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Pollution incidents, aka releasing sewage into our rivers and beaches, up by 40%. A debt pile so massive, a result of decades of squeezing any drops of profit from the water company, the company may run out of cash as soon as March.

“Workers and students will never be defeated”. This was shouted through south London on 28 November. Students and staff from Goldsmiths and UAL universities came together in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and frustration with our universities’ ongoing complicity in genocide.

“They were asking for our votes before the elections and now they are attacking us,” said one of the protesters against the police raid on the Kurdish Community Centre (KCC) the previous day.

Striking staff at Ford Motor Company rallied outside the engine plant in Dagenham, East London, on 13 November. Salaried staff at Ford told us they’d had enough of management trying dictate to the union.

Talks are ongoing. London Underground offered an average pay rise of 4.6%, worth up to 5.9% for the lowest paid, but strings attached mean that not everyone gets a consolidated rise.

The special educational needs system (SEND) is “financially unsustainable”. That’s what a report from the National Audit Office has found.

Alan Hardman was the first printer of the Militant (the Socialist’s predecessor) and produced hundreds of political cartoons for publication in our party publications. A book, ‘Need Not Greed’, has been published of his cartoons and artwork

If you go to A&E in Kings College Hospital in London and require a wheelchair, you’d best get your credit card out!

Labour has seriously damaged public opinion of politicians. Nearly half of Labour voters said they expected good things of Keir Starmer, but are disappointed with his government.

The Socialist Party and its predecessor Militant has a long history of playing a leading role in working class mobilisations to resist attempts by far-right forces to attack and intimidate our communities.