Tag Archives: Labour

General Election now! For a Jeremy Corbyn-led government with socialist policies Boris Johnson, the Eton-educated millionaire and Trump wannabe, got to number ten with the votes of just ninety thousand members of the Tory Party, less than 0.25% of the electorate. Now he is using his position to over-rule elected MPs. This is one more indication of how big-business politicians ...

By Rob Williams (former Unite convenor at ex-Swansea Ford plant) After months if not years of rumours and speculation, which have shredded the nerves of workers and their families, Ford have finally announced the closure of the Bridgend Engine Plant after nearly 40 years of production. This is a catastrophe for these 1,700 workers, their families and communities and the ...

By Hannah Sell The minority Tory government faces a historic crisis, hanging on by a thread. Theresa May has lost an unprecedented series of votes in parliament, her party utterly split on Brexit. A snap general election could be called any time. These are critical times for the workers’ movement and Labour’s left-wing leadership. Three-and-a-half years ago, four months after ...

By Ross Saunders Statistics show that austerity has created terrible suffering in our communities. Life expectancy – stalled. Infant mortality – up. Children in poverty – up. Suicide rates – up. And now a new report has confirmed that it has also seriously damaged the economy. The New Economics Foundation has said that cuts by Tory-led governments in the last ...

Another week, another desperate attempt by Theresa May to hold her party together and in power. The possibility of getting rid of this rotten Tory government and the misery it is inflicting on millions is clear. Another week, another desperate attempt by Theresa May to hold her party together and in power. The possibility of getting rid of this rotten ...

Tories torn apart, French workers and youth in revolt, ‘populism’ on the rise … revolution in the air? By Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party “I have never been more ashamed to be a Conservative. We continue to be led by a mule flogging a dead horse” (Allison Pearson, Daily Telegraph columnist). This blistering attack on Prime Minister Theresa May and the Tory government – before ...

Editorial in The Socialist 11/07/2018 For mass trade union-led struggle against the weak and divided government Demand an immediate general election For a Corbyn-led government with socialist policies Theresa May is clinging to power by a thread. For the first time since 1982 two cabinet ministers have resigned within 24 hours, as the Brexit civil war has ignited into a ...

By Dave Reid In 2003 Rhodri Morgan Welsh Labour First Minister proclaimed that his government was creating “clear red water” between it and Blair’s New Labour government in Westminster. The Welsh Labour brand was launched as a distinct banner from Blairism or ‘British’ Labour. Welsh Labour in government was charting its own course distinct from New Labour. Proponents of the ...

By Dave Reid Hundreds will be rallying in Tredegar in South Wales on July 1st to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. The march assembles at the house of Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS, who based the principles of the NHS on the Tredegar Workmen’s Medical Aid Society. He used his experience in providing cheap ...

An article in the June 2018 issue (no. 219) of Socialism Today The Labour right wing and capitalist establishment are waging a colossal campaign to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party and his anti-austerity policies. Particularly pernicious is the avalanche of antisemitism allegations levelled against him – and the left in general. This threat can only be answered ...