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17 November 2009
A global crisis, and the particular crisis in Britain
This is a truly global crisis. Virtually no country has escaped its effects. Globally it is the poorest people in the poorest countries who are suffering the most. However, the OECD correctly predicted...
28 October 2009
80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash: Capitalist failure - then and now
Scant attention has been paid in the media to the 80th anniversary of the October 1929 Wall Street crash. The capitalists can hardly repeat their theme of yesterday - "it can never happen again."
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, takes a look at how much of it really has happened again, and spells out the underlying cause.
20 October 2009
Feature: End the bloody occupation of Afghanistan
EIGHT YEARS after US president George Bush - aided and abetted by his 'loyal lieutenant', UK prime minister Tony Blair - launched an invasion of Afghanistan, their 'war on terror' shows no sign of abating.
30 September 2009
Nepal - mass rallies back Prachandra
NEPAL HAS been rocked by almost constant protests since May against the ousting of the Maoist former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (known as Prachanda, meaning 'fierce one'), the biggest being a huge rally in Kathmandu on 11 September, writes Paul Callanan.
23 September 2009
ONCE AGAIN the 'big six' UK energy companies have stuck two fingers up to demands that they reduce the prices charged to consumers...
22 September 2009
Afghanistan: an unwinnable war
THE US and NATO's top military chief in Afghanistan has told his political bosses that western forces will fail there unless there is a change in policy...
Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson
15 September 2009
Big business to blame for climate change
CLIMATE CHANGE is already with us. Temperatures are increasing, polar ice caps melting, glaciers retreating, sea levels rising, biodiversity being lost, food production being threatened, water scarcity...
15 September 2009
Capitalist market prescribes diet of cuts
Editorial: There is now the bizarre spectacle of the Tories and New Labour trying to outdo each other with promises of cuts after the next general election to reduce the public finance deficit...
15 September 2009
Vestas: the fight is far from over
Interview: At the Socialist Party's summer camp, Mark Smith and Mark Flowers, workers who had been in occupation at the St Cross Vestas wind turbine manufacturers on the Isle of Wight (IOW), spoke to The Socialist...
9 September 2009
Return of al-Magrahi to Libya ignites a political storm
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has denied any 'oil for al-Magrahi' deal with Libya. However, according to The Times, Straw was personally lobbied by oil giant BP over Britain's prisoner transfer agreement...
NHS demonstration, photo Paul Mattsson
26 August 2009
No to health privatisation and 'the market'
What we think: Britain's NHS has become a pawn in the offensive by US Republicans and the big insurance and healthcare companies against Barack Obama's proposals to reform the US healthcare system.
As the right-wing hysteria has mounted, 'Obamacare' has been described as both 'socialist' and 'Nazi'.
Climate change demo 2005, photo Paul Mattsson
26 August 2009
Poorest suffer globally from climate change
"The Black Saturday fires created winds of 120km/h that snapped trees in half. The fires created their own weather, triggering storm clouds and lightning strikes that started more fires. They created...
25 August 2009
The real lessons of the Second World War
Seventy years ago, the major powers plunged humanity into the horror of world war, Peter Taaffe writes in the latest Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party.
25 August 2009
Marxism and the Second World War
Peter Taaffe writes in the latest Socialism Today, magazine of the Socialist Party.
12 August 2009
Comment: On top of their fat pay packets and bloated expenses, MPs may have found a further way to save money, writes Edd Mustill, Cambridge Socialist Students.
Vestas wind turbine plant workers occupy to protest against redundancies, photo RMT television
11 August 2009
Vestas - occupation ends but the fight continues
Editorial: The courageous workers' occupation at the Vestas wind turbine plant in Newport on the Isle of Wight has been followed and supported by many in the trade union movement over the last few weeks...
Thomas Cook occupation
11 August 2009
Thomas Cook occupation, Dublin: "A living lesson for workers everywhere"
Eyewitness account A FIVE-DAY occupation by workers at the Thomas Cook shop in Grafton Street, Dublin, over redundancies, was brutally ended by Garda (police) in a dawn raid.
Socialist Party (Ireland) councillor Matt Waine was arrested along with 28 workers in the early hours of Tuesday morning 4 August and locked up at Bridewell Garda station. Here is his eyewitness account.
Vestas wind turbine plant workers' occupation, photo Senan
7 August 2009
No Victimisation! After eighteen days in occupation, the first stage of the campaign against job losses at Vestas Newport has come to a close but workers have made it clear that the fight goes on...
4 August 2009
Support the Vestas workers - 4 August 2009
Click here for the latest Socialist Party Vestas leaflet (pdf)...
Vestas occupation, photo Marc Vallee
29 July 2009
Vestas - build mass action for victory
Editorial 29 July: As we go to press workers at Vestas Blades on the Isle of Wight, the only wind turbine plant in Britain, have been occupying the plant for over a week to try to prevent its closure. The twenty five workers inside the occupation have faced repeated threats of sacking, legal action, and removal of redundancy payments to try to force them to end the occupation.
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