Vote for a socialist alternative

Heading for a coalition government?

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, looks at the options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May general election…

Fund a political alternative to the establishment parties

Filthy rich get richer

World’s most unequal city

Greek crisis

No trust

A ‘beacon of hope’ in Gateshead

It’s never been easier to get a hearing for the Socialist Party’s ideas: on stalls, on the doorsteps, and even in the pubs, writes Norman Hall, Tyneside Socialist Party.

STUSC candidates speak

Press try to gag socialists in Walthamstow campaign

Debt balloons go up in Brighton Kemptown

Cleaning up in Cardiff

Extremes of rich and poor in Swansea

Campaign hots up in Lewisham

“That makes real sense to me”

TUSC: ‘Hear your candidate’ meetings

A chance to put your questions to your local Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidates. Listing of meetings around the country.

Jobs not cuts

The TUC’s call for unemployment to be a bigger election issue appears to have fallen on deaf ears. For the politicians that is. For most of us it is less easy to avoid, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.

Can the Greens help provide a left alternative?

The Green Party is standing more than 300 candidates in the general election. It believes it has a chance of getting one of its two MEPs, Caroline Lucas, elected to Westminster in the Brighton Pavilion…

Housing in crisis: Bankers rob people

A QUARTER of all households – in owned or rented accommodation – say that worry over housing costs is causing them stress or depression, says a survey by housing charity Shelter, writes Keith Richardson.

Nottingham city council: Shocking new cuts!

Nottingham City council has launched a huge attack on its workforce, hiding behind ‘single status’ to attack the conditions and pay of over 8,000 council workers, writes Jean Thorpe, Nottingham East Socialist Party.

Unison health conference

Glasgow CSG workers fight pay freeze

Three years of wage cuts for council workers

Strike at Northumberland College

Workplace news in brief