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6 May 2012
Legitimacy of Cameron and Clegg further shattered
The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday's elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from London, writes Socialist Party general secretary, Peter Taaffe
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
21 September 2011
On Sunday 18 September around 800 protesters gathered in Birmingham to 'welcome' the Liberal Democrats for their annual conference, writes Tom Creek, Birmingham Socialist Party.
18 May 2011
Liberal Democrats and the Coalition, Labour and the Greens
75) The government claims that it does not have a 'Plan B', an alternative policy in the event of its ruthless deflationary policy collapsing, as it will...
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
TUC demonstration 26 March 2011, photo Dave Beale
8 May 2011
Government Con-Demned at ballot box
20 April 2011
The Alternative Vote referendum - 5 May
A 'miserable little compromise'?: As Lib Dem and Tory MPs look on the referendum on the alternative vote (AV) in May with trepidation and anxiety, most people wonder what it is actually about
Rage against the cuts at the Lib Dem spring conference protest, Sheffield
16 March 2011
Lib Dem spring conference: A home-made placard on the 400-strong protest against Sheffield Liberal Democrat council budget cuts on 4 March read: "Barnsley Central today, Sheffield in May
16 March 2011
Protester challenges Lib Dem MP to debate
Cheltenham anti-cuts protester Rob Bishop has challenged Lib Dem MP Martin Horwood to a public debate over public spending cuts...
5000 people protested in Sheffield outside the Liberal Democrats' spring conference, photo Robbie Faulds
14 March 2011
Thousands protest against Lib Dems in Sheffield
About 500 people protested on Friday evening (11 March) and ten times that number on Saturday's demonstration (12 March) in Sheffield outside the Lib Dem spring conference. An edited version of this report was carried in The Socialist.
9 March 2011
Lib Dems 'get a kicking' in Barnsley
"The voters here in Barnsley have given me and the Lib Dems a kicking", admitted candidate Dominic Carman after coming sixth and losing his deposit in the Barnsley Central by-election on 3 March, writes Alistair Tice.
Barnet council workers protest at plans to cut services and run a 'no frills' council, photo Paul Mattsson
29 September 2010
"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water, writes Peter Taaffe.
Birmingham Council strike, 24 April 2008, photo by S. O Neill
27 September 2010
"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government," the Guardian's Simon Jenkins writes. He is not exaggerating, Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, argues as he examines British society on the brink.
Trade unionists lobby Lib-Dem conference, photo Harry Smith
20 September 2010
Trade unionists lobby Lib-Dem conference
On Sunday 19 September, despite pouring rain, 4,000 trade unionists (according to the Liverpool Echo) rallied in Liverpool to lobby the Liberal Democrat party conference...
2 June 2010
Millionaire cabinet plans cuts in benefits
The exposure of millionaire treasury minister David Laws as an expenses cheat is steeped in even deeper hypocrisy than is at first apparent, a London benefits adviser writes.
Socialism Today June 2010, Cartoon by Suz
25 May 2010
The ConDem coalition: not-so-new politics
After intense negotiations and backroom deals, the Tories and Liberal Democrats cobbled together a coalition government.
This was the option favoured by the ruling, capitalist class, once it was clear that David Cameron's Tories had failed to win a majority. PETER TAAFFE, Socialist Party general secretary, assesses the situation for Socialism Today (June 2010).
Jobs not dole, photo Paul Mattsson
14 May 2010
Time for the fight of our lives
Britain has been 'Con Dem-ned' to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people. The Tory/Liberal coalition has been cobbled together in a desperate attempt to create a government strong enough to launch an all-out onslaught on the living standards of the working class, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.
Jobs not dole, photo Paul Mattsson
12 May 2010
MPs and party leaders haggling over their jobs... preparing to cut ours!
In the general election, none of the three main parties managed to get the votes of even a quarter of the total number of people registered to vote, writes Judy Beishon.
Battles against cuts expected sooner or later
7 May 2010
Electoral deadlock: all capitalist parties 'losers'
In the issue of The Socialist published immediately before the general election, we wrote: "The British electoral system - famed throughout the world for ensuring 'stability' - now acts like a slot machine with the outcome highly uncertain." writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
27 April 2010
Heading for a coalition government?
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, looks at the options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May general election...
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