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Sacked Stead McAlpin workers protest in Newcastle, photo B Harkness
29 April 2009
Sacked workers protest in Newcastle
WORKERS AT Stead McAlpin, who were sacked and given just 15 minutes to leave the factory, brought their protest to Newcastle where they picketed John Lewis at its shop inside Eldon Square shopping centre, writes Elaine Brunskill.
22 April 2009
NUT fringe meeting: Reflecting the interest this electoral initiative has sparked, over 70 people packed into a meeting room to hear the case for the No2EU - yes to democracy campaign...
No2EU - Yes to Democracy press launch. Bob Crow, Brian Denny, Dave Nellist, photo Suzanne Beishon
22 April 2009
European elections: a workers' alternative to New Labour takes shape
THE No2EU-Yes to Democracy electoral coalition, led by the RMT rail workers' union, took a big step forward last week when the national steering committee met to discuss the campaign's candidates for June's European elections...
No2EU - Yes to Democracy press launch, photo Suzanne Beishon
15 April 2009
European elections: Why No2EU?
The Socialist Party is backing the No2EU-Yes to Democracy coalition in June's European elections. The European Union's directives and rulings, enthusiastically implemented by the New Labour government, are linked to the avalanche of job losses, wage cuts and continued privatisation that we face, Clive Heemskerk explains.
7 April 2009
EU presses for cuts in public spending
LAST WEEK'S summit of European Union (EU) finance ministers gave the British government six months to come up with plans to cut public spending...
NO2EU on the 'Put People First' demo, photo Paul Mattsson
31 March 2009
The No2EU-Yes to Democracy electoral coalition, headed by Bob Crow, the general secretary of the RMT transport workers' union, will be contesting seats in June's European elections...
31 March 2009
Dave Nellist on the Politics Show
THE SOCIALIST Party councillor and No2EU-Yes to Democracy campaign representative Dave Nellist was interviewed on the BBC Politics Show on Sunday 29 March...
26 July 2007
If this is New Labour democracy...
THE BROWN government has produced a green paper on local democracy, entitled the 'Governance of Britain'...
15 November 2003
End the occupation of Iraq: Protest Against Bush
ON THE eve of his visit to Britain, George Bush has complained about the lack of democracy in the Middle East. What hypocrisy. This from a man who cheated the electoral system to become US President!...
18 October 2003
Democracy And The Stop The War Coalition
At the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) steering committee on 7 October, I moved the following motion on behalf of the Socialist Party, writes Hannah Sell.
19 July 2003
Debts and democracy: IRAQ'S POVERTY-wracked people face being "lumbered with billions of dollars of debt" under US plans to mortgage future Iraqi oil supplies, claim campaigners for debt relief...
24 August 2001
Irish Trade Union Democracy Under Attack
NEARLY TWO months ago, Mick O'Reilly, the regional secretary of the Amalgamated and General Workers Union (ATGWU) and its Belfast organiser, Eugene McGlone were suspended by Bill Morris, the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) in Britain...
9 June 2001
Indonesia: Reactionaries Step Up Attacks On The Working Class
SUPPORTERS OF Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid clashed violently with police last week in the capital Jakarta, writes Niall Mulholland.
14 July 2000
The establishment claims Britain has had a strong democracy for over 100 years. But as JANE JAMES explains, things are not as democratic as they seem. Many democratic rights are being eroded by Blair...
30 June 2000
SOCIALIST PARTY general secretary, Peter Taaffe's new book, Cuba: Socialism and Democracy, is a timely explanation of the processes that led to the Cuban Revolution, the development of the Cuban regime and its perspectives for the future, writes Kevin Parslow.
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