The Socialist

The Socialist 8 March 2007

Brown's pay cut insult

Brown\'s pay cut insult


Young workers: Fight for your rights!


NHS: First priority - a national demonstration

No divide and rule - save these hospitals


Fury in Camden

They are all the same - even the Greens!

Lambeth demo against cuts

Lambeth Students and Community unite

Kirklees - save our nurseries


Secondary education becoming a lottery


What\'s Left? - not Nick Cohen!


International Women\'s Day


Socialist Party congress report (2)


Egypt: Strikewave shakes regime and state-run unions

Scotland - Solidarity conference


United action needed to defend Airbus jobs

Council workers ballot for city-wide strike

Uniting the battle against cuts and privatisation

A crucial time for Royal Mail pensions

 

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The Socialist 8 March 2007, issue 477

Brown\'s pay cut insult

Unison and RCN lobby of parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

Unison and RCN lobby of parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

Trade union action for decent pay and public services

"THIS IS the last straw - 1.9% is the final insult" a health visitor angrily told me last Friday.

On top of job losses, increased workloads, pension cuts and privatisation, public-sector workers were kicked in the teeth last week by New Labour's announcement of an effective pay cut.

International Socialist Resistance

Young workers: Fight for your rights!

ISR conference 2006, photo Marc Vallee

ISR conference 2006, photo Marc Vallee

Come to ISR conference Since the terrible shootings of three young people in south London, ministers have put on their caring faces and are giving advice on how young people can secure a decent future...

Socialist Party NHS campaign

NHS: First priority - a national demonstration

Unison and RCN lobby of parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

Unison and RCN lobby of parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

3 March protests: THE 3 March protests to save the NHS, involving thousands of people, show the anger over savage health cuts and the potential for a nationwide campaign of mass protests and industrial action....

No divide and rule - save these hospitals

Socialist Party campaigns

Fury in Camden

ON 28 February, hundreds of angry demonstrators tried to storm the council meeting at Camden Town Hall, as the Tory/ Lib-Dem led council was trying to axe £40 million from the council budget over three years...

They are all the same - even the Greens!

Lambeth demo against cuts

Lambeth Students and Community unite

Kirklees - save our nurseries

Education

Secondary education becoming a lottery

NOT STOPPING at betting using mammoth hedge funds or the building of super-size gambling dens rather than factories, casino capitalism is now being applied to schools, with the decision by Brighton and Hove council to introdu...

Socialist Party review

What\'s Left? - not Nick Cohen!

PETER TAAFFE reviews What's Left? by Nick Cohen and replies to his accusation that the 'left' supported Saddam Hussein because it opposed the invasion...

International Women's Day

International Women\'s Day

Fighting low pay decades after the Equal Pay Act: TO MARK International Women's Day 2007 (8 March) the socialist carries below three articles by Socialist Party members on some key social issues facing women today...

Socialist Party campaigns

Socialist Party congress report (2)

Recruitment, membership & campaigning: The Socialist Party congress took place on 17-19 February. Following reports of the congress political sessions on world events and Britain in last week's...

International socialist news and analysis

Egypt: Strikewave shakes regime and state-run unions

Elite fear new social explosions: A HUGE strike wave has swept across Egypt in the past three months - a country where strikes are illegal and demonstrations of any sort face brutal, bloody repression...

Scotland - Solidarity conference

Workplace news and analysis

United action needed to defend Airbus jobs

AIRBUS, THE giant European plane manufacturer announced last week that they were to get rid of over 10,000 jobs from their plants in Germany, France, UK and Spain....

Council workers ballot for city-wide strike

Southampton: IN SOUTHAMPTON, like many areas, the pain of council cuts is spread unevenly...

Uniting the battle against cuts and privatisation

A crucial time for Royal Mail pensions