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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 2 September 2008, issue 546  'Them and us' economy hits the rocks
 | Major struggles are inevitable - trade union action needed to protect our future. Picture: PCS Passport workers on strike in Belfast, photo Peter Hadden |
"The economic times we are facing are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years", blurted out chancellor Alistair Darling in an unguarded moment on his summer holiday, writes Dave Reid.
Inequality - the world's deadliest disease!
Socialist Party editorial
Russia / Georgia war exposes limits of West Editorial: LESS THAN a decade ago US imperialism believed that, like a colossus bestriding the globe, it could act as an all-powerful, lone, global super-power...
Socialist Party workplace news
Trades Union Congress: Building a real leadership against the bosses  | PCS is calling for public-sector trade union unity. Birmingham Council workers on strike, April 24, photo S. O Neill |
This year's Trades Union Congress promises to be more interesting than in previous years. The main resolutions reflect issues such as the battle in the public sector over the government's pay restraint...
John Mc Donnell MP protests at Unison witch-hunt
London buses: Strikers pack picket lines
Fight threat to Ford Transit plant jobs
Coastguards strike over bank holiday in pay protest
Socialist Party feature
Building a new workers' party: trade unionist initiative needed  | John McInally, vice-president of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), photo Paul Mattsson |
A number of left trade union leaders have recognised that the Labour Party in councils and in government is not going to stop trying to push through privatisation, writes John McInally, vice-president of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), in a personal capacity.
Building industrial militancy
International socialist news and analysis
Poland: Biggest workers' demo since the 1990s WARSAW CAME to a standstill for many hours as over 50,000 workers demonstrated in torrential rain last Friday (29 August), writes Paul Newbery, GPR (CWI, Poland).
Socialist Party campaigns
Terry Fields memorial meeting "TERRY FIELDS was a great comrade, loved and respected by many socialists, trade unionists and political activists, writes Clara Paillard.
Arrested for selling The Socialist
Opposing the far right
Winners and losers at the Beijing Olympics
Water quality threat to health
Adding colour to The Socialist
Socialist Students
School and college students fighting back! Six months before New Labour came to power in 1997, Blair famously claimed that his three main priorities for government were "education, education, education", writes Kat Jayawant, Sussex Downs College International Socialist Resistance (ISR).
Socialist Party review
Inside Egypt: the land of the Pharaohs on the brink of a revolution A new book describing the disintegration of Egyptian society claims it is a country on the brink of revolution. As if to prove the author's point, the government has banned its sale...
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS: Save our casualty unit! SWANSEA'S SINGLETON Hospital casualty unit is threatened with yet another downgrading. The Trust proposes to replace this important minor casualty service with just a single GP and nurse team!, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party.
NHS 'surplus' = cuts in care
Swollen profits, suffering patients
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