17 October 2009

Videos of Tamil Solidarity meeting 17 October 2009

Video of Tamil Solidarity meeting 17 October 2009

8 October 2009

Video: Has capitalism recovered from the crisis?

Video: Has capitalism recovered from the crisis: Hannah Sell speaking in London , photo Socialist Party

29 September 2009

London Defend the Four meeting - four videos

Video: Defend the Four meeting to defend four Socialist Party unison members banned from office, photo Socialist Party

On 16 July, after two long years of tortuous investigations and hearings, Unison's kangaroo court declared four members of the Socialist Party guilty. This disgraceful charade will go down in trade union history as a day of shame.

A well attended Defend the Four meeting took place on Septempber 23rd.

3 August 2009

Video: Lobby of Unison to protest banning of four Socialist Party members from office

Video by Bob Severn

Protest at the banning of four Socialist Party members from holding office in Unison for three to five years by a Unison disciplinary committee.

30 June 2009

Videos of the National Shop Stewards Network conference, Saturday 27 June 2009

Video: Belfast Visteon sacked convenor John Maguire addresses NSSN conference 2009

Speakers include Joe Higgins, newly elected Socialist Party MEP for Dublin, Ireland; Rob Williams, reinstated Unite convenor, Linamar, Swansea; Keith Gibson, Lindsey Oil Refinery strike committee; John Maguire, ex-Visteon convenor, Belfast, who lead an occupation of the plant, and Brian Caton, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, which took illegal strike action.

9 June 2009

Video: No2EU - Yes to Democracy London election rally

5 June 2009

No2EU-Yes to Democracy: Who's standing and why you should vote for them

Bob Crow (RMT), Dave Nellist (Socialist Party) and Brian Denny (RMT) explain why they are supporting No2EU

22 May 2009

Video: No2EU - Yes to Democracy

No2EU - Yes to Democracy

Dave Nellist and Onay Kasab explain why they are standing for No2EU

9 May 2009

Youth Fight for Jobs National Conference

Youth Fight For Jobs conference 2009, video by Pete Mason

Building on the success of the excellent March for Jobs in April, the launch conference of Youth Fight for Jobs was held on Saturday 9 May in London.

29 April 2009

Video: Support the Visteon Workers

Support the Visteon workers

23 April 2009

Video: The budget and the economic crisis

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, photo by Pete Mason

Peter Taaffe interview

3 April 2009

Video of Youth Fight For Jobs 2 April demonstration

Youth Fight For Jobs demonstration, 2 April 2009

28 March 2009

Video of Youth Fight for Jobs and NO2EU on the Put People First demo

Put People First demo

18 March 2009

Videos of Socialist Party congress 2009

Socialist Party congress 2009, photo by Paul Mattsson

19 February 2009

Video of lobbby of home office in defence of Yahya al Faifi

Lobby of home office - Saudi trade unionist threatened with deportation, photo by Dave Carr

Saudi trade unionist threatened with deportation. Speakers include the general secretary of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) Billy Hayes; car component factory convenor Rob Williams; Terry Teague of the Sacked Liverpool Dockworkers; Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.

14 February 2009

The Lindsey oil refinery construction workers strike

Public meeting on lessons of the Lindsey oil refinery strike with Keith Gibson (speaking) and Jerry Hicks, photo Paul Mattsson

Public meeting on lessons of the Lindsey oil refinery strike

Keith Gibson and Jerry Hicks speak.

Features: Jerry Hicks, left candidate for Unite (Amicus) general secretary and Respect National Committee member, and Keith Gibson, member of the Lindsey oil refinery strike committee and Socialist Party. Chair, Bill Mullins, Socialist Party industrial organiser

10 January 2009

Socialist Party on demonstration against war on Gaza

Demonstration against war on Gaza, London, 10 Jan 2009, photo Sarah Mayo

Demonstration in London, Januarty 2009, of 100,000 against the Israeli war against Gaza. 9 mins 30s

3 January 2009

Gaza demonstration 3 January 2008

Video of the demonstration against Israel's war against the people of the Gaza strip

24 November 2008

Defend the Four lobby of Unison headquarters

Lobby of Unison disciplinary hearings against the four Socialist Party members, here joined by the Hackney Unison branch secretary, photo Alison Hill

In June 2007, the Unison bureaucracy launched a disciplinary investigation into five union officers. They were attacked for daring to print and publish a leaflet criticising the union leadership for blocking the union conference's right to debate issues such as the funding of the Labour Party, the election of full time officials and control over strike action.

Four of the five under investigation - all Socialist Party members - are now facing a disciplinary hearing. These are: Glenn Kelly, national executive member, Onay Kasab, Greenwich branch secretary, Suzanne Muna, Housing Corporation branch secretary and Brian Debus, Hackney branch chair. Onay Kasab ('Kaz') spoke at the opening rally of the Socialist Party's Socialism 2008 weekend.

8 November 2008

Unison branch secretary Onay Kasab's speech to Socialism 2008 (10:05 mins)

Onay Kasab addresses the lobby of Unison disciplinary hearings against four Socialist Party members, photo Alison Hill

"On 24 November myself and three others will be facing a disciplinary hearing. Not from our employers, from our own trade union. I expected that at some point, after twelve years as a branch secretary, my employer might have a go at me. But I didn't expect my trade union to do it..."