Articles from the Socialist, issue 481
4 April 2007
Children suffer in low pay Britain
Socialist Party editorial
Iran – Sailors fall victim to imperialist policies
Editorial: CLAIM AND counter-claim from the Iranian and British governments has followed the Iranian government’s capture and release of fifteen British marines and sailors, allegedly for trespassing into Iranian waters…
Socialist Party news and analysis
THE TIMES has revealed that one of Gordon Brown’s first acts as chancellor in 1997 was to give big business the green light to cut workers’ occupational pension schemes….
Blair: No solutions to crime or crowded prisons
Waltham Forest protest – more memorable than Prince Charles!
Commemorating the abolition of the slave trade
Socialist Party reviews
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Ricky Tomlinson |
Review: Based on the events of the jailing of Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren by the Heath government in 1972, this programme gripped you by the throat from the outset, writes Tony Mulhearn …
In The Line of Fire
Book review: PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistan’s military dictator in presidential clothing, is unlikely to survive in his post much longer…
Days of Glory
Education
Take national action to defend education
Teachers face heavy workloads, stress, performance pay: AT THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference this year, teachers are discussing how to resist government attacks on our pay and conditions and on comprehensive education…
Labour’s market policies damage education
Privilege and privation in our schools
NUS leadership abandon fees fight
PCS takes industrial action
London strikers close passport office
Civil service pay: STRIKING PCS members shut down the head office of the Identity and Passport Service on 30 March in London…
PCS members take industrial action
Campaign for a New Workers Party
How to stop the BNP: Build a political alternative
How to stop the BNP: ON 29 March 100 trade unionists and anti-racist activists gathered for a midday demonstration in Liverpool city centre…
Campaign for a New Workers’ Party
Campaign for a New Workers’ Party
Conference
Saturday 12 May 12pm-5pm
University College London, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1. (nearest Tubes: Euston Square, Euston)
To register and more info visit: www.cnwp.org.uk
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Ammanford home care workers march
ABOUT 200 protesters attended a GMB, T&G and UNISON-organised march in the ex-mining town of Ammanford on 30 March against Carmarthenshire county council’s plans to privatise the in-house home carers service….
Frustration at demo delay
Asylum
Darfur: Deported asylum seekers tortured and murdered: AN INVESTIGATION by the United Nations (UN) in 2005 accused the Sudan-backed Janjaweed militias of carrying out the mass murder of civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan…
Leicester protesters challenge Home Office
Workplace news and analysis
Trade union leaders heckled over inaction
Building workers’ lobby: OVER 3,000 construction workers descended on London on 28 March for a trade union rally and lobby of parliament against appalling conditions in the building industry…
Action needed as Ford bosses close Leamington plant
Greenwich: “We’ve got to strike”
Burslem postal workers strike again
Northern Ireland
British government and local parties retreat on water charges
Northern Ireland: IN A major climb down by both the British government and local parties the proposed introduction of water charges in Northern Ireland has been postponed for 12 months…
We Won’t Pay Campaign
