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14 October 2011
Art handlers at auction house Sotheby's salerooms in New York, members of the Teamsters union, took their protests to a London art auction
12 October 2011
Strike on 30 November - no secret talks
For democratic control of all negotiations and industrial action: Trade unionists across Britain will have been angered to see reports that the TUC general secretary went to the Tory party conference a couple of weeks ago - not to protest at the government's anti-working class policies, but to hold secret talks to try to avert "mass strikes"
12 October 2011
Portrait of a pension pilferer
Maggie Thatcher was Maggie the Milk Snatcher - a byword for Tory penny-pinching cruelty. Francis Maude will go down in history as Maude the Pension Pilferer - if we let him get away with it, writes Derek McMillan.
5 October 2011
Tory conference farce - Carry on cutting!
A Guardian editorial summed up chancellor George Osborne's conference speech as: "while the basic facts have changed, his basic script has not", writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
5 October 2011
Irish trade unionists meet to launch Activists Network
Seventy Irish trade unionists launched the Trade Union Activists Network in Dublin on 1 October. Formed to counter decades of 'social partnership' in Ireland, which held down wages...
28 September 2011
Standing up for our pension rights
The Gloucestershire Echo recently ran a feature on the pros and cons of going on strike to defend pensions, Socialist Party member Rob Bishop put the position for the strikes, against the arguments of a local Tory MP
7 September 2011
Book review: 'Them and Us' by former Observer editor Will Hutton, originally published in 2010, is now available in paperback. Bob Severn reviews the book...
17 August 2011
Angry construction workers meet to plan strike action
Hundreds of rank-and-file workers in construction trades, mainly in Unite, attended a meeting in London on 13 August to discuss the attacks on their various national agreements and the need for a fightback, writes Kevin Parslow.
London Trade Union and NSSN meeting discusses way forward after June 30th
19 July 2011
London NSSN meeting - a real debate on preparing for coordinated action
At a London NSSN meeting on 18 July, leading members of some of the most powerful unions in London came together to discuss the next steps in the fight against the cuts
13 July 2011
The media 'lie factory' exposed
The book Flat Earth News, written by Nick Davies in 2008, lifted the lid on the Murdoch press two years before the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Davies has since led the Guardian investigations into the scandal. The Socialist carries an extract from a review by Peter Taaffe of Davies' book
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