Articles from the Socialist, issue 503

27 September 2007

Postal workers on strike in June 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Royal Mail bosses force further strikes:

THE BATTLE lines have been drawn between Royal Mail and the postal workers. Without doubt we are heading for a showdown, where the very future of our industry…

By Gary Clark, sub area rep, Scotland No. 2 branch Communication Workers Union (CWU)

Scrap PFI!

Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006. Photo Paul Mattsson

Save Coventry hospitals: THE PRIVATE Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital at Walsgrave in Coventry has threatened to cut over 300 jobs, and has announced a massive rise in car parking charges for the disabled… By Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist Party councillor

Swansea NHS trust – balancing books at patients’ expense

Brown’s blue bluster in Bournemouth

Unite trade union demonstration outside Labour Party conference 2007, photo Bob Severn

BEFORE THIS year’s Labour Party conference, the unrelenting process of removing democracy inside the Labour Party had already helped to transform the party into the capitalist party that it is today…

Liberal Democrats – Struggling in third place

Salmond’s first hundred days

Stoke’s ‘unpopular front’ council coalition

University freshers fairs

Northumbria University: IF YOU were a student at Northumbria University’s freshers fair, and were interested in socialist ideas, our Socialist Student stall was the only stall for you!…

British banking crisis: Toxic system exposed

THE NEAR collapse of Northern Rock bank, accompanied by the most astonishing scenes of panic for generations outside its branches, has serious political implications for Britain and the government of Gordon Brown…

Greek elections: Support slashed for New Democracy and PASOK

THE RESULTS of the Greek elections, on 16 September, represent the biggest blow for many years against the governing right wing New Democracy and the opposition social democratic, pro-capitalist PASOK party… By Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI, Greece)

PCS prepares for more strikes

PCS’s national executive committee (NEC) has unanimously voted to hold a consultative ballot of PCS members for national industrial action to stop compulsory redundancies and defend pay and conditions… By John McInally, PCS NEC, personal capacity

Bus workers win victory