The Socialist issue 342
10 April 2004
Fight The Low Pay Scandal
BLAIR’S GOVERNMENT has declared war on its own workforce. 70,000 civil servants in the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP, mainly job centres and benefit offices) are being forced to strike against low pay for a further two days directly after Easter,…
Fighting Back Against Low Pay And Government Attacks
NUT conference: Time For A Change
TEACHERS ARE facing a series of vicious attacks from this government over pay, pensions, workload and the threats to teachers’ jobs. The main challenge of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference, must be to agree the necessary action to defeat…
Left Candidate Defeats Blairite For Presidency
National Union of Students -: AT THE 2004 NUS Annual Conference in Blackpool (29-30 March) support for the Left continued to grow…
War and occupation
Military Families Speak Out Against Bush’s War And Lies
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BUSH’S occupation of Iraq is facing increasing questioning and resistance within the US…
Iraq: Coalition Plans In Chaos
THE US led-occupation forces in Iraq are sinking deeper into a political mire. Far from “pacifying” the dissident population groups, armed attacks on coalition forces and street demonstrations are growing…
Rwanda’s Killing Fields: A Legacy Of Imperialism
IT IS now ten years since the extremist Hutu power elements of the Rwandan military, business and landowning sectors launched a genocide that lasted three months and left around a million people dead, mostly Tutsi people killed because of their perceived "race". …
Sri Lanka: Election To End Crisis Ends In New Crisis
THE GENERAL election in Sri Lanka on 2 April failed to give either of the major party alliances a parliamentary majority. But the United Socialist Party (USP), the Socialist Party’s counterpart in Sri Lanka, scored its highest ever number of votes…
Socialist Party campaigns
TONY BLAIR’S latest government crisis has been over immigration policy. As this issue hit newspaper headlines, New Labour MPs went into shock at the prospect of it spiralling out of control and the possible electoral consequences…
Support Scotland’s Nursery Nurses
The nursery nurses’ strike in Scotland is still holding firm. Over 4,000 nursery nurses are now in their sixth week of strike action…
