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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
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard , photo by Paul Mattsson
15 May 2013
Campaigning works - Action gets results: The re-election of the Democracy Alliance national executive committee is a real blow to the government's attempt to break PCS members' resolve, writes John McInally
Unison health workers in Mid Yorks on strike, photo by Iain Dalton
15 May 2013
Unison leader 'gets it wrong' over action on pay
Local government workers have had three years of pay freeze, as well as facing cuts in pay and conditions of service and massive job losses...
13 May 2013
Stop the cruel, ruthless bedroom tax!
On Sunday 12 May the suicide was reported of a 53 year old woman, Stephanie Bottrill, who killed herself because of the bedroom tax. This is a tragedy made in Westminster by a government that wants to make working class people pay for the crisis of the bankers, the super-rich and the capitalist system they represent.
NUT protest outside the Department of Education by teachers and parents opposed to the GCSE regrading in August 2012, photo Neil Cafferky
8 May 2013
Education secretary Michael Gove's announcement that he plans to attack our holidays and conditions, on top of his attacks on pay, have angered teachers right across the country, writes Martin Powell-Davies, Member of the NUT executive.
4 May 2013
TUSC Doncaster Mayor candidate wins 1,900 votes in Ed Miliband's backyard
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate Mary Jackson polled 1,916 votes, coming in ahead of the Lib Dems
1 May 2013
On 3 May, after nearly six years of a tortuous fight with the Unison bureaucracy, an employment tribunal remedy hearing is to be held...
Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson
1 May 2013
Local government: fight for decent pay, terms and conditions
Local government employers have come back with their so-called final offer for this year's pay deal - a miserable 1%, writes Glenn Kelly.
1 May 2013
Video: Tony Mulhearn - Liverpool Militant 30 years on
"LIVERPOOL - a Socialist council", said the signs that were once tacked to the sides of city public buildings or hung from the fences surrounding the recreation grounds, writes From the Liverpool Echo.
30 April 2013
Leeds North Socialist Party: Michael Foot and the 1983 election
Thirty years on we discuss the battle both against Thatcher and within the Labour Party for a democratic fighting workers' party in the early 1980s. Speaker: Kevin Pattison, writes Tuesday 30th April 2013.
26 April 2013
Ordsall anti-bedroom tax campaign launched
Over fifty people attended a lively launch of Salford's newest anti bedroom tax campaign
26 April 2013
Thatcher's funeral day in Newbridge
The 17th of April wasn't a day to remember Thatcher, but a day to reflect with pride on the working class heroes who fought her
24 April 2013
TUC: Set the date for a 24-hour general strike!
Up to 200 trade unionists, workers and campaigners lobbied the TUC general council this morning, 24th April
Protests at Thatcher's Funeral, photo Paul Mattsson
24 April 2013
Break with Thatcher's legacy! - Socialist policies needed
"We are all Thatcherites now," declared Tory leader David Cameron on the day of Thatcher's funeral. "Oh no, we're not!" roared back the working class in Goldthorpe, where over 1,000 protested, in Liverpool, Glasgow and London.
Feature by Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
24 April 2013
Stop Gove hacking our school hols
Teachers - and many parents - have been shocked by Tory minister Gove's announcement that he wants to lengthen the school day and shorten holidays
24 April 2013
20 years after murder of Stephen Lawrence
When mass action and class unity beat back the fascists: Twenty years ago, the black teenager Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered by five thugs in a racist attack in Eltham, south east London...
Len McCluskey of Unite speaking at the 20 October 2012 TUC demo against austerity , photo by Paul Mattsson
24 April 2013
Unite - build a fighting union
The victory of Len McCluskey in the Unite general secretary election with 64.4% of the vote against fellow left-winger Jerry Hicks will be seen by the union's membership as ratifying the general direction of Unite since Len first took the position in 2011, writes Kevin Parslow, Unite London and Eastern regional committee, personal capacity.
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