Articles from the Socialist, issue 513
6 December 2007
System change not climate change
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Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
System change not climate change: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is currently taking place in Bali…
Feature: The free market brings fire, flood and famine
Workplace news and analysis
PCS members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are being called out on strike on 6-7 December over an outrageous imposed three-year pay offer… By Jane Aitchison, PCS DWP group president, personal capacity
Socialists and the trade union leaderships
What we think
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Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher |
Editorial: THE PARTY funding scandal engulfing New Labour is only the latest in a long line of similar sleaze scandals…
How New Labour got hooked
Education
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Lewisham demonstration against destructive school policies, photo Paul Mattsson |
HUNDREDS OF teachers from across north-west England demonstrated in Manchester on 1 December against the government’s continuing drive to impose academy (publicly funded independent) schools on local communities… By Jane Nellist, Coventry NUT
Compulsory school to 18 – a rosy future for young people?
International socialist news and analysis
Chavez referendum result a big setback
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the UK. Photo Marc Vallee |
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT, Hugo Chavez, has lost the constitutional changes referendum in a “photo finish” by 51% to 49%… By Andy Bentley
Annapolis – a framework for further conflict
Kosova: After the elections – before the explosion
Northern Ireland classroom assistants
Argos strike in southern Ireland
South African miners strike over safety
Socialist Party review
The socialist review: ‘Taking Liberties’
PAPER MASKS, scissors and some toy soldiers. These are the offensive items found by 100 police officers, after holding three busloads of anti-war protesters… By Michael Wrack, Hackney Socialist Party
Post Office and CWU
Keep the ‘people’s Post Office’ public
TV ADVERTS call it the “People’s Post Office” but the Post Office’s top management want to wrest this public service from the people’s hands and give it to the private sector…. By Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist councillor
CWU ballot result
Workplace news
Unison’s right wing still witch-hunting
The witch-hunt against the five officers of some London Unison branches has not yet been resolved….
Save Cadbury jobs!
Manchester’s striking mental health workers: Defending trade union rights
