The Socialist issue 415
10 November 2005
Build a new workers’ party
Fight Blair’s rotten policies: THE LAST week has been a nightmare for Blair. For the second time in 12 months he’s had to sack his best mate David Blunkett. Blair’s…
Blair staggers on… but ‘PFI’ Brown is no alternative
The following article was printed before Blair’s humiliating defeat in the vote to detain terrorist suspects for 90 days…
United Nations: 60 Years of Failure
HIT BY corruption scandals and accused of failing to prevent genocidal wars, the United Nations (UN) has little to celebrate on its 60th anniversary…
Harder times ahead?
Jane James looks at the state of Britain’s economy today…
Successful student walkouts across the country
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November 2 reports from Seattle, Twin Cities, Tacoma, Boston. On November 2nd thousands of students from across the country walked out of class and onto the streets to protest Bush’s war in Iraq and military recruitment in their schools.
Eleven days of rioting across France
Days of riots across France have profoundly shaken the French establishment and the political elite…
Right wing Interior Minister Sarkozy insults youth on estates
On 27 October, two young people from Clichy, one 15 year old and one 17 year old, were electrocuted and died after fleeing into an electricity sub-station…
Union delegation sees effects of Uribe’s education cuts
I WENT to Colombia in July this year with a trade union delegation to assess the political situation and discover what life is like for ordinary Colombians…
Reinstate Andy Beadle
BUS WORKERS, trade unionists and members of the public have reacted with shock, disbelief and anger at Andy Beadle’s summary dismissal as a driver at Peckham bus garage…
Stop public service jobs massacre
THE LEARNING and Skills Council (LSC) is planning to slash 1,300 jobs. Of these 550 will be in Coventry…
Defend trade union rights
Morrisons: MANAGERS HAVE effectively derecognised Mark Cliffe, TGWU senior steward at Morrisons’ Gadbrooke Park distribution centre, Cheshire…
