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4 January 2012
In this special new year feature, Peter Taaffe looks back at 2011, a year of crisis, struggle and revolution. This article is based on a statement prepared for the Committee for a Workers' International, the world socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated.
14 December 2011
TV review: Britain's great housing scandal exposed
Channel 4's campaigning series of programmes, The Great British Property Scandal, has struck a chord with a wide audience, writes Paul Kershaw, Unite LE 1111 housing workers' branch.
Photo Senan
14 December 2011
Tories speak for the rich - not for us
David Cameron was stoutly defending the 'nation'. This is what he claimed after he was humiliatingly defeated by 26 votes to one at the 9 December EU summit and withdrew from participating in discussions over a new EU treaty. But which nation, asks Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
30 November 2011
Solidarity message to UK public sector workers, from Berlin, Germany
Striking health facility workers in Berlin, Germany, have sent the following solidarity message to public sector trade unionists in Britain
21 November 2011
Capitalism is crisis - there is an alternative - fight for socialism!
The titanic 30 November strike will display the colossal power of the working class to resist the savage cuts demanded by the capitalists and Con-Dems, writes Peter Taaffe, General Secretary, Socialist Party.
9 November 2011
Failed G20 summit takes eurozone nearer to the abyss
The G20 meeting of the world's most powerful government leaders on 3 and 4 November was a 'No Cannes Do' summit. The discussions were hijacked by the Greek crisis...
Socialism Today, Nov 2011
18 October 2011
November 30 and beyond
The one-day public-sector strike on 30 November is expected to involve nearly four million workers - the biggest single day of industrial action in Britain's history, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
28 September 2011
Pro-business Labour offers crumbs and promises cuts
Urgent: Build a new mass workers' party: Across Britain public sector trade unionists are preparing to go on strike on 30 November, in the biggest day of strike action since 1926...
Labour councillors' conference lobbied by hundreds of angry trade unionists, photo Suzanne Beishon
21 September 2011
2011 Labour Party conference - a debate: Can Labour be reclaimed?
The Socialist reproduces correspondence between one of its readers, Tim Hayward, and Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, on the nature of the Labour Party today and how socialist ideas can be advanced
21 September 2011
Private rail companies - a licence to print money
Tory transport secretary Philip Hammond recently described Britain's railways as a "rich man's toy"...
14 September 2011
Austerity policies strangle growth
Pawn shops are booming, pound stores are multiplying. But spending on services and retail (apart from food) has slowed to a standstill. Socialism Today editor Lynn Walsh looks at the effects of Con-Dem cuts on the UK economy.
NSSN demo
13 September 2011
We need a programme of action to fight back!
Never before has it been more necessary for the trade unions and labour movement to combat the pessimism and hopelessness which pervades the capitalist media. Peter Taaffe outlines a positive, realistic programme against the abyss of mass unemployment and poverty which the capitalist system threatens.
TUC demo in March
7 September 2011
Mass workers' movement - the only way to make the super-rich pay
Editorial of the Socialist, issue 684 It is a sign of the bankrupt nature of modern capitalism and its political representatives that taxation of the rich is so low some of them are asking to pay more. Warren Buffett, in an act of self-flagellation, has demanded to pay more tax.
7 September 2011
Book review: 'Them and Us' by former Observer editor Will Hutton, originally published in 2010, is now available in paperback. Bob Severn reviews the book...
31 August 2011
Welcome to David Cameron's latest wheeze to save 'broken Britain' - the Social Impact Bond. It's got a lot in common with all Desperate Dave's other failed remedies...
31 August 2011
Housing crisis wrecks people's lives
The National Housing Federation (NHF) has warned the government about the "chronic under-supply of homes"...
photo Paul Mattsson
9 August 2011
As inner cities erupt - A mass workers' movement is needed to defeat the government
This morning thousands of people have woken up to the devastation of their communities. It is a tragedy for the small shopkeepers whose businesses have been looted or set alight, workers whose cars have been burnt out, and perhaps worst of all for those who have seen their homes go up in smoke.
Cameron - Cuts with a smile, photo Suz
20 July 2011
Murdoch sleaze spreads: The News International (NI) phone-hacking scandal goes right to the top of society - and every day the crisis gets deeper and wider. NI's billionaire owner Rupert Murdoch's bullying tactics have already exposed the rotten deals and self-serving manoeuvres of Britain's ruling class.
20 July 2011
Music review - "This place is coming like a ghost town..."
The prospect of mass unemployment and the threatened job losses at train-building firm Bombardier could lead to the midlands city of Derby being called a ghost town...
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