First post-election
#TUSC
steering committee discusses the new political terrain
The report contains comprehensive results of anti-war + anti-austerity candidates set against the wider election trends, including the new government's limited support base!
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
Congratulations to Cllr Tony Randerson of North Yorkshire Council, who resigned from
@UKLabour
over the direction of the party under
@Keir_Starmer
, and was re-elected yesterday. Tony is helping to build the newly formed Social Justice Party. …
#Solidarity
#TUSC
makes call on
@TheGreenParty
not to stand against
@JeremyCorbyn
if he runs as an independent MP
Open Letter at
PRT, and please share with your networks
We hope Jeremy will announce he'll stand independently on the radical, socialist ideas he put forward in 2017 and 2019. Tens of thousands would join him.
If not,
#TUSC
will fight for those policies with 270 candidates in 69 towns + cities in May. Join us
#TUSC
sets target of 100 general election candidates and £60,000 election fund
Working people need a new party - from the trade unions or potentially around
@jeremycorbyn
standing independently. But if not, TUSC is preparing a Left challenge. More info at
Labour isn't Labour anymore - it's not an alternative to the Tory Party, but an alternative Tory Party!
Help
#TUSC
build a workers' list of 100 anti-austerity, anti-war socialist candidates in the general election.
Join us.
With
@Keir_Starmer
showing every day that a government he leads will be another version of Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’
#TUSC
has issued an urgent call for a broad convention to organise a working-class challenge at the forthcoming general election
𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱!
Many thanks to all those hundreds of people who have followed us in recent days.
If you were inspired by
@jeremycorbyn
and are dismayed by
@Keir_Starmer
, join us.
Get involved:
Make a donation:
Good luck today to all
#TUSC
candidates standing in 69 local authorities.
For details of all our candidates, to support TUSC, or to make a donation to our work building a socialist fightback against the cost of living crisis, visit
#TUSC
makes a new appeal to radical campaign groups and socialist organisations to seriously discuss their plans for the next general election to ensure an alternative on the ballot paper that defends the basic principles of trade unionism and socialism:
#TennerForTUSC
On 4th May over 250 socialists, trade unionists, and environmental and community campaigners, are standing under a common anti-austerity banner in the
#LocalElections2023
Can you help them?
If you are able, please give a
#TennerForTUSC
at
Inspired by
@jeremycorbyn
?
Dismayed by
@Keir_Starmer
?
Want an anti-austerity challenge on May 6?
VOTE
#TUSC
330 candidates across England, for Welsh Senedd, Scottish Parliament, London Assembly, and for mayors in
#Bristol
and
#Liverpool
Join + Support at
We are pleased to announce, following a discussion between
@WorkersPartyGB
and
#TUSC
, that in the interests of the most united possible socialist challenge in the
#Erdington
by-election the Workers Party has decided not to stand a candidate. Full info at
After
#Rochdale
proves you can win to the left of
#Labour
, many more people may consider standing as anti-war, anti-austerity candidates.
#TUSC
is looking for 400 candidates for May and 100 for the general election.
Could one be you?
Application forms at
Tory voters 'politically homeless', says Streeting - so are millions of Labour supporters inspired by the radical policies of
@jeremycorbyn
, but dismayed by
@Keir_Starmer
We need a new anti-austerity, anti-war working-class party.
Agree? Get in touch.
#TUSC
election launch: vote for a socialist fightback against the cost of living crisis
Starmer candidates will have to ‘look over their left shoulder’ as left-wing coalition stands over 250 candidates in 69 local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales
#TUSC
has announced its support for
@georgegalloway
’s ‘insurgent campaign’ against the establishment politicians in next week’s Rochdale by-election. Full statement at:
#Labour
is no longer a party of protest. It's a party of acceptance of austerity and war.
We need a new party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class.
Support our anti-austerity and anti-war
#TUSC
candidates in the 2024 elections!
#TUSC
wants a new union-based party.
A good start would be a workers’ list of candidates, incl Jeremy Corbyn + other
#Labour
left-wingers barred from standing.
But we also need a Plan B for standing TUSC candidates widely in 2024
Agree?
Get involved
#TUSC
now has 𝟮𝟳𝟬 candidates for the May elections - the largest anti-austerity list in the country!
𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹.
Join us and be a candidate
If
#Labour
backs Tory commissioners taking over
#Liverpool
- a city which hasn't elected a Tory councillor for 25 years - what on earth would be the point of voting Labour in Liverpool?
Vote
#TUSC
in the mayoral and municipal elections on May 6th. Join at
#Labour
praises Thatcher!
Next election will be a 'choice' between overlapping Tory policies.
Support the
#TUSC
Convention in February to bring the Left together in a working-class, anti-austerity, anti-war, electoral coalition.
Details on our website.
#ROCHDALE
BY-ELECTION
TODAY IS POLLING DAY
VOTE ANTI-AUSTERITY
VOTE ANTI-WAR
VOTE AGAINST THE ESTABLISHMENT
VOTE FOR THE WORKERS PARTY CANDIDATE
#GEORGEGALLOWAY
#SOLIDARITY
@Trickyjabs
We need a new anti-austerity, anti-war party. Ideally, the left unions together with Jeremy Corbyn + others should stand a list of workers' candidates.
But time is not on our side. So
#TUSC
is co-hosting a Convention on Feb 3rd to bring the Left together:
#ROCHDALE
BY-ELECTION POLLING DAY
Thurs 29th February
Polling day work for the Workers Party candidate
@georgegalloway
from campaign HQ at Suzuki Garage, Oldham Road, Rochdale OL16 5RD. All volunteers are welcome.
See
#TUSC
statement on by-election at
Convention agrees on plan for united general election challenge to Sunak and Starmer. Representatives of 12 campaign groups + socialist organisations met in Birmingham to organise a working-class challenge at the General Election.
For a full report, see
#Breaking
#TUSC
now has 300 candidates to challenge Establishment parties!
Steering Committee extends the application deadline to March 29th!
We're looking for more trades unionists, community campaigners and socialists to be anti-austerity candidates on May 6th.
How about you?
Inspired by
#Labour
's 2017/2019 radical manifesto promises........all going or gone
#LabourIsntLabourAnymore
Help build a socialist, anti-austerity alternative as part of the
#TUSC
coalition.
Get involved:
Make a donation:
This audience member spoke for millions on
@BBCNewsnight
last night: "I'm looking forward to a change of government. I'm sad it's got to be Labour; they have let us down as well. But everybody is ready for change"
#TUSC
aims for 100 candidates who support *real* socialist change
#TUSC
’s stand in
#Leicester
wins support from former
#Labour
councillors ,
with an updated list of left-of-Labour candidates standing in May's local elections.
Jamie Driscoll should join Jeremy Corbyn and others on a workers' list in the coming elections with the 2019 manifesto and a refusal to implement cuts as a starting point. Unions that have criticised Labour for blocking them could help with finance.
#TUSC
Good luck to all
#TUSC
candidates on Election Day.
Back socialist and anti-war candidates wherever you can - but prepare for the battles to come when the new government inevitably disappoints like the old.
Back Strikes!
Fight cuts and war!
Get Organised!
We need a new anti-austerity and anti-war party based on the working class and the unions.
Left Convention in Birmingham, 3rd Feb to discuss standing candidates widely in 2024.
#TUSC
core policies, guides + candidate application forms available. Join us
The general election is on! And with Jeremy Corbyn standing as an Independent in Islington, leading a band of anti-war and anti-austerity candidates, including those from TUSC.
Here's what
#TUSC
candidates stand for – and how you can still join them:
We are pleased to announce 260 candidates have made it onto the local election ballot papers under the
#TUSC
umbrella, incl candidates in the directly-elected mayoral contests in
#Leicester
and
#Mansfield
.
Full details
Get in touch if you'd like to help✊
#TUSC
now has over 300 candidates for May 6, on course to be the largest left of
#Labour
challenge since 2015.
But there's still this weekend to get more towns and cities covered!
Inspired by
@jeremycorbyn
, totally dismayed by
@Keir_Starmer
?
Apply here:
7 years ago today we lost Bob Crow, leader of
@RMTunion
, who co-founded
#TUSC
to enable trade unionists, community campaigners + socialists to stand as anti-austerity candidates against establishment politicians. Please follow us + switch on notifications
𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗶𝘀 #𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
Where you can, please vote
#TUSC
to support campaigns against austerity.
Help us build an even bigger challenge against Establishment politicians
Get involved
Make a donation
#Labour
town councillor defects to
#TUSC
after saying
@Keir_Starmer
has “undermined” the party’s values.
Help build a real anti-austerity socialist alternative:
Get involved:
Make a donation:
𝗩𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗡𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝘂𝘁𝘀, 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆.
Full list of
#TUSC
candidates and links to other anti-austerity and anti-war candidates for the general election. Solidarity.
If
#Labour
was any alternative to the Tories they'd be attacking the Rich instead of pandering to the right wing.
For a real anti-austerity and anti-war alternative support the largest socialist electoral challenge
#TUSC
#TUSC
has anti-austerity candidates in 29% of local authority areas contesting elections today. We need to do more.
Help build an even bigger challenge against Establishment parties
Get involved:
Make a donation:
#LocalElections2023
Want a united socialist challenge to Starmer at the ballot box? Then let’s organise to bring together the widest range of trade unionists and socialists of different organisations or none: via
@TUSC
#TUSC
appeal to 20 left-wing campaign groups and socialist organisations - let’s get serious about the next election
Discussion meetings held in
#Southampton
,
#Wakefield
,
#Newcastle
,
#Bristol
so far, with many more planned. See
By-election this Thursday, 15th June, in
#Plymouth
.
Efford and Lipson ward.
If you live locally, get in touch to help
#TUSC
candidate Neil Prentice.
If you’re further afield, get involved:
Make a donation:
Every day confirms how closely tied
@Keir_Starmer
's 'New Labour' is to the establishment and its interests.
#TUSC
believes we urgently need a trade union-backed list of anti-austerity candidates.
Agree?
Get involved
Make a donation
Thanks to all who supported and contributed to the
#TUSC
#LocalElections2023
. A draft report of the campaign will be posted early next week and, after discussion at the steering committee, published as a public record – as we've done every year since 2011:
There are 342 election contests on Thursday, 2nd May, where you can vote to support stop the cuts, stop the war candidates.
Full details of
#TUSC
and other anti-austerity, anti-war candidates are now available at:
#TUSC
now has 290 anti-austerity and anti-war candidates in almost 50% of local councils with May elections.
With
#Labour
this morning refusing to pledge to restore council funding, we have extended the final application deadline to Tuesday 2 April
#StopTheCuts
#StopTheWarOnGaza
#TUSC
will make sure, as far as our resources allow, that a real anti-austerity, anti-war, and socialist alternative is on the
#GeneralElection
ballot paper.
Can you help us?
Get involved:
Make a donation:
2 in 3 Britons want a new party to take on Tories and Labour.
We agree: a new party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class with socialist, anti-austerity policies
Check out
#TUSC
- standing across the country in the May elections
All
#TUSC
candidates fight to:
"Bring private social care and childcare facilities into public ownership, in order to provide free, high-quality care services for all who need them"
#LocalElections2023
Get involved:
Make a donation:
#Sheffield
socialist group stands aside in election in favour of pro-Gaza independent
#TUSC
- building an anti-austerity, anti-war coalition. See our profile for links to join us and donate to our work.
Polling stations are open
𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟯𝟯𝟬 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗮𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 #𝗧𝗨𝗦𝗖 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆
Vote TUSC and help us build an even wider challenge to the establishment parties
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘁 PRT
Some senior business leaders won't be able to attend a £2520 Labour Party event at conference next month, it's full up already!!
We need a new party routed in the organisations and communities of the working class
#TUSC
#BREAKING
Britain’s privatised water and sewage companies paid £1.4bn in dividends in 2022, up from £540mn the previous year, despite rising household bills and a wave of public criticism over sewage outflows. (paywall)
#TUSC
demands renationalisation!
Tomorrow,
#TUSC
has 280 anti-austerity and anti-war candidates in 55 local authorities. The 6th biggest party. There are also 69 other candidates for whom we would recommend support. Our full and updated list is here
#Solidarity
to all of them tomorrow
Here we go again,
#Labour
U-turn no 9 (or is it 19) gives way again to big business (full story , paywall).
It’s time for an electoral coalition that puts basic trade unionism and socialism front and centre.
Read more at and join us
Labour to omit funding of social care reform from the manifesto and scale back Lords plans
If you want to see a real alternative party rooted in the working class’s organisations and communities, we will have to build a new one.
Join
#TUSC
today.
𝟏𝟑,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝐓𝐔𝐒𝐂 - 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮!
Help us build the biggest anti-austerity and socialist electoral challenge
Get involved:
Make a donation:
Stand for TUSC:
Solidarity
It looks like
#TUSC
is on course to be the sixth biggest party in terms of candidates in the May elections.
Can you help our anti-austerity and anti-war campaigns?
Get involved:
Make a donation:
𝗨𝗥𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧
Anti-austerity and anti-war councillors needed to fight cuts and campaign for the funding needed to protect, improve, and expand our vital local public services.
Why couldn't that be you?
Applications by 9th March to
#TUSC
steering committee:
𝟭𝟮,𝟬𝟬𝟬 now following
#TUSC
Thank you
You're helping to build in the 2022 local elections the biggest ever anti-austerity and socialist electoral challenge
Now click on the notification bell on our homepage and be among the first to hear of our campaigns + reports
Solidarity
#TUSC
publishes core policies and application forms for 2024 local elections.
If you, or your group or party, would like to be part of the largest joint socialist electoral challenge, the first batch of applications will be considered on Weds, 10th January
Mark Gee, formerly
#Labour
, now the
#TUSC
candidate for Great Grimsby and Cleethorpes, with a powerful message of hope and socialist change to combat austerity - "if the system can't afford a warm home, food, free education and health, then the system needs changing"!
Calling all trade unionists, community campaigners and socialists who want to see anti-austerity candidates in the May 6th elections.
Be the change you want to see in the world - become a
#TUSC
candidate today.
Details at
Apply by March 14th
We've now had
#TUSC
applications from 44 council areas to fight the Establishment parties on an anti-austerity and anti-war basis.
Can you help step up the work?
Get involved:
Make a donation:
Be a candidate:
Poll predicts Tory electoral wipe out:
But
#Labour
is no real alternative locally or nationally.
We need anti-austerity and anti-war representatives and a new party to fight this government and the next!
Good luck to Adam Harmsworth,
#TUSC
candidate in today's
#Coventry
by-election.
If you'd like to see a new party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working-class
Get involved
Make a donation
#Labour
confirms opposition to public ownership.
The Establishment parties' policies are increasingly overlapping.
A serious discussion about how to build a new party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class is needed.
#TUSC
Where Tony Blair leads, we can reasonably assume
#Labour
's right wing leadership will follow
#TUSC
fights for an
#NHS
fully publicly funded, publicly owned and democratically controlled. Join us.
How shareholders sucked billions of pounds out of Thames Water
#TUSC
candidates stand for immediate renationalisation of water, with compensation based on proven need. Cancel the debt and invest in a clean and safe environment!
#JoinTheSocialists
Socialist mayoral candidate promises no more cuts as she vows to fight for more government funding!
Public meeting for
#Hackney
#TUSC
mayoral by-election campaign
Tuesday 7th November, 7pm Dalston CLR James Library, Dalston Square E8 3BQ. All welcome
5,400 supporters of
#TUSC
now have our first
#GeneralElection
bulletin.
If you want a new party rooted in the organisations and communities of the working class, with an anti-austerity and anti-war socialist programme, get involved:
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
#TUSC
LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS: DRAFT REPORT
is now available. The report will form the basis of the discussion at next week's steering committee on
#LocalElections2023
Report at
Get involved:
Make a donation:
Looks like TUSC might have the youngest candidate in the general election.
Excellent profile here of Adam Gilman, 18-year-old
#TUSC
candidate in
#Reading
:
.
@Keir_Starmer
warns voters and his own party not to expect big increases in public spending - "for national renewal, there is no substitute for a robust private sector".
🎵Meet the new boss, same as the old boss🎵
Get involved:
The North Yorkshire council by-election held on 25th May was a significant rebuff to
@Keir_Starmer
’s re-constitution of
#Labour
as a revived Tony Blair-style New Labour party
#TUSC
statement on the victory of Cllr Tony Randerson of the Social Justice Party
#TUSC
has published agreed outline details for a broad Convention of campaign groups and socialist organisations considering standing candidates in the general election –
If you're a member of a left group or party, please raise this initiative with them.