News
The Socialist
Tory Infighting Escalates Workers' Action Can Oust Them
Socialist Party executive committee
2 min |
Issue 980, 1-7 February 2018
The Socialist
Capita In Crisis: Bring All Outsourcers Back In-House
Shares in outsourcing giant Capita have collapsed following the company’s profit warning to shareholders. This follows shortly after its competitor Carillion sank into liquidation, and underlines further the fragile state of British capitalism.
2 min |
Issue 981, 8-14 February 2018
The Socialist
Tragic Death Exposes Criminal Understaffing Of NHS
After the tragic death of a six-year-old child, Jack Adcock, a doctor and nurse have been removed from their professional registers and given two-year suspended prison sentences for manslaughter.
2 min |
Issue 981, 8-14 February 2018
The Socialist
The Socialist Party Is Being Evicted - We Need You!
Building fund finance appeal launched
2 min |
Issue 981, 8-14 February 2018
The Socialist
Tamil Youth March For Justice: Sack The 'Cut-Throat' Brigadier
Isai Priya National chair, Tamil Solidarity
2 min |
Issue 982, 15-21 February 2018
The Socialist
Oxfam Scandal: We Need Democratic Aid And Working Class Solidarity
Sarah Sachs -Eldridge Socialist Party national organiser
3 min |
Issue 982, 15-21 February 2018
The Socialist
Sadiq Khan's Bus Drivers' London Licence Doesn't Go Far Enough
Mo London bus driver
1 min |
Issue 982, 15-21 February 2018
The Socialist
We Can Save Our NHS
Chatsworth nurse and Mansfield Socialist Party
3 min |
Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
The Socialist
Usdaw Victory - Socialist Party Member Amy Murphy Wins Presidential Election
Tesco worker and Socialist Party member Amy Murphy has been elected president of the shop workers’ union Usdaw.
2 min |
Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
The Socialist
Victory: Pontllanfraith Leisure Centre Saved
Caerphilly Socialist Party
1 min |
Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
The Socialist
South Africa: ANC President Zuma Ousted Ramaphosa - A Safe Pair Of Hands For Capitalism
Build a mass working class political alternative
4 min |
Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
The Socialist
Russia: Ali Feruz, Journalist And Human Rights Activist, Freed From Jail
On 15 February an aircraft left Moscow for Germany.
2 min |
Issue 983, 22-28 February 2018
The Socialist
Birmingham Bin Workers Score Significant Victory Against Blairite Labour Council Now Prepare For The Next Battle
Birmingham Bin Workers Score Significant Victory Against Blairite Labour Council Now Prepare For The Next Battle
4 min |
Issue 973, 30 November - 6 December 2017
The Socialist
Intimate Insight Into A Revolutionary Icon
Memoir: Che, My Brother
2 min |
Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017
The Socialist
Korean Peninsula: Is Nuclear War Likely?
Only strong international working class opposition can halt military aggression
5 min |
Issue 962, 14-20 September 2017
The Socialist
We're Freezing: Reverse Cuts To Boiler Replacement Schemes!
Nationalise the energy firms.
1 min |
Issue 971, 16-22 November 2017
The Socialist
Aslef Members Accept Poor Southern Rail Driver Only Operation Deal
Drivers on Southern Rail have voted to accept a deal which was recommended by the Aslef union leadership which allows trains to run without a guard.
2 min |
Issue 971, 16-22 November 2017
The Socialist
TV Review: The Vietnam War
Comprehensive Account Of Bloody Conflict
2 min |
Issue 971, 16-22 November 2017
The Socialist
Lively Student Demonstration For Free Education Could Have Been Much Bigger
Around 1,000 students took to the streets of London in demand of free education on 15 November
2 min |
Issue 972, 23-29 November 2017
The Socialist
Disability Cuts Outrage: My Story
A Derby Socialist Party member
2 min |
Issue 972, 23-29 November 2017
The Socialist
Heart Unit Rescued By Campaigning Saves Baby With Pioneering Surgery
The heroic victory of thousands of community campaigners in Leicester to defend their congenital heart surgery unit, with Socialist Party members playing a leading role, was vindicated straight away. The news arrived just before Christmas that days-old Vanellope Hope Wilkins had been saved there.
2 min |
Issue 976, 4-10 January 2017
The Socialist
Tory Prescription For Mental Illness: Stress And Bureaucracy
As an individual with mental health issues, it has been my misfortune to experience directly just how capitalist society, Britain 2017, treats such people. I can’t imagine that my experience is particularly unique.
1 min |
Issue 976, 4-10 January 2017
The Socialist
Cabinet Chaos As Shambolic Reshuffle Underlines Theresa May's Impotence
Roger Bannister Socialist Party national committee
2 min |
Issue 977, 11-17 January 2018
The Socialist
Teacher Recruitment Falls By A Third - Cut Workload, Not Funding
‘Tom Donnelly’ National Education Union rep, Yorkshire
2 min |
Issue 977, 11-17 January 2018
The Socialist
Socialist Sales Highest In Years As Mistrust In Capitalist Media Hits Record Levels
Ian Pattison The Socialist campaigns organiser
1 min |
Issue 977, 11-17 January 2018
The Socialist
Photography: No Fear Art Can Help Expose Sexual Harassment
Mary Finch East London Socialist Party
2 min |
Issue 977, 11-17 January 2018
The Socialist
McDonald's Strike Wins Biggest Pay Rise In Ten Years
A McDonald’s worker
1 min |
Issue 977, 11-17 January 2018
The Socialist
Copeland And Stoke Byelections
Break with labour blairism wasn’t on offer.
6 min |
Issue 938, 2-8 March 2017
The Socialist
Lessons Of The Russian Revolution For Women's Struggle Today
The 1917 Russian revolution was a momentous moment in working class history, in which women played a pivotal and active role. It started with a strike by women textile workers on 8 March (International Women’s Day - 23 February according to the calendar in use in Russia at the time).
6 min |
Issue 938, 2-8 March 2017
The Socialist
Charlottesville: How To Defeat Trump And The Far Right
After eventually condemning racism and the far-right groups that perpetrated the recent murderous violence in Charlottesville, Donald Trump, the ‘alt-right’-friendly US president, then reverted to his initial statement of condemning violence “on many sides”. Outrageously, Trump had earlier described sections of the neo-Nazi torchlight procession in Charlottesville as “very fine people”. Later he was forced to do a u-turn in order to deflect the intense political pressure on the White House. But Trump doesn’t want to distance the alt-right constituency which his campaign had assiduously courted in last year’s presidential election, hence his latest flip. Socialist Alternative (US co-thinkers of the Socialist Party) points out that although Trump’s regime is mired in deep crisis and key parts of his agenda are stalled, he still enjoys higher favourability ratings than the Democrats! As Socialist Alternative argues in the following statement, mass demonstrations and, crucially, a left political alternative, are needed to fight the right.
4 min |