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Schools strike wave rallies in London 👇As 20 schools across England take to the picket lines, up to 100 striking workers rallied outside the Department of Education

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Trump deals with Putin to loot Ukraine for US interests 👇Trump isn't the first Western leader to do a deal with Putin

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Tens of thousands of women lose their jobs for getting pregnant 👇Shocking new research from campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed

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Campaign takes on housing crisis in London 👇As Labour refuses to tackle Britain's housing crisis, campaign group Shape is fighting a Labour council and profiteering developers in Southwark

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Cost of living crisis intensifies, left must respond 👇Join the Summit of Resistance on 29 March

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Preserving a Sudanese identity under attack 👇A new exhibition, Ancient Sudan—Enduring Heritage, is a fascinating display of the grandeur of the Kushite Kingdom and a reminder that we must stand in solidarity with Sudan and defend its culture

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Manchester mental health workers strike to defend services 👇Bosses are underfunding vital mental health services in Manchester, but workers are fighting back

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The new Socialist Worker is out now. Our front page reads: "A warning from Germany..." 📏Don't give racists an inch #GermanElections #StopTheFarRight 📚Read more at socialistworker.co.uk

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Key lessons from German election for anti-racists in Britain 👇Starmer is making the same mistakes at the main parties did in Germany

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Industrial round-up: Refuse workers fight against cuts 👇Plus Scottish Water set for strikes, TfL officers strike for pay equality, strikes at Heathrow take off, BMW workers drive for strikes, UVW security guards call off strikes and more

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Schools strike wave builds the fightback 👇NEU union members at more than 20 schools across England are on strike

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Letters—There is still time to beat back Trump’s transphobia 👇Readers write about Trump's transphobia, the monarchy, defence spending and Channel 4's racism

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Alex Callinicos: A look at Starmer’s political gymnastics 👇Starmer is trying to stay relevant to the US over the Ukraine war, but is balancing that with calling for support for Ukraine and aligning with the EU

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Israel rains down fresh horror in West Bank 👇A mental heath practitioner in the West Bank spoke to Arthur Townend about Israel's crimes socialistworker.co.uk/palestine-20...

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Why do we live in a perpetual state of war? 👇For Marxists, imperialism isn't a policy pursued by some parties or governments. It is a global system of competition between capitalist states

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Why aren’t more four year-olds ‘school ready’? 👇The media has blamed "lazy" parents for a situation where 30 percent of children are not considered ready to start school

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German elections: mainstream parties laid ground for fascist AfD surge 👇 The AfD fascists almost doubled their share of the vote

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How can we win women’s liberation? 👇The founders of International Women’s Day thought we could smash sexism through a revolution against the whole system. Their ideas are as relevant as ever socialistworker.co.uk/womens-liber...

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🗞️Key articles on Trump, Ukraine and the crisis of imperialism

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Protesters stand against repression from the Turkish regime 👇Protesters staged a solidarity rally outside the Turkish embassy in London after president Erdoğan’s arrests hundreds of political opponents

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‘Stand with us against arrests’—interview with Turkish socialist 👇President Recep Erdogan runs an authoritarian regime socialistworker.co.uk/news/turkey-...

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Labour continue to fund war and slash living standards 👇Starmer's government pledges higher defence spending socialistworker.co.uk/labour/labou...

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Trump’s plan for plunder in Ukraine 👇He wants Ukraine to hand over control of resources and infrastructure

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Racism will be real winner in German vote this Sunday 👇There is a danger that the fascist and mainstream right will emerge as winners in the German election—but a large number of Germans are resisting the racist consensus

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School abuse scandal rocks French state 👇The scandal implicates prime minister Francois Bayrou—calls for him to resign are adding to the political crisis in France socialistworker.co.uk/news/school-...

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Gauke report finds that locking people up isn’t working 👇Prison reform campaigner Bernadette Mary explains that longer sentences don't stop crime and mean that people come out worse

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A victory and a warning for Welsh anti-racists over Reform UK 👇Stand Up To Racism has upset Reform UK in West Wales, but the far right party won its first council seat in South Wales

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Eyes Open in the Dark: Celebrating freedom and defying oppression 👇Plus an engaging portrayal of a black working class family

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The new Socialist Worker is out now. Our front page reads: "As Trump launches imperialist carve-up of Ukraine and Palestine" 💰Starmer wants us to pay for more war #FreePalestine #NoWarButClassWar 📚Read more at socialistworker.co.uk

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First Bus drivers fight ‘dirty, underhanded tactics’ for pre-Covid terms 👇Up to 100 workers are taking to the picket line, battling a management that's using 'dirty, underhanded tactics' to break the strike

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Blame ‘management bullshit’ for late post 👇In Tooting, bosses are lying about why mail is delayed—the reality is that bosses have forced through a new plan which has ruined postal services

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Education round-up: Universities set to fight cuts 👇As university staff prepare to strike, 11 schools in London are set to strike on 27 February and sixth form workers have voted to accept the revised offer

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Robert F Kennedy uses mistrust of US healthcare to push conspiracy theories 👇Anti-vax politics has already led to a number of preventable outbreaks in the United States

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Trade union women’s conference is united on trans+ rights 👇The right wing Daily Telegraph newspaper tried to undermine support for the motion before the conference began

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NHS workers win over right to speak out over Palestine 👇Bosses barred two NHS workers from their workplace for planning a Palestine protest, but they have won

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Industrial round-up: Strike extends to defend union reps 👇Plus Oscar Mayer workers are balloting to extend strikes, Heathrow workers down tools, delivery drivers strike, Solace aid workers call strikes off and more socialistworker.co.uk/trade-unions...

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‘You can feel hope in the air’—inside the mass movement rocking Serbia 👇A mass movement is rocking Serbia after a railway station disaster last year. Iskra Krstić, a researcher and journalist, spoke to Tomáš Tengely-Evans about the revolt

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Letters—Big business was never on our side in equality fight 👇Readers write in on the hollowness of corporate DEI, airport expansion and the need for sustainable jobs, Sam Kerr's trial and Egyptian socialist Shady Mohamed's hunger strike

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Alex Callinicos: JD Vance and US imperialism’s plans for Europe 👇Vice president JD Vance’s speech to the Munich Security Conference last week crystallised the panic and humiliation in European capitals

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Neither the US nor EU are right on Ukraine war 👇European leaders are divided over how to respond to Trump over Ukraine socialistworker.co.uk/comment/neit...

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Animal Farm: When some are more equal than others 👇Animal farm was co-opted by the right, but it's an allegory for the woes of Stalinism and how the counter-revolution defeated workers

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A tale of hope amid the horror of Holocaust—interview with Michael Rosen 👇Michael Rosen has published a new children’s book One Day—A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust

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What’s unique about the working class? 👇The working class has a unique position within capitalism, and its power compounds when it unites through struggle

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Palestine march rages at Trump’s Gaza ethnic cleansing plan 👇Amid a fragile ceasefire and Trump’s calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza, 175,000 protesters marched to the US embassy in London

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What’s driving Trump’s foreign policy shifts? 👇The shifts in the Middle East and Ukraine aren’t simply the actions of an unpredictable despot

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‘Refugees are terrified’ of Labour move to deny them citizenship 👇Julian Bild, an immigration lawyer, says new guidance on citizenship for refugees is ‘plainly unlawful’ socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...

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Fighting against Reform UK at work 👇Workers in a range of sectors told Socialist Worker that the far right Reform UK is benefiting from Labour’s failings—and growing hatred of migrants socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/fig...

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Palestine day of action opposes Trump and defends the right to protest 👇Workers and students took part in protests up and down the country—and defended Chris Nineham and Waseem Yousaf in their court cases

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Bradford independent councillor slams tax rise plans 👇Councillor Ishtiaq Ahmed says that the Labour council's plans for tax rises will hurt the most vulnerable people in Bradford

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What’s behind Trump’s moves in Ukraine? 👇Ukraine is a proxy war between US imperialism and Russian imperialism socialistworker.co.uk/comment/what...

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