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17 November 2021
Tory sleaze scandal continues, an ex-workers' MP responds
Parliament has been in turmoil surrounding Tory MP Owen Paterson's rule-breaking lobbying
17 November 2021
London MPs' second home swindle while workers and students struggle
Fourteen London MPs are renting out their homes in London in order to claim rent on their parliamentary expenses
10 November 2021
Sleaze and pay a toxic mix for Tories
"Is anybody in charge at No.10?" This was the headline in the normally Conservative-supporting Daily Mail as Tory MP Owen Paterson resigned after Boris Johnson's latest U-turn.
The somersaults and U-turns show that, despite his populism, Johnson's government, like all Tory governments, puts the bosses' profits before the interests of workers.
13 October 2021
MPs list Covid failings: Workers' inquiry needed: A slow move into lockdown restrictions at the start of the pandemic, a decision to halt testing in March 2020, the disastrous privatised test-and-trace, and sending thousands of Covid-positive patients into care homes - all among the government's "big mistakes" in handling the Covid pandemic in E
5 May 2021
Cladding: Tories refuse to protect leaseholders again
Socialist Party member Paul Kershaw, chair of the Unite housing workers' branch, spoke to Ed Spencer
21 April 2021
Greensill scandal, Corruption ... Build a socialist alternative
From 'cash for questions', to 'honours' for business people, and now the Greensill scandal - the rotten character of capitalist politics is revealed again and again
14 April 2021
Tory hypocrisy over housing benefit cut
Tory MPs have claimed £3 million in housing rent payments at the same time as voting to effectively cut housing benefit for low-income households in the private rental sector.
2 December 2020
Labour meeting lets MP get away with 'Spycops' abstention
63 people attended a public meeting on the Spycops undercover policing scandal, organised by Hornsey and Wood Green Labour Party in protest at the abstention of right-wing Labour MPs on the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) bill.
28 October 2020
Tory 'Starve a Kid to Save a Quid' scheme
The 322 Tory MPs who voted against extending free school meals are on base salaries of £81,932 a year - before ministerial bonuses, expenses, and other income.
1 July 2020
Capitalism and corruption go hand in hand
Can a leopard change its spots? Can a Tory MP stop taking cash for favours?
3 June 2020
Blairite general secretary elected - Starmer's takeover of Labour Party consolidated
Former Blair aide David Evans was elected Labour Party general secretary at an NEC meeting on 26 May
14 April 2020
MPs get £10k each for lockdown expenses - where's ours?
MPs can claim up to £10,000 - on top of their salaries and other expenses - for remote working costs under lockdown. This is on top of the £26,000 a year MPs already get for office expenses!, writes Lindsey Morgan, Leicester Socialist Party.
6 November 2019
Tony Blair launches manifesto to sabotage a Corbyn government
Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair has laid out his general election strategy in the Financial Times: "Save Britain by supporting moderate MPs". As clear as day: prepare to sabotage a Corbyn government.
2 October 2019
40 years on: Mandatory reselection more vital for Labour than ever
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in September 2015 fundamentally altered politics in the party. But for the last four years he has been hamstrung by the 80% of pro-capitalist Labour MPs who owe their political loyalty to the Kinnock/Blair eras.
11 September 2019
Tories in tatters: Corbyn must seize the time
The Conservatives, once among the most successful capitalist parties on the planet, are shattering into pieces before our eyes. The Tory party's weakness and splits are far from new. Now, however, under the leadership of Boris Johnson, the relatively slow inglorious decline of the Tories has become an unprecedented collapse.
6 September 2019
Tories in tatters: Corbyn must seize the time
The Conservatives, once among the most successful capitalist parties on the planet, are shattering into pieces before our eyes.
Their government is left suspended in mid-air unable to govern, with a general election as Johnson's only option.
28 August 2019
Boot out Boris and all the Tories
Unelected prime minister's parliamentary games:
Jeremy Corbyn and the trade union movement need to urgently launch a mass campaign to demand an immediate general election.
28 August 2019
Workers' movement must launch a campaign for a general election
On 3 September parliament returns from its long summer holiday, sitting for less than two weeks before it breaks again for the party conference season.
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