The Socialist issue 319
18 October 2003
United Action To End Low Pay
MANY PEOPLE in my workplace were surprised that there was such a big majority (80%) for strike action over London weighting, writes Nancy Taaffe.
Save Our Health Service
London Workers Lead Fight For A Living Wage
Stand Together To Scrap The SATS
Socialist Party news and analysis
Can The Nasty Party Win Again?
After the Tory conference: MICHAEL PORTILLO described this year’s Tory Party conference as “horrible, dejected, miserable, talking about the leadership all the time – the worst conference anyone could remember”, writes Hannah Sell.
Fighting Women’s Oppression
Socialist Alliance Trade Union Convention
Comment
Comment: DAVE NELLIST, leader of the Socialist Group of councillors on Coventry City Council and former Labour MP for Coventry South East from 1983 to 1992 comments on this year’s Labour Party conference and the Channel 4 programme The Deal about the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown…
Socialist Party feature
More Jailings But Deeper Anger
“WHEN I get out of prison, the first thing I’m going to do is stand in front of another bin truck,” said Declan Mahon only hours before being imprisoned in Mountjoy jail, Dublin, writes Stephen Boyd, Dublin.
Greater Dublin City Bin service shut down!
Anti Bin Tax Campaigns Thank Bin Workers; Call for End to Non-Collection and Jailings
War and occupation
“SIX MONTHS after American tanks roared triumphantly into the centre of Baghdad… the United States has turned military victory into political defeat in Iraq”. (Patrick Cockburn, The Independent, 10/10/03)
Protest Against Warmonger Bush
Democracy And The Stop The War Coalition
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
World economy: Will There Be A Recovery?
CAN US capitalism pull the world economy out of its present stagnation? Japan has been stuck at near-zero growth for over ten years…
Youth
Saturday 22 November 2003, 10am-5pm. Upper Hall, University of London Union (ULU), Malet St, London, WC1. www.anticapitalism.org.uk.
Stop Fees Now!
International socialist news and analysis
Bolivia: A Movement Of Insurrectionary Scale
FOR THE second time this year Bolivia’s ruling class is facing a workers’ and peasants’ movement of insurrectionary proportions, writes Dave Carr.
California: Last Action Hero Will Let Down Voters
Nigeria: General Strike Suspended After Government Backs Down