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16 March 2011
Vote for a socialist alternative
WITH the Bellingham by-election in Lewisham, south east London, set for 24 March campaigning is stepping up, writes Chris Newby.
200 trade unionists, community campaigners and service users marched in Greenwich borough, south London, against the local council's brutal cuts package, photo Lorraine Dardis
9 March 2011
Join the 26 March TUC demo
The three main establishment parties - Tories, New Labour, Lib Dems - have so far succeeded in limiting political debate on the cuts in public services, writes Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor and acting chair, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
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.
9 March 2011
Lewisham: Vote for a real fight against the cuts
On 24 March the voters in Bellingham ward in Lewisham, south east London will have a real choice in the council by-election, writes Chris Newby.
9 March 2011
Disgracefully Onay Kasab, a Unison member for 17 years, has been expelled from the union. Kaz explained to the Socialist that this follows a ban from office after a witch-hunt against him and three other Socialist Party members in Unison by the leadership.
9 March 2011
Labour councils should fight cuts, not implement them!
On Saturday 5 March, over 250 delegates marched to a rally outside the Labour Party local government conference in London, writes Vik Chechi, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party.
17 MEPs and Irish Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins outside the department of finance in dublin, photo Socialist Party Ireland
3 March 2011
Fantastic results in Irish election: Socialists and lefts gain five seats
Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly was elected as a TD for the first time in Dublin North with 7,513 first preference votes or 15.2% of the vote, and Joe Higgins, a TD from 1997 to 2007 and currently the Irish Socialist Party's MEP, was returned to the Dáil (parliament) representing Dublin West, gaining 8,084 votes (19%).
3 March 2011
Liverpool 1983-87: the council that fought Thatcher
THE LABOUR council leaders proposing the cuts budget in Liverpool council can feel a spectre haunting them...
Joe Higgins and Clare Daly
3 March 2011
Elections see collapse of Fianna Fail, the traditional establishment party
Ireland: Socialist Party wins two parliament seats The general election in Ireland was historic but not for the reasons being stressed by the would-be new government partners of Fine Gael and Labour.
3 March 2011
Lewisham election: There is an alternative!
Voters in the Bellingham by-election in Lewisham, south east London, have a clear choice. They can either vote for a candidate who will push through massive cuts to local services, or they can vote for...
3 March 2011
Unison witch-hunt: Reinstate the Four!
Four Socialist Party members, unjustly suspended from office by Unison, have won a major victory at an employment tribunal...
23 February 2011
Balham: NUT strike against academies
On 16 February teachers at Chestnut Grove School in Balham, Wandsworth, south London, went on strike to show their opposition to the school becoming an academy, writes Martin Powell-Davies, Lewisham NUT branch secretary and NUT executive.
23 February 2011
Council workers face pay freeze
Local government employers are imposing another year's pay freeze on local authority workers. They are also saying they can't afford to give the paltry £250 one-off payment for public sector workers...
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.
Video of Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor, addresses anti-cuts lobby of Coventry council
22 February 2011
Anger as Warwick and Coventry councils vote for £59 million of cuts
Tuesday 15 February saw a heightened day of struggle for the anti-cuts movement in Coventry and Warwickshire
Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins
16 February 2011
Hopes and fears in upcoming Irish election
Irish Socialist Party support increasing amongst working class
THE IMMINENT general election in the Irish Republic was called because the dominant coalition party - Fianna Fáil - collapsed out of office in utter disarray. Socialist Party reporters in Ireland write.
Tony Mulhearn speaking at a public meeting organised by Liverpool Trades Council on Thursday 10 February, to debate the way forward against the cuts, photo Harry Smith
15 February 2011
Hundreds pack into Liverpool meeting against cuts
Over 300 people packed into a public meeting organised by Liverpool Trades Council on Thursday 10 February, to debate the way forward against the cuts. An edited version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Socialist.
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.
Unions protest at Hackney town hall, photo The Socialist
4 February 2011
Hackney Unison condemns union witch-hunt and calls on Labour councils to set 'needs budgets'
A rapturous cheer rang round the crowded meeting hall of over 250 trade unionists at the Hackney Unison AGM on Wednesday 2 February, as the secretary announced the ET victory of the four Socialist Party members wrongfully barred from holding office in Unison
Demonstration outside Unison HQ against witchhunt of four unison members, photo Paul Mattsson
2 February 2011
Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda, writes Glenn Kelly.
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