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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 10h

✉️ Letters: Why is the far right obsessed with policing English identity? Plus: Don't vote Galloway in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, and an ironic songs playlist from Ed Sheeran. buff.ly/HqBBGig

St George's Cross, the flag of England (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 11h

📚 Reviews & Culture 🚩 Stories of rebellions past to inspire our futures David Turner's pathbreaking new book challenges views of disability throughout history and rhetoric around disability still common today, and chronicles how disabled people have resisted oppression. buff.ly/PgkCIma

The 1920 blind march was a protest march from across the United Kingdom to London of 250 blind people, organised by the National League of the Blind (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 12h

✊🏽 Back strikes as onslaught of cuts hit universities Workers at the University of Edinburgh launched five weeks of strikes this week over cuts that they say are “cruel and unnecessary”. And students actively support the workers. buff.ly/IunmXz6

View of students in the Socialist Worker Students Society at University of Edinburgh with a banner reading "Edinburgh students support the strikes"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 13h

🗓️ On this day, 1 October, 1949: The Chinese Communist Party came to power Seventy years ago revolution in China threw off the rule of landlords and struck a blow to Western imperialism. But it wasn’t a socialist revolution, and its aims were not to put the people in power. buff.ly/xm8ukDq

Mao Zedong addressing a crowd (Photo: US National Archive and Records Agency)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 14h

‼️ Cornell Seven case exposes widespread violence on university campuses At least 50 men in a group chat that amplified criminal sexual abuse of a woman did nothing. ⚠️ Content warning: sexual assault buff.ly/kJlX1pB

The beautiful exterior of Cornell University in New York State, hiding horrific abuse of a woman by members of a male student society (Pic: Wikimedia commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 15h

🪧 V&A strikers say their low pay is on display Hundreds of workers at the V&A history and culture museums in London struck last week against wages so low that they resemble the historical artefacts they look after. Read on buff.ly/HynKG2S

Over 70 members of the Prospect and PCS unions at picket lines outside the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington last weekend

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 16h

‼️ Fears of a return to civil war grow in Ethiopia The battle lines in Ethiopia have dramatically changed. Armed groups that were once on opposing sides have joined a new alliance as fighting intensifies. Read more buff.ly/yNDPmD6

A refugee camp in Mai Tsebri for those forced to flee their homes when violence erupted in the Tigray Region in November 2020 (Photo: Unicef Ethiopia/ Flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 17h

👎🏼 As prices rise, NEU education union leadership sinks pay strikes Despite pushback from socialists, the NEU union leadership has pulled the rug from under the fight over teachers’ pay and the possibility of strikes, voting to pause the ballot set to launch on 3 October. buff.ly/DzpARp0

NEU union leader Daniel Kebede on a protest (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 19h

🚩The SW View Fairford’s ‘foreign actor’ is no mystery At RAF Fairford base there's a clear sign of British complicity in the US’s war on Iran. Plus: French school students blockade hundreds of schools demanding more teachers, smaller classes, better-equipped schools. buff.ly/3MxldIQ

US Air Force plane on the runway at UK's Royal Air Force Fairford base (Photo: Ángel Ferrer / Flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

✊🏼 Garvaghy Road residents stand firm against Orange Order march in Portadown The Orange Order, a loyalist organisation tightly linked to paramilitary violence, uses parades to intimidate the Catholic populations. buff.ly/UcmKhhk

Portadown residents linked arms to blockade Garvaghy Road against a march by the Orange Order

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

✊🏽 Spanish state erupts in revolt over eviction of pensioner A wave of protests over housing has erupted in the Spanish state after cops evicted an 87-year-old disabled pensioner. 30,000 took to the streets of Madrid last Saturday, with massive crowds in other cities. buff.ly/HJ2T40U

Protests spread to Seville and other cities

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🇵🇸 ‘I've been arrested 22 times,’ says Polly Labour’s Ed Miliband claimed he never wanted to see thousands of people opposing genocide arrested as terrorists. Time to stop cracking down on the Palestine movement and selling arms to the real criminals. buff.ly/Sllwokl

Polly being arrested outside the Labour conference (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This week's Socialist Worker lead story: After Miliband admits Labour was wrong on Palestine... NOW LIFT THE BAN "I was arrested 22 times," says Palestine Action supporter Polly. 🗞️ Socialist Worker Buy it. Read it. Sell it. buff.ly/D1n8V5D

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✊🏽 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street Fighting Fascism: Then and Now Public meeting Wed, 30 September, 7pm New Road Baptist Church, Bonn Sq, Oxford 0X1 1LQ (Tidmarsh room) Also online on Zoom. Pre-register: buff.ly/D7CmdOY Hosted by the Oxford & Thames Valley Socialist Workers Party

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✊🏽‘We’ve proved before that we can win’ say Camden traffic wardens Traffic wardens in Camden, north London, are walking out for eight weeks in a dispute over pay and conditions. Chants of “Low pay? No way,” and, “No slave labour,” rang out from the picket line. buff.ly/W6Vnv2K

Camden traffic wardens on the picket line, with placards reading "Fair pay now" and "If our pay doesn't rise, we will. Together we rise"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🪧 Alex Callinicos: Iran war continues to expose Trump’s limit Trump may escalate the war against Iran. But decades of US attempts to dominate the Middle East are running up against the growing power of its rivals. Read more buff.ly/tnJkASs

Donald Trump in front of the US flag (Photo: rawpixel.com / National Archives)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🪧 Rebel at bosses’ plans to slash universities Workers are striking at Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow Cally, Goldsmiths and Nottingham in response to attacks on jobs and education. 800 angry staff and students attended an assembly at the University of Edinburgh last week. buff.ly/VmPH9DZ

Part of the 800-strong student-staff assembly at the University of Edinburgh last week, organised by the UCU and the Justice for Palestine Society's “Student-Staff Alliance” (Photo: @edinburghucu on Instagram)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🗓️ On this day, 28 September, 1985, Brixton rioted against a racist murder by the London Police A riot broke out in Brixton after London Metropolitan Police shot and paralysed Jamaican immigrant Dorothy "Cherry" Groce while looking for her son. Read more buff.ly/NacSFNi

Dorothy "Cherry" Groce in a London hospital after being shot by police [Photo source: theguardian.com]

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🥀 Burnham’s Labour crashes against the limits of a system in deep crisis The beginning of the Labour conference has shown that Andy Burnham is trapped in a vice. Labour’s PM talks of rebuilding public services but remains tied to fiscal rules designed to reassure big business. buff.ly/6i25TnC

Prime Minister Andy Burnham holds Media interviews in No10 North (Photo: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street on Flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚩 HATE FASCISM, WAR, CAPITALISM? - Oppose racism, Islamophobia, attacks on refugees? - Support Palestine, oppose imperialism? - Want to smash Nigel Farage & Tommy Robinson? - Oppose sexism, attacks on trans+ people? - Want a socialist alternative? YES? Join the SWP! buff.ly/BbQlU6J

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚩 We in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) reject a system that prioritises profit. We argue for revolution from below. We oppose racism, fascism, oppression, exploitation. We organise on a day-to-day basis, taking part in movements, protests and strikes. Isn't it time you joined? buff.ly/24Zd83b

Socialist Workers Party members, many with fists raised in solidarity, holding up Socialist Worker newspapers, the front page headline reading "Victory for Palestine"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

💪🏼 Education for Socialists We learn hugely from the struggle itself. But for a more rounded understanding, newer SWP members will want to go further. Recommended courses: - Education for Socialists - Revolutionary Classics - Revolutionaries & the United Front buff.ly/jexyCg8

Display of SWP pamphlets on a variety of vital topics

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

✊🏽 Anti-racists chase far right Restore Britain off London streets Anti-racists scuppered Restore Britain’s plans to spread far right poison in Camden, London, on Saturday morning, exposing the fascists behind the party’s respectable election facade. buff.ly/RorPWeO

Restore Britain’s candidate Lewis Holmes, accompanied by a police escort, attempting to post messages of hate and division through residents' letterboxes ahead of the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, while his fascist links were being broadcast by Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) campaigners

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

✊🏽 Manchester marches to drive back the far right Anti-racists filled the streets of Manchester on Saturday with chants, music and banners as unions, students and campaigners united. 800+ anti-racists prove that the people of Manchester won’t tolerate the far right in the city. buff.ly/BEsDyjL

Women Against the Far Right led the anti-racist march in Manchester with their banner (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

✊🏽 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street Fighting Fascism: Then and Now Wed 30 September, 7pm New Road Baptist Church, Bonn Sq, Oxford 0X1 1LQ (ring for Tidmarsh room) Also online. Pre-register: buff.ly/gIGcrsq Public meeting hosted by the Oxford & Thames Valley Socialist Workers Party

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Socialist Worker: Cartoons with Tim buff.ly/JYi0dFZ

Cartoon labelled "Ed Sheeran Tour"

Panel 1: Ginger haired person with guitar asks person at piano "Do you know my band's deserted me?"

Panel 2: Ginger haired person with guitar sheds tears. Person at piano says "You hum it, I'll play!"

Panel 3: Person at piano legs it, saying "Actually, f*** it! Free Palestine!". Ginger haired person with guitar is left looking out of sorts.

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

✊🏽 1936: Driving the fascists out of the East End Ninety years ago the fascist Blackshirts tried to march through Cable Street to terrorise Jewish people — but mass mobilisation stopped them. June Budd says we need that same militancy today. buff.ly/ezjVvaq

Detail from Battle of Cable Street mural in east London, showing the resolute faces of workers, raised fists, symbols of workers tools, including the hammer and sickle, and a banner with the slogan "Mosley shall not pass. Bar the road to British fascism"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Teach Yourself Marxism 🚩 Why do socialists want a planned economy? A planned society would depend on a huge expansion of democracy. Discussions could establish what skills should be taught, what clothes and equipment are needed, what research to prioritise. buff.ly/UFdNtKk

Almost empty supermarket shelves (Photo: Wikimedia commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

✊🏽 Strikes in brief: Traffic wardens to walk out Plus: Strikes at legal publisher, East End Homes and V&A museum buff.ly/RQ40aCP

Camden traffic wardens marching in 2023, with Unison union banners and placards (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

‼️ Reform UK swings the axe at nurseries as parents face soaring childcare costs Reform UK councillors have voted to shut all ten public nurseries in South Tyneside. But parents and campaigners are refusing to let the council have the final word. buff.ly/Yg3QjxP

The Save Our Stanley’s campaign in South Shields outside the Town Hall, with protestors raising banners and lots of flags of different workers' unions (Photo: @NorthernUNISON / X)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

‼️ Gosport: Is fascism taking hold on the south coast of England? Far right thugs descended on the town of Gosport this week. Camilla Royle reports from Hampshire where racists are growing in confidence and talks to those trying to challenge them. buff.ly/3IdMXgq

View of small boats in the harbour, and beyond them, a larger ship, likely military, at Gosport, south coast of England (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✉️ Letters: Bringing together forces to defend the right to protest Activists being criminalised by the British state for acting for Palestine are real people, not just a slogan. Plus: Readers write in on the Rajiv Menon campaign, Gloria Steinem and Raise the Colours buff.ly/l9pMxTV

Pro-Palestine activists dressed in red with a banner reading "Palestine Action" (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎶 Reviews & Culture ✊🏽 Hammering home anti-racism through heavy metal music Socialist Worker spoke to activists in Islington Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) and Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) about their Love Metal Hate Racism gig. buff.ly/1Bc5KUm

Heavy metal band Sanguis Mortem playing at the Islington Love Metal gig (Photo: SanguisMortem on facebook)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‼️ Britain’s colonial shame lives on in the Chagos Islands Britain drove Chagossians from their homes to protect its military interests and those of the US. Today, Burnham’s response to Trump shows those imperial priorities remain. buff.ly/QJLnB7W

Aerial view of the largest island, Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Archipelago, a joint US-British military base (Photo: Pickyrl/ The US national archives)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

⚠️ Restore Britain: a party on the road to fascism Restore Britain is a hybrid pulling together radical right Reform UK defectors, racial nationalists and organised fascists. Don’t wait for it to become a fully-fledged fascist party to smash it off the streets. buff.ly/6RzuYtJ

Rupert Lowe, founder of Restore Britain (Photo: X/ @RupertLowe10)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✊🏽 Obituaries: Megan Povey, 1947-2026 Our great comrade Megan Povey has died after a heart attack. A professor of food physics at the University of Leeds, Megan was a dedicated trade unionist, and campaigner against racism and fascism. buff.ly/Nmklke7

Megan (far left) with comrades on a picket line

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

⚠️ Reform’s tax cuts for the rich could come for your pension Would a future Reform UK government steal your state pension for more tax cuts to the wealthy? A Reform-linked think tank has proposed abolishing the state pension to fund £75 billion tax cuts for high earners. buff.ly/cdOW8XG

An elderly man is sitting on a bench (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🇵🇸 What is driving the shift on Palestine and war in the unions? Sean Vernell, a delegate at the TUC union federation congress, looks at the shifts over Palestine and war in the trade union movement. buff.ly/ceKDFoK

On a pro-Palestine march, with slogans on placards including "Freedom for Palestine", "Stop bombing Gaza" and "End Israel apartheid"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🥀 Burnham desperate to prove Britain remains a useful ally of US imperialism Andy Burnham used his trip to New York this week to show Donald Trump that Britain is a junior partner the US can rely on. buff.ly/SoOD7IU

Andy Burnham meeting with Donald Trump during the United Nations General Assembly in New York (Photo: Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street on Flickr)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

✊🏽 Anti-racists refuse to let the far right take Portsmouth Portsmouth Women Against the Far Right and Stand Up To Racism organised a vigil after far right masked thugs – claiming to defend women – terrorised Portsmouth and rampaged through nearby Gosport. buff.ly/PSZl153

Rows of black clad figures masked with balaclavas from the new fascist movement first mobilised in Dover by Danny "Tommo" Thomas

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚩 Alex Callinicos: Dark times as four horsemen ride out “The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy,” writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, clever but right wing Telegraph's economy editor, on conquest, war, famine and death coming for the world economy. buff.ly/PV3sIz3

A nighttime view of multiple lightning strikes from dark storm clouds above two lighthouses at Port-la-Nouvelle (Photo: Maxime Raynal on Wikimedia commons)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️ Anti-racist campaigner Ameen Hadi facing criminal charges Trade unionist Ameen Hadi has been charged with assault after a campaign of smears following an anti-racist rally in Manchester, despite video evidence of him protecting Green MP from harassment by far right thugs. buff.ly/m2aJMe8

Mass rally for victimised Unison union rep Ameen Hadi, with solidarity campaigners holding notices reading "Unite against the far right. Defend Ameen Hadi, Defend Salford City Unison"

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✊🏽 Cuts are not a done deal say university strikers Five weeks of strikes at Dundee, plus action at Edinburgh, GCU, Goldsmiths, Essex and Nottingham. Day 1 of strikes at the University of Dundee on Monday saw the biggest picket line ever with up to 150 joining. buff.ly/ScsAelu

Picket dressed as the Grim Reaper on UCU picket line at University of Dundee (Photo: ducuuo on Bluesky)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‼️ Urgent need to meet new fascist threat on south coast Fascist Danny “Tommo” Thomas brought hundreds of black clad thugs to Gosport, near Portsmouth, on Tuesday evening. Chillingly, the chants of “let them drown” were led by a child on a megaphone. buff.ly/747P5xo

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

✊🏽 Migrant care workers to bring ‘fair visa’ fight to Labour conference Migrant care workers are demanding an end to Britain’s brutal immigration system. They want secure visas, decent pay and the right to work without being tied to individual employers. buff.ly/LYPj1Rq

Migrant workers in the Unison union taking their fight to Westminster in June, with placards including "We are the workforce Britain depends on" and "Behind every visa is a human story". (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣 ‘I’m £10,000 better off’: Indefinite strike at the Institute of Cancer Research wins Unite union members scored one of the most-significant pay rises in living memory after 68 days on strike. They spoke to Camilla Royle about how they won — and how you could win, too. buff.ly/lRhyfQR

Unite union members at the Institute of Cancer Research returning to work victorious on Monday 21 September 2026 (Photo: Guy Smallman)

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣 This week's Socialist Worker is out. The front page leads on the inspiring victory by strikers at the Institute of Cancer Research, with an article by Oxford-based Unite union rep & SWP comrade, headlined: 🪧 We won and you can too Buy it. Read it. Sell it. buff.ly/D1n8V5D

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shame on Piddington parish councillor Joe Marsh for welcoming fascist Daniel Thomas (blackshirt-and-balaclava Danny Tommo) to the village. Thomas' supporters are doxing and threatening at least two women. Here is Thomas endangering volunteer life-savers. x.com/antiracismda...

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

SWP Ideas & Theory "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement." (Vladimir Lenin) To help with understanding of socialist theory, we offer: 📺 SWP TV 📖 International Socialism Journal 📚 A range of pamphlets 🗣️ New members educational programme buff.ly/3vLmcIS

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Oxford & Thames Valley SWP @oxswp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🗓️ On this day, 22 September, 2025, a general strike for Palestine halts Italy After a call from trade unions, strikes and protests erupted in 80+ towns and cities across Italy, with millions of workers taking to the streets to stop goods going to Israel. buff.ly/LNMwF5K

Over 15,000 trade unionists and activists marched through Rome for Palestine in a general strike against complicity in genocide on 22 September, 2025.

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