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Articles by Dave Nellist
Time for trade unions to take the lead in forming a new working class party
The May 2025 election results show the need for a new party that the working class can trust. Stagnant wages, underfunded public services, the scandal of the housing crisis, Labour councils pursuing fire and rehire, cuts to pensioners’ winter fuel allowance, reductions in disability benefits, and continued government support for Israel’s murderous campaign in Gaza – and all under a Labour government.
'Labour by name - Tory by policy'
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1167/33763 From The Socialist newspaper, 16 February 2022 Solidarity with the Coventry bin lorry drivers Build a movement to defend living standards Coventry bin workers picket line (Click to enlarge) Dave Griffiths, Coventry Socialist Party "Labour by name, Tory by policy," chanted Coventry's HGV drivers' convenor Haydn Jones as he marched through Coventry along with his striking colleagues.
Starmer's 'Militant moment' - labour movement fightback needed
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/31574 Posted on 30 October 2020 at 10:58 GMT A Socialist Party press release, 30th October 2020 Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from membership of the Labour Party for saying that antisemitism within Labour has been 'dramatically overstated for political reasons'. He has broken no rule and has always opposed antisemitism.
Capitalist 'democracy' v socialist democracy
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1055/29555 From The Socialist newspaper, 11 September 2019 Democracy is optional for capitalism, photo Maurice/CC (Click to enlarge) Dave Nellist, Socialist Party member and Labour MP 1983-1992 Parliament is packed with pro-capitalist politicians who neither reflect the balance of the views of the electorate on Brexit, nor the needs of the working class to overturn austerity.
40 years on: Mandatory reselection more vital for Labour than ever
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1058/29653 From The Socialist newspaper, 2 October 2019 Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson, photo Rwendland/CC (Click to enlarge) Dave Nellist, Coventry South East delegate to 1979 Labour conference and former MP The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in September 2015 fundamentally altered politics in the party.
For a fighting, democratic Labour Party
As events of recent weeks have made clear, the right-wing Blairite side of the Labour Party remains unreconciled to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the party. They are using every opportunity they can find to attempt to undermine and discredit Corbyn, while trying to push the Labour Party decisively back towards the pro-capitalist, warmongering policies of the Blair era.
The real origins of May Day
May Day has been a public holiday in the UK since 1978. But its real origins lie in the great struggles in America by working people for shorter working hours at the end of the 19th century, and the martyrdom of union leaders executed 130 years ago. The centre of the movement for an eight-hour working day was Chicago, where some factories imposed an 18-hour day. An eight-hour law had actually been passed by the US congress in 1868. However, over the next 15 years, it was enforced only twice.
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