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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 3 March 2009, issue Bosses get pay-offs, workers get layoffs  Bosses get pay-offs, workers get layoffs
Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson THE CAPITALIST economy is going deeper into recession. 320,000 jobs could be destroyed in Britain in the next three months, 'business advisers' now predict. Over two million people are already out of...
RBS pension scandal: Not a penny for these fat cats! RESEMBLING SOME kind of feudal payment in perpetuity, sacked Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin's £693,000 annual pension is absolutely outrageous, writes Pete Mason.
Hands off our post! Communication Workers Union lobby of parliament Feb 09, photo Paul Mattsson BUSINESS SECRETARY Peter Mandelson, like a creature from the lagoon, is pressing ahead with Labour's Postal Services Bill, claiming that only the 'expertise' of the private sector can 'modernise' Britain's postal services, writes Chris Moore, Save Our Post Offices organiser.
Stop Labour's mail sell-off Editorial: Even Thatcher opposed the privatisation of the Royal Mail, the state-owned postal service. Yet now the Labour government is determined to push through part-privatisation, selling off a third of the business...
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Marx was right all along "As capitalism stares into the abyss, was Marx right all along?"
This is not from The Socialist but from Stephen King, HSBC Banking Group's Chief Economist, writing in The Independent (2 March).
Moreover, he answers his own question in the affirmative, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
Socialist Party feature
Has globalisation gone into reverse? The Committee for a Workers International protesting at the G8 summit 2005, photo Paul Mattsson As the world credit crunch and financial crisis spread to the real economy, government leaders gathered at a G-20 summit, last November, agreed not to raise barriers to trade and investment and not to go down the road of 'beggar thy neighbour' protectionism, writes Niall Mulholland.
Our democratic rights under attack by Labour
Socialist Students
Anti-fees demo success - despite NUS leaders' obstructions Fighting fees - student demonstration in central London, photo Rob Sutton A LOUD and militant march of over a thousand students took place in central London on 25 February. It demanded free education and living grants for all. It further called for mass opposition to university...
Cardiff student occupation: University divests from arms trade
Youth fight for jobs
Youth Fight for Jobs Birmingham: Members of the Socialist Party's Birmingham branch have taken on the Youth Fight for Jobs campaign with gusto in recent weeks...
The route
Construction workers
Construction workers plan more action After a mass picket at Staythorpe power station contruction workers marched into Newark town centre, photo Steve Score After another mass picket outside Staythorpe power station on 24 February to protest against the exclusion by Alstom of UK labour from jobs on the site, 3-400 construction workers marched into nearby Newark town centre demanding "What do we want, writes Alistair Tice.
Message from strike leader
Socialist Party workplace news
Stop bullying at BT Hundreds of BT engineers and members of CWU Solent branch, staged a mass demo in Southampton on 28 February to protest at the highly aggressive approach at work by BT managers over performance targets and sickness...
Fight the cuts in Nottingham!
Sogefi workers demand strike
NUJ action
Cover supervisors: Teaching on the cheap
National Shop Stewards Network: Brighton launch meeting
Socialist Party women
International Women's Day 8 March: Don't make women pay for the bosses' crisis PCS Passport workers on strike in Belfast, photo Peter Hadden Women faced discrimination when the economy is booming. What then will be the consequences for women of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s? A fightback is necessary to...
Make all women's issues trade union issues
Solidarity with Constantina Kuneva
International socialist news and analysis
Ireland: Scrap the 'pension levy': Organise a one-day general strike THE IRISH Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) is conducting a ballot of all its affiliated members for a general strike on 30 March 2009, writes Michael Murphy, Socialist Party (CWI, Ireland).
Kashmir: Health workers win demands
May Day
Support The Socialist on May Day this year To celebrate International Workers' Day and help the paper to continue reporting the viewpoints of people in struggle, The Socialist appeals to you for a May Day greeting in 2009, writes Bob Severn.
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