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Student demo
23 November 2010
When 50,000 students marched through London on November 10 both the police and student union leaders were shocked at the scale of the mobilisation.
This was, however, an indication of the depth of the anger at the Con-Dem coalition's savage cuts and a growing determination to fight back, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
Peter Taaffe, photo Paul Mattsson
22 November 2010
Video: Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, summaries the issues discussed at the Socialist Party national committee meeting on 20-21 November (3 mins)
17 November 2010
Britain's trillion pound horror story
TV review: EVER SINCE the worldwide economic recession started in 2008, Britain's bankers and big business have been trying to avoid responsibility for the crisis...
Socialism 2010, photo T.U.Senan
12 November 2010
Socialism 2010 - sessions packed to overflowing
Socialism 2010 was attended by over 900 people, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary...
3 November 2010
THE RIGHT to asylum is under political attack across Europe. In Britain, one of the Con-Dem coalition's first acts was to close the charity, Refugee and Migrant Justice, leaving thousands of asylum seekers...
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
27 October 2010
Mass action urgent against programme for poverty
So brutal, so vicious are the £81 billion cuts announced by George Osborne on 'Axe Wednesday' that nothing short of action of mass dimensions by the organised might of the labour movement is acceptable, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
27 October 2010
The US army logs released by WikiLeaks paint a brutal picture of the torturing and killing of innocent Iraqi civilians in a war fought to boost oil profits and defend western power and prestige, writes Keith Whitehead.
100,000 demonstrate in Brussels against European governments’ savage cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
14 October 2010
The general strike: Important tool of the working class
All across Europe workers and young people face the austerity axe. And all across Europe there is a fight to defend jobs and services against governments who are determined to do the bidding of big business...
14 October 2010
In this feature Socialist Party general secretary PETER TAAFFE answers important questions raised by Joe Foster on prices and wages. Joe writes:...
6 October 2010
Review: It is always a surprise when either Hollywood or Britain's film industry makes a sympathetic movie about workers who go on strike...
Barnet council workers protest at plans to cut services and run a 'no frills' council, photo Paul Mattsson
29 September 2010
"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water, writes Peter Taaffe.
Birmingham Council strike, 24 April 2008, photo by S. O Neill
27 September 2010
"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government," the Guardian's Simon Jenkins writes. He is not exaggerating, Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, argues as he examines British society on the brink.
24 September 2010
How the Tories were defeated last time around
The poll tax: It is not an accident that the most militant trade union leaders in Britain today, such as Bob Crow (general secretary of the RMT transport workers' union), are calling for the "biggest movement since the poll tax" to defeat the cuts...
24 September 2010
To be fully effective, anti-cuts candidates will need to put forward socialist ideas. Socialists do not accept that cuts are necessary. Capitalism has created enormous wealth, science and technique. We...
23 September 2010
The publication of Tony Blair's autobiography, 'A Journey', has confirmed just how unpopular he had become, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary. Socialism Today October 2010.
18 August 2010
Forecasts of fragile economic growth
The fragility of Britain's economic growth has been confirmed by various reports and comments from bankers and economists over the last week...
30 June 2010
From stimulus to austerity at dizzying speed
What we think: The G20 meeting in Toronto of the leaders of the main capitalist governments of the world demonstrated a complete incapacity to solve the huge problems that confront us, particularly those hardest-hit - the poor and the working class - by the economic crisis...
30 June 2010
Only one choice... Fight back!
Government's swingeing cuts: Millionaire Tory leaders George Osborne and David Cameron are going to write to every public sector worker in the country to ask where the billions of pounds of public spending cuts should be made, writes Nancy Taaffe, Library worker.
23 June 2010
How deep is Britain's media crisis?
Feature The Independent and Independent on Sunday were sold in March to Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev for just £1, a tycoon who similarly bought London's Evening Standard for the same price in 2009...
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