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23 October 2019
General election is the real 'people's vote'
Anxious to avoid a no-deal Brexit and desperate to avoid the blame for causing one, both Boris Johnson and the EU institutions stepped back from the brink
16 October 2019
Marion is on the election ballot paper, having won 39 nominations
16 October 2019
Tories out - general election now
Boris Johnson will be hoping that the archaic ceremony surrounding the Queen's Speech will act as a distraction from the Brexit crisis.
16 October 2019
RMT: Jared Wood - Fighting cuts, defending jobs, pay and conditions
Ballot papers will be posted to RMT transport union members this week to fill a seat on the union's executive committee from the London transport region.
16 October 2019
Corbyn must stand firm against establishment and Labour right
The Tory government's new spending promises are not a change in a working-class friendly direction. Rather, they are temporary concessions in an attempt to win a general election.
9 October 2019
Cutting, lying Tories - kick them out!
Boris Johnson, self-portrayed 'man of the people', has begun his election campaigning. At Tory party conference he announced policies that, on the face of it, would be very popular. One of these is to build "40 new hospitals" in ten years.
2 October 2019
Battered Boris must go... and all the Tories with him!
Battered by his own MPs in parliament, his Oxbridge allies in the Supreme Court, and even some press barons, the isolated Tory leader has used his party conference as a platform for a right-wing populist election manifesto.
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.
25 September 2019
Another blow for Boris. Johnson and Tories must go. General election now!
Six defeats in parliament in six weeks. A 'majority' of minus 44. And now the highest court in the land has ruled that Johnson unlawfully prorogued parliament
25 September 2019
The recent dramatic developments must not cloud the central tasks for the working class
11 September 2019
Tories in tatters: Corbyn must seize the time
The Conservatives, once among the most successful capitalist parties on the planet, are shattering into pieces before our eyes. The Tory party's weakness and splits are far from new. Now, however, under the leadership of Boris Johnson, the relatively slow inglorious decline of the Tories has become an unprecedented collapse.
11 September 2019
Scotland and Brexit: Developing threat to the capitalist union
In the third of our series of articles exploring Brexit and the 'national question' Philip Stott of Socialist Party Scotland examines its effect on Scotland.
11 September 2019
End austerity in the civil service: General election now
Prior to the conference of the Trade Union Congress, a motion was put by Socialist Party members and others to the national executive committee (NEC) of the PCS civil servants' union.
11 September 2019
TUC: Lost opportunity to organise a united struggle
With the Tories in meltdown, having lost their majority, and Boris Johnson reeling and on the ropes, many workers would be hoping that Labour and the trade unions would now deliver the knockout blow and force them from office.
11 September 2019
Tory meltdown - Organise to finish them off
Tory MPs are dropping like flies. Johnson has lost control of his party, parliament, and the plot
6 September 2019
Tories in tatters: Corbyn must seize the time
The Conservatives, once among the most successful capitalist parties on the planet, are shattering into pieces before our eyes.
Their government is left suspended in mid-air unable to govern, with a general election as Johnson's only option.
3 September 2019
Tories out now - Corbyn in with socialist policies
In parliament this week a major showdown is taking place between parliament and the prime minister
28 August 2019
Italy: Governing coalition fractures as Salvini looks to capitalise on crisis
After just 14 months in power, the populist coalition government of the far-right Lega and Five Star Movement (M5S) in Italy has collapsed.
28 August 2019
Workers' movement must launch a campaign for a general election
On 3 September parliament returns from its long summer holiday, sitting for less than two weeks before it breaks again for the party conference season.
21 August 2019
The 'national unity' threat to Corbynism
A rising sense of panic is gripping the strategists of British capitalism as the 31 October Brexit deadline draws ever closer
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