4 January 2012

Review: Days of Hope

Recently film director Ken Loach contrasted the BBC of the 1960s and 70s, which allowed a degree of political commitment and artistic freedom, with today's conservative, commercially driven programme making...

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5 October 2011

'Chav hate is class hate'

Book review: Jacqui Berry reviews 'Chavs - The demonization of the working class' by Owen Jones...

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26 February 2010

Revisiting The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell was perhaps the best known of the English socialist writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He is justifiably famous for books like 'Homage to Catalonia' and 'Animal Farm', as well as '1984'. Peter Taaffe reviews The Road to Wigan Pier.

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6 January 2010

2010 - Savage social cuts, workers' resistance and growth of socialist ideas

The British capitalists, together with their counterparts worldwide, have unleashed a barrage of propaganda - disguised as "irrefutable facts" - to soften up working class people for an unparalleled assault on their living standards...

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17 November 2009

Keynes revisited?

The deregulated 'free market' associated with Thatcherism is discredited. For many workers this will mean turning towards socialist ideas. For the representatives of capitalism, however, it is a question...

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14 January 2009

Conference: 'The crisis in working class political representation'

RMT protests against privatisation on the London underground , photo Paul Mattsson

The rail union RMT-organised conference to "discuss the crisis in working class political representation" which took place on 10 January, was initiated by a resolution passed at last year's RMT conference, writes Jane James.

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11 November 2008

The working class needs its own mass party

The closing rally of Socialism 2008, hosted by the Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP), was on the theme of the fight for a working class political voice, writes Dave Carr.

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16 July 2008

Live Working or Die Fighting: How the working class went global

The recent revelation that child labour has been used in the production of clothes bound for high street chain Primark proves that Paul Mason's book, published last year, is an important work that will only become more relevant as globalisation causes more acute class conflict...

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8 July 2008

The working class needs its own party

Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference 2008, photo Socialist Party

Editorial: THIS MONTH talks will be taking place between union leaders and the New Labour government. Most of the national trade union leaders are hoping that the talks will lead to a 'Warwick Two' agreement, which they hope will result in a few scraps being thrown...

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4 October 2007

EU's anti-working class 'reforms'

Give us the right to reject...: BITTER DIVISIONS over the European Union (EU) continue to gnaw at the mainstream political parties... By Manny Thain

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17 May 2007

Conference for a working class political alternative

Campaign for a New Workers Party (CNWP) conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Campaign for a New Workers' Party: A highly successful second conference of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP) took place on Saturday 12 May...

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28 February 2004

When Workers Beat The Heath Government

Working class history: THIRTY YEARS ago, Tory Prime Minister Ted Heath called a snap general election on the issue of "Who runs the country - the government or the trade unions?" Heath lost! ...

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