Articles from the Socialist, issue 497
26 July 2007
New Labour ignored flood warnings
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Caution wet floor – flooding in the centre of Gloucester, photo Chris Moore |
Flood crisis: Across Gloucestershire 350,000 people have been left without water for at least a week and 50,000 without power…
Government cuts add to flooding crisis
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At Mount Priory in Gloucester people have been flooded three times in 18 months, so they set up an action group. Photo Chris Moore |
Editorial: AT THE time of writing, the worst floods in Britain in modern history are still causing havoc…
Floods – who pays the bill?
AS SEVERE flooding hit England again, South Yorkshire and other areas were still suffering from the after-effects of June’s floods – made worse by the New Labour government’s inadequate response….
Postal workers’ strike
Postal workers: Their fight is our fight
An end to Saturday deliveries; fewer collections from post boxes; staggered delivery systems so you don’t get your mail every day; the closure of 2,500 crown post offices with the business being sold off to privateers W H Sm…
Critical dispute for postal workers
Editorial: COMMUNICATION WORKERS’ Union (CWU) members in the postal service are taking further action in their struggle for decent pay, to defend jobs and stop cuts to the service….
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS: no more cuts, no more privatisation
The trade unions need to unite the campaigns to defend the NHS and fight for a living wage for a health workers…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Support Glasgow’s social work strikers
SIX HUNDRED Social Care Workers, members of Unison and employees of Glasgow city council Social Work Services, began all-out indefinite strike action on 24 July in pursuit of their claim for a higher grading….
Metronet walks away from trouble…
Airports industry expansion plans fail to take off
Brown’s ‘affordable housing’ plan – all smoke and mirrors?
Tales from the council chambers
IN MAY the Tories announced they were abandoning their policy of re-introducing ‘grammar schools in every town.’ Their then education spokesperson, David Willetts, argued they could use New Labour’s education ‘reforms’ i…
If this is New Labour democracy…
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
WEATHER AND wallet permitting, the lure of summer holidays beckons, at least in the northern hemisphere…
Socialist Party reviews
Vicious bile and grovelling sweet talk
Alastair Campbell’s Diaries: TONY MULHEARN, a member of the Socialist Party and one of the ’47 group’ of Liverpool councillors who fought Thatcher’s Tories in the 1980s, reviews The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries….
Why do we watch Big Brother?
Workplace news and analysis
Visteon workers continue fight for jobs
Visteon workers in Swansea are involved in a bitter dispute with management that spilled over into two stoppages last week, one of them for 24 hours. …
National Shop Stewards’ Network hits the ground running
Another missed opportunity on teachers’ pay
International socialist news and analysis
Erdogan’s election victory reveals Turkey’s faultlines
THE GENERAL election in Turkey took place on 22 July and, as expected, the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) was returned to power with 47% of the popular vote compared to the 20% for the opposition Republican People…
Mass protests planned at the APEC summit
Socialism 2007
17 – 18 November 2007: Last November I attended the Socialism 2006 event hosted by the Socialist Party…
Rally for Socialism
