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27 April 2012
Video: TUSC applauded on BBC's Question Time
Socialist Party London organiser Paula Mitchell condemns both the government "of the rich for the rich" and the Labour Party, who refuse to say they will reverse the cuts
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...
Unions like Unite have donated millions to Labour but Labour promises nothing in return to union members, photo Paul Mattsson
25 January 2012
What we think: Labour lords voted against the introduction of the benefit cap which threatens 67,000 families with poverty and homelessness. Yet Liam Byrne, shadow Work and Pensions secretary, made it abundantly clear Labour supports the cap.
Public opposition to cuts
18 January 2012
Labour leadership approves the Con-Dem cuts
Ed 'Moribund' and the Labour leadership's brainwave to boost election poll ratings is "Vote for us and we will freeze your pay and cut your services"! writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
4 January 2012
Ian Pattison - a marcher on the Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow march - replies to Labour leader Ed Miliband's recent comments which claim to offer a 'radical rethink' on benefits, writes Dear Ed Miliband.
14 December 2011
Why I joined the Socialist Party
I first became politically aware in 1968 at the age of 14. I had been injured playing rugby and my father gave me Alexander Cordell's Rape of the Fair Country to read to pass away the time. This injury,...
7 October 2011
The Labour Party conference in Liverpool was used as an opportunity by Kinnock and others to attack the Liverpool '47' councillors who improved the lives of thousands of Liverpudlians in 1983-87.
5 October 2011
Miliband's fruitless dreams of a 'better capitalism'
Ed Miliband said at Labour Party conference that we would have to 'live within our means' and that "Most of the cuts implemented by the Con-Dems will not be reversed"
29 September 2011
Labour Party conference - No way forward given by 'reclaim Labour' speakers
‘Vote for us and nothing will change’! was the message of Labour's Ed Balls to the working class desperate for leadership. Two Socialist Party members report on the LRC fringe meeting and on watching the conference on TV
Labour councillors' conference lobbied by hundreds of angry trade unionists, photo Suzanne Beishon
21 September 2011
2011 Labour Party conference - a debate: Can Labour be reclaimed?
The Socialist reproduces correspondence between one of its readers, Tim Hayward, and Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, on the nature of the Labour Party today and how socialist ideas can be advanced
6 July 2011
Labour - condemned for condemning strike
"The Labour Party died on Thursday." This was how one letter to the Guardian on 1 July, the day after the biggest strike action in decades, summed up the feelings of millions about Labour leader Ed Miliband's condemnation of the strikes...
23 June 2011
Unite rules conference - steps forward for members
The Unite union rules conference on 13-15 June saw a shift to the left by the union, including a decision to promote "a socialist vision".
25 May 2011
Why Liverpool needs a needs budget
On 14 May 2011 Derek Hatton, deputy leader of the 47 Liverpool councillors in their battle against the Tory government's cuts from 1983 to 1987, pronounced in the Liverpool Echo newspaper that refusing to implement the cuts would be political suicide for present-day Labour leader Joe Anderson...
TUC demo, photo Paul Mattsson
6 April 2011
Fight the cuts with TUSC: more than just a 'protest vote'
Launching Labour's campaign for the English local elections last week Ed Miliband argued that families will lose an average of £182 worth of council services this year, writes Clive Heemskerk.
5 April 2011
Should The Unions Campaign To "Reclaim The Labour Party"?
SOME OF the recently elected left trade union leaders have raised the idea of launching a campaign to "reclaim the Labour Party"...
30 March 2011
BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme recently looked at 'Blue Labour' (BL), writes Steve Score Secretary, East Midlands Socialist Party.
3 March 2011
Liverpool 1983-87: the council that fought Thatcher
THE LABOUR council leaders proposing the cuts budget in Liverpool council can feel a spectre haunting them...
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC congress 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
12 January 2011
NSSN debate: The way forward for the anti-cuts movement
ONE ISSUE dominates all others for the workers' movement now and for the foreseeable future - how to defeat the avalanche of cuts and tax rises that is engulfing us, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.
National Shop Stewards Network Lobby of TUC congress 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
29 September 2010
No 'lurch to the left' for Labour
Editorial from The Socialist, issue 640: Does the victory of Ed Miliband over his elder brother David - a modern Cain and Abel drama in reverse with the younger brother 'knifing' the elder - represent the dreaded 'lurch to the left' feared by the right-wing press...
29 September 2010
The letter below is from Tony Mulhearn, who was a leading councillor in Liverpool's Labour council when it fought Thatcher's vicious attack on that city between 1983 and 1987...
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