Wide screen devices may view this page better by clicking here
Socialist Party and CWI public figures
All People subcategories:
* Socialist Party and CWI public figures
Dave Nellist
Filter by importance | All results
10 February 2021
Preparing to build a working-class force for May's local elections
Over 550 attended the online conference of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) on 7 February in preparation for the local elections in May
11 November 2020
The struggle for a new mass workers' party
Socialist Party Wales moved quickly to respond to news of Corbyn's suspension, with all branches calling meetings to discuss what the working class must do next, now that it's clear that the road to transforming Labour is blocked.
6 November 2020
Socialists, including Labour MP, spied on by police and security services
Nearly six years after it was set up the Undercover Policing Inquiry has finally begun, albeit in an extremely limited and inadequate way
2 October 2019
40 years on: Mandatory reselection more vital for Labour than ever
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in September 2015 fundamentally altered politics in the party. But for the last four years he has been hamstrung by the 80% of pro-capitalist Labour MPs who owe their political loyalty to the Kinnock/Blair eras.
15 May 2019
May 1649 - the Last Stand of the Levellers
In the latter part of the English Civil War in the mid-seventeenth century, the hopes of those who wanted the war against the king and the great landowners to bring fundamental change for the mass of ordinary people were being dashed.
2 May 2019
The significance of the anti-poll tax movement
Following an article in the Guardian by Matthew Taylor titled 'Extinction Rebellion protesters to stand in European elections', Coventry Socialist Party member Dave Nellist responded with a letter to the Guardian
20 March 2019
An 'EU - Should We Stay or Should We Go?' debate was organised by Nottingham and Mansfield trade union council. Over 70 people attended the 26 February meeting.
31 October 2018
'Lucas Plan' film tells story of workers who set out alternative to job losses
Film review: The plan that came from the bottom up: 'The plan that came from the bottom up' is a new film about the 'Lucas Plan', developed by shop stewards at Lucas Aerospace in the Midlands in 1976, to make socially useful products rather than armaments used to kill people.
22 August 2018
Ahed Tamimi - worldwide symbol of self-esteem in face of oppression
Non-fiction: Ahed Tamimi - a girl who fought back: On the morning of the last Sunday in July, Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was released from an Israeli prison, where she had been for eight months since her arrest on 19 December 2017.
6 June 2018
Socialists defend Lush ad campaign against spy cops
Soap shop Lush dropped a bath bomb on 31 May with storefront displays highlighting abuses by undercover police.
9 May 2018
TUSC stands against Birmingham council's cuts and attacks on workers
On 1 May Birmingham Socialist Party held a successful public meeting about the local elections, the cuts and how councils can fight them.
11 October 2017
Who's watching who?: The fight for justice, trade union and democratic rights
For almost 100 years a secret ban was operated to deny jobs to thousands of workers involved in trade union activity
13 September 2017
Readmit the socialists - for a federal Labour Party
The Socialist replies to a letter from a reader in the Labour Party questioning our application to work with Labour as part of an inclusive federation
9 August 2017
How much reserves have councils got?
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has launched a new report on the level of reserves held by Labour-led councils
12 May 2017
TUSC confirms no candidates in June
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) national steering committee has confirmed that TUSC will not be standing candidates in the general election.
26 April 2017
The origins of May Day lie in the great struggles in America by working people for shorter working hours at the end of the 19th century, and the martyrdom of union leaders executed 130 years ago.
26 April 2017
How Blairism sank its claws into the Labour Party
2nd May, as well as being in the midst of preparations for the upcoming snap election, marks 20 years since another general election - the one in 1997 which brought Tony Blair and New Labour to power.
8 March 2017
TUSC supports Irish MPs' call on Corbyn
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has added its support to an appeal to Jeremy Corbyn by socialist members of the Irish parliament (TDs).
8 March 2017
Put MPs on workers' wages: 18% worse off. The Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that UK households will have living standards 18% lower by 2021 than they would have been had the economic crisis never happened.
7 December 2016
No more concessions to Labour right!
Fight for an anti-austerity, socialist party - readmit expelled socialists: In recent weeks the strategy of the pro-capitalist Blairites - to surround Jeremy Corbyn and gradually strangle him - has clearly been stepped up
Search entire database:
Socialist Party and CWI public figures keywords:
MEMBER RESOURCES
15 Jun Bristol North Socialist Party: Education under capitalism
15 Jun Caerphilly & RCT Socialist Party: The socialist approach to the environment
15 Jun Brighton Socialist Party: Disability, neurodivergency, and the left
The Socialist, weekly newspaper of the Socialist Party
News
G7 tax deal won't challenge corporate power
Dea-John Reid murder: Jobs, homes and services, not racism
Tory school catch-up plan: Fight for the funding our schools and colleges need
Post-Brexit trade deals: Workers' mobilisation needed to stop corporate extortion
New book - coming soon: The Struggle for World Socialism
G7 Can't solve poverty, Covid and climate change - join the struggle for Socialism
What we think
NHS
Workplace news
Goodlord striker speaks out: How we unionised and fought the bosses
Revolt against 'social partnership' at Wales Trades Union Congress 2021
Douwe Egberts workers strike against pay cuts of up to £12,000 a year
London workers prepare to fight Khan's transport cuts
If unions give a lead, workers are fully prepared to fight and win victories
Fight for a socialist leadership in PCS, build a fighting, democratic union!
Lessons from history
Campaigns news
Israel/Palestine
Readers' opinion
|ebook / Kindle|PDF version|Text / Print|1137 online|Back issues| Audio files
RMT picket at Nottingham station - East Midlands Railway dispute - Sunday 13th June. Photo G Freeman
Platform setting: =
09/06/21
