Britain

Discussions on political representation as elemental class rage develops under the surface of society

TUC must name the date for a 24-hour general strike

The role and the background to police spy Peter Francis as revealed in the book Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police.

Transforming energy efficiency requires ending the waste of the anarchic market system

Name the day for a 24-hour general strike!

For a tiny few at the top Britain is really booming…

Rajoy and Cameron governments distract attention from domestic crisis with new flaring up of tensions over Gibraltar

Ed Miliband’s decision to rush through the end of trade union bloc affiliation to the Labour Party at a special conference next spring has all the symbolism of Tony Blair’s ’Clause Four moment’ in 1995.

How workers won the NHS

It is a year since the opening of the London Olympics. As protests rage in Brazil against the profiteering and corruption revealed in the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics the […]

Trade unions must build a political voice for the working class

High profile dispute puts union ties to New Labour into question

On the road to independent working class political representation

National Shopstewards’ Network (NSSN) conference: how to defeat government’s austerity?

A threat to democratic rights

Leaders of Youth Against Racism in Europe (YRE) call for genuinely independent enquiry

Rising support for UKIP shows both the erosion of established party loyalties and the existence of a profound vacuum of working-class political representation.

The Tories are thrashing around in ever-deeper water on the issue of Europe.

Statement on Woolwich killing

Time for a new mass workers’ party

’Get a job!’ is the constant refrain of privileged Tory ministers and vicious right-wing tabloids. A million unemployed young people are the subject of a relentless campaign of smears and lies.

Socialist policies needed

Hundreds of people protested outside London’s Houses of Parliament on 14 April to demand that caste oppression in Britain be outlawed.

A socialist perspective on fighting women’s oppression

Peter Taaffe was invited on 10 April to give a series of interviews to BBC Radio local stations on whether there should be protests at Thatcher’s funeral.

Millions have been waiting for this day, 8 April 2013. Margaret Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments’ policies wrought on working class communities in the 1980s – and is […]

Thatcher’s bitter legacy

We must stop them!

Anti-bedroom tax protests attracted thousands of people in Glasgow and Edinburgh last weekend – reflecting the mass opposition to the hated ConDem policy.

… and more action after

Alternative energy and socialist planning needed

Ken Loach: "I want people to be angry"

Just over 300 delegates and visitors took part in a very successful Socialist Party annual congress in Clacton-on-Sea from 2 to 4 March.

Fighting austerity

TUC must set date for 24-hour general strike

But are there lessons for today?

We must take advantage of the divided enemy

Perspectives for 2013

Should socialists aim to convert the Labour Party to a socialist viewpoint, or call on unions to support the struggle to build a new mass workers’ party, like the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)?

The coming year, like 2012, will be one of intense struggles by the working class in Britain, Europe and the world.

Capitalist class have no solution to the deep-going crisis of capitalism they face

The government has declared war on ordinary people with a brutal onslaught of cuts to our jobs and services.

Following high profile cases such as those of Julian Assange and Dominique Strauss Khan, there has been much debate recently about rape and sexual assault. On the Slutwalks and other protests, anger on these issues […]

Prime minster Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been part of a web of mutual support and corruption

Victory for the Socialist Party and the Four, who have refused to be bullied and intimidated

A socialist alternative to rotten, bankrupt capitalism

Defend every job!

Preparing for a one-day general strike