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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 4 February 2009, issue Workers show their strength Lindsey refinery
 Lindsey refinery: workers show their strength
Lindsey refinery: workers show their strength, photo Yorkshire Socialist Party Strikes repel attacks on jobs and conditions Shades of the miners' strike - mass protests, car park meetings, loud hailers that don't work. Not so much flying pickets as flying texts and emails leading to spontaneous unofficial walkouts and 'illegal' strike action. The anti-trade union laws have been brushed aside without a thought...
Firm strike leadership gains results
Organising real trade unionism
Response from Italy
Staythorpe power station: "It's all about money"
The diary of a striker
Striking at Fiddlers Ferry Construction workers picketing Fiddlers Ferry power station, photo Bunke / Ford The 70 construction workers picketing Fiddlers Ferry power station, Widnes, were clear about the reasons for the action, writes Christian Bunke and Andy Ford.
Socialist Party youth and students
United action needed to save education London Metropolitan University's vice-chancellor, Brian Roper, has announced that the college is in severe financial difficulties, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party.
Youth Fight for Jobs campaign
Gaza protests: Police attacks show stewarding vital
May Day: Lords judgement backs police
Socialist Party campaigns
Corus steal jobs: Workers must fight back Rotherham in South Yorkshire has been devastated by job losses in the last four months. Since October, Rosebys, Woolworths, FADS and MFI have either closed or gone into administration...
Weather chaos exposes cutbacks
Car industry bailout plan
Wirral: Stop the cuts and closures
Fast news
Liverpool: Far right BNP exposed
International socialist news and analysis
Sri Lanka: Stop the slaughter! Massive demonstration in London against the military attacks on Tamils in the north of Sri Lanka, photo by D. Carr IN EXTREMELY cold weather, 125,000 Sri Lankan Tamils living in England took to the streets of London on Saturday 31 January to protest against the atrocities of the Sri Lankan government in its war on the Tamils in the north of the country, writes Senan, Socialist Party, London.
Sri Lanka: Thousands trapped in war zone
France: millions strike against Sarkozy's policies French workers demonstrate in 2003, photo Paul Mattsson ACCORDING TO the police, 1.1 million people took to the streets of France on 29 January. The unions put it at 2.5 million. Either way, it is already bigger than the biggest demonstration during the CPE...
Economic crisis - cracks appear in the bosses' EU Eurozone 10th anniversary: THE INTERNATIONAL capitalist crisis has served to completely discredit the ideology of free market policies of the 'boom' period, of the last 20 years or so, writes Danny Byrne, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
Iceland: Devastated by global crisis
Marxist analysis: history
Lessons of the Jarrow Crusade: no return to the 1930s! Economic recession with growing unemployment, poverty and deprivation - these are some of the spectres facing working-class and young people across Britain and the world...
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