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Social Justice Network · UK
Solidarity is what we build together — for social, economic, and environmental justice.
A UK-wide network connecting campaigning groups, organisers and local initiatives. We share what works, amplify each other's voices, and refuse to let the people doing the work do it alone.
Why we exist
Three commitments that hold the network together.
01 — Solidarity
No one organises alone.
SJN exists to connect campaigning groups, activists and local initiatives across the UK — sharing knowledge, skills, resources and support so the people doing the work aren't doing it in isolation.
02 — Education
Politics begins with understanding.
The challenges in everyday life — high rents, low pay, broken services, climate crisis — connect to systems and choices. Our political education work helps people see those connections clearly, and act on them.
03 — A socialist future
People and planet before profit.
We work alongside other socialist groups and individuals to help unify the UK left, with the long-term aim of building a mass party that represents the interests of the working class.
The Action Hub
Campaigns currently being organised across the network.
Housing rights
SJN Housing Working Group, with UK tenants rights groups and housing campaign organisations
We Need Council Housing
The campaign to build more council houses in the UK is a growing movement driven by a severe housing shortage, though it faces deep structural roadblocks. More Council Houses will address: Massive Waiting Lists: Over 1.2 million households are currently stuck on local authority waiting lists. Affordability Crisis: Private rents are at record highs, pricing low-income families out of secure housing. Homelessness Surge: Temporary accommodation costs are bankrupting local councils across the country. Lack of Social Stock: Decades of sales have left the UK with a critically low supply of public housing.
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Workers' rights
Community wellbeing
In coalition with "We Own It" / "Keep Our NHS Public"
The NHS Should Not Be For Sale
Our opposition to NHS privatisation is built on the core belief that healthcare should be a public service driven by clinical need, not corporate profit
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Climate & environment
Poverty & inequality
SJN climate working group + Fuel Poverty Action
Public power for communities: end energy poverty
Energy bills shouldn't be a coin toss. We're campaigning for community-owned renewable energy, a social tariff for low-income households, and an end to the cycle where profits flow to shareholders while pensioners ration heating.
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Political Education
Read, watch, think — then organise.
Education
Why rent goes up: the political economy of UK housing
Rent isn't a force of nature. It's a policy outcome — and a different policy can change it. A clear-eyed look at how UK housing got this expensive, and what we can do about it.
SJN Education Group · 1 May 2026
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Education
Climate justice starts at the bus stop
Climate policy that doesn't connect to people's daily reality is climate policy that loses. A short reflection on why the bus matters more than the technology demonstrator.
SJN Climate Working Group · 22 Apr 2026
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Education
The right to strike in 2026: where we are
The legal right to withdraw labour has been quietly eroded across two decades of legislation. A primer on where we are and what trade unionists are organising to change.
SJN Workers' Rights Group · 8 Apr 2026
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