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From The Socialist newspaper, 10 January 2008
Straw provokes POA
JUSTICE SECRETARY Jack Straw has announced that he is reintroducing a ban on prison officers going on strike. This is a blatant provocation to the Prison Officers Association (POA) that organised, very successfully, its first-ever national day of strike action last August.
The Tories removed the POA's right to strike in 1994. Labour repealed the ban but implemented a 'voluntary' no-strike agreement that broke down last year.
More on Straw's anti-working class threat in future issues of the socialist.
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In The Socialist 10 January 2008:
Feature: Socialism and democracy needed to reshape the world
Socialist Party workplace news
Postal workers fight to defend the Burslem 12
Scrooge employers attack shop workers
Building workers fight for real union representation
Socialist Party editorial
Renationalise the energy industry
Socialist Party news and analysis
Police ballot for industrial rights
Soaring food prices hit world's poor
Big business hands off our NHS!
The privateers are taking over
International socialist news and analysis
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Kenya: Stolen election explodes into mass anger and bloodshed
Socialist Party feature
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Obituary
Socialist Party review
Review: Marx's Das Kapital: a biography, by Francis Wheen
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