Britain

The NHS management and government want nurses in England to accept 4% for last year and 5% for this coming year. It won’t stop staff from leaving and will make waiting lists longer. This is a pay cut as RPI is 13.8% and food inflation is 18%, which is on top of real terms pay […]

This article is based on material by a French comrade, Michael Lenoir Workers and popular discontent in the country precede movement in the refineries, with protests against price increases, for better wages and pensions. By Martin Ralph – Britain In the midst of the energy and inflationary crisis that is haunting Europe. Social anger is […]

GMB strike in Liverpool.

How can a new Tory Prime Minister, Liz Truss, become so unpopular in a matter of weeks not only with workers and sections of the middle class but also with many Tory MPs (who fear for their seats) and those who rule this planet? By International Socialist League (ISL) – Britain Truss modelled herself on […]

England will be the first country to roll back mandatory safety measures that give protection against Covid-19, by PM Boris Johnson. Scientists and doctors condemn it, as a third wave of the pandemic is rapidly spreading across England. Every disaster film begins with the most informed and socially conscious scientists being ignored, but this isn’t […]

Keelie was one of the organisers of a Sandbach BLM event in late August and her speech she said, the past couple of months have been a rollercoaster of emotions and the actions of some have proved our point as to why we need to start an anti-racism campaign in Sandbach. I know first-hand that […]

While Johnson is pretending to throw the “kitchen sink” at the British economy, as with COVID-19 containment and prevention, many in the health, education and other public services say it is too little too late. The “kitchen sink” is meant to save capital not workers.

On Wednesday 8 July, the government of Boris Johnson in the person of Chancellor Sunak Rishi, announced that the government will make available £2bn pounds to mitigate the economic and social crisis caused by the Coronavirus.

Socialist Voice interviewed Dafydd Jones, a student nurse at Swansea

The images of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston being toppled, defaced and “strangled” by hundreds of protesters, and then thrown into the river on the British port city of Bristol, will be on our minds for a long time. The truth is that something like this is priceless. This brave collective action has […]

The impressive wave of protests unleashed by the murder of George Floyd in the United States not only crossed the borders of that country – impacting on a new world reality – but it offers particularly exciting episodes, typical of hot periods of history.

“You can’t have capitalism without racism”

The class nature of pandemics is revealed by the fact that in the Flu Pandemic of 2009 three times as many of the poorest died compared to the richest despite both groups having the same level of infection. Today NHS doctors, nurses, porters, and care workers, bus drivers, construction workers and many others are dying […]

Workers’ anger increases against austerity while parliament remains paralysed

One million in 24 hours sign against Johnson’s parliament suspension! Defend democracy; no parliament shut down! Only mass mobilisations, strikes, and occupations can stop Johnson!

There has been something of a political earthquake within the PCS Union. On 9 May, with the close of the union’s Assistant General Secretary (AGS) and National Executive Committee (NEC) elections, it was announced that John Moloney had won the AGS race. The incumbent, Socialist Party (SP) member Chris Baugh, ran a close second and […]