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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 8 July 2008, issue 541  Striking back against low pay
 | Teachers, lecturers and civil servants on strike on the same day, photo Paul Mattsson |
LAST WEEK, MPs kept their noses in the trough by voting to maintain their massive expenses and furnishing their second homes, writes Josie Nichols, secretary, Leicestershire county Unison, (personal capacity).
Campaign for a New Workers Party
The working class needs its own party  | Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference 2008, photo Socialist Party |
Editorial: THIS MONTH talks will be taking place between union leaders and the New Labour government. Most of the national trade union leaders are hoping that the talks will lead to a 'Warwick Two' agreement, which they hope will result in a few scraps being thrown...
CNWP conference: Wanted - a new mass workers' party Special Feature: "Waste not, want not"! Gordon Brown's patronising and insulting advice to people struggling to make ends meet is not going to go down well. Yet again he puts the blame for the economic crisis on working people...
Socialist Party news and analysis
UK economy sliding into recession  | Cost of living - from CNWP leaflet |
THERE HAS been a raft of economic data in recent weeks showing the continuing decline in the UK and world economy but Alistair Darling says there is nothing to worry about, writes Jane James.
Rich get richer: Why should we pay the price!
MP backs student fees campaign
Bonuses for chiefs, pay restraint for civil service workers
Government lies on public-sector pay
High farce from Boris Johnson
G8 leaders' 'world hunger' banquet
On the other side of the financial divide...
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Defend the NHS!  | The Socialist Party's 'Grim Reaper' joins the Keep Our NHS Public 'Defend our health service' protest outside the Department of Health on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the health service, photo Paul Mattsson |
LAST SATURDAY, 5 July marked the 60th anniversary of one of the greatest gains of the British working class, the introduction of the National Health Service, writes Wylie Hume, Devon Socialist Party.
Property deals threaten private nursing homes
Cancer vaccines: who decides?
Marxist analysis: history
Terry Fields: A socialist voice that rocked Whitehall  | Terry Fields addressing an FBU lobby in London 1989, photo Steve Gardiner |
THE voice of workers anger reached the hallowed chambers of the Houses of Parliament on 24 June 1983, when Terry Fields, MP for Liverpool Broadgreen, spoke for the first time in the Commons...
Socialist Party LGBT
Marching against homophobia & racism  | Socialist Party members campaigning at Pride, photo Chris Newby |
London Pride -: Members of the Socialist Party lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) group and London Socialist Party had a fantastic response when campaigning against homophobia on Saturday 5 July, writes Greg Randall, Convenor, Socialist Party LGBT group.
Socialist Party workplace news
Argos warehouse workers vote to strike Argos distribution workers have voted by 67% to strike over pay. A senior steward for Unite at the Argos distribution centre in Basildon, spoke to The Socialist about the dispute and about organising distribution workers...
DWP strikes bring talks
National Shop Stewards Network Conference: Organising migrant workers
A day in the life of a call centre worker
Call centre charter: A framework for workers' rights
RMT conference discusses crisis of political representation
Socialist stands for Usdaw general secretary  | Robbie Segal |
Socialist Party member Robbie Segal is standing as a candidate for Usdaw general secretary. Ballot papers will be distributed from 8 August.
At the National Shop Stewards' Network conference Robbie launched a conference for all those who oppose the Usdaw leadership's social partnership strategy and the direction in which they are taking the union.
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