Margaret Thatcher
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26 April 2013
Thatcher's funeral day in Newbridge
The 17th of April wasn't a day to remember Thatcher, but a day to reflect with pride on the working class heroes who fought her
17 April 2013
Thatcher's funeral costs: Insulting the lives she ruined
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, said: "The news that Margaret Thatcher is to receive a ceremonial funeral subsidised by the taxpayer is an insult"
17 April 2013
60% oppose Thatcher's funeral costs being paid from public funds
A ComRes survey for the Independent on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror found that 60% were opposed to Margaret Thatcher's funeral costs being paid for out of public funds...
17 April 2013
Support the paper that beat Thatcher - twice!
Readers of the Socialist will have been sickened by the acres of newsprint and hours of television that have been devoted to worshipping Margaret Thatcher and her record, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
17 April 2013
Unemployment: We're told that Thatcher 'saved the country'. But unemployment skyrocketed under her governments - from 1.09 million in May 1979 to 3.13 million in July 1986. And these figures were probably an underestimate...
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
Cartoon Alan Hardman
10 April 2013
Thatcher's death: readers respond 1
The real tragedy is that while she may be dead herself her ideas are still alive and well in the form of the Con-Dem coalition and New Labour, writes Dave Nellist
Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, as she will always be remembered, photo Alan Hardman
10 April 2013
Now let's bury Thatcher's legacy
TUC call a 24-hour general strike!: It is a human response to be sad when somebody dies. But many working class people will be celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death because of the absolutely destructive and long lasting effect she had
10 April 2013
Thatcher death: readers respond 2
I went to get my morning newspaper and also needed a sympathy card for a relative. When I asked Shah, my local shopkeeper, where his sympathy cards were his eyes nearly popped out of his head
March against the Poll Tax
10 April 2013
Thatcher: a class warrior for capitalism
Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments wrought on working class communities - that is still being felt today, writes Alistair Tice
Cartoon by Alan Hardman
8 April 2013
Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class
13 September 2012
Hillsborough - eventually, the truth
The report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel has ripped aside the tangled web of lies and cover-up woven by the South Yorkshire police, the government and the army of lickspittles in the press who denigrated Liverpool and the victims of the man-made catastrophe in 1989 that was Hillsborough, writes Tony Mulhearn
Tommy Sheridan in 2007
22 August 2012
Another News of the World perjury charge
Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan, writes Philip Stott, Socialist Party Scotland.
Thatcher: The Iron Lady, still from movie
11 January 2012
Film review :The Iron Lady in meltdown
The widely hyped film 'The Iron Lady' is not intended to cover all the political events of Thatcher's life. It deals with the political issues through the incoherent rambling recollections of an old and demented Thatcher...
2 November 2011
Spare no expense: Former prime ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair together have claimed over £1.7 million in 'expenses' in the last five years...
16 March 2011
The Guardian newspaper, which pretends to be 'progressive' and 'liberal' on social issues, disgracefully included Margaret Thatcher in its article on the "100 most inspiring women" to "celebrate" international women's day...
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...
Liverpool city council 1983-87
1 September 2010
Slashing public services: do councillors have 'no choice'?
Campaigns against the Tory/Liberal government's cuts have wide support. But many councillors say they have "no choice" but to implement cuts.
From 1983 to 1987 the Liverpool Labour council, led by supporters of Militant (the predecessor of the Socialist Party), refused to make cuts or increase local rates to compensate for Tory cuts. Instead they led a mass movement to win more money from Margaret Thatcher's Tory government. Tony Mulhearn interview.
Video: Nancy Taaffe, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate for Walthamstow
29 July 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate in general election 2010
Marching to defend the NHS
21 July 2010
Con-Dems propose denationalisation of NHS
Using the cover of 'saving' money by reducing 'bureaucracy', the Con-Dem government is effectively proposing the wholesale privatisation of the National Health Service...
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