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Andy Burnham has just been sworn in as Prime Minister. His project is bursting with contradictions. On the one hand he is attempting to connect with the demand for action on the cost of living crisis and for better than what Starmer had to offer. On the other he faces the same pressures that Starmer and Reeves bowed to - the fiscal constraints imposed by the markets. Burnham's first picks for his cabinet suggest he offers continuity between the worst of Starmer (and even New Labour) rather than change. The unending war in Iran and fragile economy are likely to curtail even his mild plans for the economy. People are right to demand change - but hat Burnham promises more of the same. Read the coverage in Socialist Worker for analysis of the prospects for change under Burnham, and come to the next Oxford and Thames Valley SP meeting on 29th July (see below). On Saturday another national demonstration put tens of thousands on the streets for Palestine to tell Burnham to break the link with apartheid Israel. We're arguing to bring together the movement to fight repression and shut down the arms factories that are facilitating the genocide. The demo at Elbit near Bristol on Thursday is an important part of this campaign. Nigel Farage is on the rocks about the millions sloshing around his bank accounts. In Clacton SWP members are part of an important Stand Up to Racism campaign that takes on his bigotry. |
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Oxford Stand Up To Racism presents Everybody to Kenmure Street Screening plus post-screening Q&A with local eyewitness Ultimate Picture Palace, Jeune Street, Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1BN 21 July, doors open 5:15pm, film starts 5:45pm, Q&A 7:15pm Trailer and tickets (now on sale): https://uppcinema.com/show/kenmure/ “In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.” Winner, World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance, Sundance Film Festival 2026 “A love letter to peaceful protest” Screen International ‘an amazing story of a community triumph’ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ★★★★ Directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra (2025) |
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Join other Palestine solidarity protesters on Thursday 23 July 2026 for a national protest outside Elbit Systems research, development and manufacturing facility in Bristol. Assemble at 11am at Elbit Systems, 38 Bolingbroke Way, Bristol, BS34 6FE. Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest weapons company. It manufacturers weapons and military technology used by Israel in its ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and military assaults and ethnic cleansing across the West Bank. This includes armed drones, missiles, bombs and artillery shells. Elbit Systems is enabling and profiting from Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians, yet the British government allows it to operate factories and research facilities in this country, and grants it licenses to export weapons components to Israel. Palestinians call on people in Britain to protest against arms companies that enable and profit from Israel’s crimes, and to demand that the government impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, in line with its legal obligations not to aid or assist genocide, military occupation and apartheid. Join us on Thursday 23 July in Bristol to demand that Elbit Systems and the British government stop arming Israel! Public Transport: Trains run from Bristol Temple Meads to Patchway (15 mins walk from the protest) every hour. Get the 10.28 from Bristol Temple Meads. |
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NEXT OXFORD AND THAMES VALLEY OPEN MEETING All welcome Andy Burnham: left wing saviour or Starmer 2.0? 7PM Wednesday 29th July New Road Baptist Church, Bonn Square Oxford OX1 1LQ or join via zoom https://oxfordswp.org.uk/zoom |