Welcome
Welcome to our website, we are the Wakefield & Pontefract branch of the Socialist Party for England and Wales. Here you will find information about The Socialist Party, our branch, Socialism, our campaigns and related organisations, including; Socialist Students, Youth Fight for Jobs & Education and the CWI, a Committee for a Workers International’. You will also find links to other branches within our region and local trade unions. Our latest news and updates will be published on our News Page and you can access downloadable content such as our archives of printed materials from our Resources menu.
May 3rd Elections
Our own election flyer has now been produced in support of our candidates, Mick Griffiths and Dan Dearden for the May 3rd elections. Both will be standing under the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), to offer local residents a real alternative to the austerity and cuts offered by the big three parties. Both our own Wakefield and Pontefract flyer and the election flyer for the Leeds Socialist Party candidates who are also standing under TUSC on May 3rd can be found under our TUSC menu, archives and other materials from previous elections and campaigns can be found under our resources menu.
Congress 2012
March 2012 played host to Congress 2012 which saw around 290 comrades coverage in Clacton. Topics were centred around four themes; the euro crisis, British perspectives, party building and youth & student work.
Our branch submitted one of the resolutions on websites, ours if you haven’t had an opportunity to read it, focussed on branch websites. Its ethos was to establish a working template from which branch websites be developed, creating cohesion between existing websites and to aid in the development of new ones. After a lunchtime discussion on day two, we agreed to remit paragraphs three and four from the published resolution, which then passed the vote in the next session, having been moved formally. The remitted paragraphs focussed on the use of the national website to host branch websites, in response additional implementations were discussed at Congress and followed up via e-mail.
Website News
A glossary of key terms and phrases is now being produced for the website, it is available under our Other Resources section of our Resources Menu. We are also producing content on left factions and groups and trade unions that are active in the UK.
