The Socialist

The Socialist 28 January 2009

Join the march for jobs

JOIN THE MARCH FOR JOBS

Defend jobs and services

Era of illusions in capitalism ending

The crisis in manufacturing: Fighting for jobs and living standards

No pay discrimination against young people

Ferengi dealers


Coventry protest over Gaza onslaught

Israel: Thousands march in Jaffa against Gaza massacre

Students' angry sit-ins


Stop the racist BNP

Stop the deportation of Yahya Al-Faifi


Socialist councillor opposes Tory plans for education privatisation

Labour's abandoning of the working class

Croydon: Striking against academies

Scotland: Step up opposition to cuts

Fast News


Fighting council cuts

Say 'no' to the Metro privateers

Amicus Unity Gazette left with egg on its face

Unison right wing exposed

Victory for left in Glasgow Unison

Solid support for Glasgow strike

Building a fighting Unison leadership


Build a mass movement for free education

Save our school!


Germany 1919 The Spartacist uprising


Russia: Bosses sack auto-factory union leader

Courageous socialist activist, campaigning journalist and human rights activist


Obituary - Barry Malone


A People's History of Sports in the United States

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The Socialist 28 January 2009, issue Join the march for jobs

spotJOIN THE MARCH FOR JOBS

Join the march for jobs

Join the march for jobs

Say no to youth unemployment: On 2 April the G20 - the leaders of the world's 20 major world powers - will be meeting in Watford. Young people and trade unionists will be marching from central London to meet them - demanding a future.

spotDefend jobs and services

spotEra of illusions in capitalism ending

spotThe crisis in manufacturing: Fighting for jobs and living standards

spotNo pay discrimination against young people

spotFerengi dealers

Slaughter in Gaza

spotCoventry protest over Gaza onslaught

Dave Nellist addresses a No more ghettos: not Warsaw, not Gaza vigil, photo Coventry Socialist Party

Dave Nellist addresses a No more ghettos: not Warsaw, not Gaza vigil, photo Coventry Socialist Party

FOLLOWING THE weekly protests in Coventry called by the Socialist Party against the Israeli state onslaught on Palestinians in Gaza, a dignified vigil and a 300-strong protest rally were held to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day last Sunday...

spotIsrael: Thousands march in Jaffa against Gaza massacre

spotStudents' angry sit-ins

Anti-racism

spotStop the racist BNP

ON SATURDAY 31 January, hundreds of people will be protesting against the British National Party (BNP) in Liverpool, writes Hugh Caffrey.

spotStop the deportation of Yahya Al-Faifi

Socialist Party campaigns

spotSocialist councillor opposes Tory plans for education privatisation

Save our school: one of the many protests against the Tory plans, photo by Yorkshire SP

Save our school: one of the many protests against the Tory plans, photo by Yorkshire SP

Last week's Kirklees council meeting brought in a new Liberal/Labour coalition administration after a vote of 'no confidence' in the ruling minority Tory cabinet took place, writes Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS councillor.

spotLabour's abandoning of the working class

spotCroydon: Striking against academies

spotScotland: Step up opposition to cuts

spotFast News

Socialist Party workplace news

spotFighting council cuts

Greenwich Unison in south London has won the first round of a campaign to stop Greenwich council's plans to 'reconfigure' the child protection service, writes Onay Kasab, secretary Greenwich Unison, personal capacity.

spotSay 'no' to the Metro privateers

spotAmicus Unity Gazette left with egg on its face

spotUnison right wing exposed

spotVictory for left in Glasgow Unison

spotSolid support for Glasgow strike

spotBuilding a fighting Unison leadership

Education

spotBuild a mass movement for free education

NUS leadership severs links with students: The National Union of Students (NUS) governance review was passed at an extraordinary conference on 20 January in Wolverhampton, writes Ben Robinson.

spotSave our school!

Marxist analysis: history

spotGermany 1919 The Spartacist uprising

Historical feature: NINETY YEARS ago this month the German workers rose in the 'Spartacist uprising' - a turning point in the German revolution of 1917-1923 which led to the tragic deaths of revolutionary socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht...

International socialist news and analysis

spotRussia: Bosses sack auto-factory union leader

ON 19 January at the end of his shift, Dmitrii Kozhnev, Chair of the Tsentrosvarmash factory branch of the Trade Union of Auto Industry Workers (MPRA), and a supporter of Socialist Resistance (CWI, Russia), was sacked from his workplace in Tver city, Russia...

spotCourageous socialist activist, campaigning journalist and human rights activist

Socialist Party news

spotObituary - Barry Malone

With regret I must inform members of the Socialist Party of the death of Barry Malone, Shropshire branch, on 12 January. Barry was just 60 but was battling with illness, writes Jim Reekie, secretary, Shropshire Socialist Party.

Socialist Party reviews

spotA People's History of Sports in the United States

Book review: When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in the city were left homeless...

spotThe Reader