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01/11/2026

Join us this Monday to discuss the prospect of the Green Party becoming a new party of the working class:

📅 Monday 2nd November
⏰ 7:00pm
📍 The Wellington Pub (top floor)
37 Bennetts Hill
Birmingham
B2 5SN

Following the early failure of Your Party to live up to it’s potential, the Greens under Zack Polanski have stepped into the vacuum. They’ve seen a rapid increase in both membership and votes. However, following the Green’s back peddling on some of their more “radical” policies such as the nationalisation of energy and Burnham taking over as Labour Party leader, the Greens have failed to win a parliamentary by-election.

Regardless, many workers, particularly young people, still see the Greens as a primary vehicle for progressive change. This Monday, we’ll discuss whether it’s fair to judge the Green Party of England and Wales by their European equivalents and whether there’s any possibility of the Green Party being an avenue towards a new party of the working class.

25/10/2026

Listen to Mila's speech from a demo in Birmingham yesterday where protesters expressed their solidarity with the Cockroach Youth Movement in India.

In India, much like the UK and the rest of the world, workers and particularly young people are angry. As Mila said:
"Governments are more interesting funnelling money and resources to defence and war than funding young people’s future - we have mass unemployment here, a cost of living crisis and many people that see that we’re paying more and more for less."

That's why, Socialist Students along with other youth organisations across Europe are organising a International Youth Strike on 20 November.

In Birmingham, we call on students from every school, college and university to join us at 2:30pm on the city centre High Street, outside Waterstones to demand that the government fights for our future, not their wars!

Are you interested in organising your fellow school students? Get in touch today! We can help you get started with guidance and materials such as clipboards, petitions, stickers, and leaflets!

24/10/2026

Socialist Party and Socialist Students members braved the rain today along with other protesters in Birmingham to stand in solidarity with the Indian Cockroach Movement.

As Mila writes in this week's Socialist:

When India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned in July, the government hoped the ‘cockroaches’ would scuttle back into the walls. Three months on, they are still on the streets!

Young people have moved from “sack the minister” towards a challenge to the Prime Minister and the system he presides over. The fight over the voter lists is a continuation of that process and it has broadened the campaign from rigged exams to the potential to question who rules and how.

Police detentions and scare tactics can empty a city square for a day, however this cannot remove the causes as to why young people remain furious.

The movement needs to be armed with a socialist programme that goes beyond the resignation of one official but to fight for jobs, decent pay, democratic rights and a society run in the interests of the many!

Head to www.socialistparty.org.uk to read the full article.

22/10/2026

Join us this Monday to discuss the Spanish Revolution and how the failure of workers’ leadership snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and the lessons we can learn for today!

📅 Monday 26th October
⏰ 7 pm
📍 The Wellington Pub (top floor)
37 Bennetts Hill
Birmingham
B2 5SN

On 1 April 1939, General Franco declared victory after three years of civil war, which followed an attempted coup by army officers against Spain’s democratically elected Republican government. Franco went on to kill hundreds of thousands of workers as he consolidated his power.

This defeat was not the fault of the Spanish workers for, as Trotsky wrote “One can neither expect nor ask for a movement of greater scope, greater endurance, greater heroism on the part of the workers than we were able to observe in Spain.” Instead, the war was lost due to the “crisis of the leadership of the proletariat”.

Join us this Monday as we chart the mistakes made by the Spanish workers leaders of the Stalinist Spanish Communist Party (PCE), Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), and the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification (POUM). In particular, we will discuss the very relevant lesson of workers’ organisations not subordinating themselves to "progressive" capitalist politicians in an effort to combat the far right.

20/10/2026

How Can We Fight for a Socialist Alternative in a World on Fire?

🗓️ Monday 9 November
⏰ 7pm - 8:30pm
📍Comfort Inn Birmingham,
Station Street, B5 4DY

Capitalism means declining living standards, climate collapse, division, and war - It's time to organise and fight back!

Across the world, workers and young people are fighting back. From the resistance to Trump's racist ICE agents in Minneapolis, to the ‘Cockroaches’ movement in India fighting corruption and underfunding, to the youth of Germany walking out in student strikes against militarisation and conscription.

These millions taking action are also discussing and debating how to organise to have the most impact.

Join our public meeting to discuss how we can organise to have the biggest impact here in Birmingham!

Head to BirminghamSocialistParty.Eventbrite.com to reserve your spot! (Link in our bio)

17/10/2026

Socialist Party members were back out today to support striking RMT workers fighting back against Chiltern Railways' plans to introduce driver-only train services.

Not only do these plans mean fewer jobs, but they also mean reduced safety for passengers. Train guards keep passengers safe by deterring anti-social behaviour, supporting accessibility needs and older passengers, and responding to emergencies.

The RMT opposes these plans, disability groups oppose these plans, and so do we!

Public ownership of the rail network is not enough. The network should be placed under the full democratic control of workers and passengers and supported with the funding needed to enable everyone to travel conveniently, cheaply, and safely!

16/10/2026

Join us this Monday to discuss the nature of the Chinese state today.

📅 Monday 19th October
⏰ 7:30pm
📍 The Wellington Pub (top floor)
37 Bennetts Hill
Birmingham
B2 5SN

China has emerged as a world power challenging the dominance of US imperialism. It now plays a central role in the world economy and in geo-political world relations, not least in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. The decline of Western imperialist powers has been mirrored by the unprecedented rise of China. It is impossible to analyse world events today or grasp possible future events without considering developments in China.

What is the nature of the Chinese state today? How do we understand the legacy of the 1949 revolution, the growth of private capitalism, and the continued dominance of the Chinese Communist Party? Is China socialist, capitalist, or something else?

Join us this Monday at 7:30pm to discuss!

11/10/2026

"Say no to DOO!" Rail companies might be coming under public ownership, but there's been no end to attacks on staffing that began under privatisation.

RMT members at Chiltern Railways were on strike yesterday, opposing plans to begin the new East-West rail services between Oxford and Milton Keynes without a guard on the train.

The mood on the picket of Chiltern guards outside Moor Street this morning had a good energy with a determination to defeat this latest attempt to water down safety on the railway.

We turned up to offer support and put forward the need for not just full public ownership of the rail network but democratic control by workers and passengers with funding to expand properly staffed services to meet the needs of the travelling public.

08/10/2026

Racist agitators seemingly flood onto our social media feeds on a daily basis to serve the capitalist class’s interests and try and divide workers along racial and religious lines.

On the streets of Birmingham last Sunday, it was clear to see that the hundreds-strong contingent of antiracist demonstrators was far better organised, far better united, and far more passionate than the small number of counter-demonstrators, most of whom seemed content to argue with the police and espouse their beliefs to disinterested passersby.

Throughout the day we were able to engage with demonstrators and members of the public and have meaningful discussions about the intersection between racial and class-based politics and the importance of a socialist solution to the problems our society faces today.

The mood, ultimately, was one of hope. Hope that, even in a society riven by the failures of the capitalist system and inflamed by convicted criminals taking backhanded payments from soulless billionaire kleptocrats, the working class can still stand united in the search for a better way of life.

04/10/2026

Join us this Monday to discuss how we can take the wealth of the super rich!

📅 Monday 5th October
⏰ 7pm
📍 The Wellington Pub (top floor)
37 Bennetts Hill
Birmingham
B2 5SN

Wealth inequality in the UK and other Western countries has been growing for several decades now. 157 billionaires in Britain now hold wealth equivalent to 22% of everything produced in the UK each year. Globally, 56,000 individuals now have three times as much wealth as the lower half of the world’s population put together.

How can the working class get this money out of the pockets of the super rich so that it can fund public services and quality wages instead? Join us this Monday to discuss!

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