8 October 2008

Tories grasp at popularity

Tory leader David Cameron must have been looking forward to his party's annual conference. Polls were predicting a New Labour wipe-out at the next general election, and the Labour Party was very publicly split over Gordon Brown's leadership.

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2 October 2008

Short-sellers back Tories

FACED WITH New Labour's right-wing government, the Tories sometimes present themselves as a party of the people, writes Roger Shrives.

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17 June 2008

David Davis - sanity or carving a position?

TORY SHADOW Home Secretary David Davis has stood down to fight a by-election in opposition to the government's narrow victory on the issue of 42 days detention without charge for 'terrorist' suspects, writes Ken Douglas.

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28 May 2008

Build A New Workers' Party

The fight for a new workers party is urgent - teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Labour, Tories, LibDems ...they're all the same! "Et tu, Crewe?" Gordon Brown might have muttered to himself as the knife of another electoral drubbing sank into his back, writes Greg Maughan, Campaign for a New Workers' Party.

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28 May 2008

Crewe and Nantwich 'no-win' by-election: Why New Labour lost

New Labour sunk to a new low in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election last week, writes Jim Cessford, former Crewe socialist activist.

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28 May 2008

Home secretary: "Tough on crime"...but not the causes

Home secretary Jacqui Smith has urged police forces to harass 'badly behaved' young people, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Students national organiser.

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20 May 2008

Force more u-turns out of this weak government

Editorial from The Socialist 21 May 2008: A YouGov opinion poll has put New Labour on 23%, their lowest share of support since polling began in the 1930s...

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14 May 2008

What will Boris Johnson mean for London?

After the 1 May elections: BORIS JOHNSON'S election as Mayor of London capped a string of successes for the Conservatives in the 1 May local elections, indicating that a Tory victory in the next general election is a serious possibility, writes Neil Cafferky.

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7 May 2008

Meltdown for Brown - but he won't change course

Editorial: The barbarians are at the gate. After the London mayoral victory of the Tory Neanderthal Boris Johnson and the New Labour meltdown in the rest of the country,...

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4 March 2008

Thousands protest at threats to hospital

THE 'SAVE Queen Mary's' demonstration in Sidcup on 1 March had 5,000 people on it, according to the local press, writes Lois Austin

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1 March 2008

General election

As stated previously, it is still too early to predict the outcome of the next general election...

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24 May 2007

Public-sector workers say...Fight Brown's pay freeze

Unison Lobby of Parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

While Tony Blair prepares for his retirement celebration there will be very few tears shed by UNISON members or by any public sector workers...

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24 May 2007

Academies: No to these divisive schools

As Brown and Cameron back academies...: ANYBODY WHO thought that Gordon Brown would halt the government's relentless drive to create 400 divisive Academy schools, over 200 of them by 2010, will be sorely disappointed...

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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

Workers need a political voice

PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

After the no-choice elections: THE 3 MAY council elections for most workers were a choice between New Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems...

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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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6 May 2007

2007 election analysis: Time for a new workers' party

Belligerent to the end, Blair described Labour's election results as a "perfectly good springboard to win the next election"...

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26 April 2007

New Labour - lowest poll ratings since 1983

What we think: IN THE Thursday 3 May elections, 10,456 seats across 312 local authorities in England are being contested...

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26 April 2007

Campaigning for socialist ideas in South Wales

Wales International Socialist Resistance campaigning

"Could I have a copy of your paper - I want to piss the Labour Party off" a worker said as we campaigned against hospital cutbacks in Aberdare in the South Wales valleys, next to the Labour Party's little red balloon campa...

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29 March 2007

A simple conclusion from a 'simplification' budget

Editorial: THE DAILY Mirror declared triumphantly: "Historic 2p income tax cut that will make Gordon PM"...

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