The Socialist issue 404
11 August 2005
Defend democratic rights
Workers’ unity against war and terrorism: THE HORRIFIC terrorist attacks that have taken place in London and around the world have been condemned by the Socialist Party.…
Trade unions must mobilise against terrorism, racism and war
THE PROPOSALS outlined by Blair and government ministers since 5 August amount to a severe government clampdown on civil liberties…
Dewsbury: Uniting and organising against racism
After the London bombings…: EVENTS HAVE moved very rapidly in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, since the attempted bombings in London on 21 July…
60 years after Hiroshima: Nuclear proliferation makes socialist change more urgent
HIROSHIMA, 6 August 1945, 8am. The ‘all clear’ sounded, signalling the end of an air raid by US bombers. Workers and school children left…
Justice for Heathrow’s Gate Gourmet workers
IT IS now nearly two weeks since 800 Gate Gourmet workers were sacked at three minutes’ notice on 10 August…
No hospital closures
Patients before profits: A QUARTER of NHS trusts are running deficits and ten of them are running a deficit of £10 million and more…
Journalists on all-out strike
LOW-PAID journalists at the Coventry Evening Telegraph, part of the Trinity Mirror Group, are now on indefinite strike over low pay…
Firefighters defend life-saving services
SUFFOLK FIREFIGHTERS turned out in force on the picket lines on 2 and 5 August in their protest against the removal of turntable services from Bury St Edmunds and the loss of 12 frontline jobs…
Royal Mail announce redundancies
THE ANNOUNCEMENT this week that Royal Mail intends to get rid of another 30,000 jobs is depressingly familiar…
Northern Ireland after the IRA statement: Why the ‘peace process’ continues to flounder
THE REACTION within Northern Ireland to the IRA statement ordering its units to “dump arms” says a lot more about the current state of the ‘peace process’ than the statement itself…
Greek workers resist neo-liberal attacks
SINCE THE election of the conservative New Democracy government in Greece two years ago, severe attacks have been launched against working-class people…
Union split reflects crisis in US labour
THE national convention of the AFL-CIO trade union confederation in Chicago on 25 July, on the 50th anniversary of its foundation, saw it split into two blocs…
