The Socialist issue 351
12 June 2004
‘Pay Us A Living Wage’
WAR IN Iraq, privatisation, cuts in public services – these are issues that ordinary people wanted to punish Blair for in the elections. But workers’ anger in the workplace is also erupting over low pay, attacks on pensions and conditions, and…
NUT general secretary election candidate says ‘Stop The Pensions Robbery’
ON 7 June the ballot to elect the next general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) opened. Martin Powell-Davies, secretary of Lewisham NUT is challenging in the election from outside the union establishment…
Socialist Party Election Successes
STANDING 48 candidates in 34 council wards on 10 June, the Socialist Party (standing as ‘Socialist Alternative’) received 16,787 votes. In addition, 2,825 people voted for Socialist Party Councillor Ian Page in the London Assembly election…
Socialist Party workplace news
Whipps Cross Hospital: KOLA SHOKUNBI, UNISON shop steward at Whipps Cross hospital in east London and Socialist Party member, has won his appeal against unfair dismissal…
A Summer Of Discontent?
RAILWORKERS, CIVIL servants, airport workers, local government workers, and even racing stalls handlers are currently threatening action on pay and conditions…
PCS Members Fight Low Pay
THE CONFERENCE of PCS members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has voted to strike again over pay in July…
International socialist news and analysis
THE US presidential election campaign is governing US policy half a world away in Iraq…
Eyewitness In Iraq
Socialism 2004 will open with a rally on the theme of “The Price of Occupying Iraq: A World in Turmoil”.
Amongst the speakers will be Haifa Zangana, an exiled Iraqi novelist and activist, who was jailed and tortured for her political opposition to Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath regime.
She spoke to The Socialist this week.
100,000 March Against Bush And Berlusconi
"NO BUSH – No war" was the main slogan of the 100,000 strong week-day protest in Rome on 4 June, when US President Bush was coming to visit his fellow warmonger Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi…
Chile’s Workers Battle Against Neo-Liberalism
THE CHILEAN capitalists claim that unlike the other Latin American countries they have managed a successful economy…
New Workers’ Party Founded In Brazil
AMIDST ENTHUSIASTIC scenes, upwards of 1,000 workers, young people and representatives from the landless movement, formed a new party – "Party of Socialism and Liberty" (SOL) – in Brasília on 5-6 June…
Obituary – Rotimi Ewebiyi (1963-2004)
THE COMMITTEE for a Workers’ International (CWI) deeply regrets to announce the death, at the age of 41, of Rotimi Ewebiyi, a leader of the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) in Nigeria and a member of the CWI’s International Executive Committee (IEC)…
Ronald Reagan: A Rabid Cold War Warrior
IF YOU believe the eulogies from Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Pope and Tony Blair, then Ronald Reagan, who died last week, was ‘a man of peace, of vision, a freedom fighter who liberated the ‘communist’ world, and a friend of Britain’…
