MPs and party leaders haggling over their jobs… preparing to cut ours!
Jobs not dole, photo Paul Mattsson
British Airways strike
Support the British Airways strikers
British Airways cabin crew are set to take 20 days of strike action starting on 18 May. The strikes will be in four blocks of five days with one day ‘breathers’ in between. In an online poll 81% of union…
International socialist news and analysis
Greece: the struggle must continue and intensify
ON THURSDAY 5 May, workers across Greece took part in a huge general strike in angry opposition to a new austerity cuts package. Press statement issued by Xekinima (the Socialist Party’s counterpart in Greece)…
The dramatic events of Greece in the days before the election, with workers in an immense general strike besieging the Greek parliament, must also have exercised a powerful effect on the outlook of many British workers., photo BBC video screen shot
Fight the repression of workers in Kazakhstan
Socialist Party election campaign
General election 2010: TUSC results and the need for working class representation
BESIDE THE events in Greece the general election in Britain seems a mundane affair. Nonetheless, it opens up a period of instability which will, at a certain stage, lead to ‘Greece coming to Britain’…
Coventry elections: Strong socialist support
On 6 May, 2,653 Coventry people voted socialist in the general election and over 4,400 in the council elections, writes Dave Griffiths, West Midlands Socialist Party secretary.
Lewisham elections: socialists will be at forefront of struggle
Ian Page, Chris Flood and Jess Leech won our best votes ever in the council elections for the Telegraph Hill ward of Lewisham, south London, writes Chris Newby, London Socialist Party.
Huddersfield elections: Forging a socialist campaigning tradition
In 2006, Jackie Grunsell was elected as a councillor with a big majority following a high profile campaign to stop NHS cuts in Huddersfield, writes Mike Forster.
Anti-Tory mood dominated in Stoke during 2010 election
“Tonight I thought I was coming to an academic debate about the miners’ strike. I didn’t realise the burning hatred that is still felt in this area for what Thatcher and the Tories did”. These were…
Spelthorne campaign during the 2010 general election
In Spelthorne we got 176 votes, but you could hear a pin drop when I warned the mainstream parties of the links we have built with local trade unionists who will fight the cuts to come, writes Paul Couchman, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
Swansea: Potential new members
Scotland: Meetings show enthusiasm for socialism
Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition (TUSC) general election results
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
This article by Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party was written on the day after the general election…
Obituary
Obituary – Peter Hadden, 1950 – 2010
LIFELONG SOCIALIST activist Peter Hadden, the Northern secretary of the Socialist Party (CWI) in Ireland, died on 5 May…
Environment and socialism
Gulf of Mexico disaster: nationalise the oil giants
AFTER THE explosion which sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, causing eleven deaths and threatening an environmental catastrophe, many people must be wondering what is to be done with the oil companies – not least the relatives of the workers killed in the explosion, writes Pete Mason.
Gulf of Mexico oil spill spirals towards New Orleans, photo NASA Earth Observatory image
Workplace news and analysis
The general election has produced a hung parliament. One thing is clear, whoever forms the government has no mandate to carry out the savage spending cuts planned by all the establishment political parties, writes John McInally, national vice-president Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), personal capacity
PCS strike placard
