Articles from the Socialist, issue 488
24 May 2007
Public-sector workers say…Fight Brown’s pay freeze
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Unison Lobby of Parliament in 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
While Tony Blair prepares for his retirement celebration there will be very few tears shed by UNISON members or by any public sector workers…
PCS: Public-sector unity to defend jobs and services
National Shop Stewards Network
Postal workers’ strike ballot: Vote ‘yes’ for a future
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Postal workers on strike in 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
POSTAL WORKERS up and down the country are voting in the most important industrial action ballot in the history of Royal Mail….
Darling attacks Post Offices
Greenwich workers shame councillors
Labour Party leadership
Gordon Brown crowned leader with no contest
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New face, same pedigree, Cartoon by Alan Hardman |
WITH ALMOST the entire parliamentary Labour Party backing him, Gordon Brown was anointed as successor to Tony Blair without a contest…
John McDonnell speaks to the socialist
Education
Academies: No to these divisive schools
As Brown and Cameron back academies…: ANYBODY WHO thought that Gordon Brown would halt the government’s relentless drive to create 400 divisive Academy schools, over 200 of them by 2010, will be sorely disappointed…
Lewisham council attacks education
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Pot and Pans demonstration in Waltham Forest against cuts tro school meals, photo Paul Mattsson |
After three short weeks of campaigning that seriously rattled councillors, the Leader Clyde Loakes yesterday offered to extend the school meals subsidy at least until 2009. In our books that is an unequivocal victory.
Canteen workers oppose school meals cuts
School campaigners shake Wokingham
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Nursing staff strike shows way forward
OPERATING THEATRE nurses at Barnsley Hospital staged a 24-hour strike on 21 May over threats to their jobs and a real wage cut…
Socialist Party news and analysis
This year sees the fortieth anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of gay sex between men in England and Wales…
Letter to Polish Ambassador
Marxist analysis: history
Belfast 1907 – a city in revolt
WHEN CAPITALIST politicians Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness, with a vested interest in keeping the working class divided by fostering sectarian strife, came together recently in the Northern Ireland assembly, the media in B…
Environment and socialism
Can solar power solve our energy needs?
Australia is feeling the power of the sun. The state of New South Wales is suffering an unprecedented five years of drought, probably caused by global…
Scotland
SNP in power – populism and cuts
SCOTTISH NATIONAL Party leader Alex Salmond has been elected as the new First Minister of the Scottish parliament…
