Articles from the Socialist, issue 505
11 October 2007
Unity with the postal workers
Postal workers on strike in 2007, photo Socialist Party |
“They need to be exposed. This government doesn’t care about the workers, they are only interested in money and power.” These were the words of a striking… By Marc Glasscoe, Branch secretary, Lincoln City Unison (Personal capacity)
Gloucestershire shows determination
Marching in support of the Burslem 12
Anger at Leighton, Crozier and Brown
Determination to continue the battle
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Doctors demonstrate March 2007, photo Naomi Byron |
ALISTAIR DARLING, Brown’s chancellor, has announced that health spending will increase by about 4% a year until 2011/12…
What we think
Brown’s expedient election climb-down
Gordon Brown and David Cameron play ‘Snap’ |
Editorial: Gordon Brown’s rapid recoil from the idea of holding an autumn election was a blatant example of the opportunism that typifies all the leaders of the main political parties…
War and terrorism
Anti-war movement upholds right to protest
Stop The War Coalition demonstration 8 October 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
OVER 4,000 people took part in the 8 October rally in London, organised by the Stop the War coalition and CND against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan… By Chris Newby
Burmese students join London march
Socialism 2007
Socialism 2007: Debates to sharpen your socialism
Socialism 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
Socialism 2007, the annual weekend event hosted by the Socialist Party, is the ideal opportunity to witness and participate in key debates that deal with issues confronting every labour movement activist and Marxist…. By Paul Hunt, Coventry West Socialist Party
Socialist Party news and analysis
FIFTY YEARS ago on 10 October 1957, Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, since renamed Sellafield, suffered a serious fire… By Roger Shrives
Super-rich super-donators
Cuts kill – no reductions in the fire service!
Socialist Party feature
1917 October Revolution: the working class took power
Lenin speaking, Trotsky standing to the left |
Russian revolution 90th anniversary: THE CAPITALIST media have made little comment on the 90th anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Peter Taaffe looks at the events of the October revolution in Russia 1917.
International socialist news and analysis
Darfur bloodshed fuelled by land and oil grab
A CONSTRUCTION boom fuelled by oil revenues is sweeping through Khartoum, the capital of Sudan… By Alison Hill
Iraq occupation: Brown’s token gesture
Workplace news and analysis
Civil servants march against cuts and privatisation
Workers from three government departments are marching in London on 12 October against the outsourcing and privatisation of hundreds of jobs…
Bolton care workers fight on
National Shop Stewards Network holds meetings around the country