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Anger against Blairite ‘traitors’ sweeps Portsmouth Momentum

by Socialist Party Portsmouth Branch | July 26, 2016 | Campaigns, Portsmouth, Solidarity | 0 Comments

"All is forgiven!" So claimed Christine Shawcroft, a Labour NEC member, when asked for her message to the 172 MPs who had declared 'no confidence' in Jeremy Corbyn. It was not the answer the 90 Momentum supporters packed into a standing-room-only meeting...

TUSC Election Broadcast: 100 MP Candidates

by Socialist Party Portsmouth Branch | April 2, 2015 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing over 100 anti-cuts community candidates, the largest left-of-Labour challenge in a hundred years. On Friday 17th April, 5.55pm, TUSC will have it's first national Party Political Broadcast. This will be...

Alienation and Austerity Lay Behind Portsmouth’s Jihadis

by Socialist Party Portsmouth Branch | October 26, 2014 | Arab Spring, Austerity, EDL, Middle East, Portsmouth, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Nineteen year old Mehdi Hassan has become the latest young Muslim from Portsmouth to be killed in Syria. Part of the self-proclaimed 'Al-Britaini Brigade Bangladeshi Bad Boys', Hassan is one of six Portsmouth men known to have joined the salafist extremists of ISIS...

Cuts Consensus: Labour Joins With UKIP to Back Tory Council in Portsmouth

by Socialist Party Portsmouth Branch | June 4, 2014 | Austerity, Campaigns, Cuts, Portsmouth, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, Trade Unions, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Any allusions in the anti-establishment credentials of Portsmouth’s new UKIP Councillors were swiftly dashed after they joined forces with New Labour and the Conservatives to support the newly installed Tory minority council. Last month’s election results left the...

Pompey TUSC Break the Cuts Consensus at Leaders’ Debate

by Socialist Party Portsmouth Branch | May 20, 2014 | Alternative, Austerity, Campaigns, Portsmouth, RMT, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, Trade Unions, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Cuts to education, zero hour contracts and the loss of over 900 dockyard jobs; these were just three of the issues about which local leaders from the big three parties showed themselves to be in complete consensus during a debate organised by The News. Representing...