The Socialist 28 October 2009 Support Postal Workers Support post workers, this is no time to equivocate Postal strike reports: Defending the service BBC Question Time panel - Workers' voice denied against BNP BBC Griffin protest: Jobs and homes, not racism! Far right shut out of Newport by mass protest Socialism 2009 forum - can we build a party for working class people? Cardiff Socialist Student elected Tamil Solidarity fights for boat refugees Darling you're talking rubbish! Energy giant 'fanciful to the point of paranoia' 80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash: Capitalist failure - then and now Strikes sweep across Yorkshire Leeds bin strike: 92% vote to reject council's 'final' offer Battle for jobs in Land Registry Ex Ford/Visteon pensioners protest in Swansea Call centres - public services on the cheap Film review - Capitalism: a love story |
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Home | The Socialist 28 October 2009 | Join the Socialist Party Socialism 2009 forum - can we build a party for working class people? Saturday Rally (Click to enlarge) At Socialism 2009, the third session in the 'Britain after the general election' course will be a wide ranging debate on how the crisis in working class political representation can be solved. Dave Nellist, Coventry Socialist Party councillorThis forum brings together representatives of key anti-establishment and socialist trends: along with Alex Gordon of the RMT executive and myself from the Socialist Party, there will be speakers from the Green Party, Respect, the Labour Representation Committee and the Socialist Workers Party. That there is a political vacuum in Britain, with no effective mass voice for working class people, has been further illustrated by the 'Dutch auction' between the big three parties as to who can be 'harder' than the others in demanding cuts in working class living standards to pay back the borrowing taken out to shore up the bankers, their bonuses and their system. Common agenda Saturday afternoon sessions (Click to enlarge) A common and overlapping agenda from Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats has always existed on certain issues - but never as widely or as deeply as now. No national and sizeable political party exists that campaigns for the defence of public services against PFI, privatisation or outsourcing. None of the major parties campaign to end British involvement in the war in Afghanistan. No major party has a programme to deal with the export of jobs and factories and the relentless rise in unemployment, especially amongst the young. All three major parties seek solutions to those issues which start from working people and their families paying the price for the crisis in the bosses' system.  Sunday morning sessions (Click to enlarge) Attempts to address that issue, to create a new political vehicle for working people, have been made but with limited success - the inability of the Socialist Labour Party, the Socialist Alliance, and Respect to generate a new, national structure involving thousands or tens of thousands of activists holds lessons for us all. New workers' party Sunday afternoon sessions (Click to enlarge) The Socialist Party called for the launching of the Campaign for a New Workers Party at Socialism 2006. The CNWP now has over 4,000 registered supporters, many of whom regularly give financial support to the project and are involved in local and regional activities. 50 of those sponsors are members of national trade union executives. It is that involvement, and conscious direction of the work of the CNWP towards the trade union movement, which has marked it off from other campaigns. This method has borne fruit in developing, at various degrees, support for independent political representation in, for example, the RMT, PCS, CWU and Unison. Recently, the London region of the CWU held a consultative ballot in which 98% voted to withdraw funding from the Labour Party. The forum promises to clarify the potential common ground of some of the participants, or delineate the differences, so that further campaigns can be more successful. Britain after the general electionSession one - Is Cameron another Thatcher? How can we defeat a Tory government?Saturday 2pm-4.30pm Session two - The battle to defend public servicesSunday 10am-12noon Session three - How can the crisis in working class political representation be solved?Sunday 1pm-3pm 
Socialism 2009Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 NovemberUniversity of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1A weekend of political discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party. Whole weekend £25 waged or £12 unwaged/low waged One day only £15 waged or £7 unwaged/low waged Rally for Socialism only £5 Cheques payable to Socialism. Crèche and accommodation places available - please arrange in advance. www.socialism2009.net020 8988 8777socialism@socialistparty.org.ukPO Box 24697, London E11 1YDIn this issue
Anti-racism
Socialism 2009
Youth fight for jobs
Anti-war
Socialist Party news and analysis
Marxist analysis
Workplace news and analysis
Socialist Party feature
Marxist analysis: history Comment Socialist Party reviews
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