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17 March 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition General Election launch rally
General Election launch rally: TUSC has been set up in opposition to public spending cuts and privatisation, for investment in publicly owned and controlled renewable energy, for the repeal of the anti-trade union laws, and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. www.tusc.org.uk.
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.
10 March 2010
Fight the cuts, not union members
Dawn raids on Unison branch offices: Fifteen unelected Unison trade union officials raided the Unison offices in Bromley and Greenwich in south London and the Tenant Services Authority in central London in the early morning of Friday 5 March, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party secretary.
5 March 2010
Michael Foot - the end of an era
Many "Old Labour" workers and socialists will be saddened at the death of Michael Foot and will see it as signifying the death of an era. However the ideas of Michael Foot - of piecemeal socialist reform of society through successive 'progressive' Labour governments - died long before he physically passed away on 3 March. Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe writes.
Roger Bannister, photo Paul Mattsson
3 March 2010
Unison general secretary election: Nominate Roger Bannister
The outcome of a BBC survey shows that at least 25,000 council jobs are at risk. A spokesperson from the London School of Economics has declared that: "Nothing like this has happened for a generation"...
Onay Kasab
3 March 2010
TUSC: Activists launch socialist challenge
OVER 60 people attended a meeting in Greenwich, south east London, for a joint 'defend the four' and 'TUSC launch' meeting, writes Paul Callanan. 'Defend the four' is the campaign organised in defence of the four Unison members who have been politically witch-hunted by the union's right wing officials for the 'crime' of being Socialist Party members.
NHS demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson
24 February 2010
"YOU CALL this cuts - I'm not scared to say cuts... I have to balance the books." So says a £140,000 a year NHS chief executive...
24 February 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition General Election launch rally
Thursday 25 March, 7.30 pm
Friends Meeting House, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
Speakers include: Bob Crow, Rail, Maritime and Transport union general secretary; Brian Caton, Prison Officers Association general secretary;
Chris Baugh, Public and Commercial Services union assistant general secretary; Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor; Michael Lavalette, Socialist Workers Party councillor
24 February 2010
RMT branch supports challenge to Denham
A meeting of the Rail Maritime and Transport workers' union (RMT) local branch held in Eastleigh near Southampton was attended by a candidate for TUSC, Tim Cutter, who will be standing in Southampton Itchen in the general election, writes Kevin Hayes.
24 February 2010
Support the TUSC election challenge
In the forthcoming general election the three main parties will offer a diet of cuts in public services and attacks on pay, pensions and working conditions...
24 February 2010
How can the racist BNP be defeated?
UAF conference shows debate needed: Thousands of pounds of trade union members' money is given to campaigns such as Unite Against Fascism (UAF) and Hope Not Hate every year to help combat the rise of far-right, racist groups like the British National Party (BNP), writes A GMB member.
18 February 2010
Wales Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
"Milford Haven ruling against these workers show why we are standing in the election": A new electoral alliance is standing candidates in the forthcoming general election. In Wales, two prominent trade unionists and socialist campaigners are amongst the candidates. Rob Williams, reinstated...
17 February 2010
Nominate Roger Bannister: Council workers need a fighting union
ROGER BANNISTER is a member of the Unison union's national executive, and campaigning to stand for election as Unison general secretary. Roger says the union must fight the cuts in Birmingham, which are being repeated by councils, health authorities and the education sector nationwide...
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...
17 February 2010
TUSC to fight cuts in Spelthorne
"I will refuse to take any more salary than I currently earn, if elected, and I will publish details of my salary and expenses online for my constituents to see, examine and to hold me to account as their representative", writes North Surrey Socialist Party.
17 February 2010
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition reports more sponsors this week, some of which are listed below. All appear in a personal capacity...
Roger Bannister, photo by Paul Mattsson
10 February 2010
Fighting leadership needed in Unison - Nominate Roger Bannister for general secretary
Whoever wins the general election, members of Britain's largest public sector union Unison, like all other public service workers, are in for a hard time. All three capitalist parties have declared their intention to make the working class pay for the financial crisis through attacks on jobs, pay, pensions and public services.
10 February 2010
Sri Lanka President Rajapakse removes his rival, Fonseka
SRI LANKA'S former army chief and main opposition presidential election challenger, Sarath Fonseka, was dragged from his office late at night last Monday...
10 February 2010
Fiddling MPs: Jail the whole lot of them!
THREE MPs and a Lord could face seven years in jail over their expenses claims. Only four! What about the rest of them? And what about the bankers who caused the devastating financial crisis? They should...
10 February 2010
Greenwich Unison backs victimised branch secretary
THE 2010 annual meeting (AGM) of the Greenwich Unison branch has unanimously backed Onay Kasab, the witch-hunted secretary of the branch who currently faces a three-year ban from holding office in the union...
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