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We are a branch of the Socialist Workers Party and the home of revolutionary socialists across Oxford and the Thames Valley.
A street in Dublin after the Easter Rising against British rule in 1916
Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
🚩 Why Marxists support national liberation
Karl Marx famously declared, “Workers of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
But can workers unite in a world dominated by imperialism?
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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.
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Strike at Whitefield School in east London, primarily a Send school. Placard slogans held up by protesters include "Our working conditions are their learning conditions!" and "Health and Safety in our School is Paramount!!" (Photo: Guy Smallman)
Send education at ‘breaking point’ new report finds
🥀 Children with special educational needs and disabilities are completely failed by issues that Labour refuses to fix.
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A headline of the Sun newspaper about the new report in Sara Sharif's death: "Tragic Sara Sharif failed by 'woke' officials and neighbours who feared being called 'racist' if they reported abuse".
‼️ Don’t let racists exploit Sara Sharif’s death
A new report into Sara Sharif's death has been released. But all the right want to do is exploit the horrors of child abuse to push racist lies.
Read on
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Time to get organised.
Capitalism means war, genocide, climate disaster, racism, poverty and oppression.
🚩 Join the revolutionary socialists to build the resistance and fight for a different world. Join the Socialist Workers Party.
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Resident doctors on a BMA picket line in London, with placards reading "Pay restoration for doctors" and "Patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs." (Photo: Guy Smallman)
🪧 Resident doctors tell Labour ‘to do better’ from first day’s picket lines
Despite coming under fire from Labour, tens of thousands of resident doctors have walked out over pay, recruitment issues and a failing NHS.
Read on
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Strikers at Bank of England Unite the union picket line on Wednesday with banner reading "Fair Pay Now!" (Photo: Alan Kenny)
✊🏽 Bank of England security guards strike against poverty pay
After being strung along for almost a year, security workers at the Bank of England are taking the fight to bosses.
Read on
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📺 SWP TV
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🚗💨 Marxism in a Day is on the road… next up Leeds, London, Bristol and Cardiff
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Speakers include:
• Alex Callinicos
• Joseph Choonara
• Anne Alexander
• Samira Ali
• Lewis Nielsen
Algerian rebel fighters in the mountains during the struggle for Algeria's independence (Picture: Fayeqalnatour)
🚩 Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
Many are attracted to socialism wanting a world without war, without imperialism, without brutal attacks on the oppressed.
Marxists reject abstract morality, seeing instead its class character.
Should we condemn violence or embrace it?
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The Women’s March UK in London saw over 5,000 people take to the streets of the capital in January as part of a day of action. In this picture, women hold a banner and give voice to chants led by women with megaphones (Picture: Guy Smallman)
In Depth
🚨 How can we stop violence against women?
Domestic violence workers, researchers and campaigners spoke to Judy Cox about violence against women and girls, what’s driving it — and what we can do about it.
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On the London protest for the Global Day of Action, with a wide range of slogans and creative metaphors by protestors on view
🌍 Rally against rich on global day of climate action
“There will be no preservation of life on a planet in flames,” an activist from Brazil Matters told the 200-strong crowd outside of Downing Street on Saturday.
Activists rallied in London to demand real action.
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On the march against cuts at Leicester university (Photo: Guy Smallman)
✊🏽 Hundreds march against ‘abysmal’ cuts at Leicester university
“When they say cutback, we say fightback!”
Amid ongoing strikes against plans to slash 167 jobs at the University of Leicester, workers and students marched through the city to take the fight to bosses
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On the picket line during doctors’ pay fight last year, Labour MP Apsana Begum front and centre, with BMA placards including "Pay restoration for doctors" and "Fix our pay. Retain our doctors. Protect the NHS." (Photo: Guy Smallman)
The SW View
🥀 NHS strike takes on Labour’s austerity
Over 14 years of Tory austerity and privatisation has ruined NHS services. But workers are forcing this Labour government to stop skirting around the edges: the NHS needs more money.
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A street in Dublin after the Easter Rising against British rule in 1916
Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
🚩 Why Marxists support national liberation
Karl Marx famously declared, “Workers of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
But can workers unite in a world dominated by imperialism?
buff.ly/JevmLoM
📺 SWP TV
Take your pick:
Black Lives Matter
Climate Change & Ecology
Palestine
Anti-Racism
LGBT+ Liberation
Imperialism
Women's Liberation
Marxist Theory
Class & Economics
Labour & Reformism
Anti-Fascism
Ireland
The State
Revolution
Marxism 2025 and more
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Strike at Whitefield School in east London, primarily a Send school (Photo: Guy Smallman)
Send education at ‘breaking point’ new report finds
🥀 Children with special educational needs and disabilities are completely failed by issues that Labour refuses to fix.
Read on
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🇵🇸 International Day for Palestine
End the Occupation - Stop Arming Israel - End Israeli Apartheid
National March for Palestine
Saturday 29 November, 12 noon
Park Lane to Whitehall
Called by PFB, PSC, StW, FOA, and others
#StopArmingIsrael #EndApartheid #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
Israeli settlers next to Umm al Khair village in the West Bank
🇵🇸 ‘Israeli settler violence is daily reality’: Palestinian in West Bank
Mahmoud lives in the village of Umm al-Khair, which Israeli settlers attacked this week. He spoke to Arthur Townend.
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Speakers include: • Alex Callinicos, author of The New Age of Catastrophe • Joseph Choonara, author of A Reader’s Guide to Marx’s Capital • Anne Alexander, author of Revolution is the Choice of the People • Book Launch: A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League
MARXISM IN A DAY TIMETABLE 11-12 Marxism and revolution: a solution to a world in crisis • Alex Callinicos 12:30-1:45pm Palestine, imperialism and the crisis of state power • Anne Alexander, author of Revolution is the Choice of the People: Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East 12:30-1:45pm Why we need a revolution to get rid of racism • Yuri Prasad 12:30-1:45pm Why you should read Capital • Joseph Choonara, author of a Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital 2:00-3:15pm A People's History of the Anti-Nazi League • author Geoff Brown • Weyman Bennett, Stand Up to Racism co-convenor • Paul Holborow, founding member of the ANL 2:00-3:15pm A Marxist analysis of gender and the family • Sophia Beach 2:00-3:15pm Marx and history - what is historical materialism? • Katie Coles 4-5pm Closing plenary: "A world to win" • Italian dock worker and striker for Palestine • Samira Ali, Women Against the Far Right • Lewis Nielsen, Socialist Workers Party
🌎 Another world is possible: #MARXISM IN A DAY
Join the SWP for a day of Marxist ideas, theory and debate
Sat 22 November, 11am-6pm
Birkbeck Uni, London WC1E 7HX
Full timetable: buff.ly/cLNMXTc
Tickets: bit.ly/LDNMarx
Sheffield 25/10 • Manchester 1/11 • Leeds 15/11 • Cardiff 29/11 • Bristol 6/12
BMA resident doctors picket line on Friday morning at the entrance to the John Radcliffe Hospital. On a very wet morning, striking doctors were grateful for BMA branded umbrellas! (Photo: Geoff Taylor)
🪧 At the BMA picket at the entrance to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, local resident doctors Heather and Tom give good account of why they're on strike. buff.ly/UeHG54I
📣 "Fix our jobs! Fix our pay! Come on, Wes, do it today!" Oxford doctors chant outside JR Hospital
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Strikers at Bank of England Unite the union picket line on Wednesday with banner reading "Fair Pay Now!" (Photo: Alan Kenny)
✊🏽 Bank of England security guards strike against poverty pay
After being strung along for almost a year, security workers at the Bank of England are taking the fight to bosses.
Read on
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A headline of the Sun newspaper about the new report in Sara Sharif's death: "Tragic Sara Sharif failed by 'woke' officials and neighbours who feared being called 'racist' if they reported abuse".
‼️ Don’t let racists exploit Sara Sharif’s death
A new report into Sara Sharif's death has been released. But all the right want to do is exploit the horrors of child abuse to push racist lies.
Read on
buff.ly/PXGTeRd
Resident doctors on a BMA picket line in London, with placards reading "Pay restoration for doctors" and "Patients need doctors. Doctors need jobs." (Photo: Guy Smallman)
🪧 Resident doctors tell Labour ‘to do better’ from first day’s picket lines
Despite coming under fire from Labour, tens of thousands of resident doctors have walked out over pay, recruitment issues and a failing NHS.
Read on
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Speakers include: • Alex Callinicos, author of The New Age of Catastrophe • Joseph Choonara, author of A Reader’s Guide to Marx’s Capital • Anne Alexander, author of Revolution is the Choice of the People • Book Launch: A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League
MARXISM IN A DAY TIMETABLE 11-12 Marxism and revolution: a solution to a world in crisis • Alex Callinicos 12:30-1:45pm Palestine, imperialism and the crisis of state power • Anne Alexander, author of Revolution is the Choice of the People: Crisis and Revolt in the Middle East 12:30-1:45pm Why we need a revolution to get rid of racism • Yuri Prasad 12:30-1:45pm Why you should read Capital • Joseph Choonara, author of a Reader's Guide to Marx's Capital 2:00-3:15pm A People's History of the Anti-Nazi League • author Geoff Brown • Weyman Bennett, Stand Up to Racism co-convenor • Paul Holborow, founding member of the ANL 2:00-3:15pm A Marxist analysis of gender and the family • Sophia Beach 2:00-3:15pm Marx and history - what is historical materialism? • Katie Coles 4-5pm Closing plenary: "A world to win" • Italian dock worker and striker for Palestine • Samira Ali, Women Against the Far Right • Lewis Nielsen, Socialist Workers Party
🌎 Another world is possible: #MARXISM IN A DAY
Join the SWP for a day of Marxist ideas, theory and debate
Sat 22 November, 11am-6pm
Birkbeck Uni, London WC1E 7HX
Full timetable: buff.ly/cLNMXTc
Tickets: bit.ly/LDNMarx
Sheffield 25/10 • Manchester 1/11 • Leeds 15/11 • Cardiff 29/11 • Bristol 6/12
US socialist and former presidential candidate Eugene V Debs addressing a crowd in Ohio, 1918
In Depth
🚩 How can US socialists win this time?
With the election of Zohran Mamdani, millions of people are inspired. But both elections AND STRUGGLE have shaped the American left, writes Frankie Murden.
Read on
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🇵🇸 International Day for Palestine
End the Occupation - Stop Arming Israel - End Israeli Apartheid
National March for Palestine
Saturday 29 November, 12 noon
Park Lane to Whitehall
Called by PFB, PSC, StW, FOA, and others
#StopArmingIsrael #EndApartheid #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine
Solitary confinement cell (Photo: Wikimedia commons)
‼️ Panic over early releases ignores the real prison scandal
Far from being released early, those locked up under Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) remain in prison indefinitely, amounting to 'psychological torture' and condemned by the European Court of Human Rights.
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A street in Dublin after the Easter Rising against British rule in 1916
Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
🚩 Why Marxists support national liberation
Karl Marx famously declared, “Workers of the world unite — you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
But can workers unite in a world dominated by imperialism?
buff.ly/JevmLoM
Slogan: "Blame the rich, not migrants" Join the Socialist Workers Party
Time to get organised.
Capitalism means war, genocide, climate disaster, racism, poverty and oppression.
🚩 Join the revolutionary socialists to build the resistance and fight for a different world. Join the Socialist Workers Party.
buff.ly/7Ln3eYz
