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21 October 2009
Videos of Tamil Solidarity and Socialist Students public meeting
Speeches of Senan, Tamil Solidarity international coordinator, and Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity international coordinator #1.
Tommy Sheridan campaigning in Saracen Street, Glasgow, photo International Socialists
20 October 2009
Tommy Sheridan - a socialist fighter on a worker's wage
Glasgow North East by-election: TOMMY SHERIDAN is standing in the Glasgow North East by-election on 12 November. Standing as a "Workers' MP on a Worker's Wage" for Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement - Tommy contrasts strongly...
Tamil demonstration in London, photo D. Carr
20 October 2009
Sri Lanka protest: Shut down the prison camps!
DISGUST AT the inhuman treatment of hundreds of thousands of Tamils held under armed guard in open prison camps in Sri Lanka brought tens of thousands on to the streets of London on 17 October, writes Manny Thain.
16 September 2009
Sri Lanka: Defiant Tamil protest
TAMIL PEOPLE have begun mobilising again with the first of weekly Friday protests outside Downing Street in response to the horrific conditions in internment camps in Sri Lanka, writes Manny Thain.
21 July 2009
Vestas: Support the occupation
Faced with the closure of the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, the workers have decided to occupy the factory immediately and step up the fight to save the factory and their jobs...
21 July 2009
Vestas: Support the occupation
Faced with the closure of the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, the workers have decided to occupy the factory immediately and step up the fight to save the factory and their jobs...
8 July 2009
Sri Lanka: Protest over DfID role
TAMIL SOLIDARITY, which campaigns for the rights of all workers and the oppressed in Sri Lanka, organised a protest recently against UK government financial support for the repressive, chauvinist Sri Lankan government, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity.
10 June 2009
London Underground: Solidarity with strike over jobs and pay
TRANSPORT UNION RMT members on London Underground are taking strike action from 9-11 June. The decision has not been taken lightly. Many of us can ill afford to lose two days pay in these difficult economic times, writes Reg Johnstone, RMT member.
Workers strike at South Hook construction site near Milford Haven, Wales , photo Dave Reid
27 May 2009
Construction workers: battle won but war not over
Construction workers at the South Hook LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) terminal construction site near Milford Haven in South Wales have won a big victory over employers by taking unofficial action in defiance of anti-union laws, writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
22 April 2009
Postal workers' solidarity action
Members of the CWU at the Royal Mail sorting office in Woolwich took industrial action on 31 March and 14 April demanding the full reinstatement of victimised worker Andy Holman, a delivery worker who was sacked just before Christmas last year, writes Paul Callanan.
22 April 2009
Solidarity with the Visteon Workers
Socialist Party public meeting
Solidarity with the Visteon Workers
Thursday 23 April, 7.30pm
Room 101, University London Union,
Malet Street, London WC1
Speakers from Enfield and Basildon
8 April 2009
Solidarity with Kazakhstan oil workers
Nearly 2,000 workers at the Burgylai oil wells at Zhanaozen, Kazakhstan, are on strike demanding the nationalisation of their plant and that the government take emergency measures to stabilise the economic situation, stop mass sackings and guarantee the payment of wage arrears...
25 March 2009
Dundee Prisme occupation: Workers remain defiant
THE OCCUPATION of the Prisme packaging factory in Dundee has entered its third week and is still going strong, writes Philip Stott, Dundee.
Dundee workers at Prisme occupy to fight for their rights, photo International Socialists
11 March 2009
Dundee workers occupy to fight for rights
The occupation at the Prisme packaging factory in Dundee has continued into its sixth day. 12 workers have been sacked without notice. They were given their P45s along with letters stating that although...
4 March 2009
Solidarity with Constantina Kuneva
Constantina Kuneva was brutally attacked, in Greece, close to her house last December. The hired assassins threw battery acid in her face and then, in an attempt to ensure she would be killed, forced her...
18 February 2009
Costa Rica: Urgent solidarity action for unionists
ON 30 January the board of Costa Rica's public Social Security Institute (INS) sacked Luis Salas Sarkís, general secretary of both the INS workers' union UPINS and the small, but combative and democratic union federation Central General de Trabajadores (CGT) of Costa Rica - in clear violation of I, writes Victor Leon (CWI, Costa Rica).
28 January 2009
Solidarity with Gaza: The huge demonstrations against the slaughter in Gaza once again gave the lie to the idea that young people are apathetic or apolitical, Socialist Students members write.
2 September 2008
Poland: Biggest workers' demo since the 1990s
WARSAW CAME to a standstill for many hours as over 50,000 workers demonstrated in torrential rain last Friday (29 August), writes Paul Newbery, GPR (CWI, Poland).
31 July 2008
Glasgow East by-election: New Labour's support evaporates
LABOUR'S CAMPAIGN was a series of mistakes and blunders. The preferred Labour candidate pulled out at the last minute and their campaign launch was delayed for three days until they found a replacement...
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