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Socialism

Socialism

By: Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales)
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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 people, and discuss the strategy for a socialist fightback.Socialist Party (CWI England and Wales) Politics & Government
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  • How do we fight against racism and the far right? Socialism the Podcast episode 148

    How do we fight against racism and the far right? Socialism the Podcast episode 148
    Dec 17 2025

    Paula Mitchell from the Socialist Party Executive committee explains the Socialist Parties approach to fighting racism and the far right.

    The need to combat racism and the far right is urgent. Although recent polls have shown a small dip, Nigel Farage’s racist right-populist Reform UK is at around 25%. In the summer, over 100,000 people marched with far-right activist Tommy Robinson on a ‘Unite the Kingdom’ demonstration. Protests have taken place at asylum hotels around the country. There is a widespread fear among Black, Asian and migrant communities, and among many workers and activists, at the likelihood of gains for Reform in the May elections and the possibility of a future Farage-led government. What methods and tactics are needed to fight racism and the far-right?

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    Further reading

    Is fascism ‘growling at the door’?socialismtoday.org/is-fascism-growling-at-the-door

    Lessons from fighting the fascist British National Party in the 1990s - the spycops enquiryhttps://socialismtoday.org/lessons-from-fighting-the-bnp-in-the-1990s

    ‘Together’ – or a union-led fight against racism and the far right?https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/146225/10-12-2025/together-or-a-union-led-fight-against-racism-and-the-far-right/
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    36 mins
  • Corbyn, Sultana, Your Party and the Struggle for Working Class Political Representation in Britain

    Corbyn, Sultana, Your Party and the Struggle for Working Class Political Representation in Britain
    Dec 9 2025
    Hannah Sell, member of the CWI International Secretariat and General Secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales), discusses the Your Party founding conference and the struggle for a new mass workers’ party in Britain, with Sean Figg, from the CWI’s International Secretariat. Your Party’s founding conference has taken place. Unfortunately, on its formal creation, at this stage of the developing process, Your Party falls short of being the new mass workers’ party with a socialist programme that is needed. However, despite this, and despite the attempts of the capitalist media to cast the event in the worst possible light, many of those leaving Your Party’s founding conference in Liverpool on 30 November will do so feeling more positive than they will have done on arrival.
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    43 mins
  • Taming the beast or changing the system? Review of "Capitalism and its Critics"

    Taming the beast or changing the system? Review of "Capitalism and its Critics"
    Nov 21 2025
    There is growing and widespread dissatisfaction with capitalism worldwide. Economic models that dominated the post-Word War Two decades — Keynesian social democracy and later neoliberal globalization — are seen as having run aground. The system today is failing to meet the basic needs of working class people. This crisis has fuelled both right and left populist movements. Economic nationalism, authoritarianism and inequality are resurgent. It is with this background that John Cassidy explores, in a timely fashion, the critics of capitalism and the alternatives they advocate in Capitalism and its Critics – A Battle of Ideas In The Modern World. TU Senan and Niall Mulholland discuss Cassidy’s book and where his analysis differs from that of the CWI.
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    53 mins
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