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On May 7, 2012, François Hollande narrowly defeated incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy, ending 17 years of conservative presidencies in France. A month after its victory, the center-left Dutch Socialist Party (PS) and its allies won an…

The Socialist Party of Scotland (SSP) yesterday launched its manifesto for the May municipal elections, with a set of policies designed to tackle the escalating cost of living crisis. At the heart of the party's…

Macron, President of France. Photo: OECD/CC OECD Headquarters, Paris, France Photo: OECD/Andrew Wheeler Leïla Messaoudi, Secretary General of the Revolutionary Left (CWI, France) Anger at rising prices, record profits for multinationals…

Cooling tower Photo: piqsels.com Dave Carr, East London Socialist Party The Johnson government reinforces its commitment to developing nuclear energy with the announcement that it will take a 20% stake in the new 'Sizewell C'. The…

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The “big tankers” are making huge profits from the war in Ukraine. Photo: Paul Mattson Tom Baldwin, National Committee of the Socialist Party As the horror of the war in Ukraine dominates the headlines, the latest report by the United…

Gas prices in the United States keep rising and Democrats in Washington have found a convenient scapegoat for the pain inflicted on American drivers - Big Oil.President Joe Biden oil companies say “should not inflate their profits” as crude…

WF1 taxi drivers treated as second-class citizens by Wakefield Council sparked a strike and protest outside Wakefield Town Hall in West Yorkshire on March 2. Taxi union leader Yasar Ahmed told about 60 strikers that even their simple…

Dave Nellist, photo Paul Mattsson Editorial of the socialist, number 1170 The Birmingham Erdington by-election showed, with a pitiful turnout of just 27%, that the task of building a new vehicle for the political representation of the…

The crisis reaches its boiling point Russian President Vladimir Putin advances plans for a "Greater Russia" (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Reporters of the Committee for a Workers' International (CIO) Russian…

Judy Beishon, Socialist Party website editor A new Socialist Party website will replace the current one on Tuesday 1 March. The existing website has played an important role for two decades in spreading the ideas of the Socialist Party -…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1168/33800Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, February 23, 2022 Brighton Bin Strike. Photo: Brighton SP (Click to enlarge)Brighton Socialist Party Austerity has left Brighton…

Brighton Bin Strike. Photo: Brighton SP (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Brighton Socialist Party Austerity has left Brighton without vital services, a housing crisis and growing poverty as wages are slashed, with…

Fight for free, green and public transport (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Adam Goulcher, Gloucestershire Socialist Party Almost one in five households does not have access to a car. For those in the bottom 20%…

Anne Hidalgo, the socialist candidate for the presidency of France, of Seville origin and controversial mayor of Paris, won only 3% support during the campaign for the April elections. But now she is one of the "elephants" of the PS and a…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1167/33777Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, February 16, 2022 Socialist Party member Oisin Mulholland shows solidarity on the UCU picket line at Swansea University (Click to…

Socialist Party member Oisin Mulholland shows solidarity on the UCU picket line at Swansea University (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Beginning of ten days of action in the dispute over pensions and the "four fights"…

Campaigning in Erdington (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Joe Foster, Erdington resident and Birmingham North Socialist Party A worker we met told us: “These deputies who have two houses while some cannot have one,…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1166/33712Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, February 9, 2022 Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. Photo: Andrew Parsons, 10 Downing Street/CC (Click to enlarge)Usemu Makaya…

Fight for trans rights, photo Tom Wolf/CC (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Michael Johnson's article, "Stonewall attacked by the establishment" (The Socialist, December 15, 2021), refers to "some members of the women's and…

As a trio of right-wing candidates attempt to challenge centrist incumbent President Emmanuel Macron in France's upcoming presidential election, the country's once-dominant left is barely holding its own.Dr. Sylvain Catherine, French…

Portugal's social-democratic Socialist Party (PS) was returned to power in the general elections on January 30, winning a surprise absolute majority.The PS won 117 seats out of the 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic, and just under…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1165/33690Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, February 2, 2022 Anti-cuts protest in Portsmouth, photo Nick Doyle (Click to enlarge)Nick Doyle, Portsmouth Socialist Party City…

Portugal's ruling Socialist Party (PS) won early parliamentary elections on Sunday, securing an outright majority in parliament, according to exit polls. Prime Minister Antonio Costa, the leader of the PS, said in his victory speech that…

MADRID Portugal's ruling Socialist Party (PS) won early parliamentary elections on Sunday, exit polls show. According to initial projections by Portuguese broadcaster RTP, the PS, led by Prime Minister Antonio…

Patrick BurnsFebruary 2022 The Giant Leap of Work: Twenty Years of CIO must be at the top of every union activist's reading list. It details the "independent life" of the militant labor federation, the…

Kornelia Ninova remains the leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party after the party congress rejected it resignation in a closed discussion and a vote with 415 votes against, 164 for and 20 abstentions. Discussions and voting on Kornelia…

Come to the trade union and socialist conference TUSC campaigns in Enfield, North London Helen Pattison, Socialist Party London regional secretary The local newspaper in the London Borough of Camden publishes almost weekly…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1162/33582Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, January 12, 2022 From Liverpool youth leader to taking on the press barons in Bradford Pauline (right) with her granddaughter,…

From Liverpool youth leader to taking on the press barons in Bradford Pauline (right) with her granddaughter, Charlotte Spencer, member of the Socialist Party (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Keith Dickinson, West…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1161/33523From The Socialist, January 6, 2022 Gareth Bromhall, Socialist Party of Swansea and West Wales We were saddened to learn of the death of longtime Socialist Party member…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/33499Posted on December 20, 2021 at 14:48 GMT Renationalize the railways For many hard-pressed households this Christmas, news of a sharp 3.8% increase in regulated rail fares…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1160/33485From The Socialist newspaper, December 15, 2021 Union representative talks to socialist Stagecoach workers picket line in South Wales (Click to enlarge)Lee Hunt,…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1160/33485From The Socialist newspaper, December 15, 2021 Union representative talks to socialist Stagecoach workers picket line in South Wales (Click to enlarge)Lee Hunt,…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1158/33402From The Socialist newspaper, December 1, 2021 Demonstration in front of Newham town hall against another series of draconian cuts by the Labor Council (Click to…

Demonstration outside Newham Town Hall against another round of draconian cuts by the Labor Council Newham resists cuts Newham Resists have agreed to campaign for a no cut, needs a budget to show there is an alternative to the…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1157/33377From The Socialist newspaper, November 24, 2021 Sage picket line, UVW photo (Click to enlarge)Workers at Sage nursing homes in Golders Green, north London, have won an…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela and his allies have won regional elections in which the opposition has participated for the first time in four years. Sunday's vote for the governors and mayors of…

The petty-bourgeois left-wing Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda, BE) calls for an alliance with the ruling Socialist Social Democratic Party (PS) in the parliamentary elections scheduled for January 30, 2022. The early elections have been called by…

Headlines say unemployment is down. Commentators speak of a labor shortage and the so-called 'Great Quit', a wave of people quitting jobs, especially those with low pay and few benefits . Workers are on strike across the country, a…

“Slow and steady wins the race,” the old saying goes. That's fine for running a marathon, but with the planet on the verge of irreversible damage and the majority of its people facing a struggle to survive, swift action is imperative.Enter…

Doreen McGrathdecember 2021 Kshama Sawant speaks at a 2017 rent control rally. PHOTO: socialistalternative.orgWho votes on December 7? Seattle voters do it when there's a big,…

december 2021 John Deere workers went on strike in October and November for higher wages, better benefits and a secure retirement.300 work stoppages By the way, 2021 has been a banner year for…

In the first 16 days of November, around 20 coordinated Twitter accounts described Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez as "beautiful" 100 times and "magnificent" 39 times. It's a curious anecdote, which might have gone unnoticed if the…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1156/33338From The Socialist, November 17, 2021After the failure of COP26 Photo: Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)Lluis Bertolin, Socialist Party of South West Birmingham An…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1156/33345From The Socialist, November 17, 2021 Demonstration for action against climate change, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)After banning young climate change…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1156/33348From The Socialist, November 17, 2021 Swansea DVLA workers on strike in July, photo Swansea Trades Council (Click to enlarge)Dave Warren, PCS member and retired DVLA…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1156/33329From The Socialist, November 17, 2021 Starmer firing BLM made me quit work Socialist Party at Black Lives Matter (Click to enlarge)Isabelle France, Socialist Party of…

(Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Isai Priya, Treasurer of the Socialist Party The Today programme, on BBC Radio 4, examined the state of the NHS and its history. The pressure on the NHS and social care is…

November 11, 2021 The Socialist Freedom Party supports the International Alliance of Theater Employees (IATSE) workers fighting for a fair and just contract from the…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1155/33293From The Socialist newspaper, November 10, 2021 COP26 London, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)Adam Harmsworth, Socialist Party of Coventry COP26 is a week away…

Stevenage town centre, photo BWCSEB1989/CC (Click to enlarge: opens in a new window) Mark Pickersgill, Stevenage Socialist Party This year marks the 75th anniversary of the New Towns Act implemented by the post-war Labor…

Home | Le Socialiste November 3, 2021 | Join the Socialist Party Subscribe | Make a donation | audio | PDF | Ebook YFJ Steps, 9.10.21, in London, photo Mary Finch (Click to enlarge)Rhys Davies, Socialist Party…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1154/33250From The Socialist, November 3, 2021Capitalism destroys the planet Newcastle: Protesters against climate change, 24.5.19, photo E Brunskill (Click to enlarge)James…

Developments in North Macedonia are accelerating after Zoran Zaev's ruling Social Democratic Party (SDSM) suffered a crushing defeat in the second round of municipal elections held yesterday Sunday. Zoran Zaev said last night that he took…

Portuguese Communist Party leader Jeronimo de Sousa, right, and other Communist MPs attend a parliamentary session in Lisbon. The…

Portuguese Communist Party leader Jeronimo de Sousa, right, and other Communist MPs attend a parliamentary session in Lisbon. The…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1153/33221From The Socialist newspaper, October 27, 2021 Schoolchildren fighting for system change over climate strikes, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)Nick Hart,…

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Party of European Socialists (PES) President Sergei Stanishev (L) welcomes socialist PASOK party leader Fofi Gennimata during a meeting of European Socialists in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 16, 2016. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/ File…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33191From The Socialist newspaper, October 20, 2021 David Dixon / CC Gas Plant (Click to enlarge)Josh Asker, Socialist Party of North London The bosses of energy-intensive…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33201From The Socialist newspaper, October 20, 2021 Workers on strike at One Housing in 2013. Photo: Helen Pattison (Click to enlarge)Paul Kershaw, President, Branch LE1111…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33200From The Socialist newspaper, October 20, 2021 Brighton bin strike, 2013. Photo: Brighton SP (Click to enlarge)Joe Mott, Brighton Socialist Party Brighton bin strikers…

The issue of legalizing marijuana has exposed divisions within the Spanish government, led by a center-left coalition of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and its junior partner Unidas Podemos. The PSOE on Tuesday voted against a proposal to…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33192From The Socialist newspaper, October 20, 2021 sebastiankurz-EU2018-EuropeanParliament-CC (Click to enlarge)Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Offensive (CWI Austria)…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1152/33200Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, October 20, 2021 Brighton Bin Strike, 2013. Photo: Brighton SP (Click to enlarge)Joe Mott, Brighton Socialist Party Brighton bin…

In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 riot in Washington, DC, a photo of a man holding a walis tambo (Filipino whip broom) inside the Capitol went viral online among Filipinos. The man was Kene Brian Lazo, a Filipino immigrant who was…

Denis sandersOctober 2021 On April 8, in the midst of India's second deadly wave of Covid-19 infections, a vaccination center in Mumbai ran out of stock. PHOTO: Francis Mascarenhas /…

September 23, 2021 Women's rights defenders and Afghan civilian activists demonstrate to call on the Taliban to preserve their achievements and education, outside the presidential palace in Kabul,…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1148/33051Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, September 22, 2021 Climate strikers in Sheffield, 14.2.20, photo Sheffield Socialist Party (Click to enlarge)Sam Morden,…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1146/32991Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, September 8, 2021 Dave Nellist - chairman of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and member of the Socialist Party national…

Progressive political activist and social reformer, Freda Ameringer helped the Oklahoma Socialist Party…

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Californians face disaster on many levels. Fires are consuming entire cities, the COVID Delta variant is infecting thousands, and unpaid rent and student debt threaten to swell the ranks of the homeless. The ruling Democratic Party in the…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1145/32947Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, August 25, 2021 LornaMCampbell/CC (Click to enlarge)Statement from the Socialist Party of Scotland The ruling Scottish National…

(Adds that voting seems slow) CARACAS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Venezuela's ruling Socialist Party is holding a primary on Sunday to…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1143/32860From The Socialist newspaper, July 28, 2021 The NSSN meeting discussed what free ports mean for workers (Click to enlarge)Nick Chaffey, Secretary of the Socialist…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1143/32865Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, July 28, 2021 The Socialist Party joined the protest in Barnsley (Click to enlarge)Angie Waller, South Yorkshire Socialist Party…

Lois DanksAugust 2021 The mayor of Sequim proudly displays his intolerance while shopping. PHOTO: Posted anonymously onlineFar-right Republicans are stepping up their offensives in…

Eighteen months after last pandemic, many observations can be made about the origins and responses to the Covid-19 virus. The 24-hour news cycle and lack of critical analysis has left much of the world's population uninformed, confused and…

Madrid, June 30 (EFE) .- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday that there would be no referendum on independence in Catalonia because the Socialist Party (PSOE) he leads "will not accept it never".!-->…

Marine Le Pen's far-right party holds its message of security and stop immigration high as French voters begin to choose regional leaders on Sunday in an election that is seen as a dress rehearsal for the next year's presidential…

The country's electoral authority has not confirmed the victory, but Pedro Castillo holds a tiny lead over Keiko Fujimori.The leader of the socialist party who appears to be on the verge of winning the Peruvian presidential election claimed…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1137/32625Excerpt from The Socialist newspaper, June 9, 2021 Climate strike in London on September 20, 2019, photo Paul Mattsson, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)Dan…

One of the founders of a new left-wing environmental political party says he wants to transform the Irish state to "achieve the conditions for eco-socialism". An Rabharta Glas - which translates to the green tidal wave - was founded by…

After Switzerland ended negotiations with the EU on a new framework agreement, a parliamentary group of Socialist Party members is pushing for Switzerland to become a member of the EU, according to Le Matin newspaper. © Christoph…

It was inevitable that the 12th National Convention of Portugal's Radical Left Bloc (BE), the third largest parliamentary force, would be different from its predecessors – the COVID-19 pandemic guaranteed that. A low delegate-to-member…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1133/32504From The Socialist, May 12, 2021 Tony Saunois, secretary of the Committee for a Workers' International (CIO) After a very polarized and bitter electoral campaign, the…

Bulgaria's socialist political alliance - BSP for Bulgaria - will officially refuse the mandate to form a government today. BSP chief Kornelia Ninova followedPhoto: AP Bulgaria's socialist political alliance - BSP for Bulgaria - will…

Master political strategist Ivan Redondo controls the tactics of the ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) so tightly, some observers joke that PSOE Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is nothing but a hologram generated by the laptop from…

Updated on March 25, 2021 at 9:17 p.m. With enough ballot petition signatures in New York potentially out of reach, the city's declared Socialist Workers Party candidates have said they will continue to focus on the New Jersey…

The government of the Socialist Party (PSOE) -Podemos is stepping up the persecution of rapper Pablo Hasél and the crackdown on demonstrations in his defense. This is part of a wider campaign by the European ruling class on freedom of…

Denis SandersDecember 2020 London, March 15, 2019. Young people around the world have come out in force for several global climate strikes. PHOTO: Garry KnightThe global…

Spain chose a prime minister on Tuesday, ending nearly a year of political stalemate that included two inconclusive elections. The Spanish Parliament in Madrid elected Pedro Sánchez Prime Minister, at the…

MADRID (AP) - Leaders of Spain's Socialist Party and the left-wing United We Can party said on Tuesday they had reached a preliminary agreement to form a coalition government, two days after parliamentary elections…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1061/29759From The Socialist, October 23, 2019 Funeral of Tony Mulhearn on October 21, 2019 (Click to enlarge)Theo Sharieff, youth and student organizer of the Socialist Party…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1060/29712From The Socialist, October 16, 2019 No confidence in regional and imperialist powers Across the country, members of the Socialist Party joined in solidarity…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1060/29725From The Socialist, October 16, 2019 PCS union members at the “Climate Strike” protest, London, 20.9.19. (Click to enlarge)Helen Pattison, Socialist Party of London…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1060/29730From The Socialist, October 16, 2019 This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution. In the second in a series of articles marking this event, Tom Baldwin…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1060/29731From The Socialist, October 16, 2019 A revolutionary socialist alternative is needed Events in Ecuador 2019, photo Voz de America / CC (Click to enlarge)Tony Saunois,…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1058/29656From The Socialist, October 2, 2019 photo Kevin Parslow (Click to enlarge)Mark Best, Socialist Party membership organizer Have you read the Socialist and thought about…

The Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) has filed a complaint against the Association of Civil Servants of Macao (ATFPM) for alleged “abnormal situations” linked to the sending of votes by mail for the October parliamentary elections in…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1058/29650From The Socialist, October 2, 2019 Karro Food workers process pork products, photo Jane Charlesworth / CC (Click to enlarge)Karro Foods workers in Hull got a 7.1% pay…

The April legislative elections in Spain were certainly a step forward for the Socialist Party. But it was only a step back from his “third way”. Vicente Navarro In the elections to the Spanish Parliament on April 28, the Socialist Party…

Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sanchez attends a parliamentary nomination debate in Madrid, Spain, March 2, 2016.Andrea Comas | ReutersSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told CNBC that a government led by his Socialist…

Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1045/29222From The Socialist, June 5, 2019 Nineteen Eighty-Four was "an outpouring of human frustration and anxiety as it moved from a world war to the cold war", image by…

Running out of absolute majority, Sánchez's PSOE will have to forge alliances to rule Socialists under Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez won early elections, without the majority needed to rule solo, in a fragmented political…

Spain's ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) won its first electoral victory since the financial crisis, although it failed to secure an overall majority.With most of the results confirmed, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was assured of securing an…

The results raise the specter of a new period of instability for Spain, with Pedro Sanchez dependent on alliances with hostile rivals in an…

Pedro Sánchez at the Spanish Congress on Wednesday Lamoncloa.gob multimedia Last Sunday marked the most contested general elections in Spanish history. With a record 75% turnout, nine percentage…