The Socialist

The Socialist 29 July 2009

Nationalise to save jobs and the environment

Nationalise to save jobs and the environment

Vestas - build mass action for victory


Unison witch-hunt: Defend the Unison Four!

What you can do to help the campaign


Afghanistan - Withdraw the troops


Swine flu: Profit system puts people at risk

Hospital worker reinstated


Building support for world socialism


No to the Future Jobs Fraud

Public shows support for Youth Fight for Jobs campaign


Kilmarnock: Anger over Diageo's jobs massacre

Greedy bosses exploiting seasonal workers

Cardiff cuts protest

Street cleaners lobby council

National meeting for: Socialist Party trade union members


Futurism


When workers shut down Minneapolis


Success for Stop the Strip campaign

California's Budget crisis: Huge cuts spark workers' anger

Milburn goes to top of class

Protest against BNP's 'festival of hate'

 
 

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The Socialist 29 July 2009, issue Nationalise to save jobs and the environment

spotNationalise to save jobs and the environment

Vestas wind turbine plant workers occupy to protest against redundancies, photo RMT television

Vestas wind turbine plant workers occupy to protest against redundancies, photo RMT television

Support Vestas workers: The 25 Vestas workers occupying the wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have created an international furore over jobs and the future of the environment, writes Nick Chaffey.

spotVestas - build mass action for victory

spotUnison witch-hunt: Defend the Unison Four!

Unison conference 2009: Brian Debus, Onay Kasab and Glenn Kelly, photo Paul Mattsson

Unison conference 2009: Brian Debus, Onay Kasab and Glenn Kelly, photo Paul Mattsson

Scandalously a Unison disciplinary committee has banned four Socialist Party members from holding office for periods from three to five years...

spotWhat you can do to help the campaign

spotAfghanistan - Withdraw the troops

THE BRITISH government is cynically exploiting the tragic deaths of British soldiers to justify the continuing war in Afghanistan, writes Paula Mitchell.

spotSwine flu: Profit system puts people at risk

SWINE 'FLU is rapidly spreading. A vaccine to prevent infection is urgently needed but it will be next year before there are sufficient supplies to protect everyone in Britain. Eventually half the population...

spotHospital worker reinstated

spotBuilding support for world socialism

Joe Higgins MEP, Socialist Party Ireland, speaking at the European CWI school, photo Bob Severn

Joe Higgins MEP, Socialist Party Ireland, speaking at the European CWI school, photo Bob Severn

Committee for a Workers' International: The annual summer school of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) took place in Belgium during the week 12 to 17 July...

spotNo to the Future Jobs Fraud

YFJ steering committee report: With the number of unemployed young people rapidly approaching one million, building Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) is more urgent than ever, writes Ben Robinson, YFJ national chair.

spotPublic shows support for Youth Fight for Jobs campaign

spotKilmarnock: Anger over Diageo's jobs massacre

ON 26 JULY, 20,000 people took to the streets of Kilmarnock, west Scotland, to defend the 900 whisky jobs due to be cut by multinational drinks company Diageo, writes Leah Ganley, Youth Fight for Jobs, Scotland.

spotGreedy bosses exploiting seasonal workers

spotCardiff cuts protest

spotStreet cleaners lobby council

spotNational meeting for: Socialist Party trade union members

Socialist Party review

spotFuturism

Exhibition review: Brash, bold and belligerent, the artistic movement known as futurism hit the scene in early 1909. Later, it would give expression to political polar opposites: Italian fascist reaction and Russian socialist...

spotWhen workers shut down Minneapolis

75th anniversary of the "Teamster Rebellion": TODAY, FACED with the worst economic crisis since the 1930s Great Depression, it is crucial we learn how workers successfully defended themselves in the past...

Socialist Party news and analysis

spotSuccess for Stop the Strip campaign

THE WHITE Hart in New Cross, south London, which had previously been operating as a lap dancing bar, has now returned to being run as a normal bar, writes Tania Eadie.

spotCalifornia's Budget crisis: Huge cuts spark workers' anger

spotMilburn goes to top of class

spotProtest against BNP's 'festival of hate'