20 April 2016

TUSC objects to Liverpool political censorship

Merseyside Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition is recording its opposition to a Liverpool City Council election office decision to veto a section in Roger Bannister's election address which refers to "Liverpool Labour".

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20 April 2016

Increasing anger at cuts boosts Grimsby campaign

The 2016 local elections will be the fourth the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition has contested in Grimsby and we've gained experience from each one. It's clear that the mood is changing and anger at the government and local councillors doing the government's dirty work is increasing.

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20 April 2016

Why I'm standing

Tom Baldwin for mayor of Bristol: Over £100 million has been cut from Bristol City Council by the independent mayor and his cross-party cabinet. Over 1,000 jobs have been threatened, with cuts to libraries, care services, parks and more.

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20 April 2016

EU: bosses pick 'safe' reactionary out voice

A big majority of the British capitalist establishment supports a Remain vote. This was a case of the establishment choosing not just its own team, but the safest opposition as well.

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15 April 2016

TUSC on RT News - for a socialist campaign against the EU

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition's national election Agent, Clive Heemskerk, was interviewed on RT News (13 April) about the Electoral Commission's decision to choose the Tory-dominated Vote Leave campaign as the official voice of exit in June's referendum

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14 April 2016

TUSC slams Electoral Commission's 'political decision' to choose Vote Leave as EU exit voice

TUSC accused the Commission of "bowing to political pressure"

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13 April 2016

RMT branch calls for TUSC backing to continue

Members of the transport workers' union, the RMT, and particularly its late general secretary Bob Crow, have played a crucial role in the building of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) since its birth in 2010. TUSC was founded to take forward the fight to re-build independent working class political representation.

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13 April 2016

Reactionary EU campaigners implicated by Panama Papers

One aspect of the Panama Papers revelations not widely commented on is the links with the reactionary Vote Leave and Grassroots Out EU referendum campaigns of some of the 'offshore investors' named.

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11 April 2016

Salford TUSC standing in 18 seats

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8 April 2016

TUSC Liverpool mayor candidate condemns censorship

Merseyside TUSC is recording its opposition to a Liverpool City Council election office decision to veto a section in Roger Bannister's election address which refers to 'Liverpool Labour'

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6 April 2016

Getting the anti-austerity struggle onto the ballot paper

TUSC has stood 'no-cuts' candidates since 2010. Will standing this May undermine Jeremy Corbyn's aim to change Labour?

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6 April 2016

TUSC in 'surprise bid' for official exit lead

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has launched what the BBC called a "surprise bid" to be the official Leave campaign in June's referendum on European Union membership

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6 April 2016

TUSC councillor calls on trust to reject new junior doctors contract

A Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) councillor in Warrington, Cheshire, is calling on his local NHS trust not to implement the new junior doctors' contract.

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6 April 2016

EU referendum: Stop public money going to tax avoiders!

TUSC says: official status shouldn't be awarded to any group that's received funding from anyone named in the Panama Papers

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2 April 2016

TUSC challenge to UKIP & Tories: 'Let's debate who should be the voice of Leave'

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition has followed up what the BBC called a 'surprise bid' to be the official Leave campaign in June's EU referendum

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BBC reports on TUSC bid to be official EU 'leave' campaign

1 April 2016

BBC reports on TUSC bid to be official EU 'leave' campaign

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35941945

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1 April 2016

TUSC sends formal letter to election watchdog, 'don't back UKIP & Tory EU outers'

Last week the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition national steering committee agreed the text of a formal letter to the Electoral Commission asking them not to choose an 'official' Leave campaign in June's EU referendum

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31 March 2016

Cllr Kevin Bennett urges non-imposition of doctors' contract

Warrington Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) councillor Kevin Bennett has called on Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to refuse to impose the government's new forced contract on its junior doctors

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30 March 2016

Letter: Inadequate academies

Letters to the Socialist's editors.

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No to EU austerity

30 March 2016

Vote against the EU - but no unity with Tories or UKIP

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has written a formal letter to the Electoral Commission asking them not to give millions of pounds of public resources to Tory and Ukip EU campaigners in June's referendum

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