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Socialist Workers Party - Birmingham
@swpbrum.bsky.social
This is the official account for the Birmingham branch of the largest revolutionary socialist group in Britain, Socialist Workers Party.

https://socialistworker.co.uk/
🗓️: Wednesday 14th May
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Pat Meusel

Since the recent May 2025 local elections took place, Reform UK gained control of 10 councils with 677 seats across England.
May 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 7th May
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Alex Mayer

Under capitalism disability is seen as an individualised and medicalised issue.
The impact is that in Britain disabled people are almost twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people.
May 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 30th April
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Camilla Royle

The Supreme Court ruling will increase the avalanche of transphobia in Britain as judges ruled that the definition of a woman is based on “biological sex”.
April 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
BIRMINGHAM BIN STRIKE / COUNCIL IN CRISIS

We Demand Change and many more organisations have an important meeting for everyone who cares about Birmingham and is disgusted with the Labour run Council and Starmer’s Labour government’s disgraceful policies - national and international policies!
April 27, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🗓️: Wednesday 23rd April
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Charlie Kimber

Mass protests erupted across Turkey following the arrest of opposition leader and Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on fabricated terror and corruption charges.
April 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 16th April
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Joseph Choonara, Editor of the ISJ (International Socialist Journal)

Trumps trade war has plunged global capitalism deeper into crisis and raised the spectre of military confrontation.
April 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 9th April
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Lynne Hubbard

The right wing media and racists claim that migrants cause the housing crisis, are a drain on the NHS , cause unemployment by taking jobs, and lower wages.
April 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
When Farage was confronted at his rally in Doncaster he lost his cool and ranted about attacking the teachers union, the NEU.
Widespread resistance can wear down Reform UK, they can be stopped.

Come and join the meeting both in person, and online. All welcome

Zoom ID: 281 634 5938
Passcode: 967537
March 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In the UK Starmer’s attacks on workers and migrants are increasing Reform UK's ratings in the polls.
But we can stop this with a mass antiracist movement confronting the far right wherever they appear. Huge anti-fascist demonstrations against the AfD in Germany show the way forward.
March 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 2nd April
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Samira Ali

The far right have grown across Europe and elsewhere over recent years. They have received a boost from Trump’s re-election and the gains of the AfD in Germany.
March 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 26th March
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Hope Ryan
March 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
🚨 EMERGENCY MEETING CHANGE DUE TO THE ONGOING GENOCIDE TAKING PLACE IN PALESTINE. 🚨

🗓️ : Wednesday 19th March 2025
⏰ : 7PM UK time
🗺️ : The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Tomáš Tengely-Evans
March 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🗓️ : Wednesday 19th March 2025
⏰ : 7PM UK time
🗺️ : The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH
🗣️ : Tomáš Tengely-Evans

Ukraine sits at the centre of a fault line of imperialist rivalry between the US, Russia and regional powers.
March 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 12th March
⏰: 7pm
📍: The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH

Sexism is on the rise. Donald Trump, a sexual predator, is back in the White House and he pledges to wage a war on women. Abortion rights are under attack and Trump emboldens far right misogynists such as Andrew Tate.
March 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚀 Just launched: Marxism Festival 2025

A festival of socialist ideas with a line up including:
• Jeremy Corbyn
• Judith Butler
• Ghada Karmi
• Anne Alexander
• Tariq Ali
• Ilan Pappè
• Samira Ali
• Alex Callinicos
+ many more!

🗓️ 3rd - 6th July
📍 London
➡️ Earlybird tickets & info: bit.ly/marxism25
March 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Please note this date in your diaries as fascist group Britain First are planning to march in Birmingham City Centre on Saturday 17th May.
March 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Join the discussion both in person, and online to find out more.

Zoom ID: 281 634 5938
Passcode: 967537
February 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
and more recently demonstrating against Tommy Robinson, far-right parties such as Reform UK and UKIP, and countering the fascists back in August last year.

So, how do revolutionaries ensure they mobilise the widest possible forces without compromising their politics?
February 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Examples of times the united front has worked across UK history include demonstrating on the streets against the NF (National Front) in the 1970’s and 1980’s, stopping the BNP (British National Party) on the streets and in elections in the 1990’s and 2000’s,
February 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 5th March
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH

In nearly every movement the question of what kind of change we need and how we get it emerges. Most of the time, most workers are not revolutionaries, and instead hold reformist ideas.
February 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Come and join the discussion both in person, and online.

Zoom ID: 281 634 5938
Passcode: 967537
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Malcolm’s words are as relevant now as they were prophetic then: “I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation.”
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 26th Feb
⏰: 7pm
📍: The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH

60 years since his assassination, the words of Malcolm X still ring out – “By any means necessary” in the fight for justice.
He was an implacable fighter against racism and recognised that racism is central to capitalism.
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 19th February 2025
⏰: 7PM UK Time
📍: Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, Birmingham, B5 5TH

Genocide in Gaza; wildfires and extreme weather; economic meltdown and falling living standards; fascist parties climbing in the polls.
February 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
🗓️: Wednesday 12th February
⏰: 7pm UK time
📍: The Warehouse Cafe, 54 Allison Street, B5 5TH

Trans+ people are facing a right wing onslaught - and it's getting worse.
Transphobia has become an important mobiliser for the far right and next we could see attacks on LGBT+ rights and women's rights.
February 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM