The Socialist issue 358
7 August 2004
Wealth Gap Widens Under Blair
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) latest report, ‘The State of the Nation’ confirms what we know only too well – Britain is deeply divided…
‘We Need Workers’ Rights’
THE COMPANY that I work for is, by all accounts, a reputable place to work. The job is in retail but pays a decent wage (for shop work), offers a reasonable discount rate and in the main it is a pleasant environment to work in, (other than when…
Civil Servants On Strike
*Stop the job cuts, defend the public sector.
*For a one-day strike across the civil service.
*Build support for a one-day public-sector general strike
On 29 and 30 July, thousands of civil servants working in the Department for Work and Pensions were on strike, fighting against low pay.
International features
LAST WEEK the World Trade Organisation (WTO), one of the pillars of the world capitalist ‘order’, met in Geneva. World trade is dominated by a few hundred greedy multinationals who also control the WTO…
Building A Party Of World Socialism
CWI European school 2004: THE CRISIS in the world economy, the imperialist war and occupation of Iraq, the political upheavals in Latin America, the bosses’ neo-liberal offensive against workers jobs and conditions…..
Teamster Rebellion
1934 Minneapolis: SEVENTY YEARS ago, a general strike movement led by a small Trotskyist group in the US city of Minneapolis resulted in a victory for the Teamsters general union and marked a decisive phase in the struggle of US labour…
Genocidal Horror In Sudan
TENS OF thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes in Darfur, Sudan. Hundreds of thousands are in refugee camps and makeshift settlements in Chad…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Throw Out Agenda For Change Now!
THE PAY and job evaluation package for health workers, Agenda for Change (AFC) is proving a problem for management and the national trade union leaders…
Respect Wins First Councillor
OLI RAHMAN, Respect’s GLA candidate in the June elections, won the St. Dunstan’s & Stepney council by-election on 29 July in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets…
New Labour Wrecks Firefighters’ Pay Deal
FIRE BRIGADES union members are balloting again for industrial action after negotiations on the brink of settlement were wrecked by the direct intervention of the government…
South Yorkshire First Bus Drivers On The Road To Victory
THE INDEFINITE strike by 1,500 South Yorkshire First bus drivers, members of the transport union TGWU, is now into its third week. In a postal ballot, drivers rejected the last company offer by 723-502 votes…
