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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 3 June 2008, issue 536  New Labour's failures: Don't just get angry, get Active
 | Grodon Brown meltdown. Cartoon on cover of Socialism Today, June 2008 , Cartoon by Suz |
LABOUR ARE hated - it's official! A YouGov poll last week put them at their most unpopular since opinion polling began in 1943. Then, Labour was soon to introduce the NHS and the welfare state. That Labour Party is gone forever. Now they are hell-bent on cutting and privatising our services, writes Tom Baldwin.
Campaign for a new workers' party: conference 2008 Sunday 29 June 10am - 5pm, South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1. (nearest Rail/Tube stations - Kings Cross/St Pancras, Euston, Mornington Crescent) Speakers include Bob Crow, RMT general secretary |
Environment and socialism
Editorial: Target 'ecological' taxes at the biggest polluters Across Europe, farmers, fishermen, lorry drivers and others have been protesting against increased fuel costs...
Heathrow protest: Demonstrating against a third airport runway  | Heathrow runway expansion protests, photo Marc Vallée |
Over 3,000 people marched from Hatton Cross to Sipson to demonstrate their opposition to a third runway at Heathrow airport, writes Neil Cafferky.
Cosmetic measures against fuel poverty THE GOVERNMENT'S plan, announced last week, to tackle fuel poverty doesn't amount to a hill of beans...
Socialist Party workplace news
Belfast Airport workers: The long battle for justice  | Belfast airport workers protest |
The Socialist has carried regular articles about the battle being waged by three shop stewards, sacked from their security jobs at Belfast Airport...
Come to the national shop stewards network conference
National Shop Stewards Network second conferenceSaturday 28 June, 11.30am-4.30pmSouth Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1.Speakers include Bob Crow, RMT, Mark Serwotka, PCS and Brian Caton, POA, plus shop stewards from disputes around the country. £5 per delegate. Send to: NSSN, PO Box 58262, London N1 1ET. Email davechapple@btinternet.com. Or see: www.shopstewards.net Please note that the next meeting of the North West region committee of the National Shop Stewards Network will be held on Saturday 19 July, not 19 June. |
Union members reject pay insult
Socialist Party campaigns
Don't deport AmDani Juna  | Protesting at the threat to deport AmDani in Nottingham, photo Gary Freeman |
THE CAMPAIGN to stop the deportation of AmDani Juna has won at least a temporary success...
Keep our NHS public
Nottingham: Student protests at arrests
Socialist Party review
Engels: A Revolutionary Life  | Freidrich Engels |
The ideas of the Socialist Party, based on scientific socialism, are identified with Karl Marx and 'Marxism', but Friedrich Engels deserves to be bracketed alongside the great 'philosopher of the millennium'. Peter Taaffe reveiws Engels: A Revolutionary Life, by John Green. (Artery Publications, London 2008)
Socialist Party youth and students
Youth against racism On Saturday 21 June Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) has called a national demonstration against the racist British National Party...
London Youth Against Racism activity
National demo against racist BNPSaturday 21 June 2008Assemble: 12 noon, Tooley Street, London SE1 (behind Greater London Assembly building, near Tower Bridge)Contact ISR on anticapitalism@hotmail.co.uk or go to www.anticapitalism.org.uk |
Students step-up struggle School students are angry. Over the last six weeks, thousands have walked out in protest against the running down of the education system, writes Ben Robinson, ISR national co-ordinator.
Berlin: 8,000 school students strike
Housing crisis
Markets cannot end house building crisis A LONDON newspaper recently announced in bold headlines: "Brown is brown bread" (for the benefit of non-Londoners, that means 'dead!'), writes Paul Kennedy.
Nationalise Bradford & Bingley
Environment: Nuclear power
Nuclear power: An expensive and dangerous failure An energy policy partly based on nuclear power, as the government is proposing, obviously raises deep concerns about safety. But it is also the sheer uneconomic nature of nuclear power that makes it an abject failure as a major energy source worldwide, writes Roy Farrar.
Football
The beautiful game, with beautiful profits for some Now that the football season has drawn to a close, with the battle for the Premiership title having been fought between the usual clubs, John Reid, author of Reclaim the Game reviews the current state of football in England...
International socialist news and analysis
Lebanon - civil war or rule by sectarian landlords AFTER THE last two weeks of street conflict between pro-government and opposition armed militias, workers in Lebanon are now facing two 'choices': either a sectarian civil war or 'civil peace' with a ruling 'coalition', writes Tamir Mahdi, Beirut.
Israel: Olmert will go, but the political crisis will stick
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