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25 April 2012
Labour - no friend of trade unions
Nick Chaffey, Southampton TUSC candidate, Bitterne Park, replies to a letter from Unite regional official Ian Woodland, published in the Morning Star...
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?"...
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
28 September 2011
Pro-business Labour offers crumbs and promises cuts
Urgent: Build a new mass workers' party: Across Britain public sector trade unionists are preparing to go on strike on 30 November, in the biggest day of strike action since 1926...
7 September 2011
On 2 September Chris Bryant (Labour MP for Rhondda) was in Tonypandy. When I saw him I thought it was a perfect opportunity to confront him about the brutal cuts in the NHS, especially in mental health...
Photo Paul Mattsson
11 July 2011
* Nationalise the media to allow full and democratic freedom of discussion and decision-making
'Murdochgate', the News of the World scandal, is Britain's Watergate, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
6 July 2011
Labour - condemned for condemning strike
"The Labour Party died on Thursday." This was how one letter to the Guardian on 1 July, the day after the biggest strike action in decades, summed up the feelings of millions about Labour leader Ed Miliband's condemnation of the strikes...
11 May 2011
Youth and Student news: Tory education minister David Willetts' latest crackpot idea to make more money out of young people's education is to allow universities to charge rich students more for extra places, writes Ben Robinson.
9 March 2011
Labour councils should fight cuts, not implement them!
On Saturday 5 March, over 250 delegates marched to a rally outside the Labour Party local government conference in London, writes Vik Chechi, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party.
17 MEPs and Irish Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins outside the department of finance in dublin, photo Socialist Party Ireland
3 March 2011
Fantastic results in Irish election: Socialists and lefts gain five seats
Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly was elected as a TD for the first time in Dublin North with 7,513 first preference votes or 15.2% of the vote, and Joe Higgins, a TD from 1997 to 2007 and currently the Irish Socialist Party's MEP, was returned to the Dáil (parliament) representing Dublin West, gaining 8,084 votes (19%).
16 February 2011
Labour councillors' arguments refuted at People's Convention
At the People's Convention on 12 February, organised by the Right to Work campaign and the Labour Representation Committee, there was a debate on how councillors could fight the cuts, writes Jane James.
14 October 2010
Labour shadows show: We need a new workers' party!
WHAT DO the results of the election to Labour's Shadow Cabinet tell us about the direction, or even likelihood, of Ed Miliband's party leading a fightback against the coalition cuts?, writes Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist, Chair, Campaign for a New Workers' Party.
Trade unionists lobby Lib-Dem conference, photo Harry Smith
20 September 2010
Trade unionists lobby Lib-Dem conference
On Sunday 19 September, despite pouring rain, 4,000 trade unionists (according to the Liverpool Echo) rallied in Liverpool to lobby the Liberal Democrat party conference...
Walthamstow Socialist Party protest, photo S. Kimmerle
29 July 2010
Waltham Forest Labour councillors face opposition
On a lovely summer's evening a very dirty deed was done and probably only the first of many. At a full council meeting in Waltham Forest town hall, all 31 Labour councillors present slavishly raised their hands to vote through the first round of cuts brought on by the Tory/Liberal coalition government, writes Linda Taaffe, Walthamstow Socialist Party.
9 June 2010
Will the Lib Dems survive coalition?
THE LIB Dem decision to enter into the government coalition alongside the Tories casts questions about the future for that party and its support base, writes Jim Thomson.
28 April 2010
The Socialist Party's TUSC stall in Woolwich has now become a regular feature for shoppers. Less familiar was the Labour Party stall that made its debut appearance last week. As the TUSC candidate I wasted...
27 April 2010
Fund a political alternative to the establishment parties
WHAT COULD be done with £18.9 million? It could help fund a local hospital or school. But that figure is the limit on political parties for national spending in this general election. Cameron, Clegg or...
21 April 2010
National Care Service - fact or fiction?
MOST RESEARCH suggests that the general population is living longer. Advances in science and healthcare mean that more conditions are treatable and many people with previously life-threatening conditions...
15 April 2010
Main parties promise more of the same rotten cuts agenda
Underwhelming, nauseating, garbage... These are just some of the more polite words that will spring to the minds of workers and young people as they read and hear the New Labour and Tory election manifestos. Everyone knows they plan to hack public services to the bone - here are some immediate responses...
7 April 2010
MP MARK Fisher's decision not to stand for re-election intensified the already well developed process of meltdown of New Labour in Stoke Central, writes Andy Bentley.
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