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The Socialist Party has organised 50 public meeting across England and Wales, to discuss and debate how the new party — that Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have announced their intention to create — can be built into an organisation where workers can fight for our interests.

University staff across the country have suffered years of pay rises which are below inflation — Imperial College London isn’t part of the national offer, but workers are still having to take action for better pay and working conditions.

The Socialist has carried numerous articles about Thames Water’s record of dumping sewage into our waters and hiking bills year on year — all while paying out hefty bonuses to its managers and executives.

The five-day (25-29 July) walkout by 50,000 resident doctors in England has begun. The BMA says that pay is still down by a fifth since 2008, in real terms, despite recent pay rises.

Protests have been held outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex following the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl, which an asylum seeker being housed there has been charged with.

On 22 July 2005 an innocent man was brutally shot to death by police at Stockwell tube station in south London. Like millions of Londoners that day, Jean Charles de Menezes, an electrician, was on his way to work. However, he became the target of a ruthless ‘shoot to kill’ Metropolitan Police operation.

“Anybody can become disabled” said one protester outside parliament on Wednesday 9 July. Keir Starmer’s plans to cut disability benefits target some of the most vulnerable people in our society.

During rush hour on the morning of 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers attacked three London Underground trains and a bus. 52 people were killed and over 700 injured.