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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

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.

Them & Us

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

Election Appeal 2015

End the housing crisis

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

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

Book review: Unison bureaucracy unmasked

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

Shapps’ lies on housing

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

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

RMT forces DLR bosses back

NI Water workers’ victory

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

Workplace news in brief