The Socialist 12 May 2010

MPs and party leaders haggle over their jobs... preparing to cut ours!

MPs and party leaders haggling over their jobs... preparing to cut ours!

Support the British Airways strikers

Greece: the struggle must continue and intensify

Fight the repression of workers in Kazakhstan

General election 2010: TUSC results and the need for working class representation

Coventry elections: Strong socialist support

Lewisham elections: socialists will be at forefront of struggle

Huddersfield elections: Forging a socialist campaigning tradition

Anti-Tory mood dominated in Stoke during 2010 election

Spelthorne campaign during the 2010 general election

Swansea: Potential new members

Scotland: Meetings show enthusiasm for socialism

Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition (TUSC) general election results

Election deadlock

Obituary - Peter Hadden, 1950 - 2010

Gulf of Mexico disaster: nationalise the oil giants

Defend the public sector

PCS courts victory

Vote Roger Bannister

Ex-Jarvis workers protest in Leeds

Gateshead housing protest

Lecturers' union strike demo

National Shop Stewards Network conference

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Spelthorne election campaign

In Spelthorne we got 176 votes, but you could hear a pin drop when I warned the mainstream parties of the links we have built with local trade unionists who will fight the cuts to come.

If someone had offered us unanimous support from the local RMT and from activists in the FBU, the POA, the cabin crew strikers and Unison, with half a dozen potential new Socialist Party members thrown in for good measure, at the cost of four weeks hard slog and about £2,000, we would have taken them up - this election gave us all that and more.

Well done to each and every TUSC candidate, campaigner and activist and to everyone who had the confidence and faith in working people to vote socialist and vote TUSC.

If you still haven't joined the socialist party, now is definitely the time.