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Palestine activist jailed in unprecedented sentencing
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/palestine-activist-jailed-in-unprecedented-sentencing/
Published: June 12, 2026 23:19
The Palestine movement mobilised outside a south London court against a state-orchestrated attack on all our democratic rights. Four members of the Filton 24 group of Palestine activists—Samuel Corner, Charlotte Head, Ellie Kamio and Fatema Zainab…
50 years since Soweto —The protest that was the beginning of the end of Apartheid
Published: June 12, 2026 15:59
On 16 June 1976, thousands of children and teenagers marched in defiance of South Africa’s Apartheid regime. The school students’ uprising marked a turning point in the struggle for liberation. For the first time in years, it gave people a sense that the…
Reform UK and the global far right’s war on abortion rights
Published: June 12, 2026 15:29
Reform UK’s candidate in the Makerfield by-election claimed women have abortions for “vanity reasons” and so they can “shag who they want”. He says women lie about being raped to justify having abortions. Self-declared sexist Robert Kenyon posted,…
Mother Courage pulling her cart through love, loss and war zones
Published: June 12, 2026 15:13
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children was written in 1939, as Europe moved toward the Second World War. Although the play is set during the Thirty Years’ War in the 1600s, its real target is modern capitalism, militarism and the way people are…
Counter-Revolution in Egypt: interview with Hossam el-Hamalawy
Published: June 12, 2026 14:28
Revolutionary socialist and journalist Hossam el-Hamalawy was a leading voice of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Millions of people overthrew the Western‑backed dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak as part of a wave of revolt across the Middle East and North…
Cancer researchers to to escalate if management don’t listen
Published: June 11, 2026 17:51
Unite union members at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) struck for a second week this week in a dispute over pay. The strikers held a rally in Kensington in west London with 150 people on Tuesday. At the Sutton site in south London, the strikers…
Migrant workers take their fight for fair visas to parliament
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/migrant-workers-take-their-fight-for-fair-visas-to-parliament/
Published: June 11, 2026 14:09
Hundreds of migrant workers travelled from across Britain to push back against the Labour government’s cruel crackdown on health and social care workers. Labour wants to triple the time it takes to qualify for indefinite leave to remain from five years to…
‘We are fighting a corrupt education system,’ says striking teacher
Published: June 11, 2026 10:53
“I can’t stand by and let it happen. If my child falls behind, at least I can say I tried,” says parent Kenna. She had come to London on Wednesday to support a lobby of striking school workers from Derbyshire, East Midlands. She is the parent of a child…
South Africans organise against racist attacks
https://socialistworker.co.uk/international/south-africans-organise-against-racist-attacks/
Published: June 10, 2026 23:12
Activists in South Africa are organising against a wave of xenophobic attacks as the clock ticks down towards 30 June. That’s the date by which racist mobs have said they want all “illegal” migrants to leave the country. Migrants are living in fear as…
NHS to ban expressions of support for Palestine
https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/nhs-to-ban-expressions-of-support-for-palestine/
Published: June 10, 2026 14:00
Health workers could be barred from showing their support for Palestine and other causes after a “review” by the government’s antisemitism adviser. Lord John Mann, a former right wing Labour MP and a key supporter of Israel, has recommended a ban after…
Far right thugs seize on Belfast attack to whip up racist violence
Published: June 9, 2026 21:28
Fascist and far right thugs have seized on a horrific attack in Belfast in the north of Ireland to stir up racist violence and intimidation. A man attacked another man with a knife, before passers-by intervened, in Belfast on Monday. Police said the man,…
Mexican teachers deliver a lesson in class struggle
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/mexican-teachers-deliver-a-lesson-in-class-struggle/
Published: June 9, 2026 12:09
Tens of thousands of teachers in Mexico launched an indefinite strike last week in at least ten of the country’s 31 states. Strikers have faced down police brutality, blocked roads, occupied the Ministry of Education’s headquarters in Mexico City and set…
Filton 24 film puts the criminals on trial
https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/178095/
Published: June 9, 2026 11:39
In the ongoing case of what is now the Filton 25, Alex Grace’s documentary Operation Recomply has sharply exposed the overreaches of the British state. The film opens with music by Lowkey and images of protests outside the prisons in which Palestine Action…
Woodfield school workers strike as bosses threaten fire and rehire
Published: June 9, 2026 11:36
Bosses at a west London school have threatened some of the lowest-paid workers with “fire and rehire” unless they accept pay cuts. But NEU union members at Woodfield School in Brent are fighting back. Workers struck on Monday—and were set to strike on…
Bearing witness and building the fightback
https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/bearing-witness-and-building-the-fightback/
Published: June 9, 2026 11:34
There doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by where there is not an attack on the trans+ community in the right wing press or on social media. In the 1980s and 1990s, it felt eerily the same for gay men and women in the coverage of the HIV/AIDS crisis.…
Striking back against union busting and victimisation
https://socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions/striking-back-against-union-busting-and-victimisation/
Published: June 9, 2026 11:31
Workers at a special educational needs and disabilities (Send) school in Leicester escalated strikes last week amid growing calls to reinstate their colleague currently under investigation. Tom Barker is a teaching assistant (TAs) and Unison steward at Ash…
Goldsmiths University bosses’ pay grab sparks fury
https://socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions/goldsmiths-university-bosses-pay-grab-sparks-fury/
Published: June 9, 2026 11:31
Workers at Goldsmiths University in south London are “furious” with bosses after 100 percent of their pay was deducted for taking part in a marking and assessment boycott. The UCU union members have started an indefinite strike this week. Some 269…
Letters: How east Londoners saved a black community centre
https://socialistworker.co.uk/letters/letters-how-east-londoners-saved-a-black-community-centre/
Published: June 9, 2026 11:29
The Hibiscus Caribbean Elderly Association (HCEA) is a community centre that has been serving the needs of a much neglected sector in Newham, east London, since 1994. Earlier this year, it was threatened with closure due to unpaid bills. Expecting the…
Defend Palestine Action from deepening state clampdown
https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/defend-palestine-action-from-deepening-state-clampdown/
Published: June 9, 2026 09:37
Campaign group Defend Our Juries (DOJ) is asking Palestine activists to show solidarity with four people set to be sentenced as “terrorists” this Friday. Samuel Corner, Charlotte Head, Ellie Kamio and Fatema Zainab Rajwani were convicted in May of criminal…
Anti-racists campaign ahead of Makerfield election
https://socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/anti-racists-campaign-ahead-of-makerfield-election/
Published: June 9, 2026 09:03
More than 60 anti-racist activists were out on the campaign trail in Makerfield on Sunday. A mix of local campaigners, along with supporters from Manchester and Merseyside Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) groups, handed out hundreds of leaflets calling on people…
A tender excavation of a brutal reckoning
https://socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-culture/a-tender-excavation-of-a-brutal-reckoning/
Published: June 9, 2026 07:30
“In these pages my mother, my gangster, shall live. She was my shelter and my storm.” The visceral opening in Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me launches a memoir that is a tender excavation of a brutal family reckoning and unsparing political…
Settlers uproot life in the West Bank
https://socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-2023/settlers-uproot-life-in-the-west-bank/
Published: June 8, 2026 16:09
Israeli settlers have encroached on more land in the West Bank as they try to force Palestinians out of their homes. Israel’s far right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich last week announced plans to build over 2,000 homes in West Bank settlements. It is a…
Trump hesitates as risk of war heightens
https://socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callinicos/trump-hesitates-as-risk-of-war-heightens/
Published: June 8, 2026 15:03
“I call all the shots. He doesn’t call the shots,” Donald Trump told the Financial Times newspaper on Sunday. He was talking about Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But Netanyahu immediately defied Trump’s instructions and ordered his armed forces…
AQA exam strike wins solidarity
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/aqa-exam-strike-wins-solidarity/
Published: June 8, 2026 15:02
AQA exam board workers are fighting for pay restoration—and have won international solidarity. Unison union members took their seventh day of strikes on Monday at AQA sites in Manchester, Guildford and Milton Keynes. In Manchester, Amazon workers from the…
Trade unionists say Reform UK won’t stop our Pride
https://socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/trade-unionists-say-reform-uk-wont-stop-our-pride/
Published: June 7, 2026 15:37
Reform UK-run councils are clamping down on LGBT+ rights—but trade unionists and campaigners are fighting back. Two councils run by the far right party have announced restrictions on the use of LGBT+ flags and events during Pride month this June. Essex…
Mass campaign saves fire stations from the axe
https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/mass-campaign-saves-fire-stations-from-the-axe/
Published: June 7, 2026 15:15
Campaigners in south west England have won a victory in their battle to keep fire stations open. Eight rural fire stations in Dorset and Wiltshire were set to be axed. But on Friday the chief fire officer announced he was recommending six to stay open…
Are bosses replacing capitalism? Explaining technofeudalism
https://socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/are-bosses-replacing-capitalism-explaining-technofeudalism/
Published: June 6, 2026 19:43
The term technofeudalism is widely used on the left to describe the ascendancy of giant tech firms that seem to dominate every aspect of our lives. Left wing figures such as the former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and the French economist…
East London fight against data centre brewing on Brick Lane
Published: June 6, 2026 19:16
East London residents are fighting plans for a data centre that will drive people out of the area. Protesters chanted, “Here to stay, here to fight,” and, “Big tech not welcome here,” on Thursday as they gathered at the site of the old Truman Brewery in…
‘We need unity against far right’: Sikhs speak out after Southampton riot
Published: June 6, 2026 19:02
The rampage in Southampton after the murder of Henry Nowak has exposed the far right’s attempts to mask their racism against Asian people. A far right mob, stirred up by Nazi Tommy Robinson, rampaged through the city last week. The thugs tried to reach…