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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 30 August 2007, issue Strike against public sector pay cap  Strike against public sector pay cap
Prison officers' action: On 29 August, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) held its first ever national day of strike action, with over 20,000 staff walking out from all public prisons in England and Wales...
Prison officers defy government's pay cap
Prison Officers' strike reports
Socialist Party workplace news
Strikers solid in London tubes stoppage  | RMT strike: London tube workers strike in September 2007 after Metronet bankruptcy, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE STRIKE on most of London's tube system, the parts previously maintained by the bankrupt Metronet company, had a huge effect...
Swansea: Visteon strike threat brings concessions AS WE go to press, workers in the Swansea Visteon plant are voting on a company offer to settle their long-running dispute... By a Visteon steward
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Defend Newcastle General Hospital Fight Tesco's plans: IN NEWCASTLE, proposals have been put forward to close the General Hospital (NGH) and build a Tesco store on the site.
Sheffield Northern General Hospital bulk stores strike
Trades Union Congress
TUC conference resolutions need to lead to action TUC conference 2007: The annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) takes place on 10-13 September, against a background of increasing attacks on workers' pay and conditions but also a willingness of some unions to take action in defence of jobs...
TUC conference fringe meeting
Socialist Party events
Socialism 2007 - a weekend of discussion and debate, hosted by the Socialist Party  | Socialism 2007 |
17-18 November 2007, University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1.
Speakers include:
Brian Caton, general secretary POA, (recently led strike action which was declared illegal)
Mark Serwotka, general secretary PCS
Peter Taaffe, general secretary, Socialist Party
Socialist Party news and analysis
Horror and heartbreak in Croxteth - What is the cause? What is the answer? The appalling murder of young Rhys Jones has generated outrage, disbelief, anger and a demand for a solution to the brutalisation of a section of youth... By Tony Mulhearn
Massive deprivation in Norris Green, Liverpool
Socialist Party policy
The growing wealth gap The Super-Rich, the owners of Britain's industrial and financial giants, are getting enormously richer while workers are more and more forced to take industrial action merely to defend their pay, pensions and conditions...
Education
Cardiff: More schools fight closures programme OPPOSITION IS still building against Cardiff council's school closures programme...
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
'Agitate, educate, organise': the role of the workers' press  | The Socialist issue 366 |
DURING 500 issues the socialist has carried news and analysis, reviews, letters, historical material, cartoons and reports of campaigns and struggles across England and Wales and the world.
It has put forward strategies for opposing privatisation of public services such as the health, fire and postal services and the wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, among other issues.
International socialist news and analysis
Greece is burning OVERSHADOWING THE forthcoming general election in Greece has been the terrible tragedy of forest fires which have claimed many lives...
Workplace news and analysis
Belfast Airport workers score a victory Belfast airport workers have won a stunning victory in a Fair Employment Tribunal but the shop stewards vow that their fight for justice will go on.... By Bill Mullins
Unison witch-hunt
Plymouth dockyard
Socialist Party reviews
Fela Kuti, revolutionary musician The socialist review: Ten years after the death of Fela Kuti, the resonating messages of a revolutionary musician are still all too relevant.... By Lanre Arogundade & Segun Sango
'Holding Fire' by Jack Shepherd
Save the 'Westie' in Aldershot
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