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Con-Dem-ned to cuts...Time for the fight of our lives May 17, 2010
BRITAIN HAS been 'Con Dem-ned' to a future of savage attacks on public services, pay, pensions and benefits combined with tax increases for workin... [MORE]
Electoral Deadlock: All capitalist parties 'losers' May 09, 2010
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
In the issue of The Socialist immediately before the general election, we wrote: "The... [MORE]
Heading for a coalition government? April 24, 2010
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, discusses the options facing the capitalists and their parties following the 6 May ge... [MORE]
Voters face 'slash and burn' policies whoever wins election April 20, 2010
This is the first general election for eighteen years where the outcome is impossible to predict. Yet, far from being gripped by the drama, millio... [MORE]
The real lessons of the Poll Tax April 13, 2010
This article by councillor Rob Windsor appeared in a recent issue of the Socialist Newspaper.
The centre page article about the massive a... [MORE]
High court RMT strike ruling an attack on democracy April 05, 2010
Militant union leaders, including Bob Crow, are building general election challenge to 'big business' parties & their anti-union laws as the T... [MORE]
Michael Foot - the end of an era March 11, 2010
Many "Old Labour" workers and socialists will be saddened at the death of Michael Foot and will see it as signifying the death of an era.
Peter... [MORE]
100th anniversary of International Women's Day March 08, 2010
Women will be at the fore in the fightback!
At the turn of the century some feminists celebrated a 'genderquake', the idea that women... [MORE]
The great anti-poll tax victory March 04, 2010
How 18 million people brought down Thatcher
The majority of trade union leaders are completely unprepared to meet the onslaught on jobs and pub... [MORE]
Revisiting The Road to Wigan Pier February 26, 2010
George Orwell was perhaps the best known of the English socialist writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He is justifiably famous for books like 'Homage ... [MORE]
How to stop cuts and defend public services February 25, 2010
Nationally civil servants are facing an attack by the government on their 'compensation scheme' - their redundancy rights. This is part of the pre... [MORE]
Trade unions in Britain - are they ready for the coming battles? February 18, 2010
Recently, chancellor Alistair Darling said that halving the Government's deficit in four years was 'non-negotiable'.
He claimed that health, e... [MORE]
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition - Important step towards a new workers' party February 04, 2010
Clive Heemskerk reports on developments around the recently launched Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition.
THE DECISION to establish the Trad... [MORE]
Islam4UK, Wootton Bassett and the ‘war on terror’: Who benefits from the politics of provocation? January 22, 2010
Ten Years of the War on Terror
Introduction
As we enter the tenth year of US/British occupation of Afghanistan, it is fitting to remin... [MORE]
