The Socialist issue 416
17 November 2005
Time for a new workers’ party
A CAMPAIGN for a new workers’ party was launched at Socialism 2005.…
Socialism 2005: Building a socialist alternative
The 800 people that attended the Socialist Party’s Rally for Socialism were united by their horror at what modern capitalism means for billions of people and their desire to change the world…
"Looking forward to changing the world"
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A BUZZ filled the main hall at the Friends Meeting House as we began to pack in for the main Socialism 2005 rally – older members who had been part of the mass struggles of the 1970s and 80s and, in th…
Campaign for a new workers’ party
THE FOLLOWING declaration for a new workers’ party was launched by the Socialist Party at Socialism 2005, a weekend of discussion and debate attended by hundreds of young people, trade union and community…
Northumbria socialist students rock against racism
Socialist students at Northumbria University have been campaigning against racism and prejudice through our Unite Against Racism campaign this term…
Selection and ‘free market’ threaten our schools
Education White Paper: TONY BLAIR’S first defeat in parliament over the Terrorism Bill has made many parents, school students, teachers and education workers more confident that they can defeat Labour’s latest education White Paper…
We want our buses back!
SHEFFIELD PEOPLE will march this Saturday to show their anger at South Yorkshire First’s latest 15-20% bus fare rise which comes into effect on that day…
Reinstate Andy Beadle
KEEP UP the pressure in the campaign to reinstate Andy Beadle, the democratically elected Transport and General Workers rep at Peckham bus garage…
Eighth strike for £8 an hour
ON 19 and 20 November First Bus drivers will strike for the eight and ninth time in North Staffordshire…
SACKED for speaking out
EILEEN HUNTER, National Union of Teachers’ representative at the International School and Community College in Birmingham, has been sacked for speaking out in her school…
PCS launches jobs campaign
OVER 100 PCS members marched through the centre of Coventry on 12 November, against government plans to cut hundreds of jobs from regional Jobcentres and 550 jobs from the offices of the Learning and Skills…
Angry Commons cleaners fight back
THEY WORK at the House of Commons, but they earn only £5.20 an hour, receive no sick pay, no pension and poor holiday entitlement…
A struggle for survival
Interview with Polish worker in Britain: IN MAY 2004 ten countries joined the European Union – including Poland, Latvia and the Czech Republic…
Bush regime in crisis
THE BUSH administration is experiencing an acute political crisis only one year after the US president was comfortably re-elected…
