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5 June 2013
Continued deterioration of the Labour Party
The Labour Party, having blatantly accepted capitalism and the need for cuts, is incapable of even pretending to be in opposition
3 April 2013
Workfare and the Labour Party: 'A less than stellar party'
Like many people I was astounded by the Parliamentary Labour Party abstention on the emergency legislation enacted to undo the legal victory won by Cait Reilly and Jamieson Wilson against forced workfare, writes Nancy Taaffe
28 March 2013
34. On the NHS Labour is now 30 points ahead in opinion polls, and is generally 'more trusted' to run public services...
20 March 2013
Socialist Students win debate with Labour
Socialist Students national organiser Claire Laker-Mansfield and I recently represented Socialist Students at a debate with the Labour Party and the Marxist Society at Queen Mary University, writes Ian Pattison.
6 February 2013
Attempts to force Unison branches to affiliate to Labour
The article by Andy Bentley in issue 750 of the Socialist 'There is an alternative to cuts!' was spot on, writes a West Midlands Unison activist.
14 January 2013
Attitude to the Labour Party and the Left
To many who experienced the past sectarian behaviour of the SWP combined with abstract propaganda - 'One solution, revolution!' - the seeming metamorphosis to a 'broad' approach in this decade was a revelation...
14 January 2013
Collapse of Stalinism and the 1990s
If they were to answer that North Vietnam was more 'progressive', then how to explain their position at the time of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, when the liquidation of the planned economy in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union was, for them, not a great negative historical turning point...
14 January 2013
The SWP today finds its ideological roots in post-1945 British Trotskyism, which split into three main trends...
5 December 2012
In October, the Lancashire Telegraph serialised former Labour cabinet minister Jack Straw's memoirs. Peter Harris, one of six Labour Party members expelled from Straw's Blackburn constituency party, wrote to the Lancashire Telegraph challenging Straw's version of events
28 November 2012
Don't fall for Labour's fairy tale
In the Observer on 25 November, columnist Nick Cohen wrote an article praising Labour councillors for, he says, 'dealing with austerity', ie Con-Dem cuts, while attacking as "ultra-leftism" any strategy to fight the cuts...
10 October 2012
Labour Party conference - not fighting austerity
Editorial of the Socialist Income will not return to pre-crisis levels until 2020 and Tory leader David Cameron says there is no 'plan B' - just unrelenting austerity...
3 October 2012
Sickened by Labour conference? Build the anti-cuts alternative!
One further downside of being sick and off work is that I've been able to watch some of the Labour Party conference, writes Ronnie Job, Swansea.
3 October 2012
Scotland: Lamont throws Labour Party into crisis
On the eve of the UK Labour Party conference, Scottish Labour leader, Johann Lamont, threw the party north of the border into a crisis after calling for an end to the "something for nothing culture" in Scotland, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
Waltham Forest protest, one of many protests outside Labour-run councils who pass Con-Dem austerity measures. , photo Senan
26 September 2012
Can Labour give a lead in fight against austerity?
The Labour Party conference takes place at a crucial time. Working people are crying out for a lead in a mass movement which can force elections and topple the hated Con-Dem government, writes Peter Taaffe
29 August 2012
The 'madness' of building homes
On 28 August, the Guardian carried a Polly Toynbee article about the role of "great speeches" at Tory, Labour and Lib Dem conferences
13 August 2012
Southampton residents voice fury at pool closure plan
After witnessing all the euphoria on TV about the Olympic Games, on Friday 10 August I attended a public meeting at Lordshill in Southampton, writes Dave Boyes.
8 August 2012
Welsh Labour: Red flag or white flag?
According to some historians the use of the red flag as a symbol of revolution and working class revolt dates from the 1831 Merthyr Rising...
Roger Mackay
4 July 2012
Obituary: Roger MacKay, a tireless fighter for socialist ideas
It is my sad duty to report the death of Socialist Party member Roger MacKay on 28 June 2011, aged 71. He passed peacefully after a short battle with lung cancer...
27 April 2012
Video: TUSC applauded on BBC's Question Time
Socialist Party London organiser Paula Mitchell condemns both the government "of the rich for the rich" and the Labour Party, who refuse to say they will reverse the cuts
18 April 2012
We are sad to learn of the death of Arthur Deane, an active worker in my early years in the Trotskyist movement...
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