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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP
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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.
Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox

Zarah Sultana made waves when she told the Your Party conference that she wanted to nationalise the entire economy. The right wing howled with rage and derision.

🚩 Is the socialist vision really for nationalising everything?
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December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
✊🏽 Unions round-up

A round-up of strikes and industrial action set to take place across Britain over the next few weeks, featuring some kickass unions: Aslef, NEU, RCN, RMT, Unison, Unite.

Read on
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December 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In Depth
✊🏽 Five things to know about the SWP

Members of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) made headlines recently when they were expelled by unelected officials from Your Party on the eve of its founding conference.

But what does the SWP actually stand for?
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December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Alex Callinicos: Trump’s new strategy to combat US decline

🇺🇸 The US's National Security Strategy confirms important shifts around US imperialism's orientation towards Russia and China.

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December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
🇵🇸 Activists oppose the British state’s clampdown with hunger strikes

Palestine activists imprisoned under the British state’s despotic clampdown are resisting. Since November, eight campaigners have joined a hunger strike while in prison. Some now have life-threatening conditions.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Resident doctor speaks out: ‘There are absolutely no jobs’

While millions of people wait for desperately needed operations, doctors are being forced to sign on as unemployed or emigrate.

The shocking truth fuelling next week’s resident doctors’ strike.
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December 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
✊🏽 Palestine and Greens leaders back Together alliance

Zack Polanski and Ben Jamal told Socialist Worker why mass anti-racist campaigning is crucial to the fight against the far right.

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December 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
✊🏽 London education strikers unite on picket lines

UCU members at 11 sites across London joined an NEU members picket line at the sixth form centre in Angel, north London, on Wednesday to unite their common fights over pay and working conditions.

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December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Letters: Women’s Institute should resist transphobic ruling 🏳️‍⚧️

Readers write in on the Supreme Court's transphobia, Your Party's status, the fragility of global digital infrastructure and organising for Palestine.

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December 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🥀 Labour’s new deportation plan is ‘performative cruelty’ says immigration lawyer

Julian Bild, who has worked in immigration law for 30 years, spoke to Socialist Worker about Labour's attacks on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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December 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union Gen. Sec., says UK firefighters are outraged at proposed cuts to Fire & Rescue in Oxfordshire, part of £102m of cuts to the country's Fire & Rescue over the next 3 years.

The @FBU fully backs industrial action.
Build solidarity to save fire stations, jobs & lives.
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
100 firefighters and supporters lobbied Oxfordshire county council on Monday to scrap its proposals for dangerous cuts to Fire and Rescue.

A frontline firefighter explains what the cuts would mean in practice.

Interview by Teige Matthews-Palmer.

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December 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🚩 The latest Socialist Worker is out now. The front page reads

Leaders of Green Party and Palestine Solidarity Campaign say...
✊🏼 ‘UNITE TO STOP THE FAR RIGHT’

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#SocialistWorker #FreePalestine #StandUpToRacism #TogetherAgainstTheFarRight
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union Gen. Sec., says UK firefighters are outraged at proposed cuts to Fire & Rescue in Oxfordshire, part of £102m of cuts to the country's Fire & Rescue over the next 3 years. The FBU fully backs industrial action. Build solidarity to save fire stations, jobs & lives.
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
100 firefighters and supporters lobbied Oxfordshire county council to scrap its proposals for dangerous cuts to Fire and Rescue. A frontline firefighter explains what the cuts mean in practice.
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🎄 Karl Marx's Christmas Social
Hosted by Oxford & Thames Valley Socialist Workers Party

A chance for branch and student members to engage in a less structured setting.
Bring snacks and a soft drink or two!

Wednesday 10 December, 7pm
Michael Young Building, Manzil Way, Oxford OX4 1YH
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🚩 Socialist Workers Party: Ideas & Theory

Marxist theory isn’t a dogma but about applying Marx’s method of class analysis to the problems that confront us today. As Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin said: "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."

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December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
About 100 firefighters with the Fire Brigades Union (@FBU) and allies protested at Oxfordshire County Council offices on Monday.

The Council plans to slash fire & rescue services to life-threatening levels.

Please tell the Council not to sacrifice public safety to budget cuts.
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December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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December 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
☕️ 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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December 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox

Zarah Sultana made waves when she told the Your Party conference that she wanted to nationalise the entire economy. The right wing howled with rage and derision.

🚩 Is the socialist vision really for nationalising everything?
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December 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🚩 Socialism is popular, and our side is getting organised. Socialist Worker has been at the heart of some of the arguments about the new left we desperately need.

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December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🎄 Karl Marx's Christmas Social
Hosted by Oxford & Thames Valley Socialist Workers Party

A chance for branch and student members to engage in a less structured setting.
Bring snacks and a soft drink or two!

Wednesday 10 December, 7pm
Michael Young Building, Manzil Way, Oxford OX4 1YH
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
In Depth
✊🏽 Five things to know about the SWP

Members of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) made headlines recently when they were expelled by unelected officials from Your Party on the eve of its founding conference.

But what does the SWP actually stand for?
buff.ly/pzgVpDg
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM