The Socialist issue 338
13 March 2004
Time To Protest
A YEAR ago on 20 March the US and Britain invaded Iraq. Within a few weeks, they bombed and slaughtered thousands, stage-managed the pulling down of Saddam Hussein’s statue and then proclaimed victory.
We’ve Had Enough!
Protest Against Blair: LABOUR’S SPRING conference is in Manchester on 12-14 March. And Saturday 13 March will see workers from Manchester and beyond marching to show Labour we’ve had enough!…
Thatcherite Policies X 3
THE COUNTDOWN to the general election has begun. All three mainstream parties have begun to showcase the policies that they think will excite the voters. Strip aside the spin, however, and the policies revealed will not excite, but will horrify, most…
Workplace news and analysis
Civil Servants Vote For Two-Day Strike
OVER 100 civil service union PCS members, delegates from Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) branches, met on 6 March. They voted for a national two-day strike immediately after the Easter holidays in their struggle against low pay…
Striking Nursery Nurses Say No To Low Pay
Scottish nursery nurses: ONE OF Scotland’s most significant disputes for many years has escalated dramatically recently. Almost 5,000 nursery nurses, overwhelmingly women, are in their second week of all-out strike across Scotland’s local authorities…
Coventry Residents Insist: "You Won’t Destroy Our Community"
“THE LAST thing you’re going to get is my house,” Reg Lee told developers to the cheers of a couple of hundred residents, packed into Coventry’s Wood End community centre on 5 March…
NUT general secretary election: Standing For Change
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IN THIS year’s election for National Union of Teachers (NUT) general secretary, classroom teachers will be voting for change…
Socialist Party review
Miners’ strike 1984-85: “A Civil War Without Guns”
TWENTY YEARS ago, on 5 March 1984, Yorkshire miners walked out on strike against Tory government plans to impose a massive programme of pit closures. They saw it as the first step to a complete rundown of the mining industry…
Socialist Party women
Celebrating International Women’s Day
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On International Women’s Day – End the sexism, end low pay!…
Socialist Students
Socialist Students "Empire Defeated" Book Tour
Monday 15 March, 1pm. Meeting room 1, Fulton House…
International socialist news and analysis
Russia: Sham Presidential Election Will Increase Putin’s
Power
ON 24 February President Vladimir Putin sacked Premier Mikhail Kazyanov and the Russian government with just three weeks to go to his re-election bid for President. …
