Hundreds of school and college students walked out to protest Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK on 17 September. On the thousands-strong protest through central London, the Socialist Students contingent was by far the most lively, youthful and politically bold.
Transport union RMT has held demonstrations, joined by Socialist Party members, outside the Home Office against the Labour government’s changes to work visa rules, which threaten rail workers, including on London’s tube.
Thousands of students have begun university with tuition fees rising for the first time in over a decade, increased by a Labour government. While a financial crisis is sweeping universities, Keir Starmer rolled out the red carpet for bigot-in-chief Donald Trump.
The fight against racist division cannot be separated from organising opposition to New Labour’s pro-capitalist government. Starmer is hated because Labour has continued with Tory austerity.
The Socialist Party has already stood as Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates, independent of the capitalist parties, over decades, on policies that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana would agree with.
TikTok has announced hundreds of redundancies for workers in content moderation and its Trust and Safety department – with bosses citing the use of AI as justification for the redundancies.
Members of the RMT on London Underground are taking five days of rolling strike action in a dispute over pay and working hours. Senior managers got rises up to 22%, but there is no money for workers’ demands.
The mere announcement of a potential new party has brought a breath of fresh air to workers, particularly all of us activists who have been campaigning against all kinds of cuts over many years.
Bus drivers in West London, members of Unite employed by First Bus, were on strike over pay for 48 hours at the end of August into September.
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