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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 15 October 2008, issue Sack the bankers not the workers  Sack the bankers not the workers
 | RMT protests against privatisation on the London underground , photo Paul Mattsson |
The proposed takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB will result in anything from 20,000 to 40,000 jobs being cut, writes a Cheltenham and Gloucester bank worker.
"Give us what the bankers got"
News in brief
Socialist Party editorial
Government bailouts: major measures to prop up capitalism The Socialist editorial: "We're all socialists now, comrade." Not a headline from a previous issue of The Socialist, but carried last week in the ultra-conservative Daily Telegraph...
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Recession in Britain: Anger and bitterness towards the financiers  | Alistair Darling reads the beginners guide to the economy, cartoon by Suz |
Feature The UK economy is now in recession and the government has stepped in with a colossal £400 billion of taxpayers' money to try to prevent an even worse economic situation. Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe comments on the unprecedented events of the last few weeks and the prospects to come for workers in Britain.
Repossessions grow as banking crisis hits
Socialism 2008
Capitalism in crisis: Why you should come to Socialism 2008  | Socialism 2008 |
As one student planning to attend Socialism 2008 put it: "Things aren't carrying on in the same way and neither can I, writes Sean Figg, Brighton Socialist Party.
Socialist Party campaigns
Political protest in Liverpool will not be silenced! THE SOCIALIST has reported the continual harassment by the police of political campaigners in Liverpool's Church Street, a centre for stalls and campaigners for decades...
Mandelson - New minister for the rich
Planning Bill: Local views sidelined for big business
Socialist Party women
Defend and extend abortion rights Around 300 women and trade unionists attended a meeting last week in parliament in defence of abortion rights and a woman's right to choose organised by Abortion Rights (AR)...
Education
Opposition grows to Kirklees schools plans Government plans for academies have arrived in Kirklees, Yorkshire, in the form of their misnamed Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, writes Mike Forster, chief education steward Kirklees Unison, personal capacity.
Bangor: Organising to fight university tuition fees
Nottingham Trent University attempts to de-recognise the lecturers' union
Staff and students unite over pensions
International socialist news and analysis
Austria: Far right makes big gains - left vote squeezed AUSTRIA'S 28 September general election saw both government parties - the Social Democrats (SPÖ), and the People's Party (ÖVP) - lose massively, writes Laura Rafetseder, Sozialistische Linkspartei (SLP - CWI Austria).
Afghanistan - war without end?
Socialist Party review
75th anniversary of Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole Book review: In 1966, a quarter of the population tuned in to watch Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home, a groundbreaking work which brought the issues of homelessness and unemployment into living rooms across Britain, writes Reviewed by Dave Gorton.
Socialist Party workplace news and analysis
London bus workers strike for a living wage  | Pickets at the Leyton bus depot in East London, photo Paul Mattsson |
On 10 October, striking bus drivers on the Metroline picket near Kings Cross, London were in a very determined mood, writes Chris Newby.
Local government Scotland: Reject the pay offer!
Unity in Unite unravelling
Unison right-wing insecurity begins to show
Successful outcome for Suzanne Muna
Standing for president of Usdaw
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