Articles from the Socialist, issue 556
12 November 2008
Socialist Party campaigns
Economy in recession: “Buy one car, get one free”, was the desperate offer of a Colchester car sales broker. Nationally, car sales have fallen to a level not seen since 1966. And now falling consumer spending and the credit…
PCS union: Strike threat wins talks
Socialism 2008
Socialism 2008 – an inspiring weekend
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Socialism 2008, photo Paul Mattsson |
Capitalism is a system of crisis, a blind system based on the creation of obscene profits for a tiny minority on the backs of the graft of the majority, writes Greg Maughan.
War and occupation
Iraq, Afghanistan… End the occupations!
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Anti-war protest outside Republican convention, organised by Youth Against War and Racism, a Socialist Alternative initiative, photo USA Youth Against Racism |
LAST WEEK was Remembrance Sunday when we had the spectacle of hypocritical politicians mourning the war dead while condemning more young men and women to tragic, unnecessary deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, writes Tom Baldwin.
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
A political awakening propels Obama to victory
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US president Barack Obama supporters, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE REIGN of George W Bush, the most hated US president in modern history, is over. On top of that, the election of an African-American as president of the United States, less than 50 years since legal racial segregation ended, is being greeted with widespread euphoria. Ty Moore and Tony Wilsdon, Socialist Alternative (CWI in USA) write.
Why Labour won the Glenrothes by-election
Socialist Students
‘Students in the Red’ day of action
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Cambrige students protest against indebtedness, photo A. Gounelas |
The National Union of Students (NUS) called a day of action on student debt on 12 November. Members of Socialist Students welcomed this action, the first called by NUS on student finance for two years,…
East Anglia region demands free education
Education
NUT leadership fails to call strike
In April, the morale of trade unionists across England and Wales was lifted when tens of thousands of teachers took strike action to oppose the years of below-inflation pay awards being imposed on them by New Labour, writes Martin Powell-Davies, convenor, Socialist Party Teachers.
Scotland: Victory for the Vale of Leven Four
Socialist Party review
Prescott: the class system and me
TV review: On 27 October, BBC 2 viewers watched a programme fronted by former deputy prime minister John Prescott, purporting to explain the class system in contemporary Britain…
