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8 February 2012
The Olympics will be staged in London this summer. The Con-Dems and their big business friends expect that the Games and the Queen's Golden Jubilee in June will bring tourists, consumer spending and profits
NHS protest against Lansley's bill in London May 2011, photo by Paul Mattsson
8 February 2012
The NHS is being broken apart by the hammer blows raining down on it from the Con-Dem government. Huge job cuts and closures of hospital wards and departments, including A&E, are wreaking havoc.
8 February 2012
Tower Hamlets: Save Rushmead one stop shop - fight all cuts
It's almost unheard of to see Labour Party members campaigning in Tower Hamlets, east London, more than two months before an election, writes Naomi Byron, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party.
1 February 2012
Are the Greens a real alternative?
Green leader Caroline Lucas MP and her party are attempting to build on the unions' rift with Labour to encourage trade union support and funding to break from the Labour Party and support them instead
1 February 2012
What is the point of Labour MPs?
Recently, one acerbic political TV commentator, noting the lack-lustre response of the Labour leadership to the current crisis, asked: "What is the point of Labour?" To that cutting remark we might add more specifically, "And what is the point of Labour MPs?"...
TUSC candidates, pics Paul Mattsson
30 January 2012
Trade unionists and socialists prepare for May elections
Last Saturday over 50 prospective candidates and campaign organisers from around the country met to plan the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition's (TUSC) challenge in May's local and London Assembly elections
Unions like Unite have donated millions to Labour but Labour promises nothing in return to union members, photo Paul Mattsson
25 January 2012
What we think: Labour lords voted against the introduction of the benefit cap which threatens 67,000 families with poverty and homelessness. Yet Liam Byrne, shadow Work and Pensions secretary, made it abundantly clear Labour supports the cap.
25 January 2012
Add your name to the TUSC petition
As the leaders of the big Labour-supporting trade unions warn Labour of the risk of losing trade union support, an electoral challenge in the Greater London Assembly elections involving leading trade unionists is being prepared...
25 January 2012
Kirklees parents say 'save our children's centres!'
Towards the end of last year, the Labour-led Kirklees council in Yorkshire announced a consultation over the future of 32 Sure Start centres, writes Mike Forster.
Public opposition to cuts
18 January 2012
Labour leadership approves the Con-Dem cuts
Ed 'Moribund' and the Labour leadership's brainwave to boost election poll ratings is "Vote for us and we will freeze your pay and cut your services"! writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
PCS left Unity meeting: Organising to step up the pensions struggle , photo by Senan
11 January 2012
Pensions dispute: Everything is still to fight for
What we think The open organising conference on Saturday 7 January, hosted by PCS Left Unity, the left in the largest civil service union, could prove to be a very significant moment in the public sector pension struggle...
Liverpool struggle in the 1980s. pic: Philip Gordon
11 January 2012
Heseltine continued Liverpool's decline
Former Liverpool councillor and then-District Labour Party president Tony Mulhearn shows how it was a Labour council, led by supporters of Militant (the forerunner of the Socialist Party), that saved the city from Tory decay.
11 January 2012
Workers need an electoral alternative that fights for them
ust days after hundreds of trade unionists met to plan how to continue to fight the Con-Dems' attacks on public sector pensions, Labour leader Ed Miliband pledged that a Labour government would have to 'face the reality of the deficit' and make cuts, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party
4 January 2012
Ian Pattison - a marcher on the Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow march - replies to Labour leader Ed Miliband's recent comments which claim to offer a 'radical rethink' on benefits, writes Dear Ed Miliband.
4 January 2012
USA: Occupy movement links with working class
The US 'Occupy' movement and its slogans, such as "We are the 99%", have reflected the huge anger at widening economic and social inequality at a time of recession...
14 December 2011
Why I joined the Socialist Party
I first became politically aware in 1968 at the age of 14. I had been injured playing rugby and my father gave me Alexander Cordell's Rape of the Fair Country to read to pass away the time. This injury,...
Photo Senan
14 December 2011
Tories speak for the rich - not for us
David Cameron was stoutly defending the 'nation'. This is what he claimed after he was humiliatingly defeated by 26 votes to one at the 9 December EU summit and withdrew from participating in discussions over a new EU treaty. But which nation, asks Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
7 December 2011
Building a fighting union - interview with Steve Hedley
Interview with Steve Hedley, the transport union RMT's London regional organiser, who will be standing for election as the union's assistant general secretary...
Cameron dunce, placard on the N30 30 November public sector strike, photo by Paul Mattsson
7 December 2011
The squeamish should look away now. With 'Murdochgate' ongoing, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has exposed further rotten sleaze at the top of government with claims from Bell Pottinger, a 'lobbying'...
4 December 2011
Labour MP condones pension cuts on Question Time
The following letter "With friends like these" has been sent to the media by member of the Socialist Party and 'Liverpool 47' Tony Mulhearn
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