19 April 2007

Wanted - a new mass party for workers

Ricky Tomlinson, photo Harry Smith

CNWP conference 12 May: THE CAMPAIGN for a New Workers' Party (CNWP) conference will bring together trade unionists and community and environmental campaigners who want to see the building of a new mass workers' party in England and Wales.

Speakers include Ricky Tomlinson, Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets

Ricky Tomlinson explained the case for the CNWP to the Liverpool Echo.

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12 April 2007

'Climate change will hit poorest of poor hardest'

Climate change demo December 2005, photo Paul Mattsson

International socialist action needed: In February a UN-sponsored international committee of scientists, the IPCC, issued Part One of a report that concluded that climate change had started, was a result of human activity (principally the burning of fossil fuels.

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22 February 2007

Climate change - we have to act now

Why is climate change a problem?: The major capitalist countries (G8) are planning to meet in June in Germany to discuss climate change, among other issues...

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12 October 2006

Dave Nellist's global warning

IN 1972, David Bowie sang: "News had just come over... Earth was really dying". He was wrong, we're still here. But for how long? NASA scientists now say the Earth is warmer than at any time for the last 10,000 years. Dave Nellist writes.

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7 September 2006

Progress on climate change - or just hot air?

CLIMATE CHANGE is rarely out of the news media. Socialist Party councillor DAVE NELLIST explains that big business is the problem, not the solution...

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24 August 2006

Protests in Nuneaton

OVER 300 people demonstrated against proposed hospital cuts in Nuneaton on 17 August. The Acute Services Review wants to transfer some emergency care along with children's and maternity services from Nuneaton to the new PFI hospital in Coventry.

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11 May 2006

Excellent results for the Socialist Party

THE SOCIALIST Party secured some excellent results in the local elections around the country...

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4 May 2006

Socialist Party members’ election successes

Press release Socialist Party members – standing as Socialist Alternative candidates and on behalf of Save Huddersfield’s NHS campaign - scored outstanding successes in the local elections.

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20 April 2006

Socialists call for "robust" action to oppose Peugeot job losses

Socialists in Coventry today called for "robust" action to oppose more than 2000 job losses flowing from yesterday's announcement by Peugeot that it was ceasing car manufacture at the Ryton plant...

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19 January 2006

Time for a political alternative

AROUND CHRISTMAS, 3,000 City investment bankers were awarded at least £1 million each in bonuses, making a very tiny slice of British society as much as £5-6 billion better off, writes Time for a new workers' party.

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2 June 2005

Coventry single status dispute: the stakes are raised

COVENTRY COUNCIL workers are fighting a pay-cutting deal being imposed under a 'Single Status' agreement...

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19 May 2005

Calls for an end to trade union passivity at Amicus conference

THE FIRST, and possibly last, conference of manufacturing and general services union Amicus took place this week...

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6 May 2005

Socialist ideas adopted by a new generation

The ‘most boring election’ in history ended with a far-from boring election night...

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14 April 2005

Nationalise Rover now

Sack the board, not the workers: TENS OF thousands of workers in the West Midlands face an uncertain future, as behind closed doors administrators - in reality, asset strippers - pick over what Phoenix have left of Rover...

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14 April 2005

Socialists' city-wide challenge

IN THIS election, for the first time, Coventry Socialist Party will contest all three of the city's seats...

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2 April 2005

Coventry: Save Peugeot jobs

COVENTRY SOCIALIST Party's new "Save Peugeot Jobs" petition has already attracted well over 500 people's signatures...

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5 March 2005

Socialist Party election campaign launched

LAST WEEKEND the Socialist Green Unity Coalition officially launched its general election campaign...

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5 February 2005

Action now to stop the pay cuts!

Coventry 'single status' battle: "YOU'RE TAKING my mortgage off me" shouted one bin worker at a Tory councillor before the last Coventry council meeting...

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4 December 2004

Save the Jag! Renationalise Jaguar to save jobs

THOUSANDS OF workers demonstrated in support of Jaguar workers at Coventry's Browns Lane plant - who are facing redundancies and closure at the hands of car multinational Ford - on Saturday 27 November...

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13 November 2004

Civil Servants Strike

Birmingham: WE RECEIVED so many reports from PCS picket lines that we were unable to carry them all in the socialist. Below is a round-up of the inspiring story of the 5 November strike to defend jobs and services...

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