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29 September 2011
The battle for Dale Farm and Travellers' rights
The attempt by the local council to forcibly evict Travellers from their land at Dale Farm in Essex has highlighted the issue of Gypsies' and Travellers' rights in the UK
28 September 2011
Dale Farm - call off the evictions of residents
Basildon council's attempts to evict 86 Traveller families from Dale Farm have been thrown into confusion by decisions of the high court, writes Dave Murray, Basildon.
7 September 2011
Since 31 August residents of 52 "unauthorised" plots at Dale Farm Travellers' site in Essex are under threat of forcible eviction, which Basildon council say will take place after 19 September, writes Dave Murray, Basildon Socialist Party.
19 February 2011
In a socialist society the means of producing wealth would be transferred from the hands of an unelected elite, concerned only with making a profit, to the democratic control of ordinary working people...
Socialist Party members on NHS demonstration in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson
19 January 2011
Government health bill spells disaster for patients and workers: THE GOVERNMENT is planning a massive assault on the NHS in England in its latest health bill. This is on top of billions of pounds of 'efficiency savings' ie cuts, in the NHS budget, a London health workers explains...
1 December 2010
Climate change: Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe
CLIMATE CHANGE is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says. Millions suffered great hardship...
3 November 2010
Tube workers take more action for safety
More than 11,000 tube workers are striking for 24 hours against job cuts from 2 November...
29 September 2010
"THE COUNCIL has decided to outsource nearly everything. The first thing we heard about it was in the local media a few days before the main council meeting that voted this through...
20 September 2010
Preface to Planning Green Growth
This important and timely new pamphlet (published on the eve of the 'Earth Summit' in Johannesburg), analyses the causes and scope of environmental destruction across the globe and asks what is the way forward, writes Pete Dickenson.
20 September 2010
The Techniques of Socialist Planning
After the initial time of rapid expansion, a steady state society will emerge where the enormous power of planning, combined with the release of human resourcefulness and energy under socialism, will enable huge steps to be taken to preserve the environment...
20 September 2010
Democratic, rational planning will permit a consistent improvement in ecological conditions to be achieved over many decades until full sustainability is reached...
9 June 2010
Why public sector cuts are not inevitable
Editorial: The Tories claim that massive cuts are necessary because of New Labour's excessive public spending on services and welfare. This is a giant con trick, which every capitalist party - including New Labour - is colluding in. Nothing could be further from the truth...
2 June 2010
Fighting council cuts: Planning for united strikes in Kirklees
LOCAL GOVERNMENT jobs and services are under attack. Local councils will have £2 billion less in grants from central government after the first £6 billion Con-Dem government cutbacks. The threat is angering...
21 April 2010
Volcanic eruption brings travel chaos: Planned and integrated transport system vital
NO, WE will not be able to control the eruption of volcanoes under socialism. But we can make sure that the effects will not lead to a chaotic situation such as we see now as a result of the eruption of...
Melting ice caps can indirectly lead to flooding: Flooding in Gloucester, photo Chris Moore
18 November 2009
More evidence of climate change: Socialist planning needed
Climate change is accelerating. On 4 November the North Sea arctic ice cap fell below the record lows for November set during 2007. Updated daily, the National Snow and Ice Data centre's website shows...
8 April 2009
Unite convenor Rob Williams makes the point that the Visteon workers' struggle is important for all workers...
15 October 2008
Planning Bill: Local views sidelined for big business
CONSULTATION ON a government white paper - Planning for a sustainable future - ended recently. The government claims that changes are needed to the planning system to speed up and streamline the planning...
2 October 2008
Climate change calamities: Socialist planning needed
The "methane time bomb" has ignited, the Independent newspaper recently declared. The arctic permafrost is melting and releasing a greenhouse gas twenty times more powerful than carbon dioxide, which threatens to rapidly heat up the planet. Urgent action is needed...
9 April 2008
Ireland: "The most cunning and devious of them all" finally goes
AFTER 11 years as Taoiseach (Prime Minister), Bertie Ahern has announced his resignation for 6 May this year, writes Paul Murphy.
5 July 2007
Climate change: socialist international planning needed
Climate change: ORGANISED TO raise awareness of climate change, Live Earth is a series of concerts with an estimated worldwide audience of 2 billion people, taking place over seven continents on 7 July...
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