The Socialist 7 October 2009

Needed a party for workers, not bosses

Afghanistan stop the war

Afghanistan - Bring the troops home now

Youth Fight for Jobs

University accommodation scandal: Students must defend rights

University freshers fairs: Students seek out socialism

Wirral anti-cuts victory: 'If you fight, you can win'

Young parents need support, not attacks

Fight for a living wage

Not to Darling's pay freeze

Fast news

Campaign forces health Trust to save Crowlin House

An autumn of discontent in South Yorkshire

Leeds council calls for talks with unions

Fighting against outsourcing, defending working conditions at British Telecom

NUT vice president: Elect Martin Powell-Davies

Cambridge post workers strike

North Wales shop stewards network

Social care in crisis

Ireland: Lisbon Treaty vote is not an endorsement for hated government

Portugal: Voters turn to the left

Foreign aid - chaining the world to capitalism

Fish Tank directed by Andrea Arnold

I speak Fula by Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba

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Not to Darling's pay freeze

CHANCELLOR ALISTAIR Darling's rank political opportunism - announcing a pay freeze on 40,000 top civil servants during the Tory Party conference - reeks of hypocrisy.

Where is the government decree reversing MPs' pay rise this year or stopping their outrageous expenses claims or capping their lucrative final salary pensions? Where is Darling's announcement that bankers' bonuses will be halted or that the likes of ex-RBS boss Fred Goodwin will be forced to repay his platinum plated pay off?

In practice, it's not the wealthy who will be taking a hit from Darling. It will be low paid public sector workers, already suffering from years of pay and pension cuts who will also be told to accept another year's wage freeze.

Low paid public sector workers should not have to shoulder the capitalist economic crisis but instead should prepare to fight the government's austerity plan.

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