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Socialist Party news and analysis
Syriza victory shows austerity elite can be beaten
That’s the message ringing out from Greece in the aftermath of the country’s parliamentary elections on 25 January
Greek workers marching in Thessaloniki, photo Ged Travers
Is the Green Party the answer?
Widespread electoral disillusionment with the Tory, Labour and Lib Dem establishment parties has opened up a political vacuum. Claire Laker-Mansfield questions whether the Green Party provides the answer to the lack of working class political representation.
Government welfare cuts: No to sanctions!
Tories and Labour refuse moratorium on fracking
This government cares more about profits for energy companies than it does about what happens to people
Davos summit: ‘The pitchforks are coming!’
Quantitative Easing: Socialism for the rich!
If you’re in a hole, stop digging. But not it seems if you happen to be the European Central Bank (ECB) dealing with the depressed Eurozone economies
‘Defenders of democracy’ mourn despot’s death
On 11 January Barack Obama and David Cameron, together with 40 other world leaders, marched arm-in-arm through Paris after the Charlie Hebdo events proclaiming the values of free speech and other democratic rights, writes Simon Carter.
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Gearing up for largest anti-cuts election challenge yet
“Fantastic Day, Fantastic Conference, Fantastic People” tweeted Red Labour Hull councillor Dean Kirk on his way home from addressing the conference of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
2015 TUSC conference, photo J Beishon
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Housing. A basic human need, one of the requirements for human life. Yet in London tonight, over 6,000 will sleep rough. More than 60,000 children will be in temporary accommodation
Social housing not social cleansing, photo Paul Mattsson
Extra, extra! Socialist needs new sales!
No one can beat the Socialist on analysis and ideas. No one can even come close to the clarity and audacity of the programme we propose. All we need to do is get it out there. We need to sell it
Lib-Lab political bung scandal
Labour parliamentary candidate Lee Sherriff has taken a £10,000 political ‘donation’ for her election campaign from millionaire property dealer Lord Oakeshott
Leicester marches for free education
People across Leicester will march for free education 31 January
Burns’ Night a blazing success
The annual “Alternative Burns’ Night Supper” organised by the Carlisle Socialist Party was described by a journalist from the local paper as his best ever night out in the city
Socialist Party comments and reviews
Book review: Unison bureaucracy unmasked
Defend the Four: protest against Unison witchhunt, 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon
Why I joined the Socialist Party
I grew up during the Cold War, and my politics didn’t stretch much further than no nukes and vote Labour
Tory party chair Grant Shapps claimed recently that Britain’s council housing waiting list had fallen
Inept waste site renationalised
Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site is a poorly managed deposit for tens of thousands of tonnes of dangerous nuclear waste
Socialist Party workplace news
Usdaw elections: ‘We need a winning, fighting union’
Socialist Party member Amy Murphy is standing for president in the Usdaw shop workers’ union elections, as well as for re-election as a Southern division executive council member
Despite efforts by Stormont politicians and many in the Northern Ireland media to vilify them, striking NI Water workers have won significant concessions from management