Click on the link above for nine videos
of speakers and film shows
Speakers include Robbie Segal, who recently
gained 40.6% of the vote in an election for the general
secretary of shopworkers' union Usdaw, Janice Godrich, president
of the Public and Commercial Services union, and Peter Taaffe,
general secretary of the Socialist Party.
Debate about where the Socialist Party and
the SWP disagree on policy and tactics but also on what basis it
would be possible to collaborate in the future.
8 October 2008 Lynn Walsh,
editor of Socialism Today, the Socialist Party's monthly magazine,
discusses the announcement of the partial nationalisation of UK
banks, the £500 billion bailout, the coordinated worldwide
central banks' panic cut in interest rates, and answers the question -
how will it affect us, and what can the working class do about the
coming recession?
On
Sunday 29 June 2008, 300 people filled the main hall in South
Camden Community School in London to round off a very important
weekend for the labour movement in Britain and to address the
central question facing workers in Britain today: How can we fight
for a working class political voice?
This third conference of the
Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP)
had the opportunity to assess the stage the campaign is now at,
and to debate a number of resolutions that
were
put forward.
Bob Crow spoke to the conference
The conference was preceded in the morning by a debate
between different left currents, on the way forward for the left
and the fight for a working class political voice. the following
videos cover four contributions to these important
discussions.
Brutal attack on leader of the Sri Lanka sister party of the
Socialist Party
After the recent Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
Congress, Siri spoke to a CWI Rally about the situation in Sri
Lanka.
SIRITUNGA JAYASURIYA,
secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and some
associates in the 'United People's Movement' escaped with their
lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided
the place where a public rally was due to be held 9 January in Colombo.
The
Irish Socialist Party's Joe
Higgins, the only honest man in the Irish parliament,
RTE news retrospective posted on YouTube, since his loss of his
seat
In 2005, the Socialist Party in Ireland
(sister party of the Socialist Party in England and Wales)
uncovered a major scandal of migrant worker exploitation.
Gama workers demonstrate
"A
modern form of bonded labour" Socialist Party TD (MP) Joe Higgins
called it in the Irish Parliament
This documentary captures
the historic struggle wages by the Gama workers for justice.
Carols and an interview with Lois Austin, (dressed in a Victorian
costume), Socialist Party national
coordinator for the Save Our NHS campaign (4 mins)
Clips from some of the speakers addressing the protest outside Whipps Cross
Hospital in London. (Look carefully and you will see past failed
Tory Prime Minister Ian Duncan Smith hypocritically attempting to
hitch a ride on this protest.) (3 Mins)
12 December 2006
Whipps Cross Save our NHS campaign
This 15 minute Socialist Party video follows the campaign of
Waltham Forest Save Our NHS, working with the Unison branch's
successful demonstrations and strike against the private vultures.
The video also gives a glimpse of the national campaign to defeat the
cuts and closures which is rising throughout the country.
Lucy
Redler,
SAV (CWI
Germany) and WASG (the new Left party) national committee member,
spoke at the Socialism 2006 rally. A video of Lucy on the
German equivalent of "Newsnight" showed the anguish of the leading
German politicians as Lucy laid into them.
Len hockey,
Unison joint branch secretary at Whipps Cross hospital in
Waltham Forest, spoke at the rally.
A video celebrated the successful strike at Whipps Cross in London
ISR and Socialist Students on the demonstration at Labour Party
conference, Manchester, September 2006
International
Socialist Resistance and Socialist Students, captured on video,
the most striking contingent on the Manchester demonstration
against war-monger Tony Blair.
Video follows the ISR contingent.
Demonstration organised by the Stop the war coalition, of which
the ISR and Socialist Party are part.
The Socialist Party's deputy general
secretary speaks on
the Middle East crisis after the war in Lebanon broke out (broadband 512k)
July 2006
Joe Higgins,
Irish Socialist Party TD (member of Parliament) was interviewed at
a CWI international conference during the war in Lebanon:
(broadband 512k)
were
put forward.
SIRITUNGA JAYASURIYA,
secretary of the United Socialist Party (CWI Sri Lanka) and some
associates in the 'United People's Movement' escaped with their
lives when over 300 armed thugs, led by a deputy minister, raided
the place where a public rally was due to be held 9 January in Colombo.
Socialist
Party member Dr
Jackie Grunsell was elected a councillor for the Save Huddersfield NHS campaign in the May 2006 elections.
