Where next after ballot rules thwart council and school pay strikes?

The Unison union’s ballot of over 200,000 council and school workers across over 500 branches closed last Thursday after four weeks. Details of branch results had begun to trickle in, as Socialist Wor...

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'We are in a mobile greenhouse' say bus drivers striking over heat - Socialist Worker

Bus drivers in North London are demanding better air conditioning

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Help cancer researchers win—and spread the strikes

Do you think workers who develop world-class cancer treatments should get paid properly?

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Anti-racists take on Farage ahead of Clacton by-election

Anti-racists were out ­campaigning last ­weekend ahead of the Clacton by-election on Thursday.

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Pakistani clampdown tries to crush revolt spreading from Kashmir - Socialist Worker

Dozens have been killed fighting for fair representation and reform in Pakistani‑controlled Kashmir

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Teachers and parents slam Labour plan for primaries to monitor children for ‘joblessness risk’

Labour wants primary schools spot children they think will leave education at 16 without finding a job.

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Palestinians say 'Gaza is a prison' as Israel continues bombings - Socialist Worker

A health worker in Palestine told Socialist Worker there is widespread starvation, disease and infection amid Israeli assaults and blockades

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Race and class in a seaside town

As some of the lowest paid council workers in Great Yarmouth go on strike for the first time, Pat Meusel spoke to strikers about how they can challenge Restore Britain on its home ground.

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The racist witch-hunt of Jason Arday

The right are celebrating the fall of Cambridge professor Jason Arday with the glee of a colonial hunting party that has just blasted a lone creature into oblivion. Guns had been out for him as soon a...

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Why the left should stand against immigration controls

Immigration controls never stop people moving from country to country—they only make life harder for migrants and divide working class people

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Cancer researchers ambush bosses in negotiations powerplay - Socialist Worker

The Unite union members, who started an indefinite strike this week, say, 'we have shown them we are going to stay out until we win'

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Victory for the left in Michigan Senate primary shows hunger for change

Abdul el-Sayed's victory in the Michigan's Democratic Senate primary reflects growing anger in the United States over genocide and inequality

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Trade unionists must lead the fight against the EHRC's transphobic guidance

The new guidelines from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) institutionalise transphobia. We should fight to overturn them.

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Reality of climate catastrophe hits home

Capitalism and the ruling have failed to prevent climate disaster and workers are paying the price. We need a new system, one that puts people before profit

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SNP leaders are good ‘friends’ to North Sea oil industry

As forests in Scotland burn, Scottish National Party (SNP) politicians are calling on Andy Burnham to back the oil and gas industry.

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Restore Britain seizes an opening on the far right

Nigel Farage’s far right party Reform UK is under pressure after last week’s by-election in Manchester.

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‘Everything explodes and nothing changes’: Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics

Politics is everywhere. But it can also feel like politics is nowhere—at least nowhere solid and tangible.

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Far right exploits Morocco refugee crisis to push anti-migrant clampdowns

David Karvala from United Against Fascism and Racism in the Spanish state spoke to Socialist Worker

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‘We battle cancer but have to fight for our pay’: ICR strikers speak out

Cancer kills people every day. Yet some of those tasked with finding treatments, causes and cures for it are paid so badly that they are out on strike.

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Burnham commits to increase defence spending by billions

The pledge to increase the nuclear arsenal will only exacerbate the danger of nuclear proliferation. And it's not true that nuclear weapons create jobs

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Dozens arrested at Defend Our Juries protest

More than 3,500 people have been arrested for showing support for non-violent direct action group Palestine Action since it was proscribed a year ago

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South London NHS workers slam unfair pay banding

Unite union members at the South London and Maudsley (Slam) NHS Foundation Trust walked out this week over pay and conditions.

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Saudi Arabia joins US air strikes in Iraq as war escalates

Saudi Arabia—a regional imperialist power allied to the US—joined in the bombing of Iranian-backed paramilitary in Iraq on Thursday.

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What Burnham should do to solve the crisis in social care

Burnham claims efficiencies can be made without increasing the budget for social care. But getting people home safely will require a huge boost in funding

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Credibility of the US empire is shrinking fast

The US and Israel were unlikely to defeat Iran by air power alone. But as hostilities re-ignited in the past couple weeks, it's been Iran escalating

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German state uses Pride killing to bolster Islamophobia

Socialist Worker speaks to an activist in Germany about the rise in LGBT+phobia, who's responsible and how to resist it

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India’s 'Cockroach' movement declares victory

Tens of thousands of young people in India’s “Cockroach” movement last week celebrated a rare victory over Narendra Modi’s far right BJP government.

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Ulm Five Palestine activists face ‘show trial’ in Germany

The Ulm Five are imprisoned by the German state and facing years in jail after allegedly taking part in an action against an Elbit Systems factory.

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Can we end racism with revolution?

Racism is so deeply entrenched in society, it can be hard to see a future without it. Yuri Prasad looks at how revolution can change workers’ ideas

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Governments look the other way as thousands face nightmare fires

Uncontrolled fires are blazing around the world, and Andy Burnham is set to pour fuel on them if he gives the go ahead to more oil and gas drilling.   In the Spanish state, firefighters are unable to ...

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