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Socialism the Podcast offers a Marxist approach to the big issues we face in a world of capitalist crisis. Fighting for jobs, homes and public services for all. From strikes and mass movements through to community campaigns, history and theory. We shine a light on the struggles of workers and young...
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Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana launch 'Your Party' - What the Socialist Party thinks
More analysis at https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/
The fact that steps are being taken to develop ‘Your Party’ will be very welcome news...
Episode 145. Youth Walkout against Trump
Today's podcast is a discussion with Socialist Students national Organiser Adam Gillman, about the Youth Walkout against Trump campaign.
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Zarah Sultana MP leaves Labour - what next in the fight for a new workers' party?
Today’s podcast is a discussion with Socialist Party General Secretary Hannah Sell, around the announcement on the 3rd July 2025 that Zarah Sultana MP...
Socialism the Podcast Episode 143: Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in 2025
While it was never true that LGBTQ+ liberation was an inevitability within the system of profit-before-all-else capitalism, the basis for that hope ha...
Socialism the Podcast Episode 142: Trade Wars and the workers' movement
Hannah Sell, the general Secretary of the Socialist Party, discusses the chaos unleashed on the world economy by Donald Trump's ‘liberation day’ tarif...
Socialism the Podcast Episode 141: The battle for the PCS
Dave Semple, Public and Commercial Service Union (PCS) national Vice president, speaking in a personal capacity, discusses the issues at stake in the...
Episode 140. The German elections: Disaster for Establishment Parties
Sascha Stanicic discusses the recent German elections in February 2025, which saw a drop in votes for the ‘establishment’ parties, and an increase in...
139. The Crisis in Higher Education
The National Organiser of Socialist Students, Adam Powell Davies, discusses the crisis facing higher education and Socialist Students' new national ca...
138. Fighting for a new party under Starmer
Today’s podcast is a discussion with former socialist MP Dave Nellist, the national chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). We wil...
Socialism 137. Where is Britain going?
Today’s podcast is a discussion with Socialist Party General Secretary Hannah Sell, introducing the party’s new document on British perspectives produ...
136. Trumpism and its limits
The election victory of Donald Trump opens a new era internationally, and domestically in the United States. This election win is not merely a changin...
135. The US Elections
In this episode of the podcast, Tony Saunois, General secretary of the Committee for a Workers International, analyses the general trends in the leadu...
134: How to fight the far right
In this episode of the podcast Josh Asker the editor of 'The Socialist,' explains the tactics and strategies needed to build a mass movement against t...
Nigeria Erupts - Build the Solidarity Campaign
In August protestors took to the streets in towns and cities across Nigeria in anger at the deepening social and economic crises gripping the country,...
133. Trade Union Congress 2024
133. Trade Union Congress 2024
If the trade unions were to take the first steps towards building a political alternative it could rapidly build...
132. Tories Smashed! Build The Socialist Opposition
Not just booted out. The Tories have been crushed. The electorate has punished them for 14 years of austerity, attacks on the working class, lies and...
131. Prepare A Workers' General Election Stand
131. Prepare a workers’ general election stand
In the local elections on 2nd May, the Socialist Party stood as part of the Trade Unionist and S...
130. The fight for workers' politics now
Over the last two years of strikes the working class in Britain has begun to feel its collective power. It is about to face a Starmer-led government t...
Crisis & Class Struggle in Germany
Sascha Staničić, national spokesperson of the Socialist Organisation Solidarity, Sol, the CWI in Germany, discusses the CWI’s analysis of the crisis a...
Capitalism in Crisis and at War – A Marxist Analysis
The crisis of world capitalism means war and conflicts, economic stagnation and crises, and political instability on every continent. The working clas...
129. Marion Lloyd: a socialist candidate for PCS general secretary
Marion will build an industrial plan capable of winning, including national and selective action and overtime bans. Marion will ensure that PCS takes...
128. Behind the headlines, how can the Israel-Palestine conflict be solved?
Capitalism and its political representatives are totally incapable of meeting any of the needs of working-class and poor people anywhere on the globe....
127. A Marxist take on the world economic crisis
In this podcast with Hannah Sell, Socialist Party general secretary, we look at the world economy, how the capitalist system works – or doesn’t work -...
126. Chile 50 Years On - socialism is possible but heroism isn't enough
Fifty years since it was crushed, the Chilean revolution of 1970-73 remains a reference point, not only in Chile, but internationally, for both the wo...
125. Dave Nellist - former 'Workers' MP on a Worker's Wage' discusses the Tory sleaze scandal
We sat down with Socialist Party member Dave Nellist to discuss the latest Tory sleaze scandal, how he went about only taking a average worker's wage...
124. Cop 26 - Socialist Change to end Climate Change
November 5/6 in Glasgow saw some of the largest political mobilisations since the onslaught of the Covid pandemic. The catalyst was the bosses’ summit...
123. Cuban protests – what do they represent?
Cuban protests – what do they represent?
On 11 July, Cuba was rocked by the largest protests to have taken place since the “Maleconazo”...
122. Afghanistan in crisis: A colossal failure of western capitalism
Afghanistan in crisis: A colossal failure of western capitalism.
After two decades of military occupation and trillions of dollars spent...
121. Fighting to save the NHS
The future of the NHS hangs in the balance. Nearly five million people are waiting for treatment. Covid has pushed our health services to the limit, b...
120. Tories in crisis - Preparing for struggle in post-Covid Britain
Tories in crisis - Preparing for struggle in post-Covid Britain
Far from an era of sustained economic upswing, social peace and a Tory as...
119. Organising in the food and retail industry
Retail has felt the full impact of the Covid pandemic but the resulting heightened struggle between different capitalist interests within the sector,...
118. Where now for the Scottish independence movement?
6 May 2021 saw the election of a majority of MSPs to the Scottish parliament committed to a second referendum on Scottish independence.
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117. How can Palestinian liberation and an end to Israeli state terror be won?
What can the Palestinians in Palestine and Israel do to develop their struggle?
What are the UN and governments around the world doing to try to...
116. May elections and crisis in the Labour Party
The Tories are claiming victory – but what is the perspective for Johnson and his party? The austerity they are planning for the working class and the...
115. Biden’s stimulus – can it solve the problems of US and world capitalism?
And what about beyond the US – how will this spending play out on the world stage? What does it mean when Biden says ‘America’s back’?
Do these...
114. Football super-league - reclaim the game
The withdrawal of the six football clubs in England from the Super League - after protests and action by fans, players and other club staff - will be...
113. Corruption, cronyism and capitalist politics
This episode was recorded on Tuesday 23 April 2021 and by the time we’ve published it more revelations have emerged from the murk of Westminster.
112. A socialist mayor for Liverpool
How can elected positions be used to advance the struggle of working class and young people against the bosses’ and the Tories’ Covid austerity?
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111. PCS elections - the struggle for fighting trade unionism
111. PCS elections – the struggle for fighting trade unionism
How can the trade unions, as the main mass organisation of the working clas...
110. The Paris Commune
The Paris Commune 1871 is rich in lessons for the struggles today. Listen to Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party political secretary, discussing the rich l...