Thames Water crisis is capitalist failure laid bare
The Thames Water crisis is just the latest example of how capitalism is systemically rigged — the rich get richer while we pay the price.
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London Pride: we’re out, now it’s time for the Tories
Socialist Party members from London branches and beyond came together to speak to those attending London Pride about the socialist alternative to the austerity and suffering being served to us by the Tory government.
Barts strike victory against privatisation
Health workers at Barts hospital trust in East London, took strike action to win a pay rise and to be brought back in-house.
Protest against outrageous abortion jailing
Everyone that Socialist Party members spoke to on the demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice on 17 June, was furious that a woman who had sought abortion healthcare was now in prison.
London Irish: Private ownership causes demise of rugby club
London Irish’s demise is for different reasons to that of Wasps and Worcester, but what they have in common is the curse of commercialisation and private ownership.
Low-paid London workers strike together
Cleaners, carers and concierges at nine different workplaces across London are striking together for better pay and conditions. The United Voices of the World (UVW) union organises this predominantly migrant workforce and has coordinated the actions
RMT has fought attacks on trains and tube for over a year – now we must win!
Six days of all-grades strikes, and another day by station grades, has pushed back attempts by the Labour London mayor Sadiq Khan and the Tory government to attack pensions on London Underground.
Save Our Square demands fire safety on sixth anniversary of Grenfell fire
Save Our Square protesters, a campaign led by Socialist Party members, gathered in Walthamstow town square, East London, on Saturday 17 June – the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell tower fire
Six years since Grenfell — Fight for fire safety just as vital now
Six years ago, 72 people died in a horrific fire at Grenfell Tower in Kensington, west London. It was a tower block lived in by working-class, mainly Black, Asian and migrant people, in the richest borough of London.
Enfield – more homeless families forced out
It is an outrage that families need to live in hotel rooms, indeed that there are homeless families at all! Many families become homeless after being evicted from private-rented accommodation.