dudley libraries

Outsourcing is the scourge of public services. It is the twisted idea that a company with no ties to the community could step in and do a better job than the public sector. That is demonstrably false.

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16 July 2021

Football: Smash racism

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14 July 2021

England football team

As a football fan that supports England, I never thought I'd see what the team achieved in at the World Cup in the summer 2018 topped

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14 July 2021

Putting the Olympic gravy train ahead of public health

On 8 July, just over two weeks before the games were due to open, Japanese premier Suga Yoshihide announced that the Olympics would be held without spectators

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30 June 2021

Sandwell Leisure workers: No to 'fire and rehire'

On 25 June, Unison union members working for Sandwell Leisure Trust (SLT), West Midlands, organised a strike at a number of leisure centres across the borough

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2 June 2021

Crimes go unpunished

During more than thirty years of campaigning, the families of the 96 killed at Hillsborough and the Hillsborough Justice Campaign uncovered the truth: that 96 football fans were unlawfully killed

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1 May 2021

Podcast: Football - Reclaim the Game

https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/main/Podcasts

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28 April 2021

No trust in billionaire football owners - kick them out and reclaim the game

Super League defeated: Socialist Party members Lenny Shail, who is a Chelsea fan and was at the Stamford Bridge protest, and Leeds fan Ian Pattison said:

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21 April 2021

No trust in billionaire owners - kick them out and reclaim the game

The withdrawals from the Super League are celebrated

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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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24 March 2021

Save John Carroll - fight is far from over!

Over 50 people gathered for an online rally on Saturday 20 March for the 'Save John Carroll Leisure Centre' campaign (savejohncarroll.co.uk), showing our defiance to the council

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24 February 2021

Save John Carroll Leisure Centre

John Carroll Leisure Centre, in the working-class Radford area of Nottingham, is threatened with closure in the latest £15.6m of cuts proposed by Nottingham Labour Council

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2 December 2020

Diego Maradona - Working-class rebel, football genius

Diego Maradona, the greatest footballer the world has ever seen, sadly passed away aged 60 last week.

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14 October 2020

Beware the billionaires bearing gifts

'Project Big Picture' is a plan put forward to offer the football industry stability

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7 October 2020

Defend Bracknell Community Services

Cooper's Hill Centre is a well-used and loved community asset - the Socialist Party says no to bulldozing it

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23 September 2020

TV: The English Game - how the working class made football the people's game

The English Game tells the story of how football was transformed in the 19th century. It was revolutionised from the Southern-dominated amateur, public school sport, dominated by individualistic, dribbling

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3 June 2020

Football in the time of coronavirus - reclaim our game!

Football played a part in spreading the pandemic. Northern Italy was the ground zero for coronavirus in Europe, and then Spain became the second most infected country after Italy.

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27 May 2020

Going viral - Socialist comments and letters

The Covid-19 pandemic is a world social crisis which touches every aspect of life. The iniquities and failings of the capitalist system are being exposed

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