Month: February 2019
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Culture/Reviews
A review of Darren McGarvey’s Poverty Safari
By Lynda McEwan Darren McGarvey has invited us all on a Poverty Safari. Interspersing tales from an impoverished childhood with…
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Eight Blairites split – Now kick out the rest. Corbyn and unions must call mass action for a general election
Editorial of the England and Wales Socialist issue 1030 Gang of eight traitors must face by-elections Mandatory reselection to kick…
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Free the political prisoners – For a Catalan republic of workers and the people
Esquerra Revolucionària, Spanish state The trial against political prisoners accused of organising the 1 October referendum once again highlights the…
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Corbyn must launch struggle to kick out Blairites and fight for socialist policies
Editorial of the England and Wales Socialist, issue 1029 (This was written before the Blairite 7 MPs left the Labour…
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Environment
Youth strike for the climate: “There’s no planet B”
Last Friday, 15 February, tens of thousands of school students across the UK took part in a youth strike for…
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Lindsey oil refinery strike ten-year anniversary – When militant action stopped the race to the bottom
Keith Gibson, Lindsey strike committee member (2009) and Hull Socialist Party On the tenth anniversary of the Lindsey Oil refinery…
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Dundee £17 million cuts bombshell: No cuts budgets and mass trade union action can defeat austerity
Text of a Socialist Party Scotland leaflet The biggest ever cuts budget has been unveiled by the SNP-led council. Rather…
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Nationalise the threatened “Caley” railway depot
Matt Dobson Over 200 skilled jobs are threatened with the possible closure of the St Rollox “Caley” historic railway yard…
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Equality
Equal Pay strike victory: A historic day for the working class in Glasgow!
Unison and GMB Equal Pay fighters today gathered outside the council City Chambers to celebrate the signing of the settlement for compensation…
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The bosses want it all for £5.90 an hour
By a Dundee University Socialist Student I have found myself employed in part-time jobs, most of which take place within…
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