Europe

Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto public meeting on socialist alternative

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.

The socialist alternative to a continent in crisis

“A strong SAV strengthens the left in DIE LINKE”

Interests of energy giant ENI over-ride democracy and party policies

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

An 18-year-old student activist Clement Meric was murdered in Paris in broad daylight, on 5 June, by neo-fascist skinheads. This must be answered by mass mobilisation to halt attempts by the far right to raise […]

Police repression in the belly of the beast

Over 2,000 poeple attended the anti – bedroom tax rally in Glasgow’s George Square on June 1 called by the Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax Federation.

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

After Lafontaine’s proposal to get rid of the Euro – what should the left say?

Union-agreed rates could bring Amazon workers 9000 euros more a year

The latest events that have happened in Italian politics mark a new phase of development in the crisis in the third European industrial power.

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.

Irish Presidency brought unprecedented levels of cuts to the EU budget.

Writing off of any debt accrued due to the bedroom tax, supporting the building of new social housing, opposing all cuts and austerity measures

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.

Socialist polices needed to resolve crisis in the interests of majority

The Troika’s bail-out package is an economic and social disaster for the people of Cyprus.

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.

The rise of the Pirate Party is a transient expression of underlying anti-party sentiment and a protest vote against the policies and actions of the established parties

In his ‘tsunami’ election tour Grillo began to give voice to the deep discontent at economic crisis and austerity

No trust in capitalist government! No austerity for the Euro! Kick out the Troika! For a socialist alternative![Updated article, 25 March]

… and more action after

Alternative energy and socialist planning needed

Ken Loach: "I want people to be angry"

Over 100 people packed into the Glasgow City Unison Offices on March 13th for a public meeting to build for the Anti-Bedroom Tax demonstration on March 30th. The meeting which brought together people from across […]

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.