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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 27 April 2010, issue Vote for a socialist alternative Socialist Party manifesto 2010 Vote for a socialist alternative
Three brands of the same cheap soap powder would offer more excitement than this election! It is as if we live in a one-party regime divided into three wings: New Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats...
 Heading for a coalition government?
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, looks at the options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May general election...
Socialist Party news and analysis
Fund a political alternative to the establishment parties WHAT COULD be done with £18.9 million? It could help fund a local hospital or school. But that figure is the limit on political parties for national spending in this general election. Cameron, Clegg or...
Filthy rich get richer
World's most unequal city
Greek crisis
No trust
A 'beacon of hope' in Gateshead It's never been easier to get a hearing for the Socialist Party's ideas: on stalls, on the doorsteps, and even in the pubs, writes Norman Hall, Tyneside Socialist Party.
STUSC candidates speak
Press try to gag socialists in Walthamstow campaign
Debt balloons go up in Brighton Kemptown
Cleaning up in Cardiff
Extremes of rich and poor in Swansea
Campaign hots up in Lewisham
"That makes real sense to me"
TUSC: 'Hear your candidate' meetings
Jobs not cuts The TUC's call for unemployment to be a bigger election issue appears to have fallen on deaf ears. For the politicians that is. For most of us it is less easy to avoid, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
Can the Greens help provide a left alternative? The Green Party is standing more than 300 candidates in the general election. It believes it has a chance of getting one of its two MEPs, Caroline Lucas, elected to Westminster in the Brighton Pavilion...
Housing in crisis: Bankers rob people A QUARTER of all households - in owned or rented accommodation - say that worry over housing costs is causing them stress or depression, says a survey by housing charity Shelter, writes Keith Richardson.
Nottingham city council: Shocking new cuts! Nottingham City council has launched a huge attack on its workforce, hiding behind 'single status' to attack the conditions and pay of over 8,000 council workers, writes Jean Thorpe, Nottingham East Socialist Party.
Unison health conference
Glasgow CSG workers fight pay freeze
Three years of wage cuts for council workers
Strike at Northumberland College
Workplace news in brief
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