United Socialist Party (UK)

The United Socialist Party (TUSP) was a British political organisation formed in 2004.[1]

The party was formed in Liverpool by a number of former Liverpool Dockers who had been active in the strike of 1995-1997. Other leftist groups such as the Revolutionary Democratic Group, WIRFI and International Socialist League[2] became involved and the party experienced ideological and organisational conflicts - as the Socialist Labour Party had before it - between those seeking a more left wing version of the Labour Party and those aiming to found a multi-tendency revolutionary party.

TUSP stood in local elections between 2006 and 2008, retaining no deposits.[3] From 2010 its role was taken to some extent by the similarly-acronymed TUSC (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition) which emerged from the Socialist Party's Campaign for a New Workers' Party with which TUSP had been involved.[4] Their website contains no new content since 2009 and the organisation appears to be moribund; however as recently as 2014 TUSC stated that a member of the United Socialist Party had stood for election as part of the coalition.[5]

Publications

Periodicals

  • Unite
  • Socialist Studies (2006–)

Pamphlets

  • Unite the Struggles! An Introduction to The United Socialist Party (2005)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.tusp.org.uk/welcome
  2. ↑ http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/576/workers-breaking-with-labour/
  3. ↑ http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?RPID=3528&ID=4&J=4
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2006/mar/20/workersofthe
  5. ↑ http://www.tusc.org.uk/17003/30-05-2014/local-elections-2014-the-tusc-results-in-full
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