The Socialist 16 April 2008

‘We’re striking against low pay’

'We're striking against low pay'

Birmingham strike

Editorial: 24 April strikes: step forward in pay battle

Unison witch-hunt: Defend 'the four'

Stop the witch hunts!

National Shop Stewards Network

Re-elect a fighting PCS leadership

News in brief

Global food prices: anger erupts in mass protests

How the other 0.01% live

Elections 2008

Health campaigners fight council cuts

Standing up for socialism: candidate list

Campaign for a New Workers Party - conference 2008

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: why all the controversy?

Housing crisis: Britain's house of cards

Tax attack hits low paid workers

Water 'regulators' hide real prices

Rising class struggles across Europe

Italian election: new Berlusconi victory will provoke mass opposition

France 1968: 10 million workers occupied factories

France 1968: month of revolution by Clare Doyle

The radical life of Martin Luther King

Portsmouth Activists Academy day of debate

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Standing up for socialism

SOCIALIST PARTY members are standing in local council and Greater London Assembly elections on Thursday 1 May. They aim to put forward a clear socialist alternative to the mainstream parties - Tories, New Labour, LibDems - that base their policies on the needs of big business. Socialist candidates are standing in the wards or constituencies listed below.

In this issue

'We're striking against low pay'

Birmingham strike

Editorial: 24 April strikes: step forward in pay battle

Unison witch-hunt

Unison witch-hunt: Defend 'the four'

Stop the witch hunts!

National Shop Stewards Network

Workplace news and analysis

Re-elect a fighting PCS leadership

News in brief

Global food crisis

Global food prices: anger erupts in mass protests

How the other 0.01% live

Socialist Party election campaign

Elections 2008

Health campaigners fight council cuts

Standing up for socialism: candidate list

Campaign for a New Workers Party - conference 2008

Socialist Party feature

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: why all the controversy?

Socialist Party news and views

Housing crisis: Britain's house of cards

Tax attack hits low paid workers

Water 'regulators' hide real prices

International socialist news and analysis

Rising class struggles across Europe

Italian election: new Berlusconi victory will provoke mass opposition

France 1968: 10 million workers occupied factories

France 1968: month of revolution by Clare Doyle

The radical life of Martin Luther King

Socialist Students

Portsmouth Activists Academy day of debate

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Related links:

Socialism:

Salford Socialist Party: Women and the fight for socialism

Birmingham Socialist Party: Socialism and religion

Wirral & Chester Socialist Party: The problem with socialism is...

Bristol Central Socialist Party: Socialism and gay rights

Cardiff Central Socialist Party: Campaigning against the cuts and for Socialism

A message from Tommy Sheridan

Coventry:

Funeral details for Rob Windsor, socialist councillor

Coventry: Re-elect Dave Nellist

Them & Us

Rob Windsor: socialist fighter and Coventry Socialist Party councillor 1964-2012

Cardiff:

Cardiff South Socialist Party: Popular Frontism: Lessons in organising unity against capitalism

Cardiff Central Socialist Party: Dialectical Materialism - how Marxists analyse events

Financial vultures kill Peacocks

Huddersfield:

Huddersfield & Halifax Socialist Party: The fight today

Huddersfield & Halifax Socialist Party: General Strike 1926

Huddersfield & Halifax Socialist Party: Iceland, the default

Wakefield:

Wakefield & Pontefract Socialist Party: Report from Socialist Party Congress

Wakefield & Pontefract Socialist Party: Youth Fight for Jobs

Wakefield & Pontefract Socialist Party: The pensions dispute

Swansea:

Swansea Socialist Party: Report back from a visit to Brazil

Swansea and Llanelli Socialist Party branches: Christmas Quiz

Swansea Socialist Party: the English Civil War

Stoke:

Stoke Socialist Party's public meeting success

Jarrow March for Jobs: Stoke and Nuneaton events

Jarrow March for Jobs: Hinckley, Birmingham and Stoke events

Chris Flood:

Riot police called to Lewisham town hall lobby

Support for socialists Ian Page and Chris Flood

Lewisham elections: socialists will be at forefront of struggle

Lewisham:

Lewisham Socialist Party: What next after 30th November?

Lewisham Socialist Party and YFJ: London youth erupt - Fight for jobs and services

Lewisham: Call for a united campaign for jobs, homes and services gains echo

Dave Nellist:

Firefighters discuss strategy to fight cuts

Socialist Party councillor Dave Nellist demands that £250 is paid to every low-paid council worker in Coventry

We can stop cuts!

Manchester:

Manchester Socialist Party: TUSC and the local elections

Manchester Socialist Party: Working class unity and Left unity

Manchester Socialist Party: The miners' strike and its legacy

London:

National Shop Stewards Network 6th Annual National Conference

East London Socialist Party: Our unions must fight for us!

Next construction workers' protests: Wednesday 15th February

Lincoln:

Lincoln Socialist Party: The Tories' Welfare Reform Bill and how to fight it

Lincoln Socialist Party: Where next after N30?

Lincoln Socialist Party: The first shop stewards movement - lessons for today

Greenwich:

Greenwich Unite members oppose cuts, privatisation and racism

Greenwich Socialist Party: What next after 30th November?

Greenwich Unite criticises privatisation of welfare services

Sheffield:

Sheffield Socialist Party: After 30th November, how can we defeat the cuts?

Jarrow March for Jobs: Sheffield protest, rally & meeting

Sheffield university strikers more determined