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17 June 2010
Over 1,000 workers, students, pensioners and young people attended Socialism 2009. At the 2009 Rally for Socialism, those in attendance heard from leading trade unionists such as Bob Crow, general secretary...
9 June 2010
Why public sector cuts are not inevitable
Editorial: The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour's excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party - including New Labour - is colluding in. Nothing could be further from the truth...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she will always be remembered, photo Alan Hardman
2 June 2010
Margaret Thatcher: Why workers cannot forget
The new Tory-Lib Dem coalition government claims to be heralding in a 'new politics'. But a large layer of workers throughout Britain have recoiled in horror at the prospect of a Tory-dominated government.
Robin Clapp, south west Socialist Party secretary, assesses Thatcher's legacy.
26 May 2010
Tory government says rich must pay less
CAMERON'S GOVERNMENT wants to cut public services drastically and make most people pay more through rising taxes (direct and indirect) to slash the deficit...
26 May 2010
Con-Dem cuts - 'only the beginning'
Editorial: The Tory/Lib Dem government's first £6.2 billion of cuts, piles on top of £12 billion of the previous Labour government's cuts that are being implemented this year...
Socialism Today June 2010, Cartoon by Suz
25 May 2010
The ConDem coalition: not-so-new politics
After intense negotiations and backroom deals, the Tories and Liberal Democrats cobbled together a coalition government.
This was the option favoured by the ruling, capitalist class, once it was clear that David Cameron's Tories had failed to win a majority. PETER TAAFFE, Socialist Party general secretary, assesses the situation for Socialism Today (June 2010).
Jobs not dole, photo Paul Mattsson
14 May 2010
Time for the fight of our lives
Britain has been 'Con Dem-ned' to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people. The Tory/Liberal coalition has been cobbled together in a desperate attempt to create a government strong enough to launch an all-out onslaught on the living standards of the working class, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.
27 April 2010
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...
27 April 2010
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.
27 April 2010
THE ANNUAL Sunday Times rich list was published on 25 April. It shows that at a time when we are all being told to prepare for 'tough times ahead' and massive cuts in services, public spending and welfare...
23 April 2010
Heading for a coalition government?
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, discusses the options facing the capitalists and their parties following the general election...
21 April 2010
TV debate - Party leaders compete for the same policies
The first television debate, on 15 April, between the leaders of the main parties was the first such election debate in Britain, writes Paula Mitchell.
19 April 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition Manifesto Launch
'No choice' election for Britain's 7 million trade unionists
Demonstrating against war, photo by A Hill
14 April 2010
Afghanistan: Bring the troops back
THE HORRIFIC loss of life in the war in Afghanistan should make it a major election issue. In this human catastrophe, tens of thousands of Afghan civilians have died since the war started in 2001.
6 April 2010
'No choice' election for Britain's 7 million trade unionists
Trade unionists standing 42 candidates in general election challenge to 'big business' parties as the Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition (TUSC)...
Anti-Poll Tax demonstration March 1990
24 March 2010
March 1990 anti-poll tax demonstration
The riot - what really happened: In 1989, one million Scots were not paying the poll tax. The All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was also planning organised opposition south of the border. On 1 April 1990, 35 million people would get...
15 March 2010
A Hung Parliament? In substance, Britain’s general election campaign is a phoney war. The three main parties will attempt cuts in public services, pay and conditions. Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe reports on the current political situation and the possibility of a hung parliament.
Campaigners against youth unemployment from all over Wales converged on the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday to highlight the scourge of youth unemployment in Wales. , photo Sarah Mayo
17 February 2010
Wales: New challenges for socialists
Socialist Party Wales recently held a very successful conference in Swansea that discussed future developments in Wales...
Dave Nellist (2nd left) and Bob Crow (right) with supporters launch No2EU, photo D Carr
3 February 2010
'Filthy rich' get richer: Challenge the bosses' greed!
Record wealth gap: AFTER 13 years of Labour rule, the gap between the rich and the rest of us is now wider than at any time for nearly 70 years, a new 460-page report from the 'National Equality Panel', a group of academics, shows that the wealth of the richest 10% of Britain's population is now 100 times that of the poorest 10%, writes Dave Nellist, Coventry Socialist Party councillor.
3 February 2010
Weak growth - the best that capitalism can offer
After the longest and deepest recession since 1945, which saw the economy shrink by 6% in under two years, a battered UK finally limped into 'growth' territory last week, writes Robin Clapp.
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