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14 June 2017
Northern Ireland: DUP propping up the Tories
For a real cross-community socialist alternative: Theresa May's humiliating failure to win a parliamentary majority has placed the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) at the centre of UK politics, with the party set to prop up the Tories through a 'confidence and supply' agreement, writes Daniel Waldron, Socialist Party Northern Ireland (CWI Ireland).
14 June 2017
Scotland - SNP loses but Labour could've won more
The fight for socialist policies remains critical: The biggest loser in this election, aside from Theresa May, was the Scottish National Party (SNP). In a stunning contrast to the 2015 landslide when Nicola Sturgeon's party won 56 of the 59 available
14 June 2017
General election: what you thought about it
Readers of the Socialist respond to the election results
17 May 2017
Corbyn could re-win Scotland with a socialist approach to independence
Sympathy towards Jeremy Corbyn in Scotland, as elsewhere, is widespread, including among those who voted Yes to independence in 2014.
17 May 2017
Tories escape election fraud charges
Corbyn should attack May's hypocrisy: Up to 30 Tories, including up to 20 MPs, have escaped prosecution for not declaring extra money spent on election campaigning.
10 May 2017
TUSC's anti-cuts message finds positive response
4 May local elections: TUSC stood 78 council and two mayoral candidates, winning a total of 15,407 votes
3 May 2017
Vote TUSC on Thursday - for a 100% anti-austerity alternative
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition has 80 candidates standing on 4th May
3 May 2017
PCS elections - vote Democracy Alliance
There is just over a week to go before the PCS national executive committee ballot closes on 11 May
25 April 2017
A bold socialist campaign could get rid of the Tories
"The dividing lines in this election could not be clearer", declared Jeremy Corbyn. "It is the establishment that complains I don't play by the rules: by which they mean their rules."
19 April 2017
PCS ballot papers out: vote Democracy Alliance
PCS executive committee elections: It is vital that local reps act quickly to persuade members to vote for the Democracy Alliance slate
19 April 2017
Turkey: constitutional referendum result a pyrrhic victory for Erdogan
Officially the 'Yes' side narrowly won with 51% of the vote, giving President Recep Erdogan dictatorial powers including the authority to dissolve parliament
12 April 2017
Cardiff: Labour right rattled by anti-cuts TUSC
The 100% anti-cuts, socialist alternative presented by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has been welcomed on the doorstep by people who are desperate to see an end to austerity. But some figures on the Labour right are less enthusiastic that we're standing in the Welsh council elections.
12 April 2017
Last quarter's fighting fund target smashed, now make our voice heard in elections
Socialist Party members throughout England and Wales are out campaigning in support of Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates standing in local and mayoral elections. We are appealing to all readers and supporters of the Socialist to make a donation to help support those candidates.
5 April 2017
NHS worker to stand for mayor of Doncaster
Steve Williams will be standing as the TUSC candidate for Doncaster mayor in the May elections
5 April 2017
Talk of Britain 'going to war' with Spain, EU politicians telling each other not to 'lose their cool' - can all seem surreal. The chaos shows that there is no cohesive approach to Brexit within the British or European ruling classes
5 April 2017
Labour group to discipline councillors for resisting Haringey gentrification scheme
For a council group which opposes cuts and privatisation: Ten Labour councillors in Haringey, north London, face disciplinary action after voting for further scrutiny of a gentrification scheme.
5 April 2017
Support Len McCluskey and United Left candidates before ballot closes
The ballot in the Unite union general secretary and executive elections closes on 19 April with the Blairite challenger to Len McCluskey, Gerard Coyne, continuing to use the hated Sun newspaper to attack McCLuskey and Jeremy Corbyn
29 March 2017
Ballot papers go out in Unite elections
As ballot papers go out in the Unite general secretary and executive elections, the Blairite challenger to Len McCluskey, Gerard Coyne, has shown his true colours
15 March 2017
TUSC: SWP suspends participation in England/Wales
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) has announced that it is suspending its participation in the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in England and Wales.
8 March 2017
I think the simplest answer to why I joined the Socialist Party is that I saw inequality and wanted to help. I admit though that it was not simple to recognise this inequality, and for a long time I refused to acknowledge it even existed.
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