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Intimate Insight Into A Revolutionary Icon
Memoir: Che, My Brother

Korean Peninsula: Is Nuclear War Likely?
Only strong international working class opposition can halt military aggression

We're Freezing: Reverse Cuts To Boiler Replacement Schemes!
Nationalise the energy firms.

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.

TV Review: The Vietnam War
Comprehensive Account Of Bloody Conflict

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

Disability Cuts Outrage: My Story
A Derby Socialist Party member

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.

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.

Cabinet Chaos As Shambolic Reshuffle Underlines Theresa May's Impotence
Roger Bannister Socialist Party national committee

Teacher Recruitment Falls By A Third - Cut Workload, Not Funding
‘Tom Donnelly’ National Education Union rep, Yorkshire

Socialist Sales Highest In Years As Mistrust In Capitalist Media Hits Record Levels
Ian Pattison The Socialist campaigns organiser

Photography: No Fear Art Can Help Expose Sexual Harassment
Mary Finch East London Socialist Party

McDonald's Strike Wins Biggest Pay Rise In Ten Years
A McDonald’s worker

Copeland And Stoke Byelections
Break with labour blairism wasn’t on offer.

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).

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.

The Single Market: A Neolberal Tool Of The Bosses
Fight for a socialist Brexit

Hundreds Evacuated After Labour Council Dismisses Cracks In Tower Blocks
Fight for safe homes for all

Walthamstow Save Our Square Occupation: 'This Land Is Our Land!'
“Who is Walthamstow for?” asked David Gardiner, secretary of the Save Our Square campaign, in his opening speech at the campaign’s protest and occupation event in east London on 24 February.

Three Major West Wales Hospitals Could Close
Corbyn and unions must fight Labour right

Newham: Teaching Workers And Parents Determined To Halt Academies
Teachers and teaching assistants, with the active support of students and the public, have been taking strike action in the east London borough of Newham against the forced academisation of schools. On 26 February a hundreds-strong noisy and vibrant demonstration, organised by the local National Education Union (NEU) branch, marched to the town hall in East Ham to demand support from the recalcitrant Labour council and mayor.At the full council meeting following the march, Newham Labour council voted to reverse its long-held position of support for academisation. Unfortunately many Labour councillors abstained or refused to accept the anti-academy motion.

Socialist Students Conference Highlights Successful Work And International Solidarity
Over 100 students at-tended the annual Socialist Students conference at Bir-mingham University on 24 February.

Sun 'Commie Spy' Smear Corbyn Didn't Collaborate With Stalinism - But With Trotskyists Against It
Jeremy Corbyn stands accused of collaborating with Czechoslovak Stalinism. But in fact, his public backing of a Trotskyist call for workers’ democracy shows the opposite.

Defuse The Consumer Debt Ticking Time Bomb: Nationalise The Banks!
Still recovering from the last crisis? Hold on to your wallet, Britain’s bankers are storing up another one. The Financial Conduct Authority has urged the government to tackle the explosion in consumer debt, now standing at £200 billion.

Strike To Save Our NHS!
Tories Retreat on Pay Cap - Nurses Demand More

Worried About Fake News? Start With Labour Councils Budget Lies
‘Fake news’ is in the headlines - and while Trump is the most obvious purveyor of what used to simply be called ‘lies’, the method is alive and well among Bristol’s Labour councillors and mayor.

Stand With The RMT
Unite against Southern Rail and the Tories.

Universal Basic Income What Do Socialists Say?
The idea of welfare benefits being replaced by a ‘universal basic income’ (UBI) has resurfaced in recent years - a welcome discussion because it raises the fundamental right of everyone to have an income that meets their basic needs. Exact proposals vary but they are all based on the idea of everyone in society receiving an unconditional, taxfree, regular payment, regardless of whether they are working or the composition of their household (see box).

Northern Ireland Divisive Election A Warning To The Workers' Movement
Socialist Party (Irish sister party of the Socialist Party in England and Wales)