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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.

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

Time to get organised.

Capitalism means war, genocide, climate disaster, racism, poverty and oppression.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

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Help Socialist Worker amplify our struggle against the billionaire class, for striking workers, for a free Palestine, for refugees, trans+ & non-binary people, disabled people, women's rights, anti-fascists and more.

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

🎟️ Reviews & Culture:
Reviews of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere and Frankenstein

A raw display of crisis, storytelling and recovery, the story of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, is more than a simple biopic.

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Poster for Bruce Springsteen biopic, showing Jeremy Allen White, as Bruce Springsteen, playing electric guitar

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ Reform UK branch recycles antisemitic tropes in attempt at humour

Brighton and Hove Stand Up To Racism has condemned the local Reform UK branch’s use of antisemitic tropes in a racist attack on Jewish Green Party leader Zack Polanski.

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Image on Reform UK Facebook page of Zack Polanski in a fake Green Party poster, portraying the Jewish politician as a sinister and manipulative figure, with the words "Vote Green. Happy Halloween"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

✊🏽 The future of Your Party still to play for

Before Your Party's founding conference has even taken place, more turmoil at the top threatens to derail the whole project. Socialists need to push for real democracy and political debate.

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Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn, side by side, fists raised, united in the struggle (Photo: @zarahsultana on X)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

🌎 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

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Sheffield 25/10 • Manchester 1/11 • Leeds 15/11 • Cardiff 29/11 • Bristol 6/12

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

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
🚩 Socialists want a completely different society from the one we have now. We want one free from oppression and violence — and based on equality and freedom.

But are people too selfish for such a system?

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Group of adults and children cooperating to plant a tree in a residential green space

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

💰 Central banks are a vehicle for swindle

The people who run central banks pose as “neutral” technocrats who keep the economy running smoothly. Nothing could be further from the truth — they are used to wage class war on us.

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Bank of England building (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

In Depth
🏴No Gods. No Masters. And no leaders?

Anarchism’s distrust of hierarchies and leaders is understandable. But, writes Tomáš Tengely-Evans, while its spirit is right, its methods are fundamentally flawed.

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Meeting during Occupy Wall Street: a small group of people in a circle surrounded by blue tarpaulin, and placards reading "Class War Ahead" (Photo: flickr/ Harrie van Veen)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 1d

🌎 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

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

📺 SWP TV
Catch up with talks from Marxism 2025

- Fighting Oligarchy: The Relevance of Marx (Yanis Varoufakis & Alex Callinicos)
- Stopping Farage & Fighting Starmer (Lewis Nielsen)
- Israel, Iran and the dynamics of imperialism in the Middle East (Anne Alexander)
And more!

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

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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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Ministers have dumped plans for a major white paper containing a swathe of further cuts and reforms to disability benefits, following months of activism by disabled people and allies that forced the government into a major U-turn this summer.

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Separate pictures of disabled people protesting, including a wheelchair-user holding a placard which says 'work does not equal worth' and Pat McFadden

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Victory for Palestine activist in Teledyne case

A Palestine protester walked free from court in Bradford on Wednesday. The case was another attempt to curb the right to protest and intimidate the Palestine solidarity movement

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Palestine activists outside the court, with a banner reading "Teledyne Technologies: Stop Arming Israel" (Picture: Mazeena Zaki)

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

🇳🇱 Holland election shows dangers of conceding to racism

Elections in Holland this week are a stark warning to the left across Europe about what happens if it embraces, rather than fights, growing racism.

Ewout, a socialist from Holland, spoke to Socialist Worker.

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Leader of far right PVV party Geert Wilders (Photo: Wikimedia commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

✊🏽 Strikers fight for better pay at the British Library

Workers on strike, who range from security guards to receptionists and library assistants, are demanding a pay rise.

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A picket line of strikers at the British Library, with lots of PCS union flags, placards and woollen hats

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

🇵🇸 Palestinian speaks out — Israel is ramping up its annexation of the West Bank

Mahmoud, a Palestinian who lives in the West Bank, slammed Israel's actions: 'This work is illegal. We are the owners of this land.'

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Israeli settlers next to Umm al Khair village in the West Bank

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

✊🏽 Bus strikes shift up a gear in South Wales

Buses were crawling out of the Swansea depot on Thursday morning as workers mounted picket lines during their first round of strikes.

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Bus workers on a picket line in Swansea, with a large Unison banner in front ("Unity is strength") and Unite the union flags.

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🗞️ The new Socialist Worker is now out. We say:

Supporting genocide
Ramping up racism
Pushing austerity

✊🏽 We must drive out Starmer
Don't let him feed the far right.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

In Depth
📣 Mamdani surge throws the US empire into a panic

Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist, looks likely to win the race to become mayor of New York City. Camilla Royle speaks to activists in New York about his campaign.

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Zohran Mamdani Speaking at a DSA 101 Meeting at the Church of the Village in NYC (Picture: Bingjiefu He)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 2d

🚩 Teach Yourself Marxism with Judy Cox
Whose side are the trade union leaders on?

Trade unions express the potential power of working class people. The key division in the unions is between the rank and file and bureaucracy, not between left and right wing officials.

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Coal not Dole: Strikers lobby in Yorkshire during the Miners’ Strike of 1984-5 (Pic: John Sturrock, Socialist Worker’s photographer at the time)