The Socialist issue 418
1 December 2005
Attack on pensions: We won’t work till we drop!
Digby Jones of the bosses’ organisation the CBI, Chancellor Gordon Brown and other cabinet ministers and Adair Turner chairman of the Pensions Commission all have gilt-edged pensions…
Pensions struggles still loom
FOR THE best part of two decades, big business has slashed and burned its way through the pension funds and entitlements of working people…
Don’t let the profit system cost us the earth!
TONY BLAIR recently claimed that tackling climate change is a priority…
‘Free market’ threatens cold weather crisis
ON THE brink of a cold winter, Britain faces a real threat of gas shortages…
NHS feature: Bring the campaigns together
EVERY WEEK the socialist receives reports of campaigns to stop the closure or privatisation of NHS facilities, usually threatened because of financial ‘deficits’…
Campaign for a New Workers’ Party
Support grows for an alternative: The support for the Campaign for a New Workers’ Party is growing with the number of signatories to the declaration steadily increasing…
Fight for a political voice for young people!
International Socialist Resistance: Blair has claimed that young people are apathetic towards politics. He claims this in the face of more and more young people participating…
Hidden – the effects of term-time working
UNIVERSITY VICE-chancellors hid vital research on student debt to avoid criticising the government’s higher education policies before this year’s general election…
Weakness invites aggression
THE TGWU is under threat of its funds being "sequestrated" as a result of the strike by baggage handlers in support of Gate Gourmet workers last August…
Workers fight introduction of cheap labour
A DISPUTE over the replacement of British and Irish crews with cheap Eastern European labour, mostly from Latvia, by Irish Ferries has led to an escalation of action between the unions and the company over t…
USA – Lame duck president George Bush waddles on
BUSH IS no longer the invincible, ‘9/11 president’. His appeals for "unity" against the enemy and for the US to "stay the course"…
Exploited workers in Middle East fight back
Qatar: MIGRANT WORKERS in the Middle East, including CWI members, are fighting against their slave-like conditions and the non-payment of their salaries…
LSP/MAS mobilises against neo-fascists
LAST SATURDAY in Ghent, Belgium, over 700 people including the LSP/MAS (CWI, Belgium) and the anti-fascist youth organisation Blokbuster, marched to protest against the far-right Valaams Belang (formerly Vla…
