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Cocaine Unwrapped, a film by Rachael Seifert
9 May 2012
Film review: 'Cocaine Unwrapped'
Cocaine Unwrapped, a documentary film directed by Rachel Seifert, went on general release from 5 May, writes Paul Heron
30 April 2012
Swansea trades council May Day march and rally
A May Day march in Swansea on Saturday reflected the changeable weather South Wales has suffered recently; however, it was representative of some important struggles taking place
18 April 2012
Book/Film review: The ruins of North America have been transformed into the totalitarian state of Panem: twelve districts, in abject poverty, surround the utopian Capitol, a centre of glamour and decadence, writes Mary Finch.
4 April 2012
Greater London Assembly election
TUSC candidate - 'Privatisation can be defeated': Teaching unions are warning that school dinners are getting smaller, less healthy and sometimes run out before all the children have had their meal...
15 March 2012
'Westenders' - omnibus edition
We are being badgered to celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth on the throne by a never-ending propaganda offensive, writes Rob Bishop, Gloucestershire Socialist Party and Cheltenham Against the Cuts.
15 March 2012
Celebrate International Workers' Day by supporting the paper that fights all cuts with a May Day greeting in the Socialist...
15 March 2012
European Court rules on Kettling case
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the case of the protesters who were kettled by police at Oxford Circus in London on May Day 2001. However, there were three dissenting judges...
7 March 2012
Revolution through Arab eyes - the Factory
Film review: David Johnson reviews a new documentary showing the history of struggle in the Middle East's largest factory...
7 March 2012
Torquay NHS campaign: Over 40 activists from Bracknell, Reading, Ascot and Windsor attended a Bracknell public meeting on 29 February organised by Defend Our Community Services to save Heatherwood Hospital from closure, writes Terry Pearce
29 February 2012
May Day Greetings in the Socialist
Support the paper that fights all cuts with a 2012 May Day (international workers' day) greeting in the Socialist...
Thatcher: The Iron Lady, still from movie
11 January 2012
Film review :The Iron Lady in meltdown
The widely hyped film 'The Iron Lady' is not intended to cover all the political events of Thatcher's life. It deals with the political issues through the incoherent rambling recollections of an old and demented Thatcher...
4 January 2012
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...
7 December 2011
When workers planned production: the Lucas Aerospace plan
The south east region of the TUC recently showed a film about the Lucas Aerospace shop stewards' committee who, 35 years ago, produced a plan to make socially useful products instead of the weapons of mass destruction they made for their employer, writes Bill Mullins.
28 September 2011
Film review: Tinker tailor soldier spy
1973: London is drab, faded by economic decline. The optimism of the post-war boom is gone. The world is split into two opposed systems, the capitalist west and the planned economies of the east
14 September 2011
May Day protest case goes to Strasbourg
A Socialist Party member's case against the police tactic of 'kettling', containing protesters inside a police cordon, was taken to the European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday 14 September...
Exeter Anti Cuts March and Rally 2 May 2011, photo Nick Hall
4 May 2011
On May Day bank holiday Exeter played host to a vibrant and up-beat anti-cuts demonstration. The demonstration was the biggest Exeter has seen since the anti-war movement
4 May 2011
May Day in Kazakhstan marked by attacks on socialists
The ruling parties in the former Soviet countries usually use May Day, international workers' day, in a cynical manner, organising official events to which people are expected to turn up to wave balloons and listen to speeches and pop music...
Wales May Day celebrations, with young TUSC supporter, photo Alec Thraves
3 May 2011
May Day: challenging the cuts in Leeds
Saturday 30 April saw the biggest May Day demonstration for some time in Leeds with around 500 participating, including contingents from the GMB, Unite, Unison, PCS, as well as anti-cuts campaigns across the city and from nearby towns and cities
Wales May Day celebrations, with young TUSC supporter, photo Les Woodward
3 May 2011
A busy May Day bank holiday weekend in south west Wales
Socialist Party members and supporters in south west Wales are exhausted but enthusiastic after the Bank Holiday weekend, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party
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