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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
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.
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
Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair
17 April 2013
Meeting and exhibition marking 30 years since the election of Liverpool's socialist council
Saturday 27 April, 10.30am
Adelphi Hotel, Lime Street, Liverpool
Speakers include: Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, PCS president Janice Godrich, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe, Liverpool Labour Party president (1980-85) and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged councillor Tony Mulhearn, former Labour MP Tony Benn and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged counc...
11 April 2013
Peter Taaffe speaks on BBC radio
The Socialist Party's general secretary was interviewed by BBC Radio on whether there should be protests at Thatcher's funeral
10 April 2013
Unison NEC elections: Vote for a fighting democratic union
Vote for Socialist Party and United Left candidates.
Elections for Unison's national executive (NEC) start on 22 April and run until 24 May.
10 April 2013
Hillsborough - never forgotten
This BBC4 programme Hillsborough - Never Forgotten on 3 April was a powerful reminder of events leading up to the recent Independent Panel's findings on the 1989 Hillsborough catastrophe
Cartoon by Alan Hardman
8 April 2013
Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class
27 March 2013
Striking against the 'fast track to the sack'
Teachers in two of Knowsley's primary schools have taken strike action against the introduction of a punitive appraisal scheme...
21 March 2013
Comment on the 'Budget waffle'
More budget waffle from Osborne and his alter ego Ed Balls. No mention by Balls of the £750 billion lying in the banks being used, not to invest, but to line the pockets of the spivs who control the banks...
20 March 2013
Another victory in the battle against Unison witch-hunt
Socialist Party member Glenn Kelly has been re-elected secretary of Unison's Bromley council branch
7 March 2013
Video: Hannah Sell speaking at Socialist Party congress
Hannah Sell discusses the key economic, political and social issues which will shape Britain in the coming months.
6 March 2013
Video: Peter Taaffe opens Socialist Party congress session
The Socialist Party held its annual congress as the world crisis deepened. Video of Peter Taaffe opening the Socialist Party congress session on the world economic and political situation.
6 March 2013
Audio recordings from Socialist Party congress 2013
MP3 audio recordings of the opening introductions of the first two sessions of Socialist Party congress 2013
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