The Socialist issue 335
21 February 2004
Low paid say: “Enough is enough”
UP TO 100,000 low-paid civil servants in job centres and benefit offices (DWP) and the Driving Standards Agency went on strike on 16 and 17 February for better pay…
Striking for a decent wage
"We’ll keep up the pressure": TENS OF thousands of PCS members in the DWP (JobCentres and benefit offices) and the Driving Standards Agency went on strike on 16 and 17 February against low pay. Strikers spoke to the socialist about their action…
Education
NUS and AUT: I WILL be on strike in support of the union’s stand against the university employers. This is not a dispute just about a pay rise…
Socialist Party Councillors Say No To Top-Up Fees
RECENTLY SOCIALIST Party councillors Chris Flood and Ian Page put forward a motion calling on Lewisham council and the three local Labour MPs to oppose top-up tuition fees. Here is part of Chris’s speech…
Strike action is not truancy
PAULA MITCHELL wrote the following letter to the east London Walthamstow Guardian after comments in an article on 29 January: "Political groups are leading pupils astray, girls’ teacher warned"…
Fighting to change the NUT
SOCIALIST PARTY member Martin Powell-Davies is campaigning to stand as general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT)…
"Jack is walking!"… but the system is failing
ONLY AT the age of nine was Jack seen to be walking for the first time. It was with the aid of the water in the school baths but his achievement inspired the whole school and all his family…
Workplace news and analysis
Belfast Airport Workers Win Trade Union Inquiry
THREE SHOP stewards from Aldergrove Airport, Belfast, who were sacked for daring to strike in support of a pay rise, have won an important part of their battle for justice…
Unions Mobilise Against BNP
AROUND 250 members of many different trade unions gathered in a demonstration to defend the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) headquarters on 16 February…
Privatisation Kills
Cumbria rail disaster: ONCE AGAIN, Britain’s privatised, split and profit-obsessed rail system has led to deaths on the track. On 14 February, four rail repair workers were killed by a runaway wagon on a mountainous stretch of line in Cumbria…
Socialist Party feature
Socialist Party conference 2004: Socialism On The March
Exactly one year after 2 million people took to the streets of London to oppose the Iraq war the Socialist Party held its national conference. After a year of intense activity some 250 delegates and visitors came together to assess the Socialist Party’s…
