Archive for August 2002
9 August 2002
Union Struggles - The Task Ahead
NEW LABOUR feared they were in for a hot autumn, as the tolerance of working-class people had been stretched to breaking point
9 August 2002
Northern Ireland: Mass Workers' Action To Defeat Sectarianism
HEALTH AND postal workers in Northern Ireland were forced to take industrial action in protest against sectarian death threats from republican and loyalist paramilitaries last week, writes Gary Mulcahy, Socialist Party Belfast.
9 August 2002
FIFTEEN YEARS of the extreme right wing controlling the general secretary position of the PCS civil service union ended dramatically in court 16 of the High Court on 31 July, writes Ken Smith.
9 August 2002
US Imperialism Gambles On Iraq War
GEORGE BUSH'S planned attack on Iraq is looking decidedly frayed at the edges as many of his allies distance themselves from the US president's war option, writes Dave Carr.
9 August 2002
WORKERS ARE fed up to the back teeth with a class system, where some top executives have given themselves 600% or more pay rises and huge bonuses, while workers who ask for only 6% get offered peanuts, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist Party councillor Coventry.
9 August 2002
GEORGE BUSH'S war plans against Iraq are now well advanced. US arms manufacturers are working round the clock to build up stocks of deadly cruise missiles; oil reserves are being boosted...
9 August 2002
Local Government Pay Deal No Answer To Poverty Wages
LOCAL GOVERNMENT workers in UNISON, TGWU and GMB trade unions will be bitterly angry that the proposed strike action on 14 August has been called off; especially when they see the facts and figures of the deal, writes Roger Bannister, UNISON National Executive Council (NEC) personal capacity.
9 August 2002
Pensions crisis: Bosses' Poverty Plans For Retired Workers
"IF PEOPLE want a comfortable retirement they will have to work longer, save more, or a combination of both," says National Association of Pension Funds spokesperson Andy Fleming
23 August 2002
Opposition to Bush and Blair's warmongering plans for Iraq is mounting. In Blair's own Sedgefield constituency 64 per cent of people are against military action to bring about a "regime change"
23 August 2002
Earth Summit: Capitalism is Unsustainable
WORLD 'LEADERS' are preparing a global publicity stunt - the World Summit on Environment and Development, writes Manny Thain.
23 August 2002
Public Services Not Private Greed
Privatisation is a con, it's official. Parliament's public accounts committee recently warned that it was impossible to tell whether the returns for industry from privatisation...
23 August 2002
Lewisham 1977: Where the Fascists Met their Match
Twenty Five years ago - on 13 August 1977 - some 800 members of the fascist National Front (NF) provocatively tried to march through Lewisham, a working-class area with a big black and Asian population, writes Roger Shrives.
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