27 April 2012

Video: TUSC applauded on BBC's Question Time

Socialist Party London organiser Paula Mitchell condemns both the government "of the rich for the rich" and the Labour Party, who refuse to say they will reverse the cuts

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Vote TUSC postcard

25 April 2012

Vote for a socialist alternative

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is a new electoral coalition that was set up by leading trade unionists including RMT general secretary Bob Crow, and socialists, including the Socialist Party, to provide a political voice to the millions who oppose the cuts.

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TUSC supports the striking tube workers working for Tube Lines at the Tube Lines HQ in Canary Wharf 25 April 2012, photo by Paul Mattsson

25 April 2012

Build a socialist alternative to austerity

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is an electoral coalition of trade unionists along with socialist organisations, including the Socialist Party, and individuals...

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25 April 2012

TUSC campaigns round-up

Hillingdon - Bob Crow: Nearly 70 local people in Uxbridge, west London, listened to Bob Crow argue the case for TUSC on 18 April...

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24 April 2012

See the TUSC website for socialist election news

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18 April 2012

On 3 May use your vote to: Shake up politics and fight all cuts!

This is a government of the rich for the rich. That is the inescapable message of the Lib-Con coalition's ultra anti-working class budget and the whole cuts agenda.

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18 April 2012

Come and hear TUSC candidates standing in your area

Thursday 19 April 7-9pm, Cardiff Bus Sports and Social Club, Tudor St, Riverside...

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4 April 2012

Young people stand for TUSC

In October 2011 Youth Fight for Jobs re-created the Jarrow March for Jobs to highlight the massive rise in youth unemployment and to bring to the attention of the country the increasing hardships that young people are facing, writes Ryan Preston, Leeds.

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Alex Gordon

29 February 2012

Why I'm standing for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition in the London Assembly election

I am pleased to be leading the excellent list of candidates standing as TUSC in elections for the Greater London Assembly in May 2012, writes Alex Gordon

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15 February 2012

TUSC

Alex Gordon, president of rail union RMT will head the list for the Greater London Assembly elections

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TUSC candidates, pics Paul Mattsson

30 January 2012

Trade unionists and socialists prepare for May elections

Last Saturday over 50 prospective candidates and campaign organisers from around the country met to plan the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition's (TUSC) challenge in May's local and London Assembly elections

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25 January 2012

Add your name to the TUSC petition

As the leaders of the big Labour-supporting trade unions warn Labour of the risk of losing trade union support, an electoral challenge in the Greater London Assembly elections involving leading trade unionists is being prepared...

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23 November 2011

Support the anti-cuts election challenge

Oppose Tory, Liberal and Labour cuts: As trade unionists prepare for the biggest ever public sector industrial action, many are also thinking about the political side to their struggle

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20 July 2011

TUSC: Building an electoral challenge to Con-Dem and Labour cuts

Over 60 Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) election candidates and agents from the May elections assembled in London on 16 July to discuss May's results and plan for next year

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Campaigning for TUSC in Swansea, photo by Socialist Party Wales

11 May 2011

TUSC shows alternative to Con-Dem and Labour cuts

Roundup: 174 candidates, standing in 50 councils, contested the English local elections under the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) umbrella, polling over 25,000 votes...

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7 May 2011

TUSC local election results

Final results 7/5/2011 21:41pm The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition stood 143 candidates in the 5 May 2011 UK local elections...

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Jacqui Berry chairs the rally at Youth Fight For Jobs Conference 2009, photo Paul Mattsson

27 April 2011

Why I'm standing on 5 May

A few TUSC candidates explain why they arec standing. Over the last five years I've tried to turn the Greens left, but to no avail. They are obviously good about the environment but have no idea about the class struggle and don't want to get rid of capitalism,...

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27 April 2011

Fight the cuts - strike, demonstrate, stand against cuts

Spats over the referendum on the alternative vote (AV electoral reform) between the Con-Dem coalition partners reflect the pressure on them from increasing opposition to their vicious cuts...

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Dave Nellist at the TUSC launch rally, London March 2010, photo A. Hill

13 April 2011

Fight the cuts by supporting TUSC

Every Labour-led council has voted through cuts, saying they have no choice. But in May's elections, in 55 local authorities as well as in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections, over 180 candidates are standing on the no-cuts platform of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC).

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TUC demo, photo Paul Mattsson

6 April 2011

Fight the cuts with TUSC: more than just a 'protest vote'

Launching Labour's campaign for the English local elections last week Ed Miliband argued that families will lose an average of £182 worth of council services this year, writes Clive Heemskerk.

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