Archive for March 2013
1 March 2013
5 March 2013
London fire service cuts 'consultation'
The public consultation exercise has begun on proposals by the commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, Ron Dobson, supported by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to close 12 fire stations, remove 18 engines and slash 520 frontline firefighter posts...
5 March 2013
Following PCS ballot, strikes being discussed
The government could face a series of walkouts by almost a quarter of a million civil and public servants in a dispute over cuts to pay, pensions and working conditions
5 March 2013
Tories, Lib Dems and Greens make cuts, and Labour abstains
Opposition to £35 million of cuts in Bristol took on a vocal and vibrant expression as about 70 people lobbied the council
5 March 2013
Labour-led council inflicting £82 million of cuts
Bradford's Labour and Green councillors do Pickles' dirty work, while Respect just abstains
6 March 2013
Audio recordings from Socialist Party congress 2013
MP3 audio recordings of the opening introductions of the first two sessions of Socialist Party congress 2013
6 March 2013
Warrington: One rebel defies the pro-cuts Heinz 47
Warrington councillor Kevin Bennett has voted against carrying out the Tory-Liberal government coalition's cuts
6 March 2013
Services 'not ours to give away' say Hull rebel councillors
Three Hull councillors broke the Labour whip to vote against budget cuts. They were supported by 400 people outside
6 March 2013
PCS calls national strike on Budget Day
A series of walkouts and protests by almost a quarter of a million civil and public servants will start with a national strike on budget day, 20 March, the PCS union has decided.
6 March 2013
Being a Socialist Party member: What will it mean for you?
We encourage all our members, where possible, to attend weekly local branch meetings, where we discuss the political issues which affect us and what we intend to do about them, writes Branch meetings.
6 March 2013
Video: Peter Taaffe opens Socialist Party congress session
The Socialist Party held its annual congress as the world crisis deepened. Video of Peter Taaffe opening the Socialist Party congress session on the world economic and political situation.
7 March 2013
Video: Hannah Sell speaking at Socialist Party congress
Hannah Sell discusses the key economic, political and social issues which will shape Britain in the coming months.
7 March 2013
Capenhurst victory: Construction workers on the Capenhurst construction site near Chester have fought off attempts to abandon the NAECI national agreement on terms and conditions...
7 March 2013
TV review: Britain on Benefits
Britain on Benefits: Channel 4 Dispatches - a refreshing challenge to the government's cuts to welfare and disabled people
I assumed the Channel 4 documentary - Britain on Benefits - would be peddling the same old government lies to mask its failures on unemployment, writes Ian Pattison.
7 March 2013
Italy: Voters reject austerity
Political instability and crisis but also new opportunities ahead: The "Tsunami tour" was the name comedian Beppe Grillo gave to his election meetings which filled piazzas throughout Italy with tens of thousands of 'spectators', writes Chris Thomas, Controcorrente (CWI, Italy).
7 March 2013
Socialist Party congress 2013, photo Senan
Capitalism 'has failed and has to be changed': Just over 300 delegates and visitors took part in a very successful Socialist Party annual congress in Clacton-on-Sea from 2 to 4 March...
7 March 2013
Hull, Warrington, Bristol and Bradford
Three Hull councillors remain defiant against Labour budget: Three Hull councillors, Gary Wareing, Dean Kirk and Gill Kennett, broke the Labour whip and voted against council budget cuts on Thursday 28 February, writes Phil Culshaw, Hull Unison steward (personal capacity).
7 March 2013
Stop cuts and privatisation, to save our NHS!
Saturday 24 November, defying cold driving rain, up to 10,000 residents and staff marched to defend Lewisham Accident and Emergency (A&E) and linked arms around it., photo Socialist Party
I read with anger, on Thursday 28 February, that another nail is being driven into Stafford Hospital's coffin with administrators being brought in to oversee its day-to-day running, writes Josie Shelley, Stafford Socialist Party.
7 March 2013
Forbes Rich List exposes obscene inequality
The annual list of billionaires produced by Forbes Magazine has again seen records smashed by the world's hyper-rich, writes Matt Gordon.
7 March 2013
The idea of bankers' bonuses is supposedly that they encourage hard work, which can only be good for the economy. We have to reward them or we couldn't guarantee that they'll behave responsibly...
7 March 2013
What's wonga with the Office of Fair Trading?
Like a drugged watchdog, the Office Of Fair Trading has finally, very slowly, woken up to the disgusting behaviour of the short-term high-interest loan sharks...
7 March 2013
Hugo Chavez dies but the struggle continues
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in the UK , photo Paul Mattsson
Redouble efforts to fight for socialism - revolutionary and democratic: Millions of Venezuelan workers, the poor and youth will mourn the death of Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez on Tuesday 5 March, writes Tony Saunois, CWI secretary.
7 March 2013
Cap rents not benefits:
On 1 April David Cameron's government of the rich will unveil their vicious 'bedroom tax'. On the same day the Con-Dems are cutting millionaires' taxes yet again, saving them over £100,000 a year!
7 March 2013
The 'Slutwalk' protests have been an 'in your face' challenge to the reactionary idea that how women dress and behave can 'invite' rape, writes Eleanor Donne in this International Women's Day feature
7 March 2013
TUC must name the day for 24-hour strike
Over a quarter of a million civil service union PCS members will walk out on 20 March, the day Chancellor George Osborne stands up to deliver yet another cuts budget
7 March 2013
Council chief brags about cuts
York council has set out a further £22 million worth of cuts to local services which is the third successive cuts budget in as many years
7 March 2013
Eastleigh: growing revulsion at main parties
The Eastleigh byelection has left Tory ringmaster Cameron with his big tent in tatters, while the Lib Dems hung on, Labour were side-stepped into fourth, with a huge protest vote emerging for Ukip
8 March 2013
Victory: TUSC strikes a 'real chord'
TUSC candidate Joe Robinson, 21-years old, was like a breath of fresh air as the winning candidate in the Maltby town council byelection
8 March 2013
Post Office workers vote for strike action
Members of the Communication Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action returning an 88% yes vote in a national strike ballot
11 March 2013
TUSC Gospel Oak byelection rally: Offering an alternative
A meeting in support of Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate John Reid's campaign was everything TUSC is about
11 March 2013
Sold-out non-sexist comedy night
'Rape is No Joke' campaign comedy night, London 8.3.13, photo Suzanne Beishon
On International Women's Day the 'Rape is No Joke' campaign was launched in London with a night of comedy without misogyny
12 March 2013
13 March 2013
Scrap the bedroom tax for all!
From April the 'bedroom tax' will mean that social housing tenants with spare rooms will have their benefits cut, writes Paul Kershaw.
13 March 2013
Welfare Reform Act will impoverish hundreds of thousands
Next month sees the implementation of much of the coalition's Welfare Reform Act as they ramp up their relentless and brutal ideological attack on the welfare state, writes Vicky Perrin.
13 March 2013
Building Socialist Students in Manchester
The freshers week last September resulted in an explosion of membership of Socialist Students at the two universities in Manchester, writes John McFarlane, Manchester Metropolitan Socialist Students.
13 March 2013
Ex-mining village shows it can still fight: The pit has gone but the miners' spirit still remains in Keresley Village, an ex-mining community located within the boundaries of both Labour cut-voting councils - Coventry, and Nuneaton and Bedworth, writes Natara Hunter, Nuneaton Socialist Party.
13 March 2013
Rail cleaners strike: Cleaners working for Churchill on Arriva Trains Wales will be on 24-hour strike on 16 March. The RMT members have voted by 9:1 for action over pay and terms and conditions...
13 March 2013
Venezuela after Chavez: Which road for the working class?
Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, speaking on the role of the US government , photo Paul Mattsson
The news of Hugo Chavez's death brought thousands of Venezuelans rushing to Caracas's main square, the Plaza Bolivar, to lament, writes Johan Rivas, Socialismo revolucionario (CWI, Venezuela).
13 March 2013
20 March: PCS calls budget-day strike
Defend pay, pensions and conditions: After a ballot result of 61% in favour of strike action, the civil service union PCS national executive has announced a campaign of industrial action to fight back against attacks on civil servants' pay, pensions and terms and conditions
13 March 2013
Dundee demo against construction industry blacklisting
150 construction workers, their families and supporters took part in an anti-blacklisting demonstration in Dundee on 9 March
13 March 2013
TUSC leads battle to save Mid-Staffs NHS
"This was our first ever stall in Rugeley," said TUSC candidate Paul Arnold. "We quickly ran out of leaflets and sold out of papers, but still carried on getting names to support our petition
13 March 2013
Equal pay?: The Royal Bank of Scotland is 83% owned by the government. That means that we're paying for the bank's £390 million fine for rigging interest rates.
13 March 2013
Portugal: Revolutionary spirit in fighting austerity
On 2 March, under the slogan "Screw the Troika - the people are the best rulers", over 1.5 million people (out of a population of 10.7 million) reclaimed Portugal's streets, in what even the media has speculated may have been the country's biggest ever demonstrations, write CWI reporters.
13 March 2013
Are you sick of your boss? Join the campaign!
The 'Sick of Your Boss' initiative by Youth Fight for Jobs aims to win decent jobs, pay and working conditions for young workers as part of rebuilding a fighting democratic trade union movement
13 March 2013
Three decades on: We want the truth about Orgreave
Miners' strike 1984-85, photo Dave Sinclair
Over the last few months, the endemic corruption of South Yorkshire police during the 1980s has been exposed by the revelations surrounding the cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster. The chair of the recently launched Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, Barbara Jackson, spoke to the Socialist..
13 March 2013
London: Save our fire service!
On 16 March, firefighters and supporters will be out in force protesting against London mayor Boris Johnson's plans to cut £50 million from London's fire service, writes Chris Newby.
13 March 2013
Justice for Alfie? Defend the right to protest
Alfie Meadows, who suffered brain injuries as a result of his treatment at the hands of the police during the 9 December 2010 student demonstration, has been cleared of violent disorder charges
13 March 2013
Victory for attendance policy campaign at University of East London
Management has agreed to look at having students meet with their personal tutor instead of being de-registered automatically
13 March 2013
Stop the Con-Dems ripping up our NHS
In April the government's Health and Social Care Act comes into force
13 March 2013
Breadline Britain... Kick out the cuts coalition
Many young people suffer heart-rending experiences struggling for jobs, housing, education and basic services. But there IS an alternative
13 March 2013
Student occupation continues at Sussex
Student occupation continues at Sussex 13-3-13, photo Brighton and Hove Socialist Party
13 March 2013
Energy starvation and climate change
Climate change demo December 2005 , photo Paul Mattsson
Alternative energy and socialist planning needed: A spectre is haunting the world, the spectre of irreversible climate change. But at the same time the world is in the grip of a desperate hunger for energy, writes Geoff Jones.
13 March 2013
The Spirit of '45, directed by Ken Loach, photo Ken Loach
This film is a documentary, interviewing people who remember the mass movement to create the welfare state following World War Two, writes Katrine Williams, president of Cardiff Trades Council and Wales chair for the PCS civil service union
14 March 2013
Steve Hedley resignation from Socialist Party
The Socialist Party has received a message from Steve Hedley, assistant general secretary of the RMT, resigning from the Socialist Party
15 March 2013
Scotland: Anti-bedroom tax federation launched
Over 100 people packed into the Glasgow City Unison offices on 13th March for a public meeting to build for an Anti-Bedroom Tax demonstration on 30th March...
15 March 2013
Revenue and Customs wants to end face-to-face contact
HMRC plans to run a pilot in the North East to remove the face-to-face tax services provided by its enquiry centres
15 March 2013
15 March 2013
PCS preparing for 20 March strike, and more action after
The PCS is launching its national industrial action with a one-day strike on Budget Day, 20 March, and following that will take further action, including a half-day strike on 5 April
15 March 2013
NSSN to lobby TUC General Council on 24 April
The National Shop Stewards Network has called a lobby of the next TUC general council, urging it to name a date for a general strike
16 March 2013
TUSC election campaign has an impact in Gospel Oak
When the votes were counted in Camden town hall late on Thursday the winner was the least interesting result
18 March 2013
Video: bedroom tax protests in Carlisle - ITN report
Link: www.itv.com/news/border/update/2013-03-17/full-report-bed Carlisle Socialist Party joined the impressive bedroom tax protests in Carlisle. ITN report 17 March 2013.
19 March 2013
YFJ hitting Starbucks on issue of underemployment
Activists in the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign will be targeting Starbucks with protests and occupations this Thursday
19 March 2013
NUT/NASUWT joint action welcome, but more needed
The announcement at yesterday's joint NUT/NASUWT press conference that plans are being put in place for joint strike action between the two main teaching unions, the NUT and NASUWT, will be welcomed by teachers who have been waiting since Christmas for national action to be called
19 March 2013
Expression of local anger at 'butchering' of Whittington hospital
Despite blustery wind and persistent rain, around 5,000 people marched to save the Whittington hospital
19 March 2013
Clapham march to save fire station
Hundreds marched to resist the closure of Clapham fire station, one of 12 to fall victim to the mayor's slash and burn budget
20 March 2013
Help increase our fighting strength!: The Socialist Party is asking every member if they can increase the regular donation (membership subs) they make to fund our work, writes Naomi Byron, Socialist Party finance department.
20 March 2013
Fight grows against privatisation at Sussex Uni
As the occupation against the privatisation of services at Sussex University enters its fifth week, momentum continues to build behind the student campaign, writes Jack Poole, Sussex Socialist Students.
20 March 2013
Riots Reframed - starting the debate
Around 1,000 young people patiently queued to watch a new documentary film, Riots Reframed, in Tower Hamlets, east London on Saturday 16 March, writes Emma Smith.
20 March 2013
Help build an alternative to the pro-cuts press with a May Day greeting
As the Socialist goes to press the details of the new press regulator are coming to light, writes Bob Severn.
20 March 2013
New faces - same Welsh Labour NHS cuts!
Welsh Labour has been playing musical chairs with the ministers' positions in the Welsh Government, writes Ronnie Job, Socialist Party Wales.
20 March 2013
Socialist Students win debate with Labour
Socialist Students national organiser Claire Laker-Mansfield and I recently represented Socialist Students at a debate with the Labour Party and the Marxist Society at Queen Mary University, writes Ian Pattison.
20 March 2013
Leveson confusion: First disagreements over press regulation were going to tear the government apart, then we were supposed to breathe a sigh of relief that they'd come to an agreement....
20 March 2013
What way forward for Greece and the working class in Europe?: On Friday 15 March 500 people attended a public meeting organised by the London branch of Syriza, the left party in Greece. Alexis Tsipras, Syriza's leader, spoke at the meeting
20 March 2013
North West TUC fails to debate councillors and cuts
The North West TUC met on 9 March at a crucial time for the trade union movement. Motion after motion spelt out the miseries of poverty, austerity, cuts and privatisation.
20 March 2013
HCA strike: Unite Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) members (Housing Workers Branch) will be on strike on 20 March against a pay offer that has resulted in unprecedented anger and disgust among members
20 March 2013
Cypriot workers resist bank-robbing Troika
After months of 'calm' the capitalist debt crisis has resurfaced over the banking meltdown in Cyprus, sending financial markets into a spin
20 March 2013
Are you sick of your boss? Enough is enough
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The government is on the side of the hard-working 'strivers', Tory chancellor Osborne assures us. 'Alarm clock Britain', can rest comfortably in bed
20 March 2013
In the first of an occasional series on books that inspired socialists, Tracy Edwards looks at Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell.
20 March 2013
Another Dooh Nibor budget - stealing from the poor to give to the rich
'All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!' It's not Pulp Fiction - its Tory Chancellor George Osborne at the dispatch box and this will be the essence of his budget speech, at least for the vast majority of us
20 March 2013
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition is hosting a forum of leading trade unionists on 6 April. This initiative has come from the RMT transport workers' union with the aim of broadening trade union support for TUSC.
20 March 2013
Mid-Yorkshire NHS Trust is looking to cut back Dewsbury Hospital services. Little notice or information has been given for the consultation meetings, which have already started and will be over by 20 March
20 March 2013
Steve Acheson has won his Employment Tribunal for 'Unlawful Refusal of Employment' and was awarded damages
20 March 2013
Another victory in the battle against Unison witch-hunt
Socialist Party member Glenn Kelly has been re-elected secretary of Unison's Bromley council branch
20 March 2013
Budget continues onslaught on living standards
As expected and feared, chancellor George Osborne's budget has driven on with the austerity that is massively eroding workers' living standards, while utterly failing to improve the economy
20 March 2013
Iraq: Ten years after 'shock and awe'
Imperialism's bloody legacy: Ten years ago, under the banner, 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', the US-led 'coalition of the willing' attacked Iraq
20 March 2013
Around Britain, there have already been many protests against the 'bedroom tax'. It's one of the coalition's most blatantly anti-poor policies and is being imposed on 1 April.
20 March 2013
PCS national strike on Budget Day
Reports from the pickets and rallies: Once again central London was dotted everywhere with the yellow and blue of PCS flags and placards. The mood among pickets was determined
20 March 2013
Trade unions must lead anti-cuts fightback
As this copy of the Socialist hits the streets, 250,000 PCS members in the civil service will be walking out on their Budget Day strike against job losses, attacks on their terms and conditions and the continuing pay freeze - amounting to an average real pay cut of 16% since 2008...
20 March 2013
BBC staff vote in favour of strike action
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and Bectu at the BBC have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute over job cuts...
20 March 2013
Prescription: Fight profiteering from health
In April the NHS will be another step closer to being fully privatised. GP-led commissioning groups will have responsibility for most of England's NHS budget
21 March 2013
Comment on the 'Budget waffle'
More budget waffle from Osborne and his alter ego Ed Balls. No mention by Balls of the £750 billion lying in the banks being used, not to invest, but to line the pockets of the spivs who control the banks...
21 March 2013
'Sick of your boss?' activists target Starbucks
The Starbucks in London's Regent Street was targeted by protesters today over exploitative working practices that are typical of much of the retail and catering industries
22 March 2013
Workers and Socialist Party launched in South Africa
Over 500 Tshwane workers, mineworkers' delegates, and trade union and community activists packed a community hall in Pretoria to launch the new Workers and Socialist Party
22 March 2013
Perspectives for the ex-Stalinist States
This is true not just of the economy but of perspectives for the ex-Stalinist states, the national question, perspectives for Europe, etc...
22 March 2013
New Technology and Globalisation - can a capitalist slump be avoided?
The 1990s has been a difficult decade for socialists and Marxists. The colossal pro-capitalist, pro-market ideological campaign following the collapse of Stalinism in 1989-91 has had a significant effect...
22 March 2013
New Technology and Globalisation - can a capitalist slump be avoided? is an answer to criticisms of the Socialist Party's position on a number of key issues facing the workers' movement in Britain and internationally.
As well as globalisation, new technology and perspectives for the world capitalist economy, we also touch on the trade unions, the character and methods of building a revolutionary party and a number of other important issues.
22 March 2013
The document states: 'In October 1997, Merseyside questioned, at the NC, the perspectives of the leadership in relation to the world economy...
22 March 2013
The other prop of Merseyside's case against the Socialist Party leadership is in relation to the collapse of Stalinism...
22 March 2013
The attempt to defend their position includes the charge levelled against the Socialist Party that, 'It has to be said that for all of the emphasis on Broad Left work, no real effort has been put into uniting the Broad Lefts in the various unions....
25 March 2013
Pictures: demonstration against privatisation at Sussex university
Up to 2,000 students marched across the university campus
26 March 2013
27 March 2013
Sussex uni occupation: 'they say privatise - we fight back and organise'
'Students and workers, unite and fight' reverberated across the campus. [Update added 27.3.13]
27 March 2013
Fighting the cuts: Birmingham and Exeter
Building the fightback in Birmingham: South Birmingham's Communities Against the Cuts (CAC) group held a successful all-Birmingham anti-cuts conference on 16 March, writes Ted, Birmingham Socialist Party.
27 March 2013
Sick of Your Boss gets going in London
Youth Fight for Jobs has launched its new Sick of Your Boss initiative, writes Ian Pattison, Youth Fight for Jobs.
27 March 2013
Growth?: On the morning of the budget George Osborne, new to Twitter, tweeted: 'Today I'll present a budget that tackles the economy's problems head on helping those who want to work hard and get on'...
27 March 2013
The 'workfare bill' and sanctions targets
Con-Dems have no solutions to unemployment: On budget day, the latest unemployment figures were published and showed yet another increase in the number of people out of work, writes Dan Crowter, Coventry Socialist Party.
27 March 2013
Disability hate crimes - accomplices and victims
Over 1,700 disability hate crimes were recorded by police in England and Wales in 2011-12. The new Joint Inspectorate report said that disability hate crime was in fact under-reported and blamed police...
27 March 2013
Danger: New secret courts in Britain
Over 700 leading lawyers - including 40 QCs - have signed human rights group Liberty's petition condemning the Justice and Security Bill and government plans to introduce secret courts into ordinary civil law, writes Dylan Murphy, Huddersfield.
27 March 2013
Striking against the 'fast track to the sack'
Teachers in two of Knowsley's primary schools have taken strike action against the introduction of a punitive appraisal scheme...
27 March 2013
Cleaners' low pay battle: Cleaners working for Churchill on Arriva Trains Wales were on 24-hour strike on 27 March. They are fighting against poverty pay...
27 March 2013
South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party Launched
On 21 March - coinciding with the 1960 Sharpeville massacre memorial day - over 500 Tshwane workers, mineworkers' delegates, trade union and community activists launched WASP
27 March 2013
Cameron whips up immigration fears to divide movement against austerity
The Con-Dem government grows more unpopular by the day. Endless austerity is combined with falling living standards, rising unemployment, and no prospect of a return to economic growth
27 March 2013
Thera care workers prepare for action
The snow might have cancelled many events on 23 March but it did not prevent members and supporters of Thera workers in Unison South Derbyshire Health branch and Notts County Unison holding a protest
27 March 2013
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
Reports from the picket lines and rallies
27 March 2013
What does the budget really mean for the housing crisis?
The government's claim to be tackling the housing crisis dominated budget headlines, but it quickly became clear that its policies give a hand-out to its millionaire friends
27 March 2013
Fight the destruction of our NHS across England and Wales
From 1 April, the Con-Dems Health and Social Care Act comes into force in England - ending the government's duty to provide comprehensive free healthcare and freeing the NHS from parliamentary control...
27 March 2013
NUT conference: Serious attacks require serious action
The National Union of Teachers Conference 2013 meets to debate how best to defend teachers at a time when education as a whole is under fierce attack
27 March 2013
Teaching Assistants strike for agreed pay level
Strike at Horizon and Downsview special needs schools, 26.3.13, photo .
Fifty teaching assistants at two special needs schools went on strike for Scale 5 pay
27 March 2013
Mary Jackson, photo Mary4Mayor
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition is an electoral alliance that stands candidates against all cuts and privatisation
27 March 2013
Cyprus bailout: eurozone crisis returns
The eurozone crisis has dramatically intensified. Events in Cyprus have blown away the optimism of the European ruling classes in recent months that they had resolved the crisis
27 March 2013
Bin the bedroom tax: Can't pay - Will stay!
Hull protest against the Bedroom Tax, photo Lash
The Bedroom Tax has rightly sparked a massive and angry response. Nationally an estimated 660,000 will face reductions in housing benefit
28 March 2013
Interview: Wirral Youth Theatre cuts
Wirral Labour council has voted through £42 million of cuts as part of £109 million projected cuts over three years. A campaigner from Wirral Youth Theatre explains the consequences
28 March 2013
34. On the NHS Labour is now 30 points ahead in opinion polls, and is generally 'more trusted' to run public services...
28 March 2013
45. Elections are one facet of the struggle against cuts. In the short term the most pressing issue is the campaign for a 24 hour general strike...
28 March 2013
55. It is not possible to judge whether this government will last its full term. One of Cameron's first acts on coming to power was to institute grossly undemocratic arrangements for five-year fixed parliamentary...
28 March 2013
62. We dealt with the question of migration in more depth in last year's perspectives document. The census results give a picture of the changed makeup of Britain's population...
28 March 2013
70. Whenever the general election comes it is most likely that Labour will come to power, either with a majority or as part of a coalition with all or a section of the LibDems...
28 March 2013
22. In a shameful fashion Cameron has sought to split the working class on the question of cutting benefits...
28 March 2013
9. British capitalism, and therefore the working class, faces a bleak future. Five years into the crisis, UK gross domestic product (GDP) is still 12-15% below the pre-crisis trend...
28 March 2013
Amended document as passed by Socialist Party national congress 2013
1. As 2013 begins many political and economic commentators have suggested that 2012 was a 'groundhog year'. "British politics has got a bit stuck", declared Andrew Rawnsley (Observer 30 12 12)...
1 Dec Bristol North Socialist Party: The role of a revolutionary party
2 Dec Hackney & Islington Socialist Party: 100th year anniversary of the founding of the CP in Britain
9 Dec Hackney & Islington Socialist Party: Mental health and socialism
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