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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 & Thames Valley https://nitter.cf/t.co/O5rbEL63zL

 Oxon & Thames Valley, England
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✊🏽 Anti-racists demand Oxford University pulls event with Jason Arday witch-hunter MPs, academics, students, celebrities and union leaders are demanding Oxford Uni cancels a meeting with the person who led the racist witch-hunt of Professor Jason Arday. buff.ly/CUQiKrs
A view of part of the 30,000 strong vigil in London on 17 August demanding justice for Professor Jason Arday, showing hands holding up bunches of flowers, and a placard reading "Rest in power Professor Jason Arday" (Photo: Guy Smallman)

ALT A view of part of the 30,000 strong vigil in London on 17 August demanding justice for Professor Jason Arday, showing hands holding up bunches of flowers, and a placard reading "Rest in power Professor Jason Arday" (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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🗞️ This week's Socialist Worker is out! After Israel's new assault on the West Bank, our front page reads: ‘THE SILENCE OF THE WEST’ Also: - Lula wins in Brazil - Palestinians speak out - European youth revolt - The politics of riots buff.ly/o8maQV6
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Anti-racists demand Oxford University pulls event with Jason Arday witch-hunter socialistworker.co.uk/anti-r…
Anti-racists demand Oxford University pulls event with Jason Arday witch-hunter

Anti-racists demand Oxford University pulls event with Jason Arday witch-hunter

Dozens of MPs, academics, students, celebrities and union leaders are demanding Oxford University pulls a meeting with Nathan Cofnas, who led the racist witch-hunt of Professor Jason Arday. 

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🔴Siamo in 100.000 a Roma! ⛺️Al termine del corteo non ci fermeremo. Saremo in una grande acampada al Colosseo per tutto il fine settimana, per costruire l’opposizione al governo e alla finanziaria di guerra! 📢Lavoro, diritti, dignità! #scioperogenerale
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No recording without consent. UCU members at the University of Lincoln are challenging plans for compulsory lecture recording. ucu.org.uk/article/14696/UCU…
UCU members at University of Lincoln declare formal dispute in lecture recording row

UCU members at University of Lincoln declare formal dispute in lecture recording row

Staff at the University of Lincoln have declared a formal industrial dispute in a row over plans to make lecture recording compulsory, the University and College Union (UCU) announced today.

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Oxford all out for Palestine. Saturday October 31st. Meet Manzil Way 12.30. March to Clarendon Building
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👊🏽 Stop Nathan Cofnas speaking at Oxford Today Stand Up to Racism with @ukblm are launching a statement penned by students and signed by @Beverleyknight @misanharriman @ZaweAshton @HackneyAbbott @afuahirsch plus MPs, academics and campaigners. (1/2)
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Socialist Worker Cartoons with Tim buff.ly/SWUZlqO
Cartoon of an airplane doing a major mid-flight change of direction, with a speech bubble reading "Forget Iran! Bomb Brazil!"

ALT Cartoon of an airplane doing a major mid-flight change of direction, with a speech bubble reading "Forget Iran! Bomb Brazil!"

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🛸 On 30 October, 1938: US panic over War of the Worlds radio broadcast Orson Welles dramatised HG Wells' Martian invasion novel as a series of ever more frightening news bulletins – so well done that for a few hours some listeners took it for live news. buff.ly/qJKGFu4
Orson Welles surrounded by reporters with notebooks

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✉️ Letters: Indian police are targeting the women who protest Outrage against Delhi police targeting women during Hindu festivals dedicated to the feminine divine. Plus: - Rooney's book sale boost - Streeting's scaremongering - No to Norfolk data centre buff.ly/fXni2Tr
A meeting of students in the Cockroach movement in Chembur, Mumbai (Photo: abhijeet_dipke/X)

ALT A meeting of students in the Cockroach movement in Chembur, Mumbai (Photo: abhijeet_dipke/X)

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📣 TODAY: Strikes planned across Italy as anger boils over Tens of thousands of Italian workers plan a wildcat general strike this Friday, 30 October, joining the weeks-long protest by young people against the cost of living crisis and the drive to war. buff.ly/RC19VHi
View of a massive pro-Palestine demonstration in 2025 when strikes and blockades brought Italy to a standstill

ALT View of a massive pro-Palestine demonstration in 2025 when strikes and blockades brought Italy to a standstill

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⚠️ Ebola cases rise as West ignores the crisis The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced more than 10,000 confirmed Ebola cases. That makes it the fastest growing outbreak in the country’s history, and the second largest and deadliest on record. buff.ly/r6i0aai
Health workers being assisted into full-body protective hazmat (PPE) wear in Congo's Kivu region (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection)

ALT Health workers being assisted into full-body protective hazmat (PPE) wear in Congo's Kivu region (Photo: World Bank Photo Collection)

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Alex Callinicos 🚩 Can the fires of France spread to Britain? Looking across the Channel at the recent magnificent mass eruptions in France and across Europe, one is tempted to ask “Why not here?”. Is it something about the British? buff.ly/y627Jgy
Trafalgar Square, 31 March 1990: London Metropolitan police in riot gear face off against unarmed protestors during the so-called Poll Tax riots (Photo: James Bourne/WikipediaCommons)

ALT Trafalgar Square, 31 March 1990: London Metropolitan police in riot gear face off against unarmed protestors during the so-called Poll Tax riots (Photo: James Bourne/WikipediaCommons)

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🎟️ Reviews & Culture "Naza" reveals horror of Israeli genocide from within From two directors of last year's Oscar-winning "No Other Land", documentary film "Naza" reveals the culture of silence, hatred and complicity inside the Israeli military. buff.ly/zB4Ej6E
Poster for documentary film "Naza: a window into systems of mass killing"

ALT Poster for documentary film "Naza: a window into systems of mass killing"

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Reviews & Culture ✊🏽 Celebrating Asians in Britain’s history of fighting Rich with accounts of newly arrived migrants learning how to organise, socialist writer Taj Ali’s new book "Come What May, We’re Here To Stay" is timely and vital. buff.ly/IdwJhfh
Front cover of Taj Ali’s new book "Come What May, We’re Here To Stay: the story of south Asian resistance in Britain" with a graphic of raised fists and a flaming torch

ALT Front cover of Taj Ali’s new book "Come What May, We’re Here To Stay: the story of south Asian resistance in Britain" with a graphic of raised fists and a flaming torch

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✊🏽 When the peasants fought back After a deadly ­pandemic sweeps the world, an uncaring government fleeces the poor and life in England becomes unbearable. This is not 2026 but 1381. Martin Empson spoke about what we can learn from the Peasants’ Revolt. buff.ly/Hosla6M
An illustration of a meeting of John Ball and Wat Tyler, two of the peasant revolt's leaders, in 1381, from a 15th century manuscript in the British Library (Photo: WikipediaCommons)

ALT An illustration of a meeting of John Ball and Wat Tyler, two of the peasant revolt's leaders, in 1381, from a 15th century manuscript in the British Library (Photo: WikipediaCommons)

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🗓️ On this day 29 October, 1929: The Wall Street stock exchange crashed The Wall Street Crash in 1929, a capitalist crisis in one financial sector, US stocks, led to a global Great Depression in the 1930s, with misery for millions. buff.ly/t55gUpz
Unemployed people lined up outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, February 1931

ALT Unemployed people lined up outside a soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, February 1931

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🪧 Education unions round-up - UCU members, mourning the slow death of their universities, take to picket lines dressed as ghosts and skeletons - Aberdeen bosses blown away as union rep reinstated - Southall teachers' strike scares bosses buff.ly/DfpQVD1
Group of three strikers at Nottingham university dressed as witches

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📣 Huge democracy protests planned in India India’s democracy movement plans a massive demonstration in New Delhi this Sunday, to bring in workers, farmers and traders in support of student Cockroach protesters, whose leadership continue to be arrested. buff.ly/Z8TYolE
Cockroach movement students protesting (Photo: neha_aisa/X)

ALT Cockroach movement students protesting (Photo: neha_aisa/X)

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✊🏽 Council care workers strike against two-tier workforce Housing and social care workers in Barnet, London, walked out for the first time on Tuesday in a battle against outsourcing, which leaves them on worse pay and conditions than council workers. buff.ly/xnWEqWU
Housing and social care workers on the Unison picket in Barnet, north London

ALT Housing and social care workers on the Unison picket in Barnet, north London

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