The Socialist 17 February 2010 Fight Council Cuts! Nominate Roger Bannister: Council workers need a fighting union Notts Tories attack the vulnerable TUSC to fight cuts in Spelthorne New health inequality report reveals widening class divide Ministers and MI5 colluded in the cover-up of torture The construction industry blacklist: Paltry punishment for attacks on workers Oppose university cuts - defend jobs Sussex student union elections: Support for socialist campaigners Youth Fight for Jobs: Leeds march for jobs and education Wales: New challenges for socialists Celebrate May Day this year with The Socialist Greece: Massive public sector workers' strike against savage austerity plans Capitalist crisis threatens the eurozone project Winter Olympics: Shortage of snow but no shortage of debts? Protests as Canada's Tories suspend parliament |
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Home | The Socialist 17 February 2010 | Join the Socialist Party Celebrate May Day this year with The SocialistThe Socialist appeals to all its readers to support the 2010 May Day greetings appeal, helping the paper to celebrate International Workers' Day. Bob SevernInternational Workers' Day marks the first national general strike in the US, which took place on 1 May 1886. Many workers won a shorter working day with no reduction in their wages. Others, however, lost their lives due to state oppression against the strike, including during the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago. Today, many workers take part in May Day celebrations and demonstrations across the world to commemorate the sacrifices that working and poor people have made in their struggles for a better society, celebrate the gains made in those struggles, and also to prepare for future battles to protect and improve the living standards of ordinary people. Us and themIn Britain, where all the capitalist political parties plan to cut jobs and services in order to pay for the £1.2 trillion bank bailout, more people are seeing the need to fight back. The Socialist not only reports the action taken against such cuts, but shows how disputes can be won. It is also a paper that explains the need for a socialist world. The Socialist is not financially backed by the big business bosses that want you to pay for the bank bailouts, but instead relies on money from its readers and supporters. May Day greetings in 2010 will help finance the paper, as well as showing the range of people who are fighting for a socialist alternative to mass unemployment, poverty and inequality. Send your greetingsIf you are in a trade union branch, committee or group, a student society, a campaign or community group, or a Socialist Party branch, then The Socialist asks for a May Day greeting from your group. If you are taking part in the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, can you send a greeting that backs your election candidate? The deadline for greeting messages is Friday 9 April. Greetings paid for by that date receive a 10% discount on the standard rates. May Day greeting forms and pledge sheets, to help raise money for and write a greeting, will be available soon.Phone 020 8988 8796 or email circulation@socialistparty.org.uk to order yours and for more information.Greeting prices include: £400 for a whole page; £250 for a half-page; £150 quarter-page; £75 one-eighth; £40 one-sixteenth; £25 1/32; £15 small box; and £10 for up to 30 wordsIn this issue Socialist Party campaigns
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Socialist Party news and analysis
Workplace analysis
Socialist Students
Youth fight for jobs
Socialist Party feature
International socialist news and analysis
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