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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 17 February 2009, issue Fight back now to stop job cuts  Fight back now to stop job cuts
SACKED AT an hour's notice! And with no redundancy pay even after years of continuous work. That's what the bosses did to 850 workers at the BMW car plant at Cowley, Oxford.
These sackings typify the plight of workers today in 'casualised Britain' plc. The 850 sacked workers were agency staff who didn't have the same employment rights as permanent workers.
Anger as jobs slashed with an hour's notice
Car workers' jobs slaughter - begin the fightback!
Defend every job on the tube RMT protest against job losses is joined by the Shop Stewards Network, photo Paul Mattsson London Underground are to cut 1,000 jobs, already they are seeking voluntary redundancies. If these aren't taken up they will no doubt come back and attempt to sack workers, writes Roger James, an underground worker.
Construction workers protest: Staythorpe power station
Isle of Grain picket
Meeting on Lindsey oil refinery dispute: Workers strike back Public meeting on lessons of the Lindsey oil refinery strike with Keith Gibson and Jerry Hicks, photo Paul Mattsson Around 200 people attended a joint meeting in London on 13 February, organised by the Socialist Party and Respect, to discuss the lessons of the Lindsey oil refinery strike...
Why the bosses don't want an organised workforce
Socialist Students
Stop fees Bail out the students - not the bankers! - Campaign to Defeat Fees protest, photo Bob Severn No to cuts: FOR YEARS the government, echoed by the National Union of Students (NUS) leadership, has told students they would get a fantastic job at the end of their course to pay off their student debt, writes Iain Dalton, Bangor Socialist Students.
Students protest against attacks on Gaza
'Books not Bombs' at Nottingham
Concessions won at Queen Mary university
Socialist Party editorial
New Labour in blind panic RMT protests against privatisation on the London underground , photo Paul Mattsson Editorial 'Don't panic!' Peter Mandelson is begging his fellow cabinet ministers. It will not have any effect - New Labour is in a blind panic. No wonder; as the economy has sharply declined, so has New Labour's...
Regulators resign over financial meltdown
Sport
London Olympics battered by economic crisis Nothing is being left untouched by the world economic crisis, including the biggest sporting event in the world, writes Chris Newby.
Socialist Party campaigns
Yahya must stay Defend Saudi Arabian trade unionist from deportation Yahya Al Faifi faces deportation, photo SP Wales YAHYA AL Faifi, a self-sacrificing trade unionist and committed socialist, faces deportation back to Saudi Arabia where a tyrannical regime jails, tortures and 'disappears' dissidents, writes Mariam Kamish, campaign secretary.
Coventry: Hands off our youth services!
Political vendetta against Tommy Sheridan
Wirral cuts: Fighting 'cultural terrorism'
Fast news
Socialist Party feature
Defend the welfare state Labour's latest attacks on unemployment and disability benefits NEW LABOUR'S Welfare Reform Bill recently received its first reading in parliament. This bill will hit sick and disabled people and lone parents particularly hard but will also make life on benefits even...
International socialist news and analysis
Israel: Election results indicate a deepening political crisis LESS THAN a month after the end of the last bloody onslaught on the residents of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank was put under a military closure, as the election for Israel's 120 seat Knesset (parliament) began, writes Shahar Ben-Khorin, Maavak Sozialisti, (CWI, Israel).
Costa Rica: Urgent solidarity action for unionists
Socialist Party workplace news and analysis
Manchester Unison elections: Left candidates well supported "Your leaflet has gone down really well here!" That's what one steward rang me up to say after his members had read the Left slate election leaflet for the Unison Manchester local government branch, writes Jim Cessford, Manchester Unison, personal capacity.
Usdaw presidential election: The campaign they tried to hide
Usdaw Activist public meeting4 April, 11am-3pm,Exmouth Arms, Starcross Street,near Euston station, London
Fight the Unison witch-hunt
Launch of new broad left for Unite
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