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16 June 2013
Turkey: Demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London
This demo will welcome back the trade union delegation from their solidarity visit to Turkey, which including Socialist Party member Martin Powell-Davies from the NUT and Steve Hedley from the RMT, writes Sunday 16 June, 1pm.
16 June 2013
Yesterday Turkey's security forces launched a large-scale brutal attack on a peaceful concert and protesters in Istanbul's Gezi park and Taksim square. It is urgent to send protests
London protests 8 June 2013 in support of the Mass movement in Turkey which challenges Erdogan's authoritarian government , photo Paul Mattsson
12 June 2013
Erdogan seeks trial of strength with mass protests: On Monday 10 June, Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to talk and listen to protesters. Early Tuesday morning, the same prime minister sent in riot police to brutally clear out protesters from Taksim Square
12 June 2013
Syria threatens sectarian middle east war
Urgent need for independent working class socialist organisations: The capturing of the strategically important city of Qusair by pro-government forces, including Hezbollah and Iraqi Shias, marks a new stage in the bloody quagmire of Syria and is likely to have wide ramifications, writes Peter Taaffe
12 June 2013
Labour crosses the Rubicon - again
In a series of speeches last week, the Labour leadership crossed the Rubicon and completely betrayed the poor and working class
Defend the Four: protest against Unison witchhunt, 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon
12 June 2013
Unison conference - time to reclaim the union
How socialists fought off the witch-hunt: After six years, Unison's national leadership has thrown in the towel over a vicious witch-hunt against four Unison activists, all Socialist Party members
12 June 2013
Teachers vote for action on workload and pensions
The biggest Scottish teachers' union the EIS has voted at its conference to ballot its members for industrial action over Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) workload and to protect teachers' pensions, writes Jim Halfpenny, EIS member and conference delegate.
Terry Fields and Dave Nellist - two Militant MPS, photo Dave Sinclair
5 June 2013
1983: A political voice for the working class
Thirty years ago, on 9 June 1983, the gloom cast by Thatcher's re-election as Tory prime minister was partly offset by the election of two campaigning supporters of the Socialist's predecessor Militant, Dave Nellist and Terry Fields, as Labour MPs.
5 June 2013
"To say a military tactic is legal, or even effective, is not to say it is wise or moral in every instance," said US president Obama in a major speech recently where he promised to scale back the use of unmanned drones to attack targets in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere
29 May 2013
Campaign to stop bedroom tax evictions!
Feature: Less than two months after being introduced, the bedroom tax is already causing the chaos campaigners predicted it would
29 May 2013
Even the cutters say cuts aren't working!
Chancellor George Osborne has been warned: his austerity package is "playing with fire". Working class people know all too well the effects of the cuts - the painful slashing of our living standards
29 May 2013
This is what's 'not to like' about Free Schools, Boris
Tory London mayor Boris Johnson, writing in the London Evening Standard, attempted to portray opposition to 'Free Schools' as some kind of 'left-wing conspiracy', writes Martin Powell-Davies, National Union of Teachers executive (personal capacity).
29 May 2013
Sri Lanka: Working class beginning to move forward
A one-day protest general strike held on 21 May was a significant step forward for the working class in Sri Lanka, writes Srinath Perera.
Caerphilly march to save the A&E, photo Becky Davis
22 May 2013
Wales faces a bleak future on the basis of capitalism unless the working class can defend public services and the welfare state
22 May 2013
The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe. Over half of Tory backbenchers voted against the Queen's speech - their own government's legislative agenda
22 May 2013
Anti-bedroom tax federation launched in Merseyside
Around 40 delegates gathered at the Unite union building in Liverpool on 18 May to set up a federation to coordinate anti-bedroom tax groups across Merseyside, writes Andy Ford.
22 May 2013
NUT vice president election: Socialist Party member Martin Powell-Davies is to stand for election as national vice-president of the teachers' union NUT
21 May 2013
Teachers strike to defend education and assistants' jobs
In a marvelous show of solidarity, teachers at a Leicester school have taken strike action to defend children's education and the jobs of teaching assistants
On the march in Bootle against the Bedroom Tax, May 2013, photo Socialist Party
15 May 2013
Axe the killer tax: End the bedroom tax now
The death of Stephanie Bottrill, who couldn't afford the bedroom tax, is a tragedy made in Westminster by a government that wants to make working class people pay for the economic crisis
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