The Socialist issue 331
24 January 2004
No Fees!
"WE SHOULD go on strike about this!" was a frequent comment made by young people signing our ‘No to top-up fees’ petition just before Christmas…
Top-Up Fees And Blair’s Future In The Balance
"I WILL survive" said Blair on a Newsnight special about top-up fees (19 January). But will he?…
Make Big Business And The Rich Pay
SOCIALIST PARTY member John Reid was invited along to Newsnight with his daughters Nathalie, a student currently £11,000 in debt, and Stephanie, who is seriously reconsidering whether she can afford to attend university in three years time because top-up fees will saddle her with debts of at least £20,000…
Australia: Fees Don’t Work
TONY BLAIR has said that the Australian system of university funding proves that top-up fees work. David Murray, a student in Australia spoke to the socialist about his experiences…
Socialist Party workplace news
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NUT general secretary election: THE NUT officers’ committee in Lewisham has voted to support Martin Powell-Davies for general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in the forthcoming election…
Strike Back Against Low Pay
OVER 100,000 civil servants, PCS members, in five departments have voted decisively for industrial action over pay. (See below)…
Fighting Low Pay At Sainsbury’s
PICKETS WERE out again on both gates of Sainsbury’s giant distribution depot at Haydock, Merseyside on 15 January. Again the strike was solid amongst the 750 USDAW members…
Ealing’s Financial Crisis
EALING COUNCIL in west London is facing a massive financial crisis, which local authority workers and services users will be expected to pay for. This crisis has been brewing for some time…
Support Francis Tienga Ngale
FRANCIS TIENGA Ngale is a Cameroonian asylum seeker, a member of Cameroon’s main opposition party, Social Democratic Front and the Socialist Party. He is battling against deportation because of the dangerous conditions he will face if he is returned…
Karl Debbaut – Next Hearing 26 January
ON 19 January, International Socialist Resistance (ISR) coordinator Karl Debbaut appeared in court for the sixth time. He is charged with assaulting a police officer in the execution of his duty last March during a protest by school students in Lewisham,…
Socialist Party feature
London: Obscene Wealth And Abject Poverty
Distorted economy: LONDON IS a microcosm of British capitalism, where the extremes of obscene wealth and abject poverty jostle within the city boundaries. …
International socialist news and analysis
THE POLITICAL problems confronting the US-led occupying powers in Iraq continue to mount. Last week, tens of thousands of Shias, under the political leadership of cleric Ayatollah Sistani, demonstrated in Iraq’s second city Basra against the US authorities’…
NGOs Provide No Solutions For The Exploited
World Social Forum 2004, Mumbai: OVER 120,000 people attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in Mumbai, India. The majority came in their tens of thousands from the most poverty stricken areas of India as well as other countries in Asia such as Pakistan, South Korea, Tibet…
