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4 January 2012
In this special new year feature, Peter Taaffe looks back at 2011, a year of crisis, struggle and revolution. This article is based on a statement prepared for the Committee for a Workers' International, the world socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated.
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.
21 November 2011
Capitalism is crisis - there is an alternative - fight for socialism!
The titanic 30 November strike will display the colossal power of the working class to resist the savage cuts demanded by the capitalists and Con-Dems, writes Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party.
Socialism Today, Nov 2011
18 October 2011
November 30 and beyond
The one-day public-sector strike on 30 November is expected to involve nearly four million workers - the biggest single day of industrial action in Britain's history, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
Xekinhma, Greek section of CWI
3 August 2011
Eurozone and USA - Debt crisis
The price of capitalist failure: Governments in Europe and the US are making working class people pay for the crisis caused by the bankers and the capitalist system.
The Greek bailout, welcomed by the European ruling classes, will do nothing for the Greek masses
13 July 2011
The media 'lie factory' exposed
The book Flat Earth News, written by Nick Davies in 2008, lifted the lid on the Murdoch press two years before the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Davies has since led the Guardian investigations into the scandal. The Socialist carries an extract from a review by Peter Taaffe of Davies' book
24 June 2011
Unison conference Socialist Party meeting spells out action needed
A packed Socialist Party fringe meeting at Unison conference played host to a vital discussion on how to build for coordinated public sector action
2 June 2011
The 'no-fly zone', the Left and the 'Third Camp'
Following an article by Peter Taaffe published in the May 2011 issue of Socialism Today, titled 'Libya - the no-fly zone and the left', Peter has written two responses to comments made on the article
March to save the NHS, 17 May 2011, photo Paul Mattsson
18 May 2011
Britain now facing crisis on all fronts
If splits at the top denote opposition from below, then the character of the divisions between the alleged 'partners' in the Con-Dem government means that a massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain
Egyptians in Newcastle demonstrate in support of the Egyptian revolution, photo Newcastle Socialist Party
9 March 2011
Middle East uprisings: The unfinished revolutions
As the dates for elections in Tunisia and Egypt are announced, the Libyan masses, despite their herculean efforts, have not yet been able to overthrow the Gaddafi dictatorship, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
Protests in Libya
22 February 2011
Region-wide revolution of the Arab people
"Ten days that shook the world" (Guardian). From Tunisia, to Egypt, to Bahrain, to Libya, to Yemen, to Djibouti and Morocco, the revolution that was sparked by the self-immolation of the desperate and heroic street seller in Tunisia has erupted throughout the Middle East. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist newspaper.
Revolution invokes Lenin
8 February 2011
Egypt: Is revolution derailed?
"Lenin said of revolutions that they demonstrate two things. The first is that the people cannot go on being ruled in the old way. The second is that the rulers cannot go on ruling in the old way" - The Guardian. Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, on the Egyptian revolution.
John Macreadie, deputy leader of CPSA, civil servants union, 1987
5 January 2011
Tribute to John Macreadie, trade unionist and socialist fighter
The Socialist Party was saddened to learn of the death on 22 December of lifelong Militant/Socialist Party member, John Macreadie, a militant leader in his work for the Public and Commercial Services union...
24 December 2010
Videos of Socialism 2010 now online
Leaders of some of the most militant trade unions engaged in struggle today against cuts and sackings spoke at the Saturday and Sunday rallies of Socialism 2010...
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary, addresses Socialism 2010
17 December 2010
Socialism 2010: An inspirational weekend
Socialism 2010, hosted by the Socialist Party, was a great success
Student demo
23 November 2010
When 50,000 students marched through London on November 10 both the police and student union leaders were shocked at the scale of the mobilisation.
This was, however, an indication of the depth of the anger at the Con-Dem coalition's savage cuts and a growing determination to fight back, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
Peter Taaffe, photo Paul Mattsson
22 November 2010
Video: Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, summaries the issues discussed at the Socialist Party national committee meeting on 20-21 November (3 mins)
11 November 2010
NHS - workers looking for a fighting lead
A trade union activist in the NHS wrote the letter below to Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe on the response to Con-Dem cuts within the NHS...
Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist
5 November 2010
Cindy Sheehan speaking at Socialism 2010 this weekend
On 6 and 7 November more than a thousand people will gather in central London for the Socialist Party's Socialism 2010.
US anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan says that ‘socialism is the answer’...
Thousands of trade unionists march in London against cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
27 October 2010
Mass action urgent against programme for poverty
So brutal, so vicious are the £81 billion cuts announced by George Osborne on 'Axe Wednesday' that nothing short of action of mass dimensions by the organised might of the labour movement is acceptable, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
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