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The Socialist, issue 428: Unite: Save pensions jobs and services

14 articles from the Socialist, issue 428

22 February 2006


spotUnite Save pensions, jobs and services

WE WORK for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). We’re charged with delivering the government’s education policies. They want to reduce our staff by 31%.That’ll make Blair’s election mantra “Education, education!”…

spotFight for your future!

THIS IS going to be an essential conference for every young person in England and Wales who is thinking about how to change the world, who is fed up with the daily grind of low-paid work and of the student experience of debt and poverty and fees…

spotCampaign for a New Workers’ Party conference

MARK SERWOTKA, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has agreed to speak at the opening rally of the Campaign for a New Workers’ Party conference…

spotGas price rise the biggest in history !

BRITISH GAS is increasing prices by 22%, the second rise in six months; most household energy bills will probably now exceed £1,000. Newspapers call it the biggest gas price rise in British history…

spotDaggers at NHS’s heart

TONY BLAIR recently met and welcomed the NHS Partners Network, a coalition of ‘independent’ private sector healthcare companies who intend to privatise operations…

spotWhy rural workers need socialism

AS RURAL workers feel capitalism’s effects acutely, the Socialist Party’s influence is spreading into rural parts of England and Wales…

spotBush and Blair’s total failure

IRAQI AUTHORITIES in three regions have withdrawn all co-operation from British forces in response to the sickening videos showing prisoners abused in 2004…

spotCar workers fight layoffs

HUNDREDS WERE expected for the picket line outside Delphi Flint East, Michigan, on 16 February to protest the auto parts manufacturer’s drive to lay off 24,000 workers and cut wages by 60%…

spotTrade wars and protectionism

THE FAILURE of the capitalist powers at the recent WTO (World Trade Organisation) talks in Hong Kong to further ‘liberalise’ world trade reflects the growing difficulties and contradictions inherent in the world economy…

spotKhrushchev: The Stalinist who denounced Stalin

50 years ago…: AT THE 20th conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February 1956, first secretary Nikita Khrushchev denounced the crimes of Stalin (who had died in 1953)…

spotMusic industry: Do we only hear his master’s voice?

AN OUTLINE of how the modern popular music industry has developed provided the background to our discussion at last autumn’s Socialism 2005: The music industry, do we only hear his master’s voice?…

spotGood Night and Good Luck

Good Night and Good Luck arrives in Britain on the back of a wave of critical acclaim…

spotGet your May Day greeting into the socialist!

Celebrate May Day: The socialist strives to express the growing anger of workers, reporting on strikes and demonstrations from the workers’ point of view…

spotUniversity staff vote to strike over pay

UNIVERSITY LECTURERS have voted by a big majority, on a high turnout for the sector, to go on strike over pay. An even bigger majority backed action short of a strike…

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