27 February 2008

Editorial: Stop witch-hunts in Unison - defend those attacked!

As The Socialist reported last week, the witch-hunt against the left in public-sector trade union Unison has reached a new level...

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27 February 2008

Building the Campaign for a New Workers' Party

Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Debate: Pete McLaren, national secretary of the Socialist Alliance and press officer of the Campaign for a New Workers Party (CNWP), joins the debate began by PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka in The Socialist newspaper.

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19 February 2008

Northern Rock - Labour's reluctant nationalisation

The Socialist Editorial The nationalisation of Northern Rock was met with howls of outrage from some of its shareholders, who screamed about 'theft' and 'immorality'. This was a major blow against the concept of an unfettered market-driven economy...

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30 January 2008

Global warming, climate change and human activities - Part 2

Debate: THE SCIENTIFIC ideas under-pinning the issues of global warming and climate change were recently debated in The Socialist (Issue 516) between reader Tony Simmons and the author of the Socialist Party's pamphlet Planning Green Growth, Pete Dickenson.

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6 December 2007

Unison's right wing still witch-hunting

The witch-hunt against the five officers of some London Unison branches has not yet been resolved....

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14 November 2007

Why you should read, write for and sell the socialist

Fighting for the low-paid: The successful strike action of Unison Whipps Cross Hospital domestics, porters and switchboard staff against contractor Initial Hospital Services last year was a magnificent example of how determination and unity in action c... By Len Hockey, Joint Branch Secretary, Whipps Cross Hospital Unison (personal capacity)

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6 September 2007

'Agitate, educate, organise': the role of the workers' press

The Socialist issue 366

DURING 500 issues the socialist has carried news and analysis, reviews, letters, historical material, cartoons and reports of campaigns and struggles across England and Wales and the world.

It has put forward strategies for opposing privatisation of public services such as the health, fire and postal services and the wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, among other issues.

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26 July 2007

Vicious bile and grovelling sweet talk

Alastair Campbell's Diaries: TONY MULHEARN, a member of the Socialist Party and one of the '47 group' of Liverpool councillors who fought Thatcher's Tories in the 1980s, reviews The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries....

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28 June 2007

Unison leadership launches a witch-hunt

UNISON conference: AS UNISON conference began, delegates were stunned to hear the chair of the black members' group claim that a leaflet that had been given out that morning was "racist and offensive"...

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28 June 2007

London Pride 2007 Homophobia - it's so not over!

AS THE lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community celebrate Pride on 30 June, has equality arrived at last, as a headline in the gay press claimed recently...

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21 June 2007

Something for everyone at the summer camp

Socialist Party summer camp

Last year I went along to the Socialist Party summer camp. At the time I knew little about socialism, or even politics in general. I decided however that a summer camp would be a pretty laid-back sort of environment for finding out about socialist ideas, so I decided to go along.

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24 May 2007

Gordon Brown crowned leader with no contest

New face, same pedigree, Cartoon by Alan Hardman

WITH ALMOST the entire parliamentary Labour Party backing him, Gordon Brown was anointed as successor to Tony Blair without a contest...

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24 May 2007

John McDonnell speaks to the socialist

As Mark Serwotka has talked about, there's the bringing together of the spirit of the pensions struggle in 2005. ...

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15 May 2007

Blair's departure: Curtain falls on disastrous reign

Editorial: Ten years of 'unremitting' attacks on the working class and poor for the benefit of the rich, blatant corruption – symbolised by the Ecclestone affair at the beginning of his reign and 'cash for honours' at the end – the ...

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10 May 2007

Strong support for the Socialist Party in Coventry

After another hard fought battle in Coventry's St Michael's ward, Socialists narrowly lost and now hold two seats on Coventry Council...

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10 May 2007

Escaping Maggie Thatcher's glare

Why I joined: I joined the Socialist Party as a result of my own experiences in the last year which made me realise we have to stand together if we are ever to change the world...

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3 May 2007

Widening wealth gap needs working-class response

Editorial: What is Tony Blair's legacy? The Sunday Times has no doubts. Its latest 'Rich List' revealed that the wealth of the richest 1,000 people in Britain.

Analysis of the local election results will be posted from Friday onwards

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19 April 2007

Leicester: A principled stand against opportunists

A Mercedes pulls up outside the Leicester Royal Infirmary; out jumps a group of Liberal Democrats holding placards saying "Liberals against NHS cuts"...

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29 March 2007

Italy: What future for Prc?

ON A recent visit to Italy, PETER TAAFFE, together with other CWI members, discussed perspectives with workers and activists in the Italian labour movement for the future of Rifondazione Comunista (Prc)...

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26 March 2007

Rifondazione Comunista - its future?

Italy: On A recent visit to Italy, Peter Taaffe, together with other CWI members, discussed perspectives with workers and activists in the Italian labour movement for the future of Rifondazione Comunista (Prc)....

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