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30 January 2012
Gagging order on Tommy Sheridan is lifted
The threat to stop Tommy Sheridan from speaking out after his release from prison today has been withdrawn, but not his tagging
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
28 January 2012
Anger over Tommy Sheridan 'gagging order'
"Tommy Sheridan's lawyer has accused prison authorities of trying to "gag" him on his release from jail, writes BBC report: 28 January 2012 Last updated at 13:41.
7 December 2011
Construction workers fight a 35% cut in wages
The biggest of the 'Dirty 7' big contractors, Balfour Beatty, may have outlawed the strike by their electricians but today saw protests and walkouts all over the country. NB: Contribution from an electrician added on 9.12.11 (see end)
30 November 2011
Tommy Sheridan, class fighter and socialist ex-Member of the Scottish Parliament, sent this message of solidarity to be read out to the Socialism 2011 rally on 5 November...
29 September 2011
Labour Party conference - No way forward given by 'reclaim Labour' speakers
‘Vote for us and nothing will change’! was the message of Labour's Ed Balls to the working class desperate for leadership. Two Socialist Party members report on the LRC fringe meeting and on watching the conference on TV
News International Newspapers Ltd, photo by Paul Mattsson
14 September 2011
As Murdochgate scandal goes on - release Tommy Sheridan!
What do you give a billionaire media mogul whose company is mired in scandal, illegality and corruption? Why, a 47% pay rise, that's what
7 September 2011
New pamphlet - The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Socialist Party
Email info@socialistpartyscotland.org.uk to place your order or visit www.socialistpartyscotland.org.uk...
10,000 marched. Photo Paul Mattsson
28 July 2011
Nationalise Bombardier to save jobs
Train manufacturer Bombardier has announced the loss of 1,400 jobs following the government decision to award the Thameslink rail project to German company, Siemens. Around 10,000 marched against job cuts on Saturday 23 July in the biggest demonstration in Derby for decades...
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
Tommy Sheridan
6 July 2011
News of World top executives force staff to pay price of scandal
Addition posted 8th July: Rupert Murdoch has called time on the News of the World. The venal phone-hacking scandal had turned the NoW into a toxic rag in the eyes of millions and threatened to undermine Murdoch's hopes of 100% control of BSkyB.
A Common Treasury by Gerrard Winstanly Verso
6 July 2011
One of the false arguments against socialism and communism is that these ideas are 'foreign'. Karl Marx was a German Jew and a follower of the German philosopher Hegel. 'Revolution is something that...
Sylvia Pankhurst protesting against British policy in India, at Trafalgar Square, 1932
8 June 2011
Sylvia Pankhurst: Everything is possible
Film review: World write, an 'education charity committed to global equality', has produced a new documentary based on the work of the tireless, though unfortunately neglected in Britain, human rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst (1882-1960), writes Indianna Purcell.
RMT and TSSA members strike
8 June 2011
Fighting the anti-strike legislation
The Con-Dems' attacks: The anti-trade union laws are important weapons in the bosses' armoury. Business secretary Vince Cable has threatened this week to make the laws even tougher, in the light of coordinated strike action. Alex Gordon, president RMT, writes.
Campaigning for TUSC in Swansea, photo by Socialist Party Wales
11 May 2011
TUSC shows alternative to Con-Dem and Labour cuts
Roundup: 174 candidates, standing in 50 councils, contested the English local elections under the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) umbrella, polling over 25,000 votes...
Edinburgh demonstration, photo by Ray Smith
8 May 2011
SNP landslide – but it will be a government of savage cuts
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has won the elections to the Scottish parliament by securing an unprecedented 69 MSPs, an increase of 23 on 2007, gaining an overall majority.
This is the biggest vote ever for the nationalists and was achieved largely due to the collapse of the votes of the Con-Dem parties in Scotland
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
Tata steelworks cleaners' strike: Around 70 contract cleaners, working for OCS at the Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot, South Wales are taking part in two days of strike action in a dispute over pay...
16 February 2011
Mark Thomas's comedy is always original and his latest show is no exception. This time he recounts his experience of walking the length of the Israeli wall that imprisons the Palestinians of the West...
Tommy Sheridan in 2007
2 February 2011
Tommy Sheridan jailing: Political vendetta ends in draconian sentence
SCOTTISH SOCIALIST Tommy Sheridan was jailed for three years on 26 January having being found guilty on charges of perjury...
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