The Socialist 2 February 2006
Pensions: Public-sector workers say 'Back down or we strike!'
Pensions: 'Back down or we strike!'
United mass action can defeat Blair's pensions plans
Firefighters prepare to strike against pensions' robbery
Building a new shop stewards' movement
Healthworkers back RMT and Socialist Party initiatives
100 British victims of Blair's war
Political earthquake as Hamas wins election
Public health not private profit
Campaigning against privatisation of schools in Hackney
Lambeth students' successful boycott
Civil servants strike back at Blair's cuts agenda
Post Office: National action needed to defend jobs
Fighting council cuts in Devon
Defence workers battle privatisation
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The Socialist 2 February 2006, Pensions: Public-sector workers say 'Back down or we strike!'
Pensions: 'Back down or we strike!'
That's the warning served on the government last week by the leaders of eleven public-sector unions representing over a million workers. They announced they are to begin a strike ballot on 20 February for a series of strikes,...
United mass action can defeat Blair's pensions plans
AFTER THE government's climbdown in signing the framework agreement on public-sector pensions, the socialist warned that this was just one battle in the pensions war but that the war itself was far from over...
Firefighters prepare to strike against pensions' robbery
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Building a new shop stewards' movement
Linking the industrial to the political: AT THE recent RMT rail union discussion conference on the crisis of working-class political representation, RMT general secretary Bob Crow argued for the building of "a cross-industry national shop stewards' movement"...
Healthworkers back RMT and Socialist Party initiatives
FOLLOWING THE success of the RMT railworkers' union conference on working-class political representation, Socialist Party member Len Hockey, who is secretary of Waltham Forest UNISON health branch, sent the following letter to Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT...
Socialist Party Wales conference: Welsh Blairite MP Alun Michael claimed in a recent newspaper article that "as the 21st century starts to mature, Wales faces a quite remarkable period of good fortune and opportunity"...
100 British victims of Blair's war
ON 31 January, it was announced that the 100th British soldier had been killed in the war and occupation of Iraq. This government is risking the lives of young soldiers in order to help fight US imperialism's battles to control...
Political earthquake as Hamas wins election
YET ANOTHER political earthquake has struck the Middle East. Hamas, standing for the first time in national elections, achieved a massive landslide victory in Gaza and the West Bank with 76 seats out of 132 in Parliament...
Public health not private profit
HOW CAN the NHS generate more patient treatments and income when it has to close beds and lay off staff to pay the PFI charge, or face closure?...
Campaigning against privatisation of schools in Hackney
Hackney Socialist Party (SP) and International Socialist Resistance (ISR) are campaigning against the threat to turn local secondary schools into city academies...
Lambeth students' successful boycott
HUNDREDS OF students and staff joined Lambeth College Student Union's boycott of canteens on 26 January. In all four canteens only a handful of meals were bought. We believe that 95% of students and staff who normally use the...
Civil servants strike back at Blair's cuts agenda
MEMBERS OF the PCS civil service union held two days of strike action in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on 26-27 January, affecting JobCentres, benefit offices, pension centres and the Child Support Agency...
Post Office: National action needed to defend jobs
R0YAL MAIL claim to have gone from a crisis with record losses to a miracle turnaround almost overnight. The opening up of the markets, along with 'downstream access' (where other postal operators can put mail in the postal...
Fighting council cuts in Devon
MANY LOCAL councils are considering cutting services to try to keep council tax increases down. A new survey suggests that 28% admit to planning cuts in jobs and services, blaming increased fuel bills and above-inflation rises...
Defence workers battle privatisation
A THOUSAND-strong rally of Ministry of Defence (MOD) workers from across Britain on 25 January heard trade union leaders like Mark Serwotka and Janice Godrich promise to back their fight against job losses and privatisation...