Articles from the Socialist, issue 477
8 March 2007
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Unison and RCN lobby of parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
Trade union action for decent pay and public services
“THIS IS the last straw – 1.9% is the final insult” a health visitor angrily told me last Friday.
On top of job losses, increased workloads, pension cuts and privatisation, public-sector workers were kicked in the teeth last week by New Labour’s announcement of an effective pay cut.
International Socialist Resistance
Young workers: Fight for your rights!
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ISR conference 2006, photo Marc Vallee |
Come to ISR conference Since the terrible shootings of three young people in south London, ministers have put on their caring faces and are giving advice on how young people can secure a decent future…
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS: First priority – a national demonstration
No divide and rule – save these hospitals
Socialist Party campaigns
They are all the same – even the Greens!
Lambeth Students and Community unite
Education
Secondary education becoming a lottery
NOT STOPPING at betting using mammoth hedge funds or the building of super-size gambling dens rather than factories, casino capitalism is now being applied to schools, with the decision by Brighton and Hove council to introdu…
Socialist Party review
What\’s Left? – not Nick Cohen!
PETER TAAFFE reviews What\’s Left? by Nick Cohen and replies to his accusation that the \’left\’ supported Saddam Hussein because it opposed the invasion…
International Women’s Day
Fighting low pay decades after the Equal Pay Act: TO MARK International Women\’s Day 2007 (8 March) the socialist carries below three articles by Socialist Party members on some key social issues facing women today…
Socialist Party campaigns
Socialist Party congress report (2)
Recruitment, membership & campaigning: The Socialist Party congress took place on 17-19 February. Following reports of the congress political sessions on world events and Britain in last week\’s…
International socialist news and analysis
Egypt: Strikewave shakes regime and state-run unions
Elite fear new social explosions: A HUGE strike wave has swept across Egypt in the past three months – a country where strikes are illegal and demonstrations of any sort face brutal, bloody repression…
Scotland – Solidarity conference
Workplace news and analysis
United action needed to defend Airbus jobs
Council workers ballot for city-wide strike
Southampton: IN SOUTHAMPTON, like many areas, the pain of council cuts is spread unevenly…
