4 April 2018

Right-wing Vote Leave campaign may have broken spending laws

Fight for a socialist, internationalist Brexit: The allegations emphasise that in Brexit, as in all things, workers have nothing in common with the bosses and their politicians

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28 March 2018

Campaign against academies boosted by victories

Teaching staff at three schools in Newham, east London, have been taking strike action

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21 March 2018

Hated Blairite mayor ousted: now fight for a no-cuts Newham!

Hated Blairite mayor of Newham Sir Robin Wales has lost the Labour candidacy. The new candidate, Rokhsana Fiaz, must use council reserves and borrowing powers to end the cuts now

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7 March 2018

The Socialist inbox

Letters to the Socialist's editors including snow chaos and jailed TUSC agent

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7 March 2018

TUSC plans to stand on Waltham Forest anti-monster block platform

Socialist Party activists and local residents attended a meeting on 3 March organised by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in Walthamstow.

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21 February 2018

Outrageous sentence for TUSC agent in 'misleading electors' court case

This is part of the Tories' moves against democratic rights, including electoral rights, as a response to the accumulating rage at their never-ending austerity agenda

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15 February 2018

TUSC statement on sentencing of Derby TUSC agent

Chris Fernandez, the local election agent for eight Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates at the 2016 council elections in Derby, after a two-and-a-half week trial has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for charges of electoral fraud

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14 February 2018

Building support for Corbyn's anti-cuts policies in the local elections

TUSC conference 2018: If there is no fight, it means extinction for indispensable services and jobs. The Tories' planned cuts exceed three-quarters of councils' core funding

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7 February 2018

Scene set for TUSC conference electoral debate

Last autumn the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) launched a survey of Labour councillors to see if they would back Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity stand when setting 2018-19 council budgets and, in those councils going to the polls this year, in the 2018 local elections

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22 January 2018

Red Mary - a Force of Nature

Longstanding Doncaster Socialist Party member Mary Jackson was a working class fighter and an eternal optimist in a socialist future

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3 January 2018

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition conference

Saturday 10 February: Main session: 'Building support for Jeremy Corbyn's anti-cuts policies in the 2018 local elections - should socialist anti-austerity candidates stand in May?'

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6 December 2017

TUSC conference to debate 2018 elections

TUSC has been prepared to contest local elections against right-wing Labour councillors carrying out Tory cuts - but should that be reviewed for next year's poll?

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5 October 2017

Too much to cross the Mersey

TUSC members and supporters in the borough of Halton in Cheshire are campaigning against the payment of tolls on the soon to be opened Mersey Gateway crossings

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4 October 2017

Surveying Labour councillors - will they fight cuts?

Jeremy Corbyn's Labour conference speech was greeted with predictable hostility by big business representatives like the CBI

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27 September 2017

Labour mayor needs to stop all cuts

Salford mayor Paul Dennett was seen as a change

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30 August 2017

Where is Scotland going?

By implementing spending cuts on an unprecedented scale in Scotland, the SNP leadership has begun to be exposed

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21 August 2017

The role of the RMT in changing Labour

Rob Sewell, from the IMT group, recently attacked the Socialist Party on the question of trade union affiliations to Labour

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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

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3 August 2017

Labour MP attacks local student over anti-austerity art project

The Socialist Party condemns Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft for reporting a student to the police

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12 July 2017

The left unions and the Labour Party affiliation debate

Who controls the Labour Party remains unresolved. The pro-capitalist right wing uses the structures established under years of Blairism to preserve its position while plotting its next move

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