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Dave Walsh, Liverpool Socialist Party member, is chair of Liverpool and District Trades Union Council. As a teenager in the 1980s, he was one of hundreds of young people employed as an apprentice by Liverpool’s Militant-led Labour council which defied the cuts and beat back Thatcher’s Tories. For many years, the Socialist Party has put the demand for a new ...

Sarah Sachs Eldridge, Socialist Party Executive Committee, responds to questions from socialists in Germany, members of Sol, the German section of the CWI (the socialist international which the Socialist Party is also a member of) 700,000+ have signed up to support the call for a new party announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. What is the background to that development?   Since the ...

Victory to the bin workers – support the mega-picket on 25 July and call a national Saturday demonstration in Birmingham Support the suspension from Unite membership of Angela Rayner and the cutting Birmingham Labour councillors Fight for a political voice for workers The emergency motion to support the striking Birmingham bin workers, suspend from Unite membership Deputy Prime Minister Angela ...

Statement by the International Secretariat Committee For A Workers’ International It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Peter Taaffe, who after a long illness died on 23 April 2025. The loss of Peter is a big blow to the working-class movement and Trotskyism internationally. Since becoming active in the revolutionary movement in 1960, Peter made an ...

By Dave Reid Thousands of farmers have been protesting at the changes to inheritance tax laws contained in Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget. The changes mean that the exemption from paying inheritance tax on agricultural land valued at over £1.5 million is removed, and farms worth over that amount will be liable for 20% inheritance tax when the owners die. ...

Launching the second of the Socialist Party’s  Introduction to Marxism series, Judy Beishon traces the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the current brutal war on Gaza. This is a shortened version of the original article which can be read in full at socialismtoday.org The world’s imperialist powers have always intervened in the Middle East for their own political, strategic and economic interests. ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1199 written before the resignation of Truss but confirmed by subsequent events After twelve years of Tory-led governments lining the pockets of the richest and inflicting austerity on the majority, the Tories are reaching the end of the road. This Tory government is melting down in front of our eyes. Truss is on her way ...

Editorial of the Socialist, issue 1170 The horror of war, of families fleeing for their lives as bombs fall on their cities and towns, is dominating the news. Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is being watched with fear and revulsion. His farcical propaganda claims this is a ‘special military operation’, designed to fight ‘Ukrainian fascism’. Yet Ukraine is being trampled ...

By Niall Mulholland The war in Ukraine has revisited the ‘national question’ in Europe, ie the language, culture, and democratic rights of populations to territory, in a bloody manner, not seen since the Balkans wars in the 1990s following the breakup of Yugoslavia. Niall Mulholland of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) explains how capitalism cannot peacefully solve the ...

Trade unions must fight for a new workers’ party Editorial from The Socialist Issue 1249 The person who said New Labour was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich” is now intensely happy about the results of this year’s Labour Party conference. Architect of Blairism, Lord Peter Mandelson, is “just thrilled” at this “tremendous win for Keir Starmer”. He said: ...