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18 April 2012
We are sad to learn of the death of Arthur Deane, an active worker in my early years in the Trotskyist movement...
15 March 2012
'Westenders' - omnibus edition
We are being badgered to celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth on the throne by a never-ending propaganda offensive, writes Rob Bishop, Gloucestershire Socialist Party and Cheltenham Against the Cuts.
1 February 2012
Over four decades, from the 1970s until her recent death, Gwenda Beishon was a continuous subscriber to the Militant newspaper and then the Socialist
Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) and Panther platform in Welling as part of the campaign to drive the racists out after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, photo R. Newton
11 January 2012
Stephen Lawrence murder - the untold story
On 3 January 2012 Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of the horrific murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence and sentenced to life imprisonment...
6 January 2012
Fighting racist attacks and the far-right
After 18 years two men have finally been convicted of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. Here we republish an article from the Socialist in 2003, written on the 10th anniversary of Stephen's death
23 November 2011
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of comrade Geoff Atkins following a long struggle with cancer, writes Nick Chaffey.
9 November 2011
1915 - How strikes and rent strikes won gains for Scottish tenants
In this article Sinead Daly from Socialist Party Scotland shows how working class families resisted rent rises and appalling housing conditions in Glasgow nearly 100 years ago...
19 October 2011
Dale Farm - Police storm in to do the bailiffs' dirty work
Stop these evictions: At dawn, riot police breached the perimeter of the Dale Farm travellers' site, demolishing a wall surrounding one of the legal plots and storming through the breach with shields, batons and tasers.
19 October 2011
On Monday 17 October the Dale Farm residents' legal challenges to their eviction from a former scrap yard in Essex reached the end of the line, with Justice Ouseley rejecting challenges to the legality of Basildon council's operation, writes Dave Murray, Basildon.
29 September 2011
The battle for Dale Farm and Travellers' rights
The attempt by the local council to forcibly evict Travellers from their land at Dale Farm in Essex has highlighted the issue of Gypsies' and Travellers' rights in the UK
28 September 2011
Dale Farm - call off the evictions of residents
Basildon council's attempts to evict 86 Traveller families from Dale Farm have been thrown into confusion by decisions of the high court, writes Dave Murray, Basildon.
21 September 2011
12th hour reprieve for Dale Farm
The tense stand-off between bailiffs and Dale Farm Travellers and their supporters gave way to jubilation as the High Court granted an injunction
Youth against Racism in Europe protest against the BNP in 1993, photo by The Socialist
1 June 2011
18 years since Stephen Lawrence murder
We still need to fight racism... and cuts: Two men are now to stand trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who had ambitions to become an architect but was killed in a vicious racist attack in 1993, writes Onay Kasab.
Tony Mulhearn speaking at a public meeting organised by Liverpool Trades Council on Thursday 10 February, to debate the way forward against the cuts, photo Harry Smith
4 May 2011
Review: The monarchy - reserve weapon of the ruling class?
BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze programme recently dealt with the monarchy against a background of the circus surrounding the wedding of Wills and Kate...
27 April 2011
Royal wedding: Not much bread but there's plenty of circuses
The Roman Emperors dealt with economic crisis with a policy of 'bread and circuses'. The Con-Dems are determined to leave out the bread and just give us the circuses. Witness the media torrent of sickly...
10 December 2008
Queen's rep suspends Canada's parliament
IN AN unprecedented move, the Canadian governor general, Michaelle Jean, used her 'royal' powers as a representative of Britain's Queen, to prorogue (suspend) the country's parliament until 26 January in order to allow the right wing prime minister, Stephen Harper, to cling on to power...
2 July 2008
Royals down to their last crown?
ACCORDING TO rags like the Daily Mail, the vital question at this time of approaching recession and rising prices is: "Is the Royal Family skint?" The official bill for running the monarchy rose by 5.3% to £40 million last year while the Queen has had her pay claim turned down, writes Roger Shrives.
26 April 2003
TEN YEARS ago, the Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered in a racist attack in Eltham, South-east London...
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