Sheila Caffrey, NEU National executive member, personal capacity The National Education Union (NEU) ran indicative ballots ...

Reece Lawton, PCS NEC member, personal capacity As previously reported in the Socialist, the impasse at the top of the PCS civil service union was broken on 7 July when the National Executive ...

London Trans Pride takes place on 25 July 2026. In recent years its numbers have swelled to the tens and hundreds of thousands. We spoke to Socialist Party LGBTQ+ group organiser Michael Johnson about ...

Andy Burnham is now Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade. That is as many prime ministers as there were in the preceding 40 years. Such is the level of political crisis facing Britain’s ...

Tim Cutter, Southampton Socialist Party On 15 July, Southampton Socialist Party, TUSC and members of the local community lobbied Southampton City Council and made a deputation to the council over the ...

Niall Mulholland, East London Socialist Party Campaigners in Newham have secured a significant victory in their efforts to ensure council workers’ pension funds are not invested in companies linked to ...

Socialist Party members delegated to conference from their unions This year’s TUC (Trade Union Congress) LGBT+ conference took place at a “defining moment”, as TUC president and Prison Officers ...

Clinton Hatcher, Bristol North Socialist Party Tolpuddle Martyrs festival is a weekend of celebration, culminating in a parade through the village. Every year, we in the Socialist Party try and make ...

Fight for an end to funding cuts David Ellis, Birmingham City Council Unison branch, personal capacity In what can only be described as an insult, local government workers have once again been offered ...

A striker spoke to Hugo Pierre Unison members at East End Homes, a housing association employing around 120 staff with a stock of 3,900 homes, have been on strike since 1 July in protest against a ...

Thomas Butler, Liverpool North Socialist Party British Steel, owner of Scunthorpe steelworks, which employs thousands of workers, has been nationalised. This is not the start of a post-war style sweep ...

Ian Pattison, Enfield and Lea Valley Socialist Party Privatised NHS staff, working for ISS, are taking six days of strike action over two weeks. The workers are striking over serious allegations – ...