It is not a good time to be sick, disabled, young, low paid or a single parent in Britain. The new Tory government wasted no time in utilising its shock election win and the mandate they achieved for severe cuts [...]
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Category "July 2015"
British values and the historic power of denial
Michael Gove as Education Secretary, was more terrifying than any horror film his late friend Christopher Lee starred in throughout a sixty year career. His inability to listen to anyone with vast teaching experience and his pig-headed belief in his [...]
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Negotiating a difficult path
We publish in this issue a document presented by the Independent Socialist Network (ISN) to the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) national steering committee on 17 June 2015, to discuss the question of how to develop TUSC. The document [...]
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Disability and Eugenics – Has Socialism anything to say?
Disability provokes such deep feelings and creates such controversy in society that it must surely be a key issue for any socialist movement. Yet communist, leftist and social democratic movements often have very little to say. ‘Work’ seems so central [...]
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Another Europe is possible
Europe. The very word conjures up pictures of unelected bureaucrats and no-mark politicians sitting in a distant parliament passing laws on how much a banana can bend and imposing dodgy things like human rights on us. The European Union (EU) [...]
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The Elections, and the Left
For the May Day issue of The Project I was asked to write some reflections on the 2015 elections as the campaign unfolded in March and April. This, of course, implied an unspoken duty of some sort of prediction. At [...]
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Scotland after the elections
May’s General Election saw a surge in nationalism on both sides of the border. In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) overturned the longstanding dominance of the Labour Party to win 56 of the 59 Scottish seats, while the Conservative [...]
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Reflections of a Left Unity candidate
One percent of the vote is hardly something to write home about – but this is the reality of the situation facing the majority of the left of Labour candidates across the country. It is not easy to accept - [...]
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Remembering CND and the anti-nuclear movement
Socialists argued about nuclear wars in the 1950’s and concluded that, on numerous grounds, nuclear wars would be a total disaster for millions of innocent people, poisoned and maimed, and the planet itself would suffer irreparable damage to its environs [...]
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What next for TUSC? – Proposals from the Independent Socialist Network
We present this paper in the spirit of comradely participation with our comrades in TUSC. We believe that TUSC is a significant achievement that should be maintained and developed. We present the ideas in this paper to assist that aim. This [...]
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