Britain

No to job losses!

Discussion between Mark Serwoka (General Secretary PCS) and Peter Taaffe (General Secretary, Socialist Party)

As share values tumbled in the most dramatic falls since 9/11, the talk was not so much of whether there will be a recession, but of how deep and long it will be.

The wheels have come off the Gordon Brown bandwagon.

Crisis will be used to argue it is impossible to build a mass force to the left of Labour.

Inspired by past victories – Preparing for future struggles

Heading rapidly towards a split between the two main forces who founded it in 2004.

Gordon Brown’s honeymoon is over

Blatant example of the opportunism that typifies all the leaders of the main political parties.

The Northern Rock banking crisis

Capitalism could drag millions of working people into an economic and social abyss.

The Northern Rock crisis, the first full scale bank run in Britain for over a century

Make the bankers pay!

The successful strike actions of the Prison Officers Association (POA) and the RMT maintenance workers on London Underground have potentially changed the industrial situation in Britain to the benefit of trade unions and workers, if […]

’Agitate, educate, organise!’ – The role of the workers’ press

A starting point for strengthening struggle

Unite against war, poverty and terrorism

Anti-worker programme of Blair will stay

Delegates condemn New Labour’s pro-big business policies

Curtain falls on disastrous reign

Distastrous result for New Labour

Former ‘radical’ journalist’s diatribe against anti-war movement and Left

Riding pillion behind Bush, Blair has embroiled Britain in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Capitalism, both in Britain and worldwide, means increased poverty, unemployment and war for the peoples of the world. This is the unmistakeable message from the past year’s events.

"The discussion this weekend is how we can change the world".

In its nine years in office New Labour has presided over the brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the privatisation of more public services than the Tories, and a bonanza of riches for the elite […]

Ditching hated PM will not end New Labour rightwing policies

Time for a new workers’ party

On the night of 9-10 August, New Labour’s home secretary, John Reid, announced a dramatic terrorist plot

Tommy Sheridan has won his libel action against the News of the World (NoW) and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

The shift towards the left in social attitudes over the last ten years has meant that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people have won important rights in Britain.

The Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) has been rocked by the release of an open letter by Tommy Sheridan to SSP members which accuses "an unsavoury cabal of comrades at the core of the leadership who […]

May’s local elections exposed the deep discontent in British society.

“We’re voting for Jackie – she’s the only one we trust to fight for our services. All the others have promised us everything and delivered nothing”.

The results in last Thursday’s local authority elections were a devastating blow for New Labour and could be a death blow for Blair.

Press statement from the Socialist Party

Socialist Party councillors make a difference

Unions need to step up action to win

Volcanic anger of working class against New Labour

Over one million local government workers across Britain and Northern Ireland are expected to strike over their pension rights, on Tuesday 28 March.

Party needed for the millions, not the millionaires

Available on the SP website.

Building an alternative to the profit system

Linking the industrial to the political

The potential for beginning to build a new mass working-class party in England and Wales was glimpsed in outline at the RMT rail union discussion conference on the crisis of working-class political representation on 21 […]

Union-sponsored conference debates way forward for working class and youth

For genuine working-class representation

Capitalism unable to deliver an advance in living standards, peace or equality.