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New Labour battered at the polls –

working class alternative desperately needed

Last week saw New Labour battered in the local elections and the victory of the Thatcherite Boris Johnson in London’s Mayoral elections. Labour has gone from 11,000 councillors in 1997 to 5,000 today. With the Conservative Party taking 44% of the vote nationally, the nightmare of a Cameron-led Tory government after the next general election is now posed...read more

Labour 'heart lands' lost - fight for a working class alternative

In the recent council elections, New Labour saw their vote haemorrhage in former Labour 'heart lands' - including losing control of North Tyneside council and Bury council, Greater Manchester. Click here to read Manchester CNWP supporter Paul Gerrard's explanation of how this has come about.

Sunday 29 June 10am - 5pm. South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1. (Nearest Rail/Tube stations - Kings Cross/St Pancras, Euston, Mornington Crescent)

In 1997 many PCS members welcomed the election of New Labour, believing that they offered a radical alternative to the Tories. However, this illusion was quickly shattered when Blair and Brown launched their attacks on public servants’ Jobs, Pensions, Pay and working conditions.  PCS members no longer...read more

Saturday 29 March was the launch event for the Northern Shop Stewards Network & CNWP supporters were out helping to build the network and putting forward the case for a new workers party...read more

A Mexican wave of protest is travelling around the country in response to the Post Offices plans to close 2,500 local branches. They are rolling this programme out, area by area in order that there is not a synchronised national movement against them. Each time closures are announced, a six week period is given for “consultation”. So far only a tiny minority of branches have been reprieved. This is on top of the ongoing closures of Crown Post Offices, with their functions being taken over by WHSmiths...read more

Regional conferences of the NSSN are taking place across the country. For details go to www.shopstewards.net and for details of CNWP fringe meetings click here

Liverpool will be Capital of Culture in 2008, but the event has become the product of the spin-doctors and marketing entrepreneurs. Much controversy has surrounded attempts to organise blockbuster events with expensive entrance fees...read more

Pressure for a new party grows

Events over the last month have demonstrated yet again the dire need for a new mass political force to the left of the establishment parties that can fight in the interests of working class people.

Weather of Mass Destruction needs a new political force to oppose it

On Saturday December 8^th 2007, hundreds of thousands -- perhaps millions -- will demonstrate around the world demanding urgent action to stop the Weather of Mass Destruction which climate change is already bringing. 

Representatives from 169 countries, meeting at the UN summit in Indonesia, are trying to find a consensus to curb the escalation of greenhouse gases causing global warming. Many, however, will have as a prime aim to quietly preserve the interests of the rich and powerful countries, and the rich and powerful companies who stand in the shadows behind them...read more

New Labour sleaze -

more snouts in the trough

The so-called anonymous donations scandal, sparked off by the laundering tactics of David Abrahams, another New Labour millionaire, has generated a media storm...read more

Kick big business out of the NHS

Kick out big business politicians

Across the country, the NHS is facing cuts and closures on an obscene scale – government attacks on our health services have meant over 22,300 jobs lost so far, with more to go if they get their way. Gordon Brown has made this clear with his promise to “continue accelerating the pace of reform in the health service...read more

The meeting aimed to mobilise students to attend the 8 October anti-war demonstration and it certainly assisted that. But Benn's strategy for the way forward was disappointing...read more

Unite demonstration at Labour Party conference

If Brown won't listen then it's...

Time for a new workers' party!

The newly merged union Unite led a lobby of the Labour Party conference on Sunday 23 September. A whole list of grievances were presented to the Labour leadership in defence of the rights of working people. But millions of trade union members will rightly be asking 'How can the big unions still remain handcuffed to New Labour in the face of its pro-business agenda?'...read more

• Smash Browns pay freeze

• Defend public services

• Fight for a new mass workers' party

Insisting that public sector workers must accept below inflation pay rises - in reality, pay cuts – Gordon Brown showed how little difference there is between the Blair and Brown governments.  It was "to prevent inflation, maintain growth, so we never return to the old boom and bust of the past", he explained at the recent TUC conference.

Cllr Dave Nellist Chair, Campaign for a New Workers’ Party

It is not a message he ever delivers to company boardrooms, where pay (sorry, remuneration) can be counted in millions of pounds...read more

Rail workers' union (RMT) general secretary Bob Crow broadened the debate about the need for a new workers' party when he addressed the National Shop Stewards Network recently. He said the Labour Party was 'finished', and indicated that the RMT may field candidates in the Greater London Assembly and Mayoral elections next year...read more

The founding conference of the National Stop Stewards Network took place on Saturday 7 July with nearly 300 shop stewards and workplace representatives attending. Delegates from all over the country were inspired during the course of the day by the mood of unity and determination to build the network.

The conference was addressed and supported by the president of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) Janice Godrich, the general secretaries of the PCS and RMT (rail) unions, Mark Serwotka and Bob Crow, as well as a number of trade union national executive members.

Delegates and observers particularly welcomed a closing speech by Bob Crow in which he argued strongly that not only does the network need to be built, but that an "alternative political party" to the present three main parties is also needed. He raised the possibility of the RMT initiating "a little political party" to contest the next London mayoral and assembly elections and said that this could be a step towards a new workers' party in a few years' time.

Fighting for a political voice for workers

As Blair gave his leaving speech to Parliament, he was greeted with a standing ovation from all the establishment parties. As Jonathan Freedland pointed out in the Guardian: “If the Tories had clapped Margaret Thatcher in 1990, which they did not, Labour MPs would have sawn off their own hands rather than...read more

For more information visit: www.shopstewards.net

Gordon Brown's cabinet: 'government of the talents' will be a 'parliament of the privatisers'

Campaign for a New Workers' Party public meetings

At the successful CNWP conference on 12th of May, one of the points agreed on by delegates was to launch a national speaking tour to help build support for the campaign.

Campaign for a New Workers' Party national press coverage:

Click here to read a letter from CNWP supporters printed in the Guardian on 18 May 2007 about John McDonnell's Labour Party leadership campaign.

Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference

successful conference for a working class alternative

The second conference of the Campaign for a New Workers’ Party (CNWP) took place on Saturday 12 May. The conference was highly successful and a central London hall was packed out with over 350 people united in their desire to develop the campaign further.

• Read the report of CNWP conference 2007 here
• See Ricky Tomlinson's speech here
• See PCS Assistant General Secretary Chris Baugh speaking in a personal capacity here
• See former Liverpool councillor Tony Mulhearn speak here
• See minutes of the conference here
• Read conference resolutions here

Blair gone - First MP to share office with Blair says "good riddance"

Socialist councillor, Dave Nellist, who as a then Labour MP shared a tiny office with the newly elected Tony Blair in June 1983, when the two were the youngest Labour MPs elected at that general election, had few fond memories at the Prime Minister's announced resignation...read more