Over the last week we have witnessed in Stoke-on-Trent the fundamental chasm that exists between the Blairite right-wing representing the big business establishment and the anti-austerity and socialist movement that’s developing behind Jeremy Corbyn in the battle for Labour leader. Last week: Supporter of big business, turned ‘socialist’ within 24 hours Owen Smith sneaked into Stoke […]
JEREMY CORBYN IS COMING TO STOKE! Hanley 1pm on Thursday 1st September . With Jeremy Corbyn MP, leader of the Labour Party Maxine Penkethman (CWU & Stoke South CLP) Andrew Fox-Hewitt (FBU & Newcastle-u-Lyme CLP) Shakira Rosenau (Young Labour & Stoke South CLP) Clare White (WEA & Stoke North CLP) This rally will happen at […]
Blairite machine’s methods are akin to those of a police state The Socialist Party condemns the suspension of Ronnie Draper, BFAWU bakers’ union general secretary, from Labour Party membership by the Blairite machine and we call for his immediate reinstatement. The BFAWU is a militant union that has been at the forefront of fighting […]
Another excellent public meeting hosted by Stoke Socialist Party last night. Young and old came together to discuss the need to fight for Socialism across the world and the role of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) in that struggle. The youngest was 15 year old Olivia and the oldest was in his 70’s. […]
Socialists and Corbynistas from inside and outside the Labour Party met together last night in Stoke at a public meeting hosted by Stoke Socialist Party. A very lively and fraternal discussion took place about the nature and significance of the latest attempt at attacking Jeremy Corbyn by the Blairite right-wing. Below is a slightly edited […]
Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party, has blamed “Trotsky entryists” for “twisting the arms” of young Labour Party members to support Jeremy Corbyn. This is a laughable attempt to patronise the hundreds of thousands of young people who are supporting Jeremy Corbyn not because anyone has ‘twisted their arms’ but as a result […]
A series of public meetings hosted by Stoke Socialist Party We can’t trust career politicians, the establishment parties or the mass media. Everything they do is done in the interests of big business, so that they get richer at our expense. The Socialist Party exists to fight for the interests of working class people. In […]
Stoke Socialist Party members have been busy building support for Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-austerity policies by speaking to hundreds of people over the last few days in Newcastle and Hanley. Most were Labour Party members and many were young. Some didn’t back Corbyn but they do now! We had to convince some that Owen Smith’s sudden […]
Another very good stall in Hanley today building support for Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader with anti-austerity policies like £10 an hour minimum wage, renationalisation of energy companies and the railways, for free education and a mass council house building programme. Many local people signed our petition, around a third of whom were Labour Party […]
This morning we received the following appeal to support Greek bus cleaners via the CWI – the international organisation which the Socialist Party is part of; “We have been informed that in the next days the board of the public bus company of Athens, O.SY., will hold a meeting that will decide to sack the […]
Earlier this morning, supporters of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) and Stafford Socialist Party joined around 30 comrades from the POA who were staging a one hour ‘meeting’ outside HMP Stafford. As the POA are prohibited from taking strike action, this meeting was held to show their anger at the ongoing cuts to their budget […]
Stoke Socialist Party members were busy again on Monday and today in Hanley building support for Jeremy Corbyn’s stand against the Blairites. Some people say that this is not possible unless we are Labour Party members but this is not true! We have spoken to many Labour Party members on our recent campaign stalls. Some […]
An excellent public meeting hosted by Stoke Socialist Party took place last night in Stoke-on-Trent. Socialist Party, Green Party and Labour Party members attended along with union reps from CWU, Unison and other trade union members from Unite, NUT, and USDAW. The main speaker was Socialist Party regional secretary Dave Griffiths who explained how the […]
Stoke Socialist Party’s campaign for a general election went to Newcastle today. The need for a general election was supported by most people we spoke to. People who had voted to leave the EU signed our petition along with those who had voted to remain which clearly demonstrates a desire to unite to get rid […]
Socialist Party members and supporters were out in Stafford on Saturday campaigning for a general election to get rid of all the Tories. David Cameron is a gonner but the Tories are planning a coronation with the leadership of the country passed from one former Etonian to another. This is totally undemocratic and we want […]
Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire vote to leave the EU! LEAVE REMAIN Stoke-on-Trent 69.4% (81,563) 30.6% (36,027) Newcastle 63% (43,457) 37% (25,477) Stafford 56% (43,386) 44% (34,098) Staffs Moorlands 64.7% (38,684) 35.3% (21,076) The ruling class and their friends in big business across Europe have been dealt a massive blow by the […]
We are told by some socialists and others on the left that we need to stay in the EU “to reform it”. We asked Socialist Party organiser Andy Bentley what he thought about this. He told us, “If we have the power to make the EU more democratic then how come the Tories have been […]
Stoke Socialist Party members were out today in Hanley explaining to shoppers why we are calling for a vote against the EU and for a fight against the Tories. Of the hundreds of people we spoke to the overwhelming majority supported our call to vote out and only two were adamant that we should be […]
An excellent TUSC meeting took place in Stoke-on-Trent last night despite torrential rain and the shock at the savage killing of Labour MP Jo Cox earlier in the day. It was touch and go whether the meeting would actually take place because of the horror of what had happened. Before the meeting started it was […]
Stoke Socialist Party supporters were out again yesterday, this time in Newcastle, campaigning against the plans of the Royal Stoke University Hospital to get rid of another 100 hospital beds. One hundred and thirty seven beds were taken out of use from Longton Cottage Hospital in 2015 as part of the government’s attempt to dismantle and […]