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Three full length videos about working class history online:

- Militant Rally 1984: 'Save the pits - Tories Out!' Covers the miners strike and Liverpool struggle

- Socialism on Trial: The Liverpool Struggle 1983-87

- The Wapping print workers dispute 1986-7

Music videos and mp3s web page


Socialism 2008

Socialism 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Making the case for socialism - the Socialism 2008 rally

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.

Mark Steel addresses the discussion forum at Socialism 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Videos of Socialism 2008 Sunday discussion forum

Click on the link above for four videos of speakers

Dave Nellist, Mark Steel, Kevin Ovenden, Hannah Sell, address the question of the need for a new workers party.

 


Videos of debate between Socialist Party and SWP

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.

 


Barack Obama's Victory as president of USA

Video: Lynn Walsh discusses Barack Obama's victory as USA president 6:07 mins

Interview with the editor of Socialism Today, the monthly magazine of the Socialist Party. Windows media file 6:07 mins.

For Ipod compatible file, click here

 


Protest outside Bank of England

Organised by the National Shop stewards Network 13 October 2008

Don't make us pay for bosses greed: Part one 6:55

Part two 8 mins

Part three 8 mins


UK bank bailout

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?

UK Bank bailout #1 (4 mins)

UK Bank bailout #2 (6 mins)


Capitalism in crisis: Was Marx right?

Video: Hannah Sell speaking at a London Socialist Party public meeting (full 40 mins speach) 5 October 2008

In parts:

Was Marx right? #1 (10 mins)

Was Marx right? #2 (9 mins)

Was Marx right? #3 (8 mins)

Was Marx right? #4 (8 mins)

Was Marx right? #5 (10 mins)

 


Credit crunch

30 September 2008

Video: Credit crunch #1 - Socialist Party's Peter Taaffe interviewed (4 mins)

Video: Credit crunch #2 - Bradford and Bingley nationalisation (4 mins)

Video: Credit crunch #3 - Has capitalism failed? - Part 3  (4 mins)

Video: Credit crunch #4 - The 'wealth creators' - part 4 (7:42 mins)


- Video podcast (complete interview)


USDAW election

Interview with Robbie Segal Robbie Segal, candidate for Usdaw general secretary

Robbie got 40% in the general secretary Usdaw

 

 

 


Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference

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?
Audience at the third CNWP conference
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 Bob Crow, General secretary of the Railway and transport workers union, RMTwere 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.

 

- Video: Watch Hannah Sell's introduction to the discussion, and Tony Mulhearn's eulogy to Terry Fields. (10 mins)

- Video: Watch John McInally's speech (10 mins)

- Video: Watch Bob Crow's speech (10 mins)

- Video: watch Dave Nellist's speech (10 mins)

All the speeches can be seen on the CNWP website at www.cnwp.org.uk


France 1968, Month of Revolution

Webpage with three videos of speeches from the London May 2008 meetings discussing France 1968, Month of Revolution


Socialist Party congress 2008

Peter Taaffe speaking on the economic crisis and its affects on the struggles of the workers and poor across the globe

 

Hannah Sell speaking on Britain in 2008, and the prospects for the development of socialist ideas in the UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Anti-cuts protest

Also featured on Youtube

School meals protest:

Walthamstow protest against cuts to school meals


Library Protest:

Library staff faced with cut backs protest as Prince Charles opens a library


Asylum Campaign

Save Sadiq Campaign video. Sadiq is from Darfur


Welsh Assembly elections:

Socialist Party candidate Ross Saunders' election video

Ross is on the Socialist Party's Welsh assembly South Wales West candidates list


International struggles

Feb 2008

Peter Taaffe speaking on the Latin America in revolt: hosted on the Socialist Party on Youtube page.  Peter Taaffe, the general secretary of the Socialist Party, spoke at the Wales Socialist Party annual conference.

Peter Taaffe speaking on Latin America

 

Peter Taaffe speaking on Latin America at the Wales Socialist Party conference part one

 

Parts two, three, four and five on the Socialist Party on Youtube site

 


June 2007

Bolivia

Amateur footage of protest at Bolivian embassy in the UK at the arrest of Adam Ziemkowski (3 mins)

Read Letter of protest


January 2007

Sri Lanka:

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)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.

Video of Siri speaking at the CWI rally in London, January 2007. 27 minutes windows media file, 340kbps

The above video is an excerpt from the CWI Rally held in London in January 2007:

Buy the twin DVD video of the London CWI rally (January 2007). Only £5.99!


Protest outside Sri Lankan High Commission (1 minute)

protest at the Sri Lankan High Commission in London


June 2007

Ireland:

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

2005

The Gama strike: A victory for all workers

Gana strikers march

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.

 

Watch the trailer, 13 mins

Broadband 340 kbps

Broadband 218 kbps (Pocket PC size)

(2Mps version available)

Gama strike DVD coverThe Gama strike DVD

 

Buy the video from the Socialist Party online

Or phone 020 8988 8777 ask for Ken Smith

 


Gama video and trailer copyright Socialist Party 2006

www.socialistparty.net

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Socialism 2007

Short video of Socialism 2007 event.

Speakers include Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack and PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka

Peter Taaffe speaking at Socialism 2007


NHS campaign

15 December 2006

Save Our NHS campaign national day of action

A number of protests took place on the 15th December 2006


Victorian dress protest outside the Department of Health, Whitehall, London

National Save Our NHS campaign protest Video National Save Our NHS campaign protest (340Kbits)

Carols and an interview with Lois Austin, (dressed in a Victorian costume), Socialist Party national coordinator for the Save Our NHS campaign (4 mins)


Waltham Forest Save our NHS campaignWaltham Forest Save Our NHS campaign

Video Waltham Forest Save Our NHS campaign (340Kbits)

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.

Video Whipps Cross Save our NHS (340Kbits)

Pocket PC 218k bits

High quality version available on CD: tel 020 8988 8777 for more info


9 September 2006

Save Huddersfield NHS Campaign

Jackie GrunsellSocialist Party member Dr Jackie Grunsell was elected a councillor for the Save Huddersfield NHS campaign in the May 2006 elections.

Jackie received 2,176 votes, a majority of over 700, on a turnout of over 49%.

She explains the success of the campaign.

Video Broadband high quality 512k bits

Video Broadband medium quality 218k bits

Socialist Party member Jackie stood in Crosland Moor and Netherton ward in Huddersfield as the Save Huddersfield NHS candidate.

5 minute interview


Socialism 2006

Videos shown at Socialism 2006

Socialism 2006 began with a short video showing the struggles of workers around the world:

Global struggles: (340 kbits)

Global struggles: (218 pocket PC)


Lucy RedlerLucy 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.

Germany: Lucy Redler: (340 kbits)

Germany: Lucy Redler: (218 pocket PC)


Whipps Cross workers demonstrateWhipps Cross hospital workers struggle: (340 kbits)

Whipps Cross hospital workers struggle: (218 pocket PC)

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

Videos of Socialism 2006

Tommy Sheridan at Socialism 2006

Socialist Students debate at Socialism 2006


War

ISR and Socialist Students on the demonstration at Labour Party conference, Manchester, September 2006

ISR on the STWC protest outside Labour Party conference

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.

360 kbits broadband

218 kbits broadband


Lebanon

22 July 2006

Hannah Sell Video: War in Lebanon: Interview with Hannah Sell

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 TDJoe Higgins, Irish Socialist Party TD (member of Parliament) was interviewed at a CWI international conference during the war in Lebanon: (broadband 512k) 

Lebanon: "What should be the position of Socialist concerning the war in the Middle East?"


Iraq

September 2006

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary

 

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, examines three years of US imperialist failure in the Middle East (10 minutes)

360 kbits broadband

218 kbits broadband (Pocket pc size)

MP3 player file


March 2003

2003 video made on the eve of the invasion of Iraq, now available in broadband format

Peter TaaffeVideo Three years ago: 18 March 2003, General secretary Peter Taaffe examines the prospects for the Middle East

Choose media:   

Broadband 512kbps (high)

Broadband 340kbps  (Medium)

Dialup 56kbps (low)


April 2003

War on Iraq ISR Audio: 5 April 2003

Youth Against the War

tape 1  tape 2  tape 3

with Clare James, International Socialist Resistance (ISR) representative on the Stop the War Coalition steering committee


Campaign for a New Workers Party

20 March 2006

Campaign for a New Workers Party in action

The clock turned back 100 years! Time to build a new party of labour

Campaign for a New Workers Party in actionVideo: Protest outside TUC against Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's new bill (10 Minutes)

Broadband 576 kbps Broadband 340 kbps

Web pages:

For a new mass workers' party - Socialist Party pages

Campaign for a New Workers Party website


Music video

Excellent duo Red Dirt feature The Socialist newspaper in their youtube video 'Mr Boom' on their website.


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