The Socialist issue 396
9 June 2005
Join the G8 protests
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TENS OF thousands of people are making plans to travel to Scotland at the beginning of July to demonstrate against world poverty…
Stop taking liberties!
ONE OF David Blunkett’s last acts as Home Secretary was to offer Sheffield as host city to a meeting of G8 Interior and ‘in’Justice Ministers…
Brown spins but won’t end debt
Gordon Brown – arm-in-arm with Oxfam – is proclaiming himself as the new champion of the poor and making his bid to be the next Prime Minister…
Fight for the right to organise
THE SOCIALIST previously reported on how basic democratic rights are under attack in Tony Blair’s New ‘authoritarian’ Britain…
Socialist students spearheads unionisation campaign in Leicester
With the ending of both the grant and free education by successive Tory and Labour governments more students have to work to be able to afford to get through their degree…
Socialist Party gains on UNISON’s NEC
THE SOCIALIST Party group on public sector union UNISON’s 70-plus ruling National Executive Council (NEC) has been increased from three to five members following the recent elections…
Growing class struggles will increase tensions
DURING THE recent general election, the leaders of some of Britain’s biggest trade unions desperately tried to mobilise their members to back Labour…
Unions must fight Blair and Brown’s plans
GORDON BROWN’S speech to the GMB union conference was full of fine words about ending poverty worldwide and investing in "neglected public services"…
NATFHE members prepare for future battles
THIS YEAR’S Annual Conference of lecturers’ union NATFHE took place at a time of the greatest offensive by the employers and the government against pay and conditions since the Incorporation (privatisation)…
Pakistan: Strike resists Telecom privatisation
ONLY WEEKS before the G8 summit, Pakistan telecom workers, through all-out struggle, have shown how to fight privatisation – one element of the ‘neo-liberal’ policies promoted by the likes of Bush and Blair…
Bolivian workers fight privatisation and imperialism
Bolivian workers have been battling the vicious neo-liberal policies of their government backed by Western imperialism…
Netherlands: An overwhelming ‘No’ vote to EU constitution
LAST WEEK’S vote on the European Constitution was the first time in more than 200 years that Dutch people had a referendum…
Largest union in Northern Ireland backs fight against water charges
THE FOLLOWING press release from the ‘We Won’t Pay’ campaign, in Northern Ireland, a campaign to organise mass non-payment of water charges (taxes), which the government intends to introduce…
