More than 1,000 people voted for Jenny Sutton, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidate in Tottenham, north London.
Barking and Stoke weren’t the only areas where the BNP were driven back. In most seats the BNP failed to achieve the gains they expected. And although the council results were still to be counted as this leaflet was produced, their votes looked likely to reflect their failure to make a breakthrough at the general election.
Anti-fascists are celebrating the humiliation of the British National Party (BNP) at the hands of voters in Barking, east London.
After the general election no party has a mandate to impose cuts. And none of the major parties has been truthful about the scale of cuts they want to impose. Indeed it’s not clear they have a mandate to do anything.
While we are watching the election results, there’s a stark reminder of the fragility of the economic "recovery". US shares have plummeted amid fears that the turmoil in Greece could spread to other parts of Europe.
Results for TUSC and other socialist candidates in the general election held on 6 May 2010
Britain’s mainstream politicians have spent the election campaign talking about the need to preserve our "fragile economic recovery" – with cuts. Politicians regularly tell us that this "recovery" has begun.
At the same time as Gordon Brown’s microphone slip created a media whirlwind, 300 sacked workers were protesting at the Network Rail company.
In 1969 Bernadette Devlin made history when she became the youngest woman to be elected to parliament. She was 21.
With the general election almost upon us, much has been said, written and discussed in the mainstream press.
On 4 May 1970, the United States National Guard shot dead four students at Kent State University in Ohio – triggering a wave of rage that spread across the US.
Employers are increasingly turning to the anti-trade union laws to prevent workers taking industrial action.
