20 October 2021

Fighting the cuts at the ballot box in Liverpool

A by-election has been called in the Kirkdale ward of Liverpool following the resignation of right-wing Labour councillor Malcolm Kennedy

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20 October 2021

Austria: Chancellor Kurz resigns amid allegations of corruption

Sebastian Kurz of the right-wing People's Party (ÖVP), for five years a shooting star of the European conservatives, had to 'step aside' as Austria's chancellor on 9 October

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13 October 2021

National Education Union deputy general secretary election

'Why I'm voting for a fighting strategy to win on workload, pay and cuts': Socialist Party member and teacher Martin Powell-Davies is running as a candidate for National Education Union (NEU) deputy general secretary

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29 September 2021

NEU deputy general secretary election

A fighting strategy is needed to win on workload, pay and cuts

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29 September 2021

German election: A change of capitalist government, but disaster for Die Linke

The result of the Bundestag elections on 26 September heralds a new political period for Germany. The two big 'peoples parties', the social-democrat SPD and Christian-democrat CDU/CSU bloc, have massively

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24 September 2021

New openings for militant trade unionism

The victory of Sharon Graham as general secretary of Unite has struck the labour movement as a thunderbolt. This can be a pivotal moment.

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22 September 2021

Corbyn had a social care plan

An edited version of the following letter, sent by Socialist Party executive committee member and Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition National Agent Clive Heemskerk, was published in The Guardian.

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22 September 2021

German general election

Opinion polls in the last weeks before the 26 September German general election have shown rapid changes, especially for the two main contenders - the conservative Christian Democrat CDU-led bloc and the Social Democratic Party (SPD)

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8 September 2021

A pivotal moment for the trade union movement

This year's TUC Congress will provide the first public platform for newly elected Unite general secretary Sharon Graham.

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1 September 2021

Starmer's New Blairism consolidates

Within days of telling the Financial Times how "very proud" he was of the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997 to 2010, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer made it clear that his left-wing predecessor Jeremy Corbyn would remain suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party

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26 August 2021

Unite: Sharon Graham's stunning victory opens new opportunities

Sharon Graham's victory opens new opportunity to resist bosses and Tories' offensive, and challenge Starmer's New Labour

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25 August 2021

Ealing by-election: Labour council has not opposed Tory cuts

Vote TUSC in Hobbayne on 16 September: The three main establishment parties take ordinary people for a ride. We need a new mass party that will give the working class a genuine political voice.

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11 August 2021

Starmer's faithful Guardian

As part of its anniversary coverage of the 2011 summer unrest, The Guardian newspaper conducted a survey of council funding of youth services in the years since, looking at the five areas of the country where 49% of recorded crimes during the 2011 events took place

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30 June 2021

Support Sharon Graham for Unite general secretary

The Socialist Party is supporting Sharon Graham in the Unite general secretary election. Ballot papers are posted out on 5 July.

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30 June 2021

Socialist candidate wins NIPSA general secretary election

Carmel Gates has been elected general secretary of Northern Ireland's largest union

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23 June 2021

Urgent need to build alternative to pro-capitalist politicians

The myth of Johnson's electoral golden touch has been shattered by the Chesham and Amersham byelection

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23 June 2021

Iran's presidential election

Ebrahim Raisi's election as president, openly described in Iran as 'engineered', revealed the regime's weak popular support.

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23 June 2021

Unite general secretary contest: Vote for Sharon Graham

The Socialist Party is supporting Sharon Graham for Unite general secretary. The ballot opens on 5 July. Many of the most combative workers are increasingly being drawn towards her campaign as they look

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18 June 2021

Unite general secretary contest: Vote for Sharon Graham

The fighting programme that is much needed can win this election.

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16 June 2021

Enfield byelection: We need councillors prepared to resist

Vote TUSC in Bush Hill Park on 1 July: North London Socialist Party member John Dolan is standing in the by-election in Bush Hill Park in Enfield on 1 July. John is the candidate for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC).

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