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The Socialist Party sticks to and keeps fighting for the original basis of socialism – that a non-capitalist future can exist, that there is a real alternative to austerity and inequality, and that it isn’t enough to merely tweak the edges of the current system.

On 23 September, a meeting of transport union RMT activists was organised by London Underground Engineering Branch, the largest branch in the RMT with 3,200 members, under the title ‘Your Party – what is the role of RMT?’

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.

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.

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.

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.