Elections

The First Socialist Election Broadcast For a Long Time!

The First Socialist Election Broadcast For a Long Time!

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) election broadcast with Dave Nellist was on TV tonight (Friday) – did you see it? You can watch it online here! TUSC and Leicester Independent Councillors Against Cuts have also been very busy in Leicester. Today we featured in the Leicester Mercury, after holding a protest against low […]

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TUSC Candidate Promises to Put the Needs of Workers Before Big Business

TUSC Candidate Promises to Put the Needs of Workers Before Big Business

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has announced their final parliamentary candidate, who will be standing in the Leicester West constituency. Heather Rawling has called for an alternative “budget for the working-class”, in the wake of the Chancellor’s budget of deepening cuts. “This Tory-Lib Dem Coalition has been a disaster for the 99%, whilst […]

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TUSC Parliamentary Candidate Pledges Support for the NHS and for a £10-an-hour Living Wage

TUSC Parliamentary Candidate Pledges Support for the NHS and for a £10-an-hour Living Wage

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) today announced its second local parliamentary candidate for the General Election. Andrew Walton, who has lived in Highfields for the last 20 years, will be standing in the Leicester South constituency. He will be working closely with the present city councillors who are part of Leicester independent Councillors […]

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The Working-Class Electoral Alternative!

The Working-Class Electoral Alternative!

TUSC stood an historic 561 candidates nationwide – the biggest left-of-Labour challenge for 70 years. Our candidates achieved some very good results, despite a media blackout, getting around 1000 votes in St Michaels ward in Coventry, and electing a councillor in Southampton. We also achieved excellent results in Doncaster, Sheffield and London. In total, TUSC’s […]

Posted in: Cuts, Elections, TUSC
Thoughts on the local election results and Abbey Ward by-election
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Thoughts on the local election results and Abbey Ward by-election

If you want to see what Britain will be like in a few years’ time, if the trend of the Con-Dem’s planned spending cuts, continued wholesale privatisation of our NHS and further erosion of our living standards is not overthrown by mass strike action on the part of the labour movement, then look at Greece. […]

May Day By-election Speech

May Day By-election Speech

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 […]

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