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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 7 July 2009, issue Action now to defend public sector  Action now to defend public sector
Scotland council workers strike, photo International Socialists THE BATTLE lines are being drawn in the public sector. Chancellor Alistair Darling has warned of a 'tight squeeze' on the pay of six million public sector workers. Nancy Taaffe, a trade union activist in Waltham Forest, says it is time to fight back.
Jobs not dole Youth Fight For jobs demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson With every passing week yet more companies announce yet more redundancies. The figures are astounding. Earlier this year we saw the largest quarterly fall of people in employment since 1971...
Brown's dead duck government Editorial: U-TURNS, BACKTRACKING, mistakes, lies, defeats, clutching at straws - all everyday occurrences for a government clinging to power by its fingertips...
Postal workers need a national fightback
National Express goes off the rails THE NEWS that National Express has walked away from its east coast rail franchise comes at a time when most other tocs (train operating companies) are experiencing a drop in revenue due to the recession, writes Mark Pickersgill.
First Bus - no to pay freeze
Demanding justice for Shrewsbury 24
News in brief
Why women don't have real equality Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson Sir Stuart Rose, executive chair of Marks and Spencer proclaimed in the Observer recently that women have got "more equality than you ever can deal with"...
Police trigger ethnic clashes in Xinjiang Chinese authorities impose martial law A PEACEFUL sit-down protest in the capital city Ürümqi by around 300 Uighurs, the Turkic-speaking minority that is the dominant population group in Xinjiang, was transformed by trigger-happy police into perhaps the most serious ethnic clashes in China seen in decades, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.
Honduras coup - a warning to workers in Latin America On Sunday 5 July Manuel Zelaya, the President of Honduras who was overthrown in a coup a week earlier, attempted to return to Honduras, writes Hannah Sell...
Sri Lanka: Protest over DfID role TAMIL SOLIDARITY, which campaigns for the rights of all workers and the oppressed in Sri Lanka, organised a protest recently against UK government financial support for the repressive, chauvinist Sri Lankan government, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity.
Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky Review: An account of Trotsky's last years in exile in Mexico, during his heroic struggles against Stalinism, fascism and capitalism, and, pertinently, during the last great economic crisis, is to be welcomed, Reviewed by Niall Mulholland
Arundhati Roy - politics and literature
Higher fees in higher education Fighting fees - student demonstration in central London, photo Rob Sutton University fees are to be raised by 2.04% in 2010, taking them to £3,290 a year. This means that top-up fees have increased by almost £300 since they were introduced three years ago. On top of this, the...
Drama students enter the stage of struggle
Teachers' MOTs
First strike against Trust schools
Strike against BSF proposals
RMT Annual General Meeting: "If provoked - Will strike" London Underground strike of RMT tube workers, photo Paul Mattsson A number of delegates at the transport union RMT's AGM wore T-shirts picturing a viper and the wording "If provoked - will strike", writes Elaine Brunskill.
Save jobs at Vestas wind turbine plant
Private companies caught in jobcentre scam
South West Wales Media: Fight for jobs, defend conditions
Oilc - fighting for decent working conditions in the North Sea
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