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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22 April 2020

Bromley Libraries 'restructure' in middle of pandemic!

Bromley Library workers are facing a restructure, including moving to new work locations, in the middle of this health emergency

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5 February 2020

Reading Labour council: Stop privatising our leisure services

If the right-wing Labour council succeeds, a private company will be given a 25-year contract to design, build, operate and maintain Reading's sports centres.

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4 December 2019

Hillsborough justice eluded

In a second trial against David Duckenfield, after the first jury failed to reach a verdict, the former match commander stood accused of gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster in 1989.

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23 October 2019

Boot racism out of football - reclaim the game!

Football fans were shocked and disgusted when play was stopped twice during the Bulgaria v England Euro 2020 qualifying match on 14 October due to racist chanting from a section of Bulgarian fans.

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4 September 2019

Bury expelled from football league: Boot out the bosses ruining our game

After 134 years, two FA cups and three league titles, Bury Football Club has been expelled from the football league and is teetering on the edge of existence.

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26 June 2019

The Socialist inbox

Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Platini's red cards, key workers' homes, heroic Eleanor Marx

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19 June 2019

Oppose big business's sphere of influence!

A Trump backer plans to build a sphere - as tall as Big Ben and as wide as the Millennium Dome - in Newham, east London, writes Ian Pattison, East London Socialist Party.

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10 April 2019

Gateshead FC crisis: save our Heed!

Socialist Party members have suggested Gateshead Soul organise a protest in the town centre and have also raised the possibility of fans' ownership of the club

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3 April 2019

The Socialist Inbox

Letters to the Socialist's editors including racism in football, cuts in Liverpool and imperialism at Oxford uni.

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3 April 2019

Reclaim the Game book launch

The largest branch of transport union RMT - London Underground Engineering, this year named the Bob Crow branch to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the death of the union's towering general secretary - hosted the launch of the latest edition of Reclaim the Game

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21 November 2018

Them & Us

It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us.

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14 November 2018

The Socialist inbox

Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Leicester football, Brum cuts.

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7 November 2018

Hundreds march to save Blackwood leisure centres

Hundreds of people from Blackwood and Pontllanfraith marched to keep open their local leisure centre and swimming pool.

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7 November 2018

Mexico: The movement of 68 and the massacre of Tlatelolco

The movement that developed from July to December 1968 was undoubtedly one of the most intense and revolutionary chapters in the history of class struggle in Mexico.

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