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The Socialist, issue 502: Nationalise the banks

Articles from the Socialist, issue 502

20 September 2007


spotNationalise the banks

Make the bankers pay: As panic spread that the building society Northern Rock was about to collapse, thousands of people queued overnight outside its branches to withdraw their hard-earned savings… By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy General Secretary


spotEconomy hits a rock

spotCrisis will hit north east jobs

spotTime for a new party

Socialist Students

spotFight for a living grant

Students protest against fees

Students protest against fees

Scrap student fees: “I have no incentive for going to university. I can get an alright job without a degree and there’s no debt to deal with…” By Holly Robbins, Somerset Socialist Students


spotWhat do youth think?

spotStudent Socialist: Issue 5 out now!

spotStudying on a low wage

spotFlexible hours? Suits you sir!

Socialist Party NHS campaign

spotNHS: Our message to Labour

NHS: A REPORT has been published for the right-wing think tank, the Kings Fund, by Sir Derek Wanless, former adviser to Gordon Brown… By Lois Austin


spotSwansea – no more cuts for cash

Marching through Swansea to save NHS services

Marching through Swansea to save NHS services, photo Socialist Party Wales

SWANSEA NHS Trust has announced the closure of 86 beds and plans to shed 742 jobs, almost half of them nursing posts… By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party


Socialist Party news

spotVictory! Campaign saves nursery

Huddersfield Examiner reports on the saving of Tiddlywinks nursery.

Huddersfield Examiner reports on the saving of Tiddlywinks nursery.

Huddersfield: LOCAL PARENTS, their children and staff at Tiddlywinks Nursery in Huddersfield are celebrating a victory in reversing Kirklees council’s decision to close it down… By Mike Forster


spotMedway schools

spotLobby demands asylum for Sadiq

Save Sadiq: Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq, photo Jack Royston

Save Sadiq: Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq, photo Jack Royston

ABOUT 30 people lobbied Keith Hill MP’s surgery in Lambeth on 15 September calling for asylum for Sadiq Abakar, a refugee from the Darfur war zone. …


Socialism 2007

spotSocialism 2007

Socialism 2007

Socialism 2007

BRITAIN IS a divided country, with life for the super-rich seeming like another world all together. While thousands of workers queued for hours outside Northern Rock, fearful they could lose their life savings, the Bank of England bailed out company chiefs, just as they did with Barclays Bank a few weeks ago to the tune of £312 million.


spotMake Socialism 2007 an unforgettable weekend

TUC Conference

spotTUC conference: Workers defy Brown

 Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher

Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher

TUC conference – public-sector pay: At last week’s TUC conference, Gordon Brown used his speech to kick public-sector trade unionists in the teeth by repeating his demands for pay “discipline”…


spotLinking the struggles together

International socialist news and analysis

spotEgypt: Worker militancy shows pressing need for political voice

THE EGYPTIAN working class over the last year has jumped into action, coming out in mass strikes, blockading their work-places and more importantly, establishing independent workers’ organisations, set apart from the corrupt… By Jim Thomson


Socialist Party review

spotConsumed: How markets corrupt children, infantilise adults and swallow citizens whole

Readers of the socialist could readily agree with the title of this book. The destructive nature of the capitalist system, based upon production for profit… By Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party General Secretary


Workplace news and analysis

spotRemploy workers fight for jobs

Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Chris Moore

Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Chris Moore

“If need be, we will take this attitude to the battlefield and with this attitude, we will win”


spotDefend the Burslem 12

spotCWU: Further national action discussed

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