The Socialist issue 394
26 May 2005
Brown bashes low-paid workers
LABOUR’S CONTEMPT for low-paid workers was revealed again last week as Gordon Brown called for "wage discipline" in the public sector…
Our rights under attack
LABOUR’S REDUCED majority in their third term seems to have done nothing to curb their zeal for introducing anti-working-class, anti-democratic legislation…
BBC workers striking back at job cuts
MEMBERS OF the three main unions at the BBC – BECTU, NUJ and Amicus – were out on strike in force on 23 May…
Kick the fat cats out of football
OVER 500 Manchester United fans crowded into a public meeting in Manchester on 19 May…
G8 Protest – Demonstrate at the G8 – Make capitalism history
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The millions of people who were moved by a sense of international solidarity to give money to the tsunami appeal are acting again…
Germany – workers punish Schröder
FOLLOWING THE catastrophic, though not unexpected, election result in the region of North Rhine Westphalia, the German social democrat (SDP) Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, announced an early general election fo…
Northern Ireland – fighting for socialism
THE SOCIALIST Party in Northern Ireland has been fighting now for decades to end the problems of sectarian divisions through a working-class, socialist and internationalist solution…
Telecom workers’ strike against privatisation
THE MUSHARRAF government has launched a massive new privatisation campaign worth $1.7 billion…
Left victory in PCS union
THE CIVIL service union PCS national executive committee (NEC) elections have resulted in a resounding victory for the left in the union…
Defend NATFHE members, safeguard union democracy
THIS YEAR’S conference of the lecturers’ union NATFHE takes place at the same time as the continuing employers’ offensive in both further and higher education (FE and HE)…
