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6 May 2009
ANC returned to power in election landslide
ON 22 APRIL, in a record turnout that reversed falls in voter registration and polling in the two previous elections, 17.9 million voters - the highest number since the first democratic elections in 1994 - returned the African National Congress to power in a landslide, falling short of a two-thirds, writes Weizmann Hamilton, Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM - CWI, South Africa).
22 April 2009
In April 1989, 96 people died at the Hillsborough football ground. The majority were under 30 years of age, and more than a third were under 20 years. The youngest to die was a boy of ten years. The cause...
15 April 2009
The Spanish Civil War: Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory
THE SPANISH civil war (1936-39) was the bloodiest stage in the ten year-long Spanish revolution that began in 1931. As Hannah Sell explains, Spain was a further confirmation of Leon Trotsky's theory of 'permanent revolution', which was earlier borne out in the Russian workers' socialist revolution of 1917.
No2EU banner on protest against the G20, photo by Paul Mattsson
7 April 2009
No solution at London G20 summit
"THEY ARE not talking about us. They don't care about people like us." This is the verdict on the London capitalist G20 summit of a worker occupying, together with others, the Visteon car parts firm...
Cleaners employed by contractors Mitie protested outside the Willis building in the City of London, photo Chris Newby
25 March 2009
Capitalist crisis: Make the bosses pay!
Build for a one-day general strike
As the global economic crisis intensifies, the world's leaders - the G20 - are meeting this week next to the symbolic heart of the economic maelstrom - the City of London. For over twenty years, the City has been an unregulated financiers' paradise, writes Hannah Sell.
19 March 2009
THE 2004 European elections were a disaster for New Labour. Labour's 3.72 million votes were its lowest share of the poll in a national contest (22.6%) since the December 1918 'khaki election' at the...
Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson
3 March 2009
Bosses get pay-offs, workers get layoffs
THE CAPITALIST economy is going deeper into recession. 320,000 jobs could be destroyed in Britain in the next three months, 'business advisers' now predict. Over two million people are already out of...
Karl Marx
3 March 2009
"As capitalism stares into the abyss, was Marx right all along?"
This is not from The Socialist but from Stephen King, HSBC Banking Group's Chief Economist, writing in The Independent (2 March).
Moreover, he answers his own question in the affirmative, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
24 February 2009
Car industry in crisis: Death of jobs by a thousand cuts
Car components firm GKN has announced the closure of two of its plants in the West Midlands. This will mean 323 direct job losses. Dave Griffiths spoke to Pete Bradley, a GKN worker and a member of the Amicus section of Unite, before the latest cuts announcement.
18 February 2009
Regulators resign over financial meltdown
GORDON BROWN carelessly managed to lose two key banking advisers last week. Sir James Crosby, former chief executive of HBOS bank, (which together with its merger partner Lloyds got £37 billion-plus emergency...
15 February 2009
Discussion document for Socialist Party congress 2009: The dominant issue facing the Socialist Party, the working class and the labour movement now and for the foreseeable future is the crisis of world capitalism, within which is the special crisis of British capitalism...
15 February 2009
The events in Greece graphically underline the international turmoil. In speeches and in the pages of the Socialist and Socialism Today, we warned that unless the alternative of a conscious movement to change society was organised,...
11 February 2009
Bankers' bonuses - daylight robbery!
Take the banks into full public ownership and control: Those who have helped to blight and ruin the lives of millions of workers, through mass unemployment and the brutal repossession of homes, should receive not one penny in so-called 'bonuses', writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
5 February 2009
Economic crisis - cracks appear in the bosses' EU
Eurozone 10th anniversary: THE INTERNATIONAL capitalist crisis has served to completely discredit the ideology of free market policies of the 'boom' period, of the last 20 years or so, writes Danny Byrne, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
5 February 2009
May Day: Lords judgement backs police
LOIS AUSTIN, the appellant in the 2001 'May Day Detainee Case' expressed anger at the House of Lords Appeal judgement, on 28 January 2009, which supported the Court of Appeal finding that the Metropolitan police acted correctly by detaining Lois and several thousand peaceful anti-capitalist protes...
21 January 2009
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Please sir, can I have some more? Cartoon by Suz |
BANK BOSSES, whose reckless greed for profit has helped push Britain and the world into the deepest financial and economic crisis since the second world war, are to receive another bailout from Gordon Brown's government, writes Roger Shrives.
26 November 2008
Socialist 'deal' for environment needed
BARACK OBAMA put the environment at the centre of his US presidential election programme by pledging to bring in a 'Green New Deal' that could tackle the threat of climate change while generating many new jobs to combat the growing economic recession, writes Pete Dickenson.
25 November 2008
Socialist 'deal' for the environment needed
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Climate change demonstration, photo by Paul Mattsson |
An urgent programme to tackle climate change is clearly desperately needed, writes Pete Dickenson.
11 November 2008
To open the discussion on the environment, Pete Dickenson highlighted the latest evidence showing a rapidly worsening global warming situation, which indicates some of its effects are now irreversible, writes David Petrie.
7 October 2008
Editorial: Casino capitalism's crisis continues
"Black Mondays used to be a once-a-decade event - now they're coming along more regularly than a London bus" declared one senior London trader as the UK stock market suffered the biggest one day points fall on record...
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