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Thousands join anti-racist marches in Scotland Residents of Glasgow’s Southside returned to Kenmure Street on Sunday, as 2,000 people marched to a place that has become a symbol of resistance.

Thousands join anti-racist marches in Scotland
⭐️Unity marches in Glasgow, Paisley and Aberdeen say ‘we won’t stand for racism and fascism’
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‘Urgent need for a new left alternative in Scotland’ after Your Party mass resignations Your Party is over in Scotland–but there is still potential to build a left alternative.

‘Urgent need for a new left alternative in Scotland’ after Your Party mass resignations
🗣️Niall Christie and Ellie Gomersall spoke to Socialist Worker about the crisis of Your Party Scotland—and where next
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Together let’s stop Nazis on 16 May The Palestine solidarity and anti-fascist movements are urging “everyone to London” on Saturday 16 May.

Together let’s stop Nazis on 16 May
⭐️Palestine and anti-racist organisations have called a joint demonstration to commemorate the Nakba and oppose the far right
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Sex work—can it ever be liberating? W­­hen Victoria was 18, she was on the minimum wage at McDonald’s, supporting her father and about to be made ­homeless.

Sex work—can it ever be liberating?
⭐Socialists support decriminalisation of sex work—and fight for a society where women aren’t treated as objects and human relationships are free from the market, writes Judy Cox
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Bankers and bosses cash in as fuel prices rise At the start of his war on Iran, Donald Trump promised that rising oil and gas prices would make the US ‘a lot of money’.

Bankers and bosses cash in as fuel prices rise
⭐The Labour government will try to make working class people pay the price for Trump’s war
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Reclaiming the radical legend of Robin Hood The far right want to claim Robin Hood as a tax dodging aristocrat. Judy Cox looks at the origins of a class fighter

Reclaiming the radical legend of Robin Hood
🎯The far right want to claim Robin Hood as a tax dodging aristocrat. Judy Cox looks at the origins of a class fighter socialistworker.co.uk/reviews-and-...

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National Housing Demo calls for rent controls and council housing Thousands of people marched through London on Saturday for a national housing demonstration.

National Housing Demo calls for rent controls and council housing
🏠The militant march in London demanded housing justice
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Starmer should pack his bags alongside scapegoat Robbins - Socialist Worker The senior civil servant has been sacked for his role in the Mandelson scandal

Starmer should pack his bags alongside scapegoat Robbins
⭐️Starmer thought he was on safer ground following his refusal to fully back Trump’s war on Iran. But now he is facing a revolt from his own backbenchers
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Remembering Muzan Alneel: ‘Her voice carried the message of Sudan’s revolution to the wider world’ Anne Alexander remembers Sudanese socialist writer, researcher and revolutionary Muzan Alneel, who tragically died this week

Remembering Muzan Alneel: ‘Her voice carried the message of Sudan’s revolution to the wider world’
Obituary by Anne Alexander
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Don’t let fascist thugs exploit sexist assault in Epsom Fascists have seized on a horrific sexual assault of a woman in Epsom, Surrey, to bring violence to the streets.

Don’t let fascist thugs exploit sexist assault in Epsom
⭐Fascist violence will not bring justice for the victim of the assault in the Surrey town, says Women Against The Far Right socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

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MPs vote for more repression with bans on repeated protests As MPs voted for another assault on our freedom to protest this week, the police tried to silence a protest against it outside.

MPs vote for more repression with bans on repeated protests
⭐️Anti-war protesters gathered outside parliament as Labour pushed through a bill that attacks the right to protest
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Drones—weapon of 21st century battlefields - Socialist Worker The pattern will be ­familiar to anyone versed in the history of empire, or perhaps even the Old Testament Bible.   An overconfident ruler, with massive military superiority, is humiliated by a smalle...

Drones—weapon of 21st century battlefields
⭐After the United States and Israel’s humiliation in Iran, Yuri Prasad looks at how drones are shaping ‘asymmetric warfare’ and modern battlefields socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/dro...

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Labour’s housing shame—tenants face evictions while bosses pocket fortunes - Socialist Worker Clarion Housing think this is an acceptable condition to house tenants in (Photo: Matt Lismore/ X) Diana is one of 69 people in north London facing homelessness after Clarion Housing—Britain’s biggest...

Labour’s housing shame—tenants face evictions while bosses pocket fortunes
🏠Housing associations ramp up ­evictions despite Starmer’s pledge to ‘make housing affordable'
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Thousands facing the axe while private firms cash in on NHS crisis - Socialist Worker Thousands of health workers are facing the sack as bosses at debt-ridden NHS trusts try to balance the books at their expense. That’s according to research by Unison, the giant health service union. U...

Thousands facing the axe while private firms cash in on NHS crisis
⭐New Unison report says more than 20,000 NHS posts are going to be axed in an effort to close a £1.1bn budget deficit
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Fury erupts in Ireland as war drives fuel prices sky-high - Socialist Worker The Irish government is braced for a no confidence vote on Tuesday.  It came a week after of protests over the soaring price of petrol and diesel caused by Donald Trump’s war on Iran. Demonstrators ar...

Fury erupts in Ireland as war drives fuel prices sky-high
⛽Some filling stations have run dry and concerns have mounted over fuel availability for emergency services.
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Hungarians cheer far right Viktor Orbán’s downfall. What comes next? What does the winner Péter Magyar stand for and what is he promising after the Hungarian election on Sunday?

Hungarians cheer far right Viktor Orbán’s downfall. What comes next?
⭐What does the winner Péter Magyar stand for and what is he promising?
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Your Party leadership votes to ban ‘dual membership’ for socialist organisations The witch-hunt of the left stands in the worst traditions of Labour—and comes after a campaign of sabotage by the clique that runs Your Party

Your Party leadership votes to ban ‘dual membership’ for socialist organisations
⭐The witch-hunt of the left stands in the worst traditions of Labour—and comes after a campaign of sabotage by the clique that runs Your Party
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Police swoop on peaceful protesters for opposing genocide and backing Palestine Action - Socialist Worker Tourists visiting central London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday witnessed the absurd sight of hundreds of people, many of them older people, being arrested and carried off by an army of police. Over 5...

Police swoop on peaceful protesters for opposing genocide and backing Palestine Action
⭐Over 500 people sat in Trafalgar Square in London held signs reading ‘I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action’.
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‘I’ve put radical politics to people on their front doorstep’: Vote Miça Evans in Ealing Miça Evans has worked as a mental health nurse in the NHS for nearly 10 years. She knows first-hand how public services have been slashed.

‘I’ve put radical politics to people on their front doorstep’: Vote Miça Evans in Ealing
✅Socialist council candidate in Ealing, west London, pledges to stand against cuts to local services
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Reform UK's racist fury over calls for reparations for slavery - Socialist Worker The British far right is outraged that the United Nations (UN) backed calls for reparations for slavery. Reform UK’s Zia Yusuf said the party would stop issuing visas to people from any country that calls for reparations. They want the collective punishment of black and brown people for demanding justice. The UN resolution, moved by...

Reform UK’s racist fury over calls for reparations for slavery
⭐️Slavery and colonialism laid the foundations of a capitalist system that has bred poverty, exploitation, racism and climate breakdown.
Reform UK’s racist fury over calls for reparations for slavery
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Resident doctors driven out of NHS as crisis deepens under Labour - Socialist Worker In hospitals across the country, resident doctors have walked out for pay restoration and for training places. Under the Labour government, highly skilled workers are leaving the NHS in their thousands every year as they face burnout, eroding pay and relentless workloads. According to a report in the British Medical Journal last year, a third...

Resident doctors driven out of NHS as crisis deepens under Labour
💊Health secretary Wes Streeting agreed to offer 1,000 more training places. But he scrapped even this paltry measure after the BMA announced its six days of strikes.
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Cover of issue 3000 of Socialist Worker (UK). Main headline "We're all paying for Trump's War" with a red arrow point up - labelled Prices, rents, mortgages and bills. A yellow arrow pointing down - labelled wages, employment, health service.
Strap heads say: "Thousands slaughtered by US and Israel" and "Britain's Airbases make Starmer complicit".

Cover of issue 3000 of Socialist Worker (UK). Main headline "We're all paying for Trump's War" with a red arrow point up - labelled Prices, rents, mortgages and bills. A yellow arrow pointing down - labelled wages, employment, health service. Strap heads say: "Thousands slaughtered by US and Israel" and "Britain's Airbases make Starmer complicit".

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Socialist Worker at 3,000: At the front lines of resistance Socialist worker editor Tomáš Tengely-Evans on the past, present and future of the best newspaper on the left

Socialist Worker at 3,000: At the front lines of resistance
✊As Socialist Worker publishes its 3000th issue, editor Tomáš Tengely-Evans on the past, present and future of the best newspaper on the left
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Trump’s Iran ceasefire is bitter blow to US imperialism - Socialist Worker The Labour government will double down on making working class people pay

Trump’s Iran ceasefire is bitter blow to US imperialism
⭐️The Labour government will double down on making working class people pay
⭐️The US was forced to agree to a ceasefire with Iran hours before Trump threatened to “destroy a whole civilisation” socialistworker.co.uk/news/trump-f...

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Workers' rights law 'too little too late' to save Keir Starmer - Socialist Worker Most of the measures are watered down versions of the promises Labour made before the last general election

Workers’ rights law ‘too little too late’ to save Keir Starmer
✊Most of the measures are watered down versions of the promises Labour made before the last general election
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Alex Callinicos: Trump’s ‘predatory hegemony’ gives way - Socialist Worker The greatest empire in history was defeated by a determined nationalist movement in Vietnam. That same empire faces another such movement in Iran

Alex Callinicos: Trump’s ‘predatory hegemony’ gives way
⭐The greatest empire in history was defeated by a determined nationalist movement in Vietnam. That same empire faces another such movement in Iran says @alexcallinicos.bsky.social
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‘MattGPT’ becomes a bad joke after his racist rant is savaged - Socialist Worker Failed Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin’s new book has been ridiculed as AI ‘slopaganda’. Judy Cox argues that factual errors and poor writing are the least of the book’s problems

‘MattGPT’ becomes a bad joke after his racist rant is savaged
⭐️Failed Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin’s new book has been ridiculed as AI ‘slopaganda’. Judy Cox argues that factual errors and poor writing are the least of the book’s problems
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After 500,000-strong together demonstration in London: What we must do to stop far right - Socialist Worker Paul, anti-racist activist, Brighton We’ve got a lot of work to do. We want to stop Reform UK in the May elections. What Together has been doing has been spot on. It’s a wide net that catches people w...

After 500,000-strong together demonstration in London: What we must do to stop far right
⭐️Activists who participated in last month’s monster Together demonstration against the far right speak about the impact of the march—and the next phase of the battle
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Greedy MPs award themselves inflation-busting pay rise MPs currently take home over double the average wage in Britain, an income that is only increased by second jobs and other 'gifts'

Greedy MPs award themselves inflation-busting pay rise
⭐️MPs are planning to grab £300 million in salaries and business expenses over the next year.
⭐️They are awarding themselves a 5 percent pay rise. This includes an extra “cost of living” payment.
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Show solidarity with Palestine movement organisers Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop The War vice chair Chris Nineham found guilty of public order charges

Show solidarity with Palestine movement organisers Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham
✊The British state dealt a blow to all our democratic rights this week.
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