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Poll Tax demonstration 1990
15 May 2013
When mass action defeated Thatcher's poll tax
Launching the battle in Scotland: Margaret Thatcher was dubbed the Iron Lady. She wore this description with pride as, like her successors today, she ruthlessly tried to solve British capitalism's difficulties by launching brutal attacks...
Axe the killer tax - end the bedroom tax now, photo Socialist Party
15 May 2013
Bedroom tax non-implementation
Only mass action can defeat it: Some disabled workers have raised the idea of urging civil servants and local authority workers to refuse to participate in administering these new laws
12 May 2013
London: Film screening of 'Don't mention the 47'
This is part of the 'Thatcher Years' anti austerity festival, writes Sunday 12 May 2013.
8 May 2013
May Day - fighting capitalist oppression internationally
CWI members, often in difficult circumstances, organised and participated in May Day events around the world. Here are a few short reports..
1 May 2013
Millions of workers around the world will be marking May Day today (1st May) and over the next few days
30 April 2013
Transport union RMT will be turning the spotlight on rail cuts this May Day
24 April 2013
May Day 8-page greetings supplement
International Workers' Day marks the first US-wide general strike that took place on 1 May 1886 and commemorates the Haymarket Martyrs killed in Chicago by the police...
photo Paul Mattsson
17 April 2013
Time for a 24-hour general strike The poorest face swingeing cuts; disabled people are penalised even more; and to top it all, cuts to housing benefit for the 'crime' of having a so-called spare bedroom have kicked in
Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair
17 April 2013
Meeting and exhibition marking 30 years since the election of Liverpool's socialist council
Saturday 27 April, 10.30am
Adelphi Hotel, Lime Street, Liverpool
Speakers include: Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, PCS president Janice Godrich, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe, Liverpool Labour Party president (1980-85) and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged councillor Tony Mulhearn, former Labour MP Tony Benn and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged counc...
March against the Poll Tax
10 April 2013
Thatcher: a class warrior for capitalism
Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments wrought on working class communities - that is still being felt today, writes Alistair Tice
3 April 2013
Don't miss May Day greetings deadline!
The deadline for sending May Day greeting messages to the Socialist - 10 April - is approaching fast, writes Bob Severn.
20 March 2013
Riots Reframed - starting the debate
Around 1,000 young people patiently queued to watch a new documentary film, Riots Reframed, in Tower Hamlets, east London on Saturday 16 March, writes Emma Smith.
20 March 2013
Help build an alternative to the pro-cuts press with a May Day greeting
As the Socialist goes to press the details of the new press regulator are coming to light, writes Bob Severn.
The Spirit of '45, directed by Ken Loach, photo Ken Loach
13 March 2013
This film is a documentary, interviewing people who remember the mass movement to create the welfare state following World War Two, writes Katrine Williams, president of Cardiff Trades Council and Wales chair for the PCS civil service union
6 March 2013
Being a Socialist Party member: What will it mean for you?
We encourage all our members, where possible, to attend weekly local branch meetings, where we discuss the political issues which affect us and what we intend to do about them, writes Branch meetings.
13 February 2013
Spielberg's Lincoln by Tony Mulhearn
Patrick Ayers and Eljeer Hawkins gave a penetrating analysis of the Spielberg film 'Lincoln' (the Socialist 7-13 February)...
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