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24 March 2021
Online meeting - Ending violence against women, the socialist approach
Women's rights, and our oppression under the capitalist system, have been thrust into the spotlight by the events of the last few weeks.
3 March 2021
A fighting programme for women's rights and socialism
Women have been especially hit by the economic and social consequences of the pandemic.
8 July 2020
TV: The school that tried to end racism
This series showed an experiment with a group of Year 7 students in a South London school to explore how racism was learnt
1 July 2020
The Sunday Times reported that Johnson intends to dump plans to improve trans people's rights to self-identify
3 June 2020
USA - another cop killing of unarmed black man sparks widespread protests
On 25 May, police in Minneapolis choked George Floyd, an unarmed black man, who subsequently died. His death was disturbingly reminiscent of the NYPD killing of Eric Garner in 2014.
23 January 2019
Racist jobs discrimination same for 50 years - unions must fight for jobs for all
Black and Asian workers in Britain have to send almost twice as many job applications before we get a positive response
22 November 2018
In defence of socialist feminism
As the age of austerity arising from the great crash of 2007-2008 enters its second decade, a new movement of women struggling against their oppression is taking shape
3 October 2018
NHS pay discrimination - militant union action can achieve fair pay for all
The recent report on the pay gap between black and white NHS medical workers also highlighted the appalling disparity when it came to pay across all NHS occupational groups
22 August 2018
Huge but chaotic Brighton Pride needs to be politicised
Members of Brighton Socialist Party attended Brighton Pride on 4 August. Although it is the UK's biggest Pride event, drawing in more than 400,000 people this year, in recent years it has been largely depoliticised.
10 July 2018
Liberation struggle is class struggle: the fight for Trans Equality
A response to a letter in the Morning Star
23 May 2018
30 years on from Section 28: the legacy of fighting LGBT+ attacks must continue
On 24 May 1988 Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988 was enacted in England, Scotland and Wales by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.
28 March 2018
The life and legacy of Martin Luther King
50th anniversary of the assassination of MLK jnr in Memphis: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King junior, who was shot and killed on 4 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, while supporting striking sanitation workers, writes April Ashley, Unison national executive council, black members rep (female) (personal capacity).
7 March 2018
Capitalism oppresses women - fight for socialism!
International Women's Day:
When the twenty first century dawned, young women in the US and much of Europe were being told that equality was within their grasp.
7 February 2018
Fighting sexism: Positive discrimination - yea or neigh?
Featured letter: It's 100 years since women in Britain won, through militant struggle, limited adult suffrage
22 November 2017
Australia: massive yes vote for marriage equality
This shift in attitudes is in large part because of the tireless efforts of LGBT+ rights activists
8 November 2017
Bosses say 217 years to close pay gap - workers' struggle can close it now!
This is the first time figures have shown the situation is going backwards
11 October 2017
The fight against racial discrimination is tied to fighting against capitalist austerity
When the government announced a new website to show the widespread racial inequality in Britain, many will have viewed it as a sick Black History Month joke
20 September 2017
Refreshing, anticapitalist - but little pointing a way forward
Non-fiction - Bitch Doctrine: Laurie Penny's latest work is clearly anticapitalist, but reflects the defeatism of much of the left in Britain and the US today
13 September 2017
Rate of black imprisonment worse than US
Fighting racism means fighting capitalism: David Lammy's report highlights the oppression faced by black and Asian people without addressing its key causes
31 July 2017
Government's tribunal fees defeat
Unison's successful Supreme Court challenge to the government's tribunal fees policy on 26 July is an important victory for workers and the trade union movement.
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