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16 May 2013
We are living in a time of revolts, rebellions and revolutions. Across Europe, millions of workers have been involved in general strikes against brutal austerity unleashed by the bosses and their political...
8 May 2013
One in five borrow to buy food
Five million families in Britain are struggling to pay for food and are reaching "breaking point" according to a 'Which?' survey...
Protests at Thatcher's Funeral, photo Paul Mattsson
24 April 2013
Break with Thatcher's legacy! - Socialist policies needed
"We are all Thatcherites now," declared Tory leader David Cameron on the day of Thatcher's funeral. "Oh no, we're not!" roared back the working class in Goldthorpe, where over 1,000 protested, in Liverpool, Glasgow and London.
Feature by Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
17 April 2013
Thatcher's funeral costs: Insulting the lives she ruined
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, said: "The news that Margaret Thatcher is to receive a ceremonial funeral subsidised by the taxpayer is an insult"
17 April 2013
Doncaster: fighting for a working class mayor on a workers' wage
Doncaster has 225,000 voters concentrated in the town and several outlying ex-mining villages
10 April 2013
Halt the Thatcherite onslaught - TUC must call a 24-hour general strike!
When people try to remember where they were when they heard that Maggie Thatcher had died, their reaction will tell us everything about her legacy
Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, as she will always be remembered, photo Alan Hardman
10 April 2013
Now let's bury Thatcher's legacy
TUC call a 24-hour general strike!: It is a human response to be sad when somebody dies. But many working class people will be celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death because of the absolutely destructive and long lasting effect she had
10 April 2013
Thatcher death: readers respond 2
I went to get my morning newspaper and also needed a sympathy card for a relative. When I asked Shah, my local shopkeeper, where his sympathy cards were his eyes nearly popped out of his head
9 April 2013
Class survey diverts focus away from power of working class to change society
"Emergent service workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains" doesn't have the same ring to it, was one response to the recently published Great British Class Survey
Cartoon by Alan Hardman
8 April 2013
Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
3 April 2013
We must stop them!
The axe is about to be wielded again and this time it is a huge one. 'Black April' will see a further round of savage austerity, which will alter the very fabric of life, writes Peter Taaffe
28 March 2013
Amended document as passed by Socialist Party national congress 2013
1. As 2013 begins many political and economic commentators have suggested that 2012 was a 'groundhog year'. "British politics has got a bit stuck", declared Andrew Rawnsley (Observer 30 12 12)...
28 March 2013
9. British capitalism, and therefore the working class, faces a bleak future. Five years into the crisis, UK gross domestic product (GDP) is still 12-15% below the pre-crisis trend...
28 March 2013
55. It is not possible to judge whether this government will last its full term. One of Cameron's first acts on coming to power was to institute grossly undemocratic arrangements for five-year fixed parliamentary...
28 March 2013
62. We dealt with the question of migration in more depth in last year's perspectives document. The census results give a picture of the changed makeup of Britain's population...
28 March 2013
70. Whenever the general election comes it is most likely that Labour will come to power, either with a majority or as part of a coalition with all or a section of the LibDems...
22 March 2013
The attempt to defend their position includes the charge levelled against the Socialist Party that, 'It has to be said that for all of the emphasis on Broad Left work, no real effort has been put into uniting the Broad Lefts in the various unions....
22 March 2013
The other prop of Merseyside's case against the Socialist Party leadership is in relation to the collapse of Stalinism...
The Spirit of '45, directed by Ken Loach, photo Ken Loach
13 March 2013
This film is a documentary, interviewing people who remember the mass movement to create the welfare state following World War Two, writes Katrine Williams, president of Cardiff Trades Council and Wales chair for the PCS civil service union
6 February 2013
South Africa: Battle for control of mining sector
The threat by mining giant Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) to close four shafts, sell one mine and lay off 14,000 mineworkers in their Rustenburg operations is an open challenge to the entire working class
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