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We are a branch of the Socialist Workers Party and the home of revolutionary socialists across Oxford and the Thames Valley.

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP

Public meeting WHY WE NEED A REVOLUTION TO END RACISM Wednesday 10 June 7.15 pm Michael Young Building, Manzil Way, Oxford OX4 1YH What3words: sleeps.visits.spun Online via Zoom: pre-register at buff.ly/3AfLb7d Hosted by the Oxford & Thames Valley Socialist Workers Party

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⚠️ Settlers uproot life in the West Bank ‘The settlers put up a new fence around the graveyard,’ Mahmoud from Umm al‑Khair tells Socialist Worker. Israel’s far right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich has a strategy to entrench apartheid and erase the existence of Palestinians. buff.ly/YitGJVo

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP

🏳️‍🌈 Trade unionists say Reform UK won’t stop our Pride Reform UK-run councils are clamping down on LGBT+ rights but trade unionists and campaigners are fighting back. buff.ly/x0OIhU7

✊🏽 AQA exam strike wins international solidarity Unison union members have taken seven days of strike action at AQA sites in Manchester, Guildford and Milton Keynes so far, with more to come. In Manchester, Amazon workers from the USA joined the picket line in solidarity. buff.ly/9w4jD3j

🚒 Mass campaign saves fire stations from the axe Campaigners in Dorset and Wiltshire have won a significant victory after a grassroots fightback forced fire chiefs to abandon plans to close six rural fire stations. buff.ly/XioGic7

🤔 Alex Callinicos: Trump hesitates as risk of war heightens “I call all the shots. He doesn’t call the shots,” Donald Trump said of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But Netanyahu immediately defied Trump’s instructions and retaliated against Iran. buff.ly/NeZKpNA

On this day, 8 June, in 2017: LSE strike wins demands for equal pay and conditions Cleaners at the London School of Economics (LSE) won an impressive victory by committed strike action nine years ago. Members of the United Voices of the World (UVW) union, they won all their demands. buff.ly/AEZaXaq

✊🏽 On this day, 9 June, in 1963, civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested US civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer famously declared at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, ‘I am sick and tired of being sick and tired’. buff.ly/1O14n4b

Teach Yourself Marxism 🚩 What is a bourgeois revolution? The capitalist class did not replace their feudal predecessors through peaceful persuasion — they seized power in a series of violent upheavals. Marxists call these “bourgeois revolutions”. buff.ly/PoHwaBI

Oxford & Thames Valley SWP