|
In this week's issue:
The Socialist 12 July 2003, issue We’re Fighting For A Living Wage  We're Fighting For A Living Wage
LOW-PAID domestics and porters at Royal Bolton Hospital are entering a new phase of struggle. Fighting the poverty pay of multinational company ISS Mediclean, UNISON members have struck at the heart of...
Review: George Monbiot's Utopia - Capitalism Unchallenged PETER TAAFFE, general secretary of the Socialist Party, reviews The Age of Consent - A Manifesto for a New World Order...
German Socialist victimised JENS FERTSCH, a member of the German section of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI - the socialist international organisation to which the Socvialiat Party is affiliated), was suspended from his workplace on July 8th...
Victory For The Socialist Party And The Left In PCS THE LEFT have swept to victory in the elections for the national executive (NEC) and president of the PCS civil service union, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party industrial organiser.
Victorious nursery nurses say: No More Penny-Pinching, End Low Pay Tower Hamlets (east London) nursery nurses have won their regrading claim. The council eventually backed down and have agreed to pay them approximately £20,000 a year without deductions for the school...
Iraq Watch Polls apart: THE DEATHS of US and British soldiers in Iraq have cut support for the war this spring both in the USA and Britain...
Vauxhall school: Privatisers Bring In Agency Staff SECURITY GUARDS were hired recently to evict teachers from the premises of Vauxhall school special autistic unit, writes Rob MacDonald, Lambeth Socialist Party.
The real cost of privatisation BACK IN 2000, the government ordered Southwark council to bring in a "private education provider" after a critical report on the council's education...
Come to Summer Camp SUMMER CAMP has long been a national event of the Socialist Party and its forerunners. The camp is now regularly held over the August bank holiday weekend and the numbers have increased steadily over the...
Editorial: War in Iraq - Blair's Not Off The Hook THE FOREIGN Affairs Select Committee spent four weeks investigating the reasons Blair gave for taking Britain into a war against Iraq...
Pensions: We Won't Work Till We Drop! FOLLOWING ITS decision to raise the retirement age for women from 60 to 65, the government is now encouraging workers to go on working until they're 70, writes Peter Redfarn, postal worker.
Making The Break With Labour THE INCREASING strains between the unions and Blair's party are showing. Last week, rail union RMT conference decided to further cut its ties with New Labour - by slashing its level of affiliation and...
Nigeria: Leaders End Mighty General Strike THE EIGHT-DAY Nigerian general strike, which ended on 8 July, was a marvellous demonstration of the strength of the working class and the weakness of the political class, writes Robert Bechert, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
| 