On May 1, TUSC electoral candidate for the Abbey Ward by-election, Tessa Warrington, gave the following public speech at the Stocking Farm Community Centre. I find it fitting that on International Workers’ Day we are meeting here to discuss the brutal attacks this feckless government is carrying out on working people in the form of […]
If you look at one of our local ambulances, you see the words “Arriva, in partnership with the NHS”. You might be mistaken for thinking that, out of a sense of community responsibility, the bus company has lent the NHS some vehicles for use. In fact, Arriva have bought out the East Midlands non-emergency ambulance […]
In the 1990s under Tony Blair, the Labour Party abandoned even the pretense of socialist ideals by getting rid of the ‘socialist’ Clause IV. Internal democracy within Labour has also been dispensed with completely (although it had been under attack from Kinnock, with the witch-hunt of Militant). Labour are now as much a party of the rich […]
Lincoln Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition supporters have selected Nick Parker as the candidate for the Lincoln East by-election. The vacancy has arisen as a result of the national scandal which broke out after it was revealed that the sitting Tory councillor, Reverend Sara Cliff, had attended 19 meetings in the course of over 3 […]
Under capitalism, all that matters is profit… ever-increasing profits; with human welfare always relegated to the sidelines. Small businesses grow or die in this uncertain and highly competitive landscape, and those rare family businesses that manage to succeed in this hostile climate are considered prime targets for acquisition by profit-hungry corporations. RF Brookes factory in South Wigston, Leicester, is a case in point. Opening their first family-managed pie factory in 1957 in Warwickshire, RF Brookes soon upgraded to a premises in Leicester, and in the process became known as the best pie manufacturer in the Midlands.
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing against all cuts to public services. Its candidates are ordinary working people and trade unionists. We stand for the millions, not the millionaires. Train driver and Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union president, Alex Gordon, appeals to Londoners to vote for TUSC in the forthcoming Greater […]
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