The Socialist issue 381
19 February 2005
Strike To Defend Pensions
PUBLIC SECTOR workers have been angrily responding to the government’s attacks on their pensions.…
NATFHE votes to ballot on pensions strike
ON 11 FEBRUARY the national executive council of NATFHE decided with only one vote against to ballot members for strike action on 14 April, in opposition to the government’s attack on pensions…
Iraq: end this bloody occupation
GEORGE BUSH congratulated Iraqi voters for “setting their country on the path of democracy and freedom.” 38 years earlier his presidential predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, proclaimed elections in South…
Iraq’s post-election problems grow
IN CONTRAST to claims by George Bush and Tony Blair, the most likely outcome of the Iraq elections will be to fuel opposition to the occupation and exacerbate divisions between the various ethnic and r…
G8 summit Gleneagles: protest against world poverty
THE G8 (Group of Eight), who are holding a summit in Gleneagles in Scotland this July, brings together the leaders of eight of the world’s richest nations: USA, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada a…
Pakistan: Deepening crisis in Baluchistan province
THE PROVINCE of Baluchistan in Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan, has recently suffered from flooding, causing hundreds of deaths…
Political questioning at SSP conference
THE 2005 Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) conference was held last weekend, following Tommy Sheridan’s resignation as party leader in November 2004…
Malcolm X: “They called me the angriest Negro in America”
MALCOLM X was assassinated forty years ago, on 21 February 1965. HUGH CAFFREY looks back at Malcolm’s life and legacy…
Arthur Miller: Death of a dissenter
Arthur Miller, the American playwright, died on 9 February, aged 89, having battled with cancer, pneumonia and a heart condition…
Stop the deportation of Mansoor Hassan
ON 9 February, there was a successful lobby of the Home Office against the threat to deport Pakistani journalist Mansoor Hassan…
Not just "harmless fun"
THE STATEMENT below, from the Socialist Students Society at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, shows their angry response to their local Students’ Union Executive, who had decided to hold a ‘Miss DMU contest’ at…
Coventry council: Single status – poisoned chalice
HUNDREDS OF angry council workers lobbied Coventry council on 8 February…
