Socialist Worker (Britain)

01/11/2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves made no mention of the thousands of hospices, GP practices, care homes and other charities that are not in the public sector, but which provide NHS services

There is an overlooked consequence of the recnet National Insurance tax rise, and that's its impact on NHS healthcare providers

01/11/2024

In the first of a series of interviews on the United States presidential election, Renee, Nadine and Eric spoke to Thomas Foster

01/11/2024

Reform UK’s victory in a Wolverhampton council by-election is a warning

Senior figures of Reform UK are split over the far right party’s relationship to N**i Tommy Robinson.

31/10/2024

Labour's budget included a 70p increase in the minimum wage. Workers say this doesn't go nearly far enough

Labour's proposed increase in the minimum wage doesn't go far enough ith many likely to still face economic hardship

30/10/2024

Tory MP Robert Jenrick has absurdly claimed that former British colonies 'owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them'

The British Empire's atrocities in the slave trade and their exploitation of enslaved individuals in the Caribbean show what it was about

30/10/2024

Jesus M Castillo, a professor in ecology at the University of Seville in the Spanish state, spoke to Socialist Worker

Flash floods have killed at least 70 people in the Valencia region of the Spanish state—and politicians’ inaction on climate change is to blame.

30/10/2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves needed to show the budget brought enough of a change—but not too much of one

30/10/2024

One hundred years ago Tory foreign secretary Arthur Balfour's declaration laid the basis for Palestinian oppression. Nick Clark looks at its legacy today

TV show Mr Loverman addresses class struggles, cultural identity and the intersections of love and societal expectations

30/10/2024

The documentary provides a bottom‑up insight to the lives of Palestinians during a genocide

The documentary, War Crimes in Gaza, provides a bottom‑up insight to the lives of Palestinians during a genocide

30/10/2024

President Milei is an extreme economic liberal who promised to take a ‘chainsaw’ to the state

President Javier Milei is an extreme economic liberal who promised to take a ‘chainsaw’ to the state

29/10/2024

Reports from PCS union picket lines in London and Glasgow

Outsourced G4S strikers at government departments in Whitehall launched two weeks of action against low pay on Monday.

29/10/2024

Over 1,000 Unison union members at the Scottish local authority are taking action

Schools in Perth and Kinross in Scotland are boarded up for a second week, as workers walk out for higher pay.

29/10/2024

Organisations like Unrwa lent legitimacy to the United Nations. Now it has been banned as a terrorist group

Israel has banned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) from providing life-saving aid to Palestinians.

29/10/2024

The new Socialist Worker is out now. Our front page reads "Labour denies genocide in Palestine"

‼️Shame on you Lammy




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29/10/2024

Facilities workers at the East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust are in dispute over outsourcing. Meanwhile, north east health care assistants have won a victory and porters in Southampton are balloting over draconian conditions.

NHS trust bosses in the east of England have apologised after a chief executive was filmed telling staff that he’d already rammed through privatisation.

29/10/2024

The Egyptian regime urged for a two-day truce because it fears Israel’s genocide could spark resistance

The regime in Egypt urged for a two-day truce because it fears Israel’s genocide in Palestine could spark resistance

29/10/2024

Danny Dorling is Britain’s best known social geographer. His books have mapped almost every aspect of poverty and inequality in Britain for a generation and discussed their implications for politics. The Oxford university professor spoke to Yuri Prasad about his latest book, Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s Next Generation.

‘‘If you write about ­children in Britain today, you’re writing a different story to 20, 30, 40, certainly 50 years ago. You’re writing a story that’s more like those of 100 or 120 years ago.”

28/10/2024

Will the national insurance hike be a nasty surprise for the NHS?

Starmer said his government would embrace the “harsh light of fiscal reality” and “ignore the populist chorus of easy answers” in the budget

28/10/2024

The two parties are moving ever closer as the United States presidential election nears, writes Thomas Foster

The polls are close, but Donald Trump’s Republican Party is setting the agenda and the Democrats are shifting right

28/10/2024

Activists want to stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Extinction Rebellion (XR) wants to stop companies based in London’s financial district from providing insurance to fossil fuel projects.

26/10/2024

Israel—backed by the West—is the aggressor.

Israel has launched air strikes across Iran—and pushed the Middle East closer towards a devastating wider war.

22/10/2024

🚫As N**i Tommy Robinson prepares to march in London, we say, “Smash fascists off our streets.”

Join the Stand Up To Racism counter-protest: 11.30am, Piccadilly, London SW1Y 4QD

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18/10/2024

‘A voucher to spend in the employee shop is a pitiful’ said one worker

Bakkavor food workers in Lincolnshire say they’re “having a huge impact” as they began the fourth week of a 12-week strike on Friday.

17/10/2024

‘What a joy to see that Stand Up To Racism last week had a stall at Bristol Mail Centre’, writes Alex Bradley, CWU union branch officer at Bristol Mail Centre

Fighting fascism has been part of who I am since I was seven years old and I got sent home from school for wearing an Anti N**i League (ANL) badge. Some years later, I was with the ANL at the massive Welling demonstration against the British National Party (BNP) in October 1993. And I was...