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8 August 2012
Interview with Southampton rebel councillors
'We weren't elected to make cuts': Two Southampton Labour Party councillors, Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, have been investigated by the party whips
8 August 2012
Cash for contracts?: Cat Reilly, the unemployed graduate who took the government to court over their slave labour 'workfare' schemes, has lost her case...
8 August 2012
TUSC: Keeping up the pressure on the austerity parties
The last fortnight has seen the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) contest two more council byelections, taking to five the number fought by TUSC since the nation-wide local polls in May, writes Clive Heemskerk, TUSC national nominating officer.
8 August 2012
Welsh Labour: Red flag or white flag?
According to some historians the use of the red flag as a symbol of revolution and working class revolt dates from the 1831 Merthyr Rising...
7 August 2012
We Are Waltham Forest public meeting, 31st July 2012
Conflicting approaches in anti-racism campaigning: Waltham Forest Anti-Cuts Union, local branches of the Socialist Party and YFJ campaigners argue that the fight against racism and the far right must be linked to fighting austerity
31 July 2012
Save Oaklands pool, Southampton
The stand taken by two Coxford councillors, to vote against the Labour council's budget cuts and its proposal to close Oaklands pool has received enormous support across the city
18 July 2012
Miliband and Labour - no real alternative to Con-Dems
Ed Miliband became the first Labour leader since Neil Kinnock in 1989 to speak at the Durham Miners' Gala... Does this represent a break with the past? Has Ed become red?
18 July 2012
Unenthusiastic reception for Miliband at Durham Miners' Gala
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband spoke at the Durham Miners' Gala, which is regarded as the largest working class event in Britain
13 July 2012
Southampton: two Labour councillors vote against Labour council cuts
In the 3 May elections, the Tory council in Southampton suffered a heavy defeat. This followed months of strikes and mass demonstrations by council workers with the backing of the local community.
11 July 2012
The Shard: As useless as a hole in the ground
Readers' comment: Europe's tallest building, the Shard, next to London Bridge station, opened on 5 July at a cost of nearly £1 billion, writes Bill Mullins
11 July 2012
When Kevin Parslow's report on the Unite union's policy conference, (socialist 725) said: "On the Labour Party, Unite will continue its strategy of working to 'change from within' with its radical policies," it rang bells with the situation in my union, GMB...
11 July 2012
Lords reform - Abolish the House of privilege!
"The House of Lords is an unbelievably undemocratic institution" and an "appalling system of institutionalised corruption", writes Ken Douglas.
Photo Senan
11 July 2012
Libor scandal exposes rotten racketeering system
If the appearance of Bob Diamond before the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee was intended to demonstrate some kind of public accountability of bankers before parliament then it dismally failed...
HMRC PCS Leicester
4 July 2012
PCS votes to stand candidates in national elections
Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members have created history by being the first trade union not previously affiliated to the Labour Party to vote to stand candidates in national elections, writes John McInally, PCS national vice-president, personal capacity.
Their system, their crisis: kick 'em out! nationalise the banks, photo Socialist Party
4 July 2012
Jail the banksters! Nationalise the banks under popular democratic control
In 2008 the Socialist warned that: "the calls for regulation are like asking the bank robbers' gangs to keep a check on the bank robbers. What is urgently needed is popular control of the major banks and finance houses, not 'oversight' by unelected quangos and elected capitalist politicians, whose allegiance is to big business." Now the bank robbery has been exposed yet again.
4 July 2012
Unite needs fighting socialist policies
Unite has recently led or participated in a number of prominent disputes: as well as the public sector pensions' dispute, Unite has been involved in the sparks' protests, Coryton and the London bus workers, writes Kevin Parslow.
4 July 2012
Welsh Labour's health service 'redesign' means cuts!
Claire Job, a nurse for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board, spoke at the Wales Shop Stewards Network conference about the need to fight for the future of the NHS in Wales...
Roger Mackay
4 July 2012
Obituary: Roger MacKay, a tireless fighter for socialist ideas
It is my sad duty to report the death of Socialist Party member Roger MacKay on 28 June 2011, aged 71. He passed peacefully after a short battle with lung cancer...
27 June 2012
Block on Progress - "intolerable think tank"?
Britain's three biggest unions, GMB, Unite and Unison, have all questioned the role of the Progress group inside the Labour Party, writes Bob Severn.
27 June 2012
Unite conference 'The renaissance of trade unionism'
The first day of Unite's 2012 policy conference was dominated by general secretary Len McCluskey's address. Speaking of the "renaissance of trade unionism", Len highlighted key disputes for Unite over the last two years, writes Kevin Parslow Unite London and Eastern delegate, personal capacity.
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