2024 TUSC candidate for St Oswald, Sefton |Actor 🎭 Chairman of Socialist Party: Liverpool and District Branch🚩☭
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The results are in for the St Oswald ward by-election and it's not as good as last time but with a low turnout of 13.12% I'm happy at 3rd place with 57 votes (5.4%). (1/4)
🚨 BREAKING: Starmer has officially dumped Labour's promise to recognise Palestine as a state.
Previously, Labour had said it would recognise Palestine as a state unilaterally. Now, Labour will only recognise Palestine if it "is acceptable to the state of Israel".
Happy to have gotten 9% of the vote in St Oswald ward local council elections today. Sadly, Labour still retains the seat but we have proven there's an appetite for change along with raising the ideas of socialism. We will keep growing the TUSC base for a new mass workers party🚩
Good to see George and Jeremy working together again it seems, potentially a very positive step towards building a new mass workers party. Hopefully this means Mr Corbyn will follow Mr Galloway's lead and also stand against Labour at the next general election.
I’ve just posted a picture of
@jeremycorbyn
and
@georgegalloway
next to each other in Parliament and they wanted to share the video with you as well of George questioning Michael Gove.
Busy day in
#Rochdale
, Socialist Party comrades helping get
@WorkersPartyGB
and
@georgegalloway
back in parliament. If you live in Rochdale, get down to the polls and shake the establishment to its core. Vote for the only Anti War, Anti Austerity candidate on the ballot 🗳️
Happy to announce myself as the
@TUSCoalition
prospective candidate for the upcoming St Oswald Ward, Sefton Council by-election on 20th June. I look forward to building on my previous result and offering a real anti cuts socialist alternative for workers at the ballot paper. 🗳️🚩
I have my differences with George on many things, but it's clearly he's by far the best candidate in Rochdale and the only person standing on an anti-war, anti- austerity platform. I'm glad my party has urged people to vote for him on the 29th Feb. (1/2)
More vile gutter campaigning from the Labour party, not only do they try to smear Gorst but they also didn't hesitate to drag the name of Militant and the 47 through the mud.
40 years ago, the 47 in Liverpool took a stand against the powers that be and achieved massive gains for the working class. It is a shame I wasn't around back then but hopefully these times will come again ✊🚩
@TUSCoalition
Today is the 40th anniversary of the election of the Militant led Labour council which refused to implement Thatcher's cuts. They were surcharged and blacklisted. But their courageous stand will be recorded as one of the great struggles in the history of the labour movement.
It's been a, hard campaign this year, even though Labour was still elected: 2nd place with 127 votes, 8% and beating the greens and the Tories is an achievement I'm very proud of. Thanks to all my comrades who helped spread socialist ideas to challenge the parties of big business
In the most unsurprising development of the week, The Sun Newspaper has officially endorsed Starmer's Labour Party in tomorrow's general election. The last time this happened, we got the Iraq war and PFI. A real workers alternative would never bend the knee to Murdoch's rag.
Final Push today across Sefton for my local election campaign. Thanks to all who helped out over the last few weeks and good luck to all other
@TUSCoalition
candidates across Liverpool and the rest of the UK who are standing up for working people. 🚩 VOTE TUSC TOMORROW May 4th ✊
I am the best placed anti austerity, socialist candidate in the St Oswald, Sefton Council Byelection on June 20th. Sefton has had it with decades of cuts from right wing Labour, it's time to fight for a real workers politics. Vote TUSC, Vote Conor Anthony O'Neill on June 20th. 🗳️
A good response tonight on the Pendel estate in St Oswald Ward from locals who are sick of the right wing labour council. Thanks to Chris, Joe, Dean and Alex for helping out with the leafleting. 🚩🗳️⚙️
On May 2nd Vote Conor O'Neill, Vote TUSC
I'm old enough to remember when Khan stabbed Corbyn in the back. We need a real socialist in local government, not this fraud who is fully endorsed by Starmer
BREAKING: Sadiq Khan has won a historic third term as London mayor.
All 14 of the London constituencies have now been declared.
Mr Khan has won with 43.7% of the vote. His Conservative rival Susan Hall took 32.6%.
📺 Sky 501
Ive no truck with the RCP, but ultimately I think this speaks to the character of many on the encampments.
@LivSocialists
have experienced similar push back by elements in the UOL encampment attempting to stop us selling our paper. Only socialist ideas can stop the genocide.
SCCP Encampment for Gaza has applied an indefinite ban on members of The Revolutionary Communist Party at the encampment.
This is due to their distasteful decision to co-opt the camp to further their agenda, rather than placing Palestinian liberation.
Well done to George on a 3rd, very impressive victory on a left of Labour platform. It should act as a springboard for the election of independent socialists and other parties be they
@WorkersPartyGB
,
@TUSCoalition
or other high profile individuals. We need a new mass party
George Galloway's victory tonight will raise the confidence of all those looking for a working-class socialist alternative to Labour.
We need more anti-austerity and anti-war candidates to stand in the local and national 2024 elections.
Solidarity from
Perhaps a war wouldn't be inevitable if the verious imperial powers in the world (in this case NATO) didn't continually escalate tensions with fear mongering statements like this. We are certainly living in worrying times. The only way to prevent war is socialism.
NATO Admiral Rob Bauer warns: “Peace is not guaranteed. We are preparing for a war with Russia and its terrorist groups. Maybe not tomorrow but certainly within the next 20 years. People should be prepared for the first 36 hours”
#NATO
#Russia
#Ukraine
It's official and the nominations are in, if you're in Sefton and are dis-satisfied with your Labour or Tory councilors voting through cuts then get involved. Vote Conor Anthony O'Neill, your Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition Candidate for St. Oswald ward in May 4th. 🚩
Martin is a fine Trade Unionist and comrade of mine, who better to unseat Speaker Hoyle on July 4th. I fully endorse Martin Powell-Davies as Chorley's only anti austerity, anti war candidate on the ballot paper 🗳️
#voteTUSC
Adam is the youngest person standing anywhere in the country in this GE (and given he just turned 18 possibly the youngest ever) but don't let this fool you, he is wise beyond his years and an active organizer and delegate to his local TUC.
A real alternative for Reading Central
Tories out! But starmers labour doesn't fight for us! Vote socialist vote TUSC vote Adam Gillman in Reading Central a workers MP on a workers wage! ✊✊✊✊
🚨 BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirms that the new government won't build any council homes.
Reeves told a press conference: "We need the private sector to build homes. We're not going to be in the business of building those homes directly".
(Source: BBC News)
I wish President Biden well and thank him for his many years of public service.
This cannot have been an easy decision for him. But to take a decision that is personally difficult, but that is in the public interest, is a true sign of leadership.
Launched the campaign on the Marian Square in St Oswald Ward, Sefton today where I'll be standing for TUSC in the upcoming council by-election. Residents are sick of Labour's games and want a real socialist alternative on the ballot paper on June 20th.
#VoteTUSC
🗳️🚩⚙️
If elected, Mr Bannister would instantly become the finest MP of the 21st century without having even uttered a word in the chamber. Roger is one of the most intelligent and dedicated men I've ever had the pleasure of calling a comrade. I fully endorse him in Liverpool Riverside
With nominations closed we happily announce Roger Bannister, a lifelong trade unionist and socialist, is standing in the Liverpool Riverside constituency for the GE
Can you help TUSC get the message of socialism to every doorstep in the constituency? Help us by getting in touch!
Green Party were the only anti-genocide party in Bristol to vote for.
They also didn't use any cynical political tricks.
Greens winning under these circumstances is a huge win for democracy.
They have closed a multi-decade door of corruption.
Next, get genocidal Thangam out !
On some things I agree with George, on other things I don't, but regardless of this the fact he has not been invited to the televised leaders debate is ridiculous, especially considering the Reform party has been. Any voices even slightly to the left of Labour are being sidelined
This May will be Standing for local council along with others as an anti cuts candidate for
@TUSCoalition
in Sefton St. Oswald ward. ✊🚩 Get in touch to get involved or Stand for TUSC and good luck to all fellow candidates.
270
#TUSC
candidates for May in 69 local councils!
One said: "I stood for
#Labour
when
#Corbyn
was leader. I left a few years back in anger – and I’m still angry”
Full list at
If there's no one near you, could you stand?
Final deadline Saturday, 1st April
I will be speaking alongside our brilliant
@TUSCoalition
candidates for Derby and Netherton and Orrell Ward on why you should choose TUSC in the May 2nd local elections🗳️ for a socialist challenge to the decades of neglect from our right wing Labour Council. 🚩
Out in St Oswald Ward, Sefton with
@johnreyno42
this morning for one final push ahead of tomorrow's local elections. Got some good responses from locals who are sick of the Labour Party voting through thousands of pounds cuts. Labour has failed Sefton. Vote
@TUSCoalition
tomorrow
This is a good sign, the reformist Trade Union leaders are under pressure to take action. However union mass mobilisation alone isn't enough, the labour movement needs political representation in order to fight fascism, for that we need a new mass workers party.
🚨NEW: Mick Lynch has urged RMT branches to contact local mosques, refugee centres and solidarity groups to offer the union’s solidarity and support
Lynch has called for a "movement-wide response so that we do not allow such vile shows of racism to divide working class unity"
First Day out on the campaign trail in St. Oswald ward Sefton for
@TUSCLiverpool
and got a brilliant response from some of the locals. After years of neglect by the Labour lead Sefton council, we need a change.
With respect Jeremy, today should have been the day you finally cast off the hope of standing as a Labour MP again and announced officially you are standing as an independent against the Party.
When Gary Lineker tweeted "bin Corbyn" that was fine because the BBC is a tool of the British capitalist establishment and thus anyone who appears to fall outside that is fair game to them. However, when he (rightly) compares the rhetoric of same people in relation to (1/2 )
A workers MP on the workers wage. A great man and one of the greatest MPs this country has ever had, the labour "lefts" nowadays don't hold a candle.
Better to break the law than to break the poor. 🚩✊
#OTD
1991: Labour MP Terry Fields was sentenced to 60 days in prison for refusing to pay his poll tax. Fields was expelled from the party in Dec 1991 with the rest of the Militant group. He stood against the Labour candidate in the ‘92 election, but achieved only 14% of the vote.
Ultimately a depressing night with losses and few gains for the left, but at least, this will be the nail in the coffin for the "fuck the Tories" brand of politics. The Tories are finally out so now it's just up to Labour to expose themselves. The rest will fall into place itself
Liverpool Socialist Party and Socialist Students Comrades spreading the ideas in solidarity with the Palestinians at yesterday's Nakba Day protests 🚩✊🏻
As expected, I am the only Anti Cuts, Anti War, candidate on the Ballot paper in St Oswald ward in the Sefton Borough Council elections on May 2nd . Don't get led down a blind ally by the greens ,
@TUSCoalition
are the only real alternative here to our right wing Labour council.
A brilliant intervention this morning in Warrington at the GXO picket in Warrington, in solidarity with illegally dismissed Shop Steward
@PaulR0880
. ✊🚩
Good to address the congress today with my own experiences that lead me to the SP as part of a discussion on Cader building. Brilliant discussion over the past 2 days. ✊🚩
🚨 NEW: Diane Abbott has reportedly been offered a seat in the House of Lords by Keir Starmer if she stands down as an MP before GE2024.
(Via The Times)
I will once again be standing to be the
@TUSCoalition
councilor for St Oswald Ward, Sefton on a socialist platform. The workers need an alternative at the ballot box on May 2nd. Get in touch to find out how you can help out with the campaign and how YOU could also stand for TUSC.
The latest TUSC Steering Committee approved the following prospective anti-cuts candidates for the local council Elections on 2nd May:
Conor O'Neill - St. Oswald (Sefton)
Dean Young - Derby (Sefton)
Owen Croft - Netherton and Orrell (Sefton)
Neill Dunne - Northwood (Knowlsey)
At
@TUSCoalition
we support any candidates standing on a left of Labour platform at these upcoming elections
Fair play to
@WorkersPartyGB
and anyone else standing for workers against the vile Labour Party
If you're a member of a trade union affiliated to
@UKLabour
then you have the legal right to opt out of paying your union's political levy. Read why
@WPB_TU_Group
calls on all workers to take a stand against the party harming us and taking us for granted:
It shouldn't have taken this long, but Mrs Sultana should join an independent block along with Mr Corbyn. Well done for voting against the murder of children
I have been informed by the Chief Whip & the Labour Party leadership that the whip has been withdrawn from me for voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap, which would lift 330,000 children out of poverty.
I will always stand up for the most vulnerable in our society.
The final meeting of the year for Liverpool
@socialistudents
was a good turnout, even if I was late for my leadoff on socialist film and media 🤦🏻♂️. Twas a pleasure to help build the largest left student group in the city. Thanks all and onwards and upwards for next year ⚙️🚩✊🏻
@johnmcdonnellMP
Grow a pair John and leave this pro Apartheid party. It shouldn't get to the point of you all being kicked out but it's happening one way or another eventually so at least leave of your own accord and your few remaining principals intact, stand against Labour.
Well done to my socialist party comrade Owen Croft who came 10th out of 28 candidates last night at the University of Liverpool Guild Student officer elections, on a socialist platform. We lost the battle but the ideas where raised and the class war rages on🚩
@socialistudents
It's polling day in St Oswald Ward for the upcoming by-election. Vote for the most credible, working class socialist alternative on the ballot paper. Let's give the right wing Sefton Labour Group a run for its money and Vote TUSC. VOTE CONOR ANTHONY O'NEILL. You have until 10pm🗳️
@Leftie_laura
Not when
@TUSCoalition
are getting over 30 percent of the vote in multiple local elections it's not, not when the WPB are unseating the deputy leader of Manchester council. Not when
@LIndependents
Cllrs are getting elected in Liverpool. A vote for labour is a gift to big business
One of the finest men I've ever had the pleasure of calling a comrade. Vote Bannister in Riverside on 4th July for a real workers alternative to the labour party. ⚙️🚩🗳️✊🏻
Come down to Hallie's Hub, Ford Lane next Wednesday at 7pm to hear from me, Conor Anthony O'Neill your TUSC candidate in the upcoming St Oswald Ward by-election, on why you should vote for me as a socialist, anti austerity voice on Sefton Council on June 20th. ✊🏻🗳️
@TUSCoalition
A good showing this afternoon on the campaign trail in St Oswald ward. If you'd like to get involved to help get a real socialist on the council then get in touch. Vote TUSC, Vote Conor Anthony O'Neill in the June 20th by-election. ✊🏻🚩🗳️
I am the best placed anti cuts, anti war candidate to achieve a good result and the only one with a history in the ward. In St Oswald on June 20th, don't vote for careerism, elect a real socialist to challenge the right wing Labour Party. Vote Conor Anthony O'Neill Vote TUSC 🗳️⚙️
Thanks to everyone who joined us for my election meeting tonight ahead of polling day tomorrow a good turnout and a good discussion. ✊🏻🗳️ Vote TUSC, Vote Conor Anthony O'Neill 🚩
The average worker has more in common with a black or brown refuge than they do with banker Farrage or Tommy Robinson: who from abroad, manipulates poverty stricken white workers into doing his dirty work at home. The real enemy is the capitalist class, don't let them divide us.
Personally, if my friend murdered over 30,000 innocent men, women and children; and then proceeded to kill 3 British citizens in an air strike, I think that could be grounds to fall out with them. 🤔
#LabourFriendsOfIsrael
One year ago
@CllrSamGorst
,
@CllrLWilliams
and
@mygibbo
were elected under the
@LIndependents
banner on an anti-cuts platform to the left of Labour, proving it can be done. Hopefully history can repeat itself this year with more socialist's elected.
On May 2nd Vote TUSC 🗳️
Coming up to a year since I beat Labour to win the Orrell Park seat.
In that time I have done daily walkabouts, 50 community clean ups, a huge amount of casework and put out thousands of street letters to different parts of the community.
Labour haven't been near.
Today marks the centenary of Lenin's death. A peerless Marxist, revolutionary and leader of the Russian revolution. Lenin's ideas remain relevant today in a world scarred, like the world he lived in, by imperialist wars and capitalist degeneration.
The hypocrisy of Labour lefts who rightly criticize the UK and US intervention in The Yeman but still remain within a party whose leadership and completely support that very intervention. You can't fight imperialism while advocating for a party that enables and perporrates it.
Call yourself a socialist? Shame on you Mrs Johnson, you have voted for a deliberate policy of poverty and starvation. In the final analysis Mr Bannister was correct to stand against you in the general election.
@TUSCLiverpool
Thanks to all who fought hard for the Labour gov to immediately scrap the 2 child cap. We moved the dial, the campaign will continue
Voted with the gov tonight for unity but made it clear: the massive strength of feeling is undeniable
It must be a priority for our first budget
Solidarity with the Encampment of Abcrombie Square against
@LivUni
complicity in Israeli state terror. ✊🏻🚩 Great to speak at this and great to hear from our Comrades on the megaphone. 📣
#FreePalaestine
Oh piss off, stop talking about "movements" and just form a new party. 🤦🏻♂️ with the gains of the French left and your own victory in Islington, now would be the perfect time. The longer you wait to build an alternative to Labour, the longer the far right has to fill that vacuum.
🚨PEACE & JUSTICE PROJECT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024
We are delighted to announce our second annual international conference will be taking place in London on Saturday 14 September 2024.
First speakers will be announced soon.
🎟️Tickets:
#PJPIC24
🚨 BREAKING: This afternoon, Chancellor Rachel Reeves will announce massive cuts to public spending.
Downing Street said in a statement: "Britain is broke".
(Via
@SkyNews
)
Back in February I spoke at the
@TUSCLiverpool
2024 relaunch meeting on the need for socialist representation at the ballot box in these times of political crisis, and how parties such as
@TheGreenParty
are leading workers down a blind ally.
On May 2nd Vote
@TUSCoalition
Unlike other parties, we will not disappear in Sefton until the next election and will continue to engage through stalls, meetings,local campaigns and trade union work whether that be as
@TUSCoalition
or
@Socialist_party
. Onward and upward to a new mass workers party. ✊🚩 (3/3)
On a wider point though, the class war is a war that must be fought on multiple fronts and electoralism is but one of the many tools at our disposal. (2/3)
Never understood why so many hold the late John Smith with so much veneration as a "what could have been" last hope for the British left. Perhaps not as hawkish as Blair, but he was certainly on the labour right. It would have just been Brown but 20 years earlier.
Workers are angry because capitalism offers no answers to society's problems and seeds ground for the far right to sew division and vile misinformation. Only a socialist alternative can cut across racist rhetoric:
“Workers’ Unity, No Division, Jobs, Homes, and Services for all!”
Right wing protesters trying to cause trouble in Liverpool were massively outnumbered tonight. Our slogans:
“Workers’ Unity, No Division, Jobs, Homes, and Services for all!”
@Liam_Holman99
If you're "on the left" and you are trying to help an anti working class party win the election, then you were never on the left to begin with mate. Don't imply real socialists are Tory enablers when you're supporting a party who's politics are virtually identical to theirs.
2023 has been a good year. This year I have stood for TUSC for my local council, got just under 10 percent of the vote to the left of Labour, released and started in a Amazon Prime sit com (Birchalls Pints), been a 4 time Netherton quiz champion and moved out for the first time.
It's all in the hands of the counting officers now. Regardless of the results, thanks to all those who voted and all those who helped out to spread the ideas of socialism. Watch this space for results later on tonight.
As of 20 mins ago, the polls are now closed in the St Oswald Ward by-election. Thanks to all who voted for our brilliant young candidate Conor. Watch this space later tonight for the results. 🗳️🚩⚙️
@ToryFibs
A decent socialist should leave the Labour Party before they have the chance to be booted out, no idea who she is but if she is worth her salt then she should stand against Labour
25 people at tonights Socialist Party Liverpool branch for our discussion: "Socialist Perspectives on the Climate Movement".
All either fully paid up party cadre or rank and file students and workers interested in Marxism. Tuesdays, 7:30pm, at Ye Cracke Pub, Liverpool. Join us🚩
Only 1 week to go before the deadline (18th March) closes to become a TUSC Candidate in your local elections this May. Get involved and help provide the biggest anti austerity, anti cuts challenge to the Labour/Tory duopoly and get the TUSC name out there. 🗳️☑️
@TUSCLiverpool
#TUSC
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Paid a visit to the Socialist Party Manchester Branch this evening, absolutely brilliant to see them growing slowly but surely. Be sure to pop down next week, Thursday at 7:30pm in the Kings Arms Pub.