4 May 2012

May 2012 local election reports

For TUSC results see: tusc.org.uk
TUSC candidates won victories in Preston and Walsall and ran many hard-fought campaigns elsewhere. Click 'more' below for reports from Coventry, Liverpool, Salford, Swansea, Lincoln, Stroud, London and Gateshead

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4 October 2011

Manchester: Thousands say no to cuts

Tories gathering for conference faced large demonstration: 35,000 people travelled to Manchester on 2nd October to march against the anti-working class policies of the Tories

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Lobby of Tory Party conference, photo I Dalton

6 October 2010

Thousands tell Tories: 'No cuts'

AS THE first Conservative Party delegates arrived for their 2010 conference at the ICC in Birmingham - a city whose Con-Dem council has threatened 26,000 employees with the sack unless they accept new contracts with reduced terms - thousands of trade unionists and political activists were gathering, writes Dave Griffiths.

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7 April 2010

Tories reveal yet more anti-gay bias

THE COMMENTS of shadow home secretary Chris Grayling last week show the continued existence of anti-gay prejudice in the Conservative Party, writes Ian Pattison, Leeds Socialist Party.

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31 March 2010

Cameron shows Tories still anti-gay

DAVID CAMERON looked flustered and awkward in a televised interview with Gay Times' Martin Popplewell last week, writes Dave Younger, LGBT organiser, Leeds Socialist Party.

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13 September 2007

Tory party struggles to recapture territory taken by New Labour

A FEW months ago there seemed to be a Tory revival. Yet now, senior Tories are carrying out a public spat and Cameron seems unable to contain it...

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6 October 2005

Tory Party fights for its survival

EXTOLLED FOR decades as the most successful capitalist party in Europe, caretaker leader Michael Howard this week presides over a squabbling bunch of would-be successors in the Tory party...

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