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Socialist Party Marx and Engels, founders of scientific socialism

USA: anti-war protests: Successful student walkouts across country

Socialist election success shows the way forward

France 1968: Capitalism brought to its knees

7 May 2008

Coventry: Socialist election success shows the way forward

Dave Nellist at Socialist Party congress, photo Paul Mattsson

Dave Nellist at Socialist Party congress, photo Paul Mattsson

ESTABLISHMENT POLITICIANS are so unpopular that in last week's council elections every party tried to pose as the opposition whether they ran the council or not, writes Dave Griffiths, Coventry.

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,...

Elections round-up and results

Election victories for class fighters

Racist BNP have no solutions!


Socialist Party news and analysis

Grangemouth refinery: Oil strike wins concessions

ON TUESDAY 29 April, following a short meeting at Grangemouth oil refinery's gates, the early shift returned to work, ending the 48-hour stoppage that had brought the flow of oil from the North Sea to a halt, writes Ian Leech, Glasgow.

May Day marches

Defend abortion rights

TUC attacks Labour on working poverty

Bangor Socialist Students fight tuition fees

Obituary: Ray Apps

Album review: The Bright Lights of America


Socialist Party Marxist analysis

France 1968: Capitalism brought to its knees

FORTY YEARS ago this month, France was gripped by a revolutionary fever. Within days of a one-day general strike being called in solidarity with protesting students, ten million workers were on strike.

How workers and youth are building a Left alternative in France

Sri Lanka: 25 years of war and conflict


May Day Greetings

May Day Greetings from London Socialist Party branches to The Socialist, picture by Suz

May Day Greetings from London Socialist Party branches to The Socialist, picture by Suz

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Socialist Party workplace news

Unison witch-hunt: Defend the four, come to the lobby!

The four Unison members under attack from their own union leadership had their disciplinary hearings postponed to 14-16 May...

Mark Thomas condemns witch-hunt

'Raising the roof' at Usdaw conference

Support Shelter workers

National Shop Stewards Network second conference

Come to the 2008 Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference


The Socialist 30 April 2008

Socialist Party workplace news

Public sector strike shows fightback has begun!

Teachers on strike on 24 April 2008 in Lewisham, photo Martin Powell-Davies

Teachers on strike on 24 April 2008 in Lewisham, photo Martin Powell-Davies

Last week hundreds of thousands of teachers, civil servants and college lecturers struck a blow for everyone who has had their living standards attacked in recent years, writes Steve Score, Leicester Socialist Party.

A week of strikes shakes government

Grangemouth oil refinery strike

Reports of the 24 April strikes


Socialist Party campaigns

Stop PFI pirates wrecking our NHS

The grim reaper - NHS market reforms, photo Paul Mattsson

The grim reaper - NHS market reforms, photo Paul Mattsson

THE NATIONAL Health Service has its 60th birthday this July. Can working people still celebrate this vital service which they struggled for years to obtain, writes Keith White.

Saving our post offices!

Tales from the council chambers: PROTESTS CAN change things - but are even more effective when there are socialist councillors to direct public pressure onto the establishment parties, writes Clive Heemskerk.


Socialist Party election campaigns

Socialist councillors back teachers

LEWISHAM'S COUNCIL meeting was on the eve of the teachers' strike. The Socialist Party councillors proposed a motion, arguing that education was threatened...

"Why I am standing against Labour"


Socialist Students

Students stage occupation

Manchester University: At 4pm on Tuesday 22 April, around 300 University of Manchester students gathered for a campus demonstration to express their anger at the way the university is run, writes Abby Taylor, Manchester University Socialist Students.


Anti-racism

Love Music Hate Racism

Fighting the far right: ON A wet Sunday afternoon tens of thousands of people turned out for the Love Music Hate Racism Carnival (LMHR) in east London's Victoria Park...

German anti-fascist demo


International socialist news and analysis

Bolivia - right-wing coup threat

BOLIVIA IS awash with rumours about an impending right-wing coup against the elected government of president Evo Morales, writes Karl Debbaut.


Socialist Party workplace news

Lincoln rejects insulting pay offer

With bills rising, council tax hikes and petrol going through the roof it's little wonder that council workers in Lincoln feel as if they are getting poorer, writes Marc Glasscoe, branch secretary, Lincoln City Unison, personal capacity.

Defend Eddie Fleming

Unison witch-hunt

Corus Trostre, further job losses


The Socialist 23 April 2008

The rich get richer... and we foot the bill!

Tax cuts for the rich: Big business has received a corporation tax cut from 30p to 28p this month, down from 33p when New Labour was elected in 1997...

Editorial: Brown's government lurching from pillar to post

Socialist Party election campaign

Vote socialist on 1 May

"Socialist councillors are the only ones who've ever stood up for this area and taken the time to listen to us, I'll definitely be voting for Dave" - this was typical of the responses received by Socialist Party supporter, writes Richard Groves, Coventry West Socialist Party.


Socialist Party workplace news

Support striking teachers

Merlin school teachers on their picket line in March 2008, photo Martin Powell-Davies

Merlin school teachers on their picket line in March 2008, photo Martin Powell-Davies

TEACHERS ACROSS England and Wales are out on the streets on 24 April, many on strike for the first time in their lives, writes Linda Taaffe, Waltham Forest NUT.

Shelter workers step up strike action - update

Shelter workers escalate action

Why DWP workers are striking

Oil workers to strike back at pensions threat


Socialist Party news and analysis

Gloucester says... 'save our post offices'

Gloucester campaigns against Post Office closures

Gloucester campaigns against Post Office closures

ON 19 April a Save Our Post Offices (SOPO) rally in Gloucester's shopping centre attracted 50 local campaigners...

Why drug firms should be nationalised


The Socialist Interview

Jersey - Growing anger against elite of secrets

GARY MATTHEWS, who was a Jersey Left Green MP from 1993-96, spoke to Jon Dale. Now living in Derbyshire, Gary is still active in the Time for Change group on Jersey, which has a founding conference on 27 April.


Socialist Party feature

How can we defeat the far right?

The far-right, racist British National Party (BNP) is hoping to gain a seat on the Greater London Assembly on 1 May, as well as more councillors round the country. The Socialist outlines Socialist answers to the far-right.

Campaign to unionise migrant workers


Socialist Party review

'The Conscience of a Liberal' by Paul Krugman

Reviewed by Peter Taaffe: As the pace of the intractable crisis of world capitalism speeds up and deepens, so the frantic rush to find solutions gathers pace...


International socialist news and analysis

Zimbabwe: Workers' strength stops arms shipment

WITH SOUTH Africa's ANC (African National Congress) government split over its attitude towards the Mugabe regime in neighbouring Zimbabwe, South African trade unionists used their strength decisively to act against the regim, writes Keith Dickinson.

Italy: Left leaders opened way for Berlusconi victory

France 1968: month of revolution. Speaking tour

France 1968: Book by Clare Doyle


The Socialist 16 April 2008

Socialist Party news and analysis

Support striking teachers

Merlin school teachers on their picket line in March 2008, photo Martin Powell-Davies

Merlin school teachers on their picket line in March 2008, photo Martin Powell-Davies

Prepare for an all-public sector strike
TEACHERS ACROSS England and Wales are out on the streets on 24 April, many on strike for the first time in their lives, writes Linda Taaffe, Waltham Forest NUT.

Editorial: Brown's government lurching from pillar to post


International socialist news and analysis

Zimbabwe: Workers' strength stops arms shipment

WITH SOUTH Africa's ANC (African National Congress) government split over its attitude towards the Mugabe regime in neighbouring Zimbabwe, South African trade unionists used their strength decisively to act against the regim, writes Keith Dickinson.


More to follow


The Socialist 15 April 2008

Socialist Party workplace news

'We're striking against low pay'

Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008, photo S O Neill

Birmingham council workers, teachers and PCS workers strike on April 24th. Photo S O'Neill

On 24 April almost half a million public-sector workers will strike a blow against the government's policy of public-sector pay restraint, writes Jane Aitchison, civil service union PCS, Department for Work and Pensions group president, personal capacity.

Birmingham strike

Editorial: 24 April strikes: step forward in pay battle


Unison witch-hunt

Unison witch-hunt: Defend 'the four'

Onay Kasab, facing a witchhunt in 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Onay Kasab, facing a witchhunt in 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Greenwich Unison branch secretary Onay Kasab is one of four Unison officers currently facing a disciplinary hearing as part of a witch hunt being carried out by the union bureaucracy, writes Susan Wilson.

Stop the witch hunts!

National Shop Stewards Network


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