@oxswp.bsky.social
We are a branch of the Socialist Workers Party and the home of revolutionary socialists across Oxford and the Thames Valley.
🪧 National demo: MARCH AGAINST FASCISM: Unite vs Tommy Robinson
📍 London, Sat 13 September
✊🏽 Called by Stand Up To Racism
🚌 Book seats on Oxford transport to the demo: buff.ly/wYjDvAn
👊🏼 On Saturday 13 September, we need the biggest possible mobilisation against fascist Tommy Robinson. Join us!
England women’s team at Downing Street (Pic: Wikimedia commons)
🎓 Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox ✊🏼
Latest discussions include:
🚩 Have Lionesses made it cool to be English?
🚩 Why Marxists must be dreamers with a plan
🚩 Can we reset our relationship with nature?
🚩 Reformism: The betrayer that always returns
And many more 👇🏼
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🪧🏳️⚧️ Oxford for Trans Rights Demo ✊🏼
🗓️ Saturday 16th August
📍 Assemble 11am at Bonn Sq, marching to Clarendon Building, Broad St
📣 "Stand up against the damaging & transphobic new school RSHE guidance"
Called by @Oxford4TransRights
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#TransRightsNow
🚍 Transport: A shuttle coach will run between the train station and the protest between 11.30am and 4pm. Just talk to one of the stewards in yellow high viz.
🚉 From Oxford: the 11.15 Marylebone train leaves from platform 2, stops at High Wycombe just before 12pm.
More information 👇🏼
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🪧 Stop Arming Israel: RAF High Wycombe Protest
🗓️ 16 August, 1pm
📍RAF High Wycombe, High Command, New Road, HP14 4XQ
📣 Called by PFB, PSC, StW, FOA, CND & others
🇵🇸 #StopArmingIsrael #stopstarvinggaza #STOPtheGENOCIDE #FreePalestine
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A festival of socialist ideas: Marxism 2025
🚩📺 SWP TV
🎟️ Our YouTube channel features 100s of videos.
Latest discussions from Marxism Festival 2025:
🚩 From a global movement to freedom for Palestine
🚩 Party Time: What kind of left do we need?
🚩 Is Zionism finished?
Tune in 👇🏼
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Photo presumably from 1948 of Palestinian refugees – men, women and children – on foot, with whatever possessions they can carry, fleeing the Nakba, the disaster wreaked on them by organised violent Israeli ethnic cleansing.
🚩 The SW View
👉🏼 Israel’s genocide is rooted in Zionism
Israel’s horrors in Palestine seem unfathomable, the scale of the West’s complicity inexplicable. But the scenes of starvation today are embedded in the foundations of Israel as a racist settler colonial state.
Read more 👇🏼
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At the front of the Palestine national demonstration in London, with banners demanding that governments Stop Arming Israel and that the Israeli state Stop Starving Gaza
🔥🇵🇸 300,000 strong march demands Britain breaks ties with Israel
⚠️ It came days after the Zionist terror state announced plans to occupy Gaza City — part of its plan to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from the territory.
Read more 👇🏼
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Socialist Workers Party campaigners, many with fists raised in classic gesture of rebellious defiance, holding up front page of Socialist Worker newspaper at demonstration in London.
☕️ Breakfast in Red 🚩
📧 Our daily email newsletter "Breakfast in Red" – served up by Socialist Worker journalists and delivered to your inbox every morning. 🗞️
✍🏻 Sign up for our daily email update ‘Breakfast in Red’ 👇🏼
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Street level view of ruins in part of Gaza City, after 22 months of Israeli bombardment
‼️ Israeli plan to occupy Gaza City will drive West’s crisis of legitimacy
Why is Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu so hell bent on it? The answer lies in the dynamics driving the Israeli government.
Read on 👇🏼
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Socialist Workers Party campaigners, many with fists raised in classic gesture of rebellious defiance, holding up front page of Socialist Worker newspaper at demonstration in London.
✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿 The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a revolutionary socialist party with branches across Britain. We fight against oppression, exploitation and environmental destruction.
🚩 We organise on a day-to-day basis by taking part in movements, protests and strikes.
👊🏼 Join us! 👇🏼
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Vicious architects of neoliberalism, Ronald Regan and Margaret Thatcher in jovial mood
🔬 In Depth
💀 Is neoliberalism dead?
📣 Radical economist James Meadway and Marxist economist Joseph Choonara came together at Marxism Festival last month to discuss the fate of neoliberalism and what might come next.
Read on 👇🏼
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Robert Jenrick
‼️ Tories fuel far right racism
Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick fanned the flames of far right racism last weekend with a disgusting article in the Daily Mail, an article so filthy a self-confessed fascist could have penned it – albeit one with a public school education.
More 👇🏼
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Anti-racists gather in Newcastle (Pic: SUTRNE on Facebook)
✉️ Readers' Letters
Readers write in on anti-migrant hatred, Southern Water, the Masterchef scandal and a Palestine fundraiser.
✍🏻 How not to take on the far right protests
✍🏻 Water boss fails test
✍🏻 Cooking up a storm over sexist harassment
👉🏼 Full letters: buff.ly/ZJIKHSq
Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif in bullet-proof PRESS vest reporting from ruins in Gaza
✍🏻🇵🇸 “If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice," Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera reporter, Gaza.
Israel deliberately murdered five Al Jazeera journalists on Monday – and boasted about it.
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🪧🇵🇸 "I was arrested for opposing the Palestine Action ban. We need to confront the war machine" writes Charlie Kimber, former editor of Socialist Worker, who joined hundreds on the Defend Our Juries action last Saturday.
👉🏼 wedonotcomply.org
🗞️ Full story: buff.ly/gAUKqhm
Socialist Workers Party campaigners, many with fists raised in classic gesture of rebellious defiance, holding up front page of Socialist Worker newspaper at demonstration in London.
☕️ Breakfast in Red 🚩
📧 Our daily email newsletter "Breakfast in Red" – served up by Socialist Worker journalists and delivered to your inbox every morning. 🗞️
✍🏻 Sign up for our daily email update ‘Breakfast in Red’ 👇🏼
buff.ly/4hWGtN3
🪧🏳️⚧️ Oxford for Trans Rights Demo ✊🏼
🗓️ Saturday 16th August
📍 Assemble 11am at Bonn Sq, marching to Clarendon Building, Broad St
📣 "Stand up against the damaging & transphobic new school RSHE guidance"
Called by @Oxford4TransRights
buff.ly/npacpy6
#TransRightsNow
Home secretary Yvette Cooper addressing press (Photo: UK Home Office)
🥀 Labour pushes far right lies
🤔 The Home Office announces a further £100 million to crack down on refugees trying to make it safely to Britain.
‼️ Starmer is desperate to claw back votes from Reform UK, but embracing racist lies about migrants is fuelling the far right.
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Socialist Workers Party campaigners, many with fists raised in classic gesture of rebellious defiance, holding up front page of Socialist Worker newspaper at demonstration in London.
✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿 The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a revolutionary socialist party with branches across Britain. We fight against oppression, exploitation and environmental destruction.
🚩 We organise on a day-to-day basis by taking part in movements, protests and strikes.
👊🏼 Join us! 👇🏼
buff.ly/nbh2qq0
RMT picket line with workers raising a fist in defiant mood (Photo: Guy Smallman)
👊🏽 Tube workers facing deportation will fight state racism
‼️ As many as 70 workers risk losing their jobs at Transport for London.
🪧 Tube workers have vowed to defend migrant colleagues facing deportation after Labour changed immigration rules.
Read more 👇🏼
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England women’s team at Downing Street (Pic: Wikimedia commons)
🎓 Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox ✊🏼
Latest discussions include:
🚩 Have Lionesses made it cool to be English?
🚩 Why Marxists must be dreamers with a plan
🚩 Can we reset our relationship with nature?
🚩 Reformism: The betrayer that always returns
And many more 👇🏼
buff.ly/MyRNPdX
Photo presumably from 1948 of Palestinian refugees – men, women and children – on foot, with whatever possessions they can carry, fleeing the Nakba, the disaster wreaked on them by organised violent Israeli ethnic cleansing.
🚩 The SW View
👉🏼 Israel’s genocide is rooted in Zionism
Israel’s horrors in Palestine seem unfathomable, the scale of the West’s complicity inexplicable. But the scenes of starvation today are embedded in the foundations of Israel as a racist settler colonial state.
Read more 👇🏼
buff.ly/9ByQGLy
A festival of socialist ideas: Marxism 2025
🚩📺 SWP TV
🎟️ Our YouTube channel features 100s of videos.
Latest discussions from Marxism Festival 2025:
🚩 From a global movement to freedom for Palestine
🚩 Party Time: What kind of left do we need?
🚩 Is Zionism finished?
Tune in 👇🏼
buff.ly/Aetvwet
Street level view of ruins in part of Gaza City, after 22 months of Israeli bombardment
‼️ Israeli plan to occupy Gaza City will drive West’s crisis of legitimacy
Why is Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu so hell bent on it? The answer lies in the dynamics driving the Israeli government.
Read on 👇🏼
buff.ly/lNcNijy
Anti-racist protest with protesters behind a Tower Hamlets Stand Up To Racism banner, and many holding up signs reading "Refugees welcome! Stop the far right!"
📣 Anti-racists take to the streets to oppose the far right
🪧✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿 Hundreds of anti-racists stood firm against fascists in far right protests against refugees staying in hotels in towns and cities across Britain on Friday night.
Read more 👇🏼
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At the front of the Palestine national demonstration in London, with banners demanding that governments Stop Arming Israel and that the Israeli state Stop Starving Gaza
🔥🇵🇸 300,000 strong march demands Britain breaks ties with Israel
⚠️ It came days after the Zionist terror state announced plans to occupy Gaza City — part of its plan to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from the territory.
Read more 👇🏼
buff.ly/aOS48NW
Hundreds of people gathered in parliament square to oppose the ban of Palestine Action, courageously displaying signs reading "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." while knowing the police had been instructed to arrest anyone who showed support for Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.
🪧 Hundreds defy police brutality to oppose Palestine Action ban 🇵🇸
🚨 A mass direct action against the ban of Palestine Action has shamed Labour home secretary Yvette Cooper. Police arrested 474 people — including former Guantanamo Bay torture camp detainee Moazzam Begg.
Read more 👇🏼
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A festival of socialist ideas: Marxism 2025
🚩📺 SWP TV
🎟️ Our YouTube channel features 100s of videos.
Latest discussions from Marxism Festival 2025:
🚩 From a global movement to freedom for Palestine
🚩 Party Time: What kind of left do we need?
🚩 Is Zionism finished?
Tune in 👇🏼
buff.ly/Aetvwet
Socialist Workers Party campaigners, many with fists raised in classic gesture of rebellious defiance, holding up front page of Socialist Worker newspaper at demonstration in London.
✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿 The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a revolutionary socialist party with branches across Britain. We fight against oppression, exploitation and environmental destruction.
🚩 We organise on a day-to-day basis by taking part in movements, protests and strikes.
👊🏼 Join us! 👇🏼
buff.ly/nbh2qq0
