Tag Archives: Keir Starmer

The price of everything is cranking up again, our services – the NHS, schools, universities, local councils – are crumbling from years of austerity. And despite a Labour government promising change, two years on, it feels like nothing has. Attacks on pensioners’ winter fuel payments, disability benefit cuts, the initial refusal to remove the cruel two-child benefit cap, hiring Mandelson ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1358 US and Israeli missiles are continuing to rain down on Iran, with thousands killed. The Iranian regime is in turn still firing at targets across the Middle East. Fifteen countries have so far been hit by one side or the other, with an estimated 7.5 million people living within 1km of a missile or ...

Helen Pattison, Socialist Party Executive Committee The latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files have taken the crisis facing Keir Starmer’s Labour government to new depths. Starmer’s position is now terminal, though it could drag on. He will hope that the resignation of his most senior adviser Morgan McSweeney and his head of communications will buy him more time. Donald Trump, ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1350 For anyone still wondering whether the capitalist system can provide a secure and stable world, the start of 2026 has been a brutal reality check. Trump’s kidnapping of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro, and his to-the-point honesty in declaring his actions a defence of the economic and strategic interests of American imperialism – in this ...

We need spending on welfare not warfare Make the super-rich pay not disabled people Since taking office, Keir Starmer’s Labour government have kept the Tory two-child benefit cap and reduced eligibility for the winter fuel allowance. WASPI women were denied pension compensation. Starmer says he wants to “redesign the state”, this means massive cuts to public spending with the worst ...

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1312 Under Donald Trump’s brutish ‘America First’ presidency, US imperialism’s ruthless determination to defend its own interests is no longer disguised by diplomatic fig leaves. Instead, naked self-interest is the order of the day. That was demonstrated to the world at the jaw-dropping Oval Office press conference where Trump and vice-president JD Vance gave Ukrainian president ...

Build the socialist opposition to Starmer’s Labour By Joe Fathallah, Cardiff Socialist Party As if working-class people are not already struggling enough with rising bills and prices, from this April essential bills are set to increase by an average of almost £250 for millions of households. Energy prices are projected to rise by an average of £47 a year, water ...

Build the socialist opposition Editorial of the Socialist issue 1293 On Saturday 5 October 2024, the Socialist Party took part in the biggest anti-war demonstration since the first months of the onslaught on Gaza, marching on 10 Downing Street, the New Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s residence. The marchers’ need to make their voices heard against the nightmarish events taking ...

By Paul Kershaw Pensioners’ groups and unions, including the National Pensioners Convention, Scottish Pensioners Forum and Unite, rallied outside Parliament before lobbying MPs to oppose Starmer’s abolition of the universal winter fuel payment. Unite branches where the campaign has been raised have found a big response from members and the lively crowd reflected the depth of feeling against this attack ...

By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party and Swansea Trades Council Tata’s threat to close down its UK steel operations must be met with united strike action from all of the steel unions! Over the weekend, Rajesh Nair, Tata steel CEO, has responded to Unite’s planned work to rule and overtime ban, due to start on June18th, with a threatening letter ...