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18 January 2012
Irish 'poll tax' battle has begun
A massive campaign against a new 'Household Charge' has begun in Ireland. The new flat tax affects 1.6 million households across the country, including the overwhelming majority of ordinary workers...
Massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle
18 January 2012
Greece: Non-payment movement against new housing tax
In October 2011 the Greek Pasok government of George Papandreou (just before being forced out of office), announced the implementation of a new housing tax through people's electricity bills, writes Christina Ziakka, Xekinima (CWI in Greece).
Rob Windsor
16 January 2012
Rob Windsor: socialist fighter and Coventry Socialist Party councillor 1964-2012
On 14 January Rob Windsor, socialist fighter and previous Socialist Party councillor in Coventry, lost his long struggle against liver disease and died at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth hospital.
Thatcher: The Iron Lady, still from movie
11 January 2012
Film review :The Iron Lady in meltdown
The widely hyped film 'The Iron Lady' is not intended to cover all the political events of Thatcher's life. It deals with the political issues through the incoherent rambling recollections of an old and demented Thatcher...
24 March 2011
Oppose all cuts in jobs, services, pay and conditions!
United we are strong, divided we will be defeated. The government knows that and is desperate to divide us - public sector from private sector, old from young, benefit claimants from everyone else.....
23 March 2011
Mass non-payment - how the poll tax was beaten
The campaign against Thatcher's hated poll tax is an example of how a mass movement can defeat a government, writes Steve Score, Former secretary of the Leicestershire Anti-Poll Tax Federation.
No to cuts! Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, photo by Suzanne Beishon
23 February 2011
The government has an entire generation in its sights. It is determined to price working class young people out of education. It has voted to triple tuition fees to £9,000 a year, savage funding to universities...
3 December 2010
West Cheshire Against Cuts launch meeting
Fifty-five people attended the launch of West Cheshire against cuts this Thursday. Cheshire Socialist Party...
24 September 2010
How the Tories were defeated last time around
The poll tax: It is not an accident that the most militant trade union leaders in Britain today, such as Bob Crow (general secretary of the RMT transport workers' union), are calling for the "biggest movement since the poll tax" to defeat the cuts...
24 September 2010
Every struggle has its own characteristics. Neither the poll tax nor Liverpool is an exact model for the battle against cuts that needs to be waged today...
24 September 2010
Uniting the movement will need to have an organisational, as well as a political form. In both Liverpool and the poll tax Militant played a key political role. However, contrary to the slurs against us...
24 September 2010
Thatcher made another major error in the poll tax movement: she confused the hesitant attitude of the leadership of the workers' movement for the attitude of the working class as a whole...
15 September 2010
Decisive action can defeat this government
Editorial: The very successful lobby of the Trades Union Congress in Manchester, organised by the National Shop Stewards Network, points the way forward for the trade union movement...
Bob Crow, general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union RMT, addresses Socialism 2009, photo Rob Emery
9 September 2010
Against cuts? Come to Socialism 2010
The capitalist leaders at the moment are telling us that cuts are inevitable and there's nothing that workers can do about it, writes Rob Williams Unite Convenor, Swansea Linamar, and National Shop Stewards Network steering committee member.
PCS members striking against Labour's cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
4 August 2010
We need 'biggest movement since poll tax'
The Trades Union Congress (TUC), meeting this year in Manchester, needs to hear clearly from ordinary trade unionists and activists that the time has come to get off its knees and organise a fightback against the government's programme of cuts, writes Bill Mullins.
No to privatisation of services
7 July 2010
Build united action to stop the cuts
Government departments to prepare for cuts of 40%... civil servants' redundancy terms to be ripped up...housing benefit to be cut... plans to build new schools and hospitals to be scrapped...
Every day this millionaires' government announces another way it is going to heap misery on the population as it sets out to destroy our public services.
7 April 2010
The real lessons of the poll tax
Readers' comment: The centre page article about the massive anti-poll tax demonstration of 1990 by Steve Glennon (issue 617) was excellent, mainly because as chief steward, Steve had a very good overview of events, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist Party councillor, Coventry.
Anti-Poll Tax demonstration March 1990
24 March 2010
March 1990 anti-poll tax demonstration
The riot - what really happened: In 1989, one million Scots were not paying the poll tax. The All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was also planning organised opposition south of the border. On 1 April 1990, 35 million people would get...
26 February 2010
Anti-poll tax victory: How 18 million people brought down Thatcher
The majority of trade union leaders are completely unprepared to meet the onslaught on jobs and public services, the worst for 40 years...
Liverpool City Councillors hold press conference at House of Lords 26 Jan 1987, photo Dave Sinclair
24 November 2009
Lessons of struggle: If you fight, you can win!
Liverpool Council 1983 - 1987: Young people face enormous attacks on their right to a future - unemployment, low pay, ever-increasing university fees and slashed public services.
Here, Socialist Party activists provide a small taste of some of the past battles they have been involved in where victories were won by working and young people.
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