The Socialist issue 329
10 January 2004
Join The Fight Against Fees
THE NEW Labour government is about to publish its Bill on top-up tuition fees. The Bill was delayed because over 150 Labour MPs signed a motion in opposition….
Socialist Party Wins Vote Opposing Fees on Coventry City Council
Coventry City Council now officially opposes top up fees thanks to a motion successfully moved by Socialist Party councillors Karen McKay, Rob Windsor and Dave Nellist on 16 December. …
Young Workers Need A Liveable Minimum Wage!
PRESSURE FROM the trade union movement and the general anger among many workers could force New Labour to introduce a minimum wage for 16 and 17 year olds later this year…
Karl Debbaut – join the lobby
KARL DEBBAUT, co-ordinator of International Socialist Resistance, is in court on 19 January on charges arising out of a demonstration of school students and other anti-war activists in Lewisham on the day that war began in Iraq…
Socialist Party feature
MANY PEOPLE found returning to work after Christmas even more gruelling this year. Rail users faced fare rises of up to three times the rate of inflation, together with both new and continuing delays on many lines…
Foreign Aid: Poorest Pay, Privatisers Gain
AN ARTICLE by George Monbiot in The Guardian shows how Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) is consciously targeting its foreign aid at countries who are prepared to sell off their assets to big business…
The cost of a child’s life
WHILE BUSH and Blair’s ‘war on terror’ continues, the number of chronically hungry people grows by five million a year. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation recently estimated that 842 million people were malnourished in 1999-2001…
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
2004 – A New Year Of Political Struggle
AT THE start of a new year, PETER TAAFFE, general secretary of the Socialist Party, says that working people in Britain are likely to face a new period of struggle and political ferment in 2004…
Socialist Party workplace news
Civil service strike ballots: OVER 100,000 members of civil service union PCS are voting in a strike ballot over pay. Staff in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Home Office, Department for Constitutional Affairs, Treasury Solicitors and the Prison Service are involved…
Parmalat Workers Shafted By Capitalist Greed
WORKERS AT the main production base in Italy of "Europe’s Enron" have no sympathy for those they call the "magnificent eight" locked up in Milan’s notorious San Vittore prison…
Labour Council Attacks Trade Union Rights
THE MAYOR of Newham council, east London and the chair of the London employers’ body Sir Robin Wales have launched a massive attack on trade unions in the borough…
Report Reveals Plans For Teaching On The Cheap
THE FUTURE of education? Nothing but blue skies… and schools without teachers! Opponents of the government’s "Workforce Agreement" have always warned that its real purpose was to introduce teaching on the cheap…