Britain

Potential for industrial response to cuts but needs determined leadership and campaigning

Labour leader’s ’responsible capitalism’ shows its bankruptcy

Labour’s failure puts centre stage the need for new mass anti-austerity force

Russell Brand calls on people to elect a Labour government, saying Ed Miliband will ’listen’ and wants pressure from below

Broadcast goes out on all 5 national terrestrial channels

Oppose the ’logic of capitalism’

Workers’ unity to defend pay jobs and services

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) standing throughout Britain in May elections

Its Tory-oriented anti-immigration, anti-EU rhetoric has been adapted to a right-wing populism aimed at winning voters fed up with the political establishment

Three decades ago he debated with Militant leaders who warned about degeneration of his party

Preparing the forces to fight capitalist austerity

As crisis of capitalism worsens, vital to organise and continue the struggle

As the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition gears up for its biggest ever electoral stand…

Labour’s pro-austerity ‘opposition’ no alternative

Socialism 2014 – infused with contagious confidence

Weekend of discussion & debate hosted by the Socialist Party – London 8-9 November

50 years of socialist ideas and workers’ struggle

Calls for local government strike action to be reinstated

End poverty, inequality and capitalism

Labour conference a carefully stage-managed affair

Build a working class alternative

"Britain will never be the same again"

The 2015 general election is a mere eight months away yet impossible to call. But what is clear is that none of the capitalist parties hold any real attraction for working class voters.

An Establishment cover-up?

Build workers’ movement

Call a general election now

Now Trade Unions must lead our fightback

The result has lit up the idea that fighting councillors can help build support for a real alternative to austerity

Questions and answers on socialist ideas

PCS calls for co-ordinated unions’ action to stop attacks on public sector workers and austerity

TUSC beginning to build an electoral voice for the millions not the millionaires

Commemorating union leader Bob Crow and socialist Labour MP Tony Benn

No recovery for working people and poor

Trade union and socialist coalition (TUSC) candidate count reaches 476 for May local election

No-cuts election challenge grows

Mourn the loss, fight for the future

Media attack Benn and Crow’s legacy and Militant

Preparing for a mighty upsurge in class struggle

Steadfast in speaking out for socialism

Bob Crow was a constant fighter for the working class and a champion of many important causes

Lessons of strike: united in decisive action the working class can win

Could signal a real step-change in the longer war against austerity

Much of the right-wing media whipped up hostility and alarm in the run up to the 1 January end of restrictions on entry to Britain for people from Romania and Bulgaria

The case for joint coordinated industrial action

Appeal of socialist change will grow

Tony Benn’s latest volume of diaries continues his frank and honest appraisal of his political life. He has campaigned long and hard – but in vain – to halt the degeneration of the Labour Party.

Reflecting a thirst to resist and the search for ideas

Time to gather forces for a real workers’ alternative is now

Mood for action against ConDem government

Trade unionists debate how organised working class can have a political voice

The case for a socialist alternative

A reply to Andrew Kliman

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…

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

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

New phase in struggle against austerity Workers travelled from across Britain to London today to express their fury at the Con-Dem government’s vicious cuts in living standards. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), which organised this […]

Labour leader promises more ’tough settlements for public services’

The Labour Party conference takes place at a crucial time. Working people are crying out for a lead in a mass movement which can force elections and topple the hated Con-Dem government.

"No sexual abuse! No excuse! No domestic abuse! No excuse!" was one of the chants on the lively and colourful Slutwalk London demonstration on Saturday 22 September.

Now name the date!

’TUC – name the date’

The need for democratic debate

Time for ’Plan S’ for socialism

Yet another ex-News of the World (NoW) journalist has been charged with having committed perjury during the 2010 trial of Scottish socialist Tommy Sheridan.

Attacks support for the failed system of big business, which will not spend its enormous cash piles.

Britain before the October 20 TUC demonstration

Solidarity needed to win basic rights and conditions

Privatisation and ‘outsourcing’ fails again – For publicly owned and run services!

The greatest sporting, and money-making, show on earth The 2012 Olympic Games, held in London, will start with the ‘Opening Ceremony’ on Friday 27 July, watched by an estimated audience of 1 billion people around […]

International solidarity from PCS union group executive

For nationalisation of banks and financial institutions with democratic public ownership

Editorial from The Socialist

Campaign Kazakhstan blog post

Rank-and-file union activists assemble for sixth annual National Shop Stewards Network conference

The government will be hoping that the Jubilee flotilla of 1,000 ships on the river Thames will serve as a useful distraction while it pushes through more swingeing cuts.

We must remove the undemocratic control of the 1% who deny to the 99% a voice in the media.

The Con-Dem government suffered a crushing defeat in last Thursday’s elections for local authorities and in the mayoral contests apart from London.

Pension cuts, job cuts, service cuts

Eleven years after the ‘kettling’ (containment) of an anti-capitalist protest in central London, the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment on the police tactic.

The need for concerted strike action against Con-Dem cuts in the public sector is more urgent than ever.

It shows the potential for anti-cuts election challenges

Decisive battles ahead

If any of the trade union leaders had any doubt about the full character of the onslaught facing the working class and the trade union movement, it should be dismissed now.

Time to fight for socialist change

International women’s day, 8 March, has been marked this year with an upturn in struggle, much of it to keep hold of many gains won in the past. Con-Dem austerity is hitting women hardest.

Video of Paul Callanan, Youth Fight For Jobs campaign on national UK news programme

Police break up St. Paul’s camp, which lasted for more than 100 days

A number of key unions are poised to strike-back on 28 March – and significant private-sector struggles continue.

The world famous Oxford Union was the setting for a debate on the proposition: "This House Believes That Capitalism has Failed the Poor".

London is a city of enormous disparities between rich and poor, the most unequal city in the developed world – a report from the city hosting this year’s olympics

How socialists and the local community fought back against racism and the BNP

Public sector union left group organises open conference to keep up the fight

Youth Fight for Jobs and the Jarrow march

Name the date for the next strike!

Protests in Berlin, London, Vienna, Brussels Update 18:15 GMT Swedish Protests

Conservatives speak for rich, not workers

What next after the strike of November 30?

What the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) and strikers said on 30 November 2011

Reports, striker’s views and socialist analysis of 30 November public sector general strike

First video report on this massive display of workers’ opposition to the British government’s attacks

"Make N30 the start of a fight to stop all cuts"

Cameron, the Murdoch empire and the police have been involved in a corrupt attempt to subvert the democratic rights of the British people

“Clarity of ideas, visionary strategy, combined with an astute tactical appreciation of the critical need to raise the mass consciousness of the working class.”

And vow that the struggle goes on

Stop state brutality in Kazakhstan!

Preparing for the showdown

"Better to break the law than break the poor"

The working class needs a new party

24 Hour Public Sector General Strike Now – Socialist Party placard, photo Paul Mattsson

London protest against state repression and in solidarity with oil workers

Why socialists must campaign for a new mass workers party

Public sector-wide action announced for 30 November!

…we need a programme of action to fight back!

National Shop Stewards’ Network lobbies Trades Union Congress (TUC)

The 30 June strikes were a turning point in the struggle against this government, giving a huge boost of confidence.

"What one change would have the biggest positive impact on society?"

August’s explosive events revealed a class society in crisis

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is organising a lobby of this year’s TUC (Britain’s trade union confederation) conference in London, 11 September

Mass, trade union-led response needed

A mass workers’ movement is needed to defeat the government

Fatal police shooting sparks eruption of protest and anger

Determination to struggle grows

Editorial of the Socialist newspaper, 20 July 2011

Socialist Party deputy general secretary Hannah Sell, speaking at a London Socialist Party meeting, examines the way forward for the trade union movement to defeat the cuts programme of the British ’ConDem’ government

‘Murdochgate’ is Britain’s Watergate

Unions must break the link!

We demand a full and independent inquiry, involving workers’ representatives, into the links between media moguls and the capitalist state

What next to defeat the cuts?

Reports from throughout the day

As the cuts bite, millions ask this question

Public sector and education unions call 24 hour strike on 30 June

Serious and inspiring preparation for the battles to come

The significance of the student movement

Wages fall: Office for National Statistics 2010 survey of hours and earnings

Lynn Walsh is speaking on the situation in Britain, the world economy and international perspectives

A massive social and political revolt is brewing in Britain, argues Peter Taaffe

Under the cover of the crisis an unprecedented offensive against the rights and conditions of the working class is underway.

The root of the government’s weakness is the continuing profound crisis of capitalism in general and British capitalism in particular

Witness the media torrent of sickly sentimentality over the royal wedding.

Developments in SWP confirm Socialist Party’s arguments for NSSN anti-cuts campaign

’The worst is yet to come’

Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, was the final platform speaker at a London aggregate to discuss the prospects of the trade union and anti-cuts movement

For a 24 hour general strike!

The massive Trade Union Congress (TUC – trade union federation) demonstration against public spending cuts was well over half a million strong, possibly 700,000 or more.

How to fight austerity and capitalism

Trades Union Congress national ’march for the alternative: jobs, growth, justice’

Conservative – Liberal Democrat government cuts devastating impact on women

Britain braced for massive 26 March demonstration

A party growing in strength

IN THE space of one month, the way young people are viewed by the mass media – and by themselves – was turned upside down.

Dramatic changes have affected Britain. The student protests of last year set the scene. Now the prospect of significant industrial action against savage public-sector cutbacks is on the agenda.

The massive 27% cut in central government funding to local authorities is having devastating consequences.

Four Socialist Party members were disciplined by Unison on trumped-up charges of racism, after producing a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference, challenging the Standing Orders Committee (SOC) about ruling resolutions off the conference agenda.

Kick out Mubarak and his cronies

Dip reflects the fragility of British capitalism’s ‘recovery’

Nearly 600 people, mostly workers with elected positions in trade union branches, trades councils, workplaces and anti-cuts alliances, met in London on 22 January for the special anti-cuts conference of the National Shop Stewards Network […]

National Shop Stewards Network conference 22 January

Defend the right to demonstrate

How to defeat cuts and tax rises?

How to fight the far right?

2010 – The most tumultuous year for two decades

Lifelong Militant/Socialist Party member

The ruling class in Britain is determined to make sure that it is not them, but the working class and young people, who pay for the crisis in their system.

On Thursday 9 December, while parliament debated the Con-Dem coalition government’s plan to treble university tuition fees, a fourth day of angry protest took place across the country.

On the debate how to fight the cuts

Just as the student movement reaches Day X, the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) has set out the agenda for its anti-cuts conference on 22 January.

Up to 130,000 school, college and university students walked out on Wednesday 24 November in the biggest education action for 25 years.

Tens of thousands of school and university students rage against attacks on education

50,000-strong student march an example to workers’ movement

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launches its campaign for the 2011 local elections

Interview with 3 protesters involved in occupying Tory HQ

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Socialism 2010, hosted by the Socialist Party during the weekend 6-7 November, was attended by over 900 people.

Massive student demo expresses anger against cuts

Assembled masses shake Con-Dem government

Midwife to a double dip?

4,000 workers from at least ten different trade unions, led by 100 striking firefighters, marched through central London on Saturday 23 October.

For a one-day public sector general strike

Trade union forced to respond with action

£81 billion cuts announced on "axe Wednesday"

Pro-big business politicians can be forced to retreat

Neil Kinnock’s speech to the 1985 Labour Party conference signalled the start of a purge of Marxists from the party and anticipated the creation of New Labour.

What strategy to beat the cuts?

"A tidal wave of protest is rolling towards the coalition government, roaring, foaming, darkening the sky, sucking every political argument into a lethal wall of water… delegates to the TUC, freed from decades of impotence, […]

Labour elects Ed Miliband as new leader

Earlier this year, four Unison activists, all Socialist Party members, were banned from office for up to three years. Their crime? Producing a leaflet for the union’s 2007 conference calling for greater democracy within the […]

Organising to save jobs and services

Autobiography shows aim to destroy Labour as a vehicle for working class struggle

Thursday 16 September saw one of the most formidable demonstrations in the capital city for some time. 2,500 uniformed firefighters marched with Fire Brigades Union (FBU) flags and placards, whistles and vuvuzelas, and even a […]

Youth Fight for Jobs protest

National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi

Fightback! Join the day of action on 20 October

Thousands demonstrate across Europe

Strike will start today

The only antidote to painful public-sector cuts

Do local councillors have ‘no choice’? – Lessons from 1980s Liverpool Council struggle

Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU) on Tuesday night (24 August).

London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.

With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.

…amid fears of a double-dip recession

After New Labour’s axe men began the education cuts, the Con-Dem butchers seem to have been let loose with a chainsaw.

The PCS civil servants union’s national executive committee (NEC) has met to discuss how to respond to the Tory/Liberal coalition government’s cuts and privatisation programme.

After weeks of vacillation the TUC has finally agreed NOT to call a national demo against the cuts this year.

For trade union led mass campaign to stop destruction of Health Service!

The next leader of Britain’s main ‘opposition’ party will be one of four New Labour clones.

It is one year since the occupation by sacked workers of the Vestas factory on the Isle of Wight.

Across Europe governments are pursuing the same policy of savage cuts.

An urgent call for united working class action

Stop budget attacks with mass action

Unison’s national delegate conference met in Bournemouth on 15-18 June. Against the background of the attacks of the Con-Dem government on public services and public sector workers, this was the most important conference to be […]

”News at 10”, one of the BBC’s most prominent news programmes on TV, reports about the growing resistance against cuts, featuring the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales)

Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) decides to contest future elections – can Labour be “re-claimed”?

The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour’s excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party – including New Labour – is […]

The first slice of cuts under the ’Con-Dem’ coalition government makes it clear that young people face a bleak future under its stewardship.

Not-so-new politics

Time for mass struggle to fight the cuts

Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, gave a sober but inspiring analysis of the general election outcome on a London meeting of the Socialist Party. Hear his speech here (40 min, mp3-file).

Britain has been ‘Con Dem-ned’ to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for working and middle-class people.

Cabin crew turn up the pressure on BA boss

All capitalist parties ’losers’

TUSC stands for socialism…and prepares for the battles ahead

Why, fundamentally, the Green Party is not offering a way forward for working class people

Why the BNP offers no way forward for working class people

The options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May general election.

The Socialist Party is part of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition presenting a socialist alternative to the main parties

Reject the parties of cuts and privatisation

Standing against cuts and privatisation

Strikers can beat BA bosses

Far-right English Defence League (EDL) outnumbered by anti-racist protesters in Bolton, Greater Manchester

A warning to the workers’ movement

The planned seven days of strike action in two separate walkouts on 20-22 March and 27-30 March by British Airways (BA) cabin crew opens up a new chapter in their ongoing dispute with BA management.

In substance, Britain’s general election campaign is a phoney war.

PCS members have demonstrated their anger at the attack on their Civil Service Compensation Scheme by staging a solid two-day strike that has affected courts, passport offices, jobcentres, tax offices and many other government services.

Women in education, trade unions, public sector and as parents

Workers today need new party to stop bosses’ onslaught

How 18 million people brought down Thatcher

Unison union witch-hunt – employment tribunal

Important step towards a new workers’ party

Electoral coalition to challenge bosses’ parties in general election

The British Labour Party was formed over 100 years ago to provide an independent political voice for working-class people. Ed Doveton describes this struggle, which is paralleled by today’s campaign for a new mass workers’ […]

Defend the right to strike!

1,000 people attend weekend of dicussion and debate hosted by Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales)

A battle that mass strike action can win

Main parties competing to slash our jobs and services – new party for workers, not bosses needed

No time to lose in creating a new socialist alternative

“We will fight on”

Return of accused Al-Magrahi to Libya ignites political storm

No victimisation! Reinstate the occupiers!

Nationalise to save jobs and the environment

Solidarity needed now!

Need for a working class political challenge

Council’s historic victory over the Thatcher government

Conference reflects on victories and discusses the way forward

World and British economic crisis continues

Militant action pays!

Workers show their strength

Support strikers at Lindsey oil refinery!

Workers’ solidarity forces Linamar bosses back

Victory in fight against victimisation of trade unionists!

Left-right balance unchanged with gains for the Socialist Party

Fighting socialist leadership needed

For an extension of genuine democracy

No MP to receive more than the average wage of a skilled worker!

‘Fish rot from the head first’.

Defend Rob Williams!

Step up the struggle – Messages of protest needed urgently!

Struggle ends in victory!

Bosses forced to the negotiation table

Reinstate Linamar car plant union convenor now – Messages of support urgently needed!

“Green shoots” of economic revival?

Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class

Video of march on the G20

Basildon, Belfast and Enfield plants occupied after put into administration

Under the guise of ‘fighting terrorism’ and ‘combating crime’ New Labour has introduced an avalanche of repressive legislation.

Perspectives for British capitalism in crisis, the class struggle and a workers’ alternative

In an important move, the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT) has announced its support for an electoral alliance to contest the forthcoming European elections in June.

Fighting trade union leadership needed

Saudi Trade Union dissident facing deportation

Take the banks into full public ownership and control

Lessons of the dispute

Strikes repel attacks on jobs and conditions

Firm strike leadership gains results

Strike action spreads – defend rights, wages and conditions!

Demands proposed by Socialist Party supporters agreed by mass meeting

Government fails to find a way out of crisis

Alistair Darling – “We are far from through this.”

Much interest in arguments for a socialist solution

2009 – Revolt is brewing in British society

The appearance of Tommy Sheridan in Celebrity Big Brother, the television ’reality’ show, will have disappointed many people who know of his role as an uncompromising fighter for the interests of the working class over […]

How long can it last?

An inspiring weekend of discussion and debate

Return of state intervention

After recent turmoil, can taxpayers’ £400 billion prevent a worsening crisis?

Crushing condemnation of neo-liberal agenda

Britain highly vulnerable to coming recession

Unions must break with pro-market Labour to build a workers’ party

Economy in crisis & politics in flux

Being asked to choose between New Labour and Tory governments is no choice at all.

Wanted: A new mass workers’ party

Rebuilding trade union strength

How can we fight for a working class political voice?

For a united struggle in the public sector & a political alternative to New Labour

Election meltdown for New Labour

Exception to the trend

None of the main candidates offer any hope.

Assessing progress, building for the future

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.

Successful rally and weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party

New Labour’s 2005 conference signified another, and perhaps decisive, nail in the coffin of this party as a specifically working-class party, at least at its base.

Red youth on 24 September demo say end imperialist occupation and capitalism

Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]

Tens of thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq. The Socialist Party and International Socialist Resistance contingent marched under the banner of ’unity against […]

The London bombings had a profound impact in West Yorkshire once it emerged that the alleged bombers came from Leeds and Huddersfield.

The fragmentation of Iraq?

The Battle for the re-instatement of the 800 sacked Gate Gourmet workers is proving to be a defining moment in the class struggle in Britain.

Bombings have left a huge imprint

After an earthquake comes an aftershock

Gate Gourmet, a catering company supplying British Airways, sacked up to 800 predominantly Asian workers at a few minutes notice at one of their sites at Heathrow on Wednesday 10 August.

Recent events have dramatically heightened the atmosphere of insecurity and tension in Britain, and particularly London.

A Yorkshire trade union rep’s viewpoint

Since the bombings, the Socialist Party has been calling for an emergency demonstration to be organised with the clear message: ‘No to terror, no to war, no to racism’.

The main reaction of working people to the horror of the London bombings has been a mood of unity against terrorism.

“Philosophers have interpreted the world the point is to change it”.

There is a huge wellspring of sympathy and solidarity – shared by the socialist – for the victims of the London tube and bus bombings. The unspeakable horrors that have been visited on the innocent […]

The Socialist Party group on public sector union UNISON’s 70-plus ruling National Executive Council (NEC) has been increased from three to five members following the recent elections.

New Labour wins third term but with lowest percentage support in history.

Election shows growing numbers have had enough of Tony Blair

Such is the distaste of the majority of the population for the coming general election that the numbers watching TV news has dropped 300,000 in the four weeks of the campaign.

The Socialist Party is standing a candidate in the general election to highlight the scandal of Rover’s collapse and to call for the renationalisation of the company. Louise Houldey, who has stood three times before […]

The ’ugly face of capitalism’

So they’re off and running in the general election stakes. But for ordinary voters looking for a party to back there appear to be more and bigger obstacles than anything in the Grand National course.

Since the introduction of universal suffrage, the gap between the world of Westminster and the reality of people’s lives has never been greater. In mid-February, when New Labour launched its election campaign, the country was […]

Blair is preparing to declare the general election.

Threat of co-ordinated strike action by public-sector unions over pensions forces major climbdown.

Who gains from Brown’s plans?

“A sad and disappointing day for the right to protest.”

Lively International Socialist Resistance contingent on 100,000-strong London protest

Socialist Party member in British public sector union, UNISON, comes second in General Secretary election campaign.

Successful picket of Israeli Embassy in London