The Socialist issue 387
7 April 2005
Bosses low pay racket exposed
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Socialist Party action uncovers massive wage fraud: IRISH SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Murphy and Socialist Party TD (MP) Joe Higgins have exposed a massive low-pay racket carried out by a multinational company…
Rich are getting richer…
PRESS REPORTS say average household incomes may have dropped by 0.2% last year…
General election – main parties ignore real issues
SO THEY’RE off and running in the general election stakes. But for ordinary voters looking for a party to back there appear to be more and…
A socialist alternative for women
AS THE general election campaign gets under way, the established parties are pushing forward policies aimed at winning women’s votes…
BNP – not a ‘radical alternative’ to New Labour
NEW LABOUR has betrayed the hopes of millions of working-class people…
Militant turned socialism into reality
The following article by Socialist Party member Tony Mulhearn appeared in the Liverpool Daily Post on 24 March commemorating the struggle 20 years ago of socialists in the leadership of the Liverpool L…
Zimbabwe election: "The greatest fraud of 2005"
FOR THE third election in succession, the Robert Mugabe-led Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) has thwarted the will of the people and retained power through rigged elections…
Join the G8 protests
The G8 are eight, we are billions! Make capitalism history! Make socialism our future!…
Pakistan – a powder keg ready to explode
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SOCIALIST PARTY general secretary Peter Taaffe (left) was recently on a speaking tour of south Asia…
Stop the BBC jobs slaughter
Action to defend jobs and working conditions: BBC DIRECTOR-GENERAL Mark Thompson’s announcement of 3,780 job cuts is a fundamental attack on the trade union rights, pay and conditions of BBC journalists and staff…
Big business sharks circle Rover jobs
THE CRISIS threatening 6,000 jobs at the Rover plant at Longbridge has taken another twist…
Pensions: No concessions by ‘negotiation’
FOLLOWING THE Labour government’s hasty retreat on their proposed cuts in public-sector workers’ pensions in the face of united strike action, three government ministers met the leaders of all the public…
