Articles from the Socialist, issue 536
3 June 2008
New Labour’s failures: Don’t just get angry, get Active
Environment and socialism
Editorial: Target ‘ecological’ taxes at the biggest polluters
Across Europe, farmers, fishermen, lorry drivers and others have been protesting against increased fuel costs…
Heathrow protest: Demonstrating against a third airport runway
Cosmetic measures against fuel poverty
Socialist Party workplace news
Belfast Airport workers: The long battle for justice
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Belfast airport workers protest |
The Socialist has carried regular articles about the battle being waged by three shop stewards, sacked from their security jobs at Belfast Airport…
Come to the national shop stewards network conference
National Shop Stewards Network second conference advert
National Shop Stewards Network second conference
Saturday 28 June, 11.30am-4.30pm
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1.
Speakers include Bob Crow, RMT, Mark Serwotka, PCS and Brian Caton, POA, plus shop stewards from disputes around the country.
£5 per delegate. Send to: NSSN, PO Box 58262, London N1 1ET. Email [email protected]. Or see: www.shopstewards.net
Please note that the next meeting of the North West region committee of the National Shop Stewards Network will be held on Saturday 19 July, not 19 June.
Union members reject pay insult
Socialist Party campaigns
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Protesting at the threat to deport AmDani in Nottingham, photo Gary Freeman |
THE CAMPAIGN to stop the deportation of AmDani Juna has won at least a temporary success…
Keep our NHS public
Nottingham: Student protests at arrests
Socialist Party review
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Freidrich Engels |
The ideas of the Socialist Party, based on scientific socialism, are identified with Karl Marx and ‘Marxism’, but Friedrich Engels deserves to be bracketed alongside the great ‘philosopher of the millennium’. Peter Taaffe reveiws Engels: A Revolutionary Life, by John Green. (Artery Publications, London 2008)
Socialist Party youth and students
On Saturday 21 June Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) has called a national demonstration against the racist British National Party…
London Youth Against Racism activity
National demo against racist BNP
National demo against racist BNP
Saturday 21 June 2008
Assemble: 12 noon, Tooley Street, London SE1
(behind Greater London Assembly building, near Tower Bridge)
Contact ISR on [email protected] or go to www.anticapitalism.org.uk
Students step-up struggle
Berlin: 8,000 school students strike
Housing crisis
Markets cannot end house building crisis
Nationalise Bradford & Bingley
Environment: Nuclear power
Nuclear power: An expensive and dangerous failure
An energy policy partly based on nuclear power, as the government is proposing, obviously raises deep concerns about safety. But it is also the sheer uneconomic nature of nuclear power that makes it an abject failure as a major energy source worldwide, writes Roy Farrar.
Football
The beautiful game, with beautiful profits for some
Now that the football season has drawn to a close, with the battle for the Premiership title having been fought between the usual clubs, John Reid, author of Reclaim the Game reviews the current state of football in England…
International socialist news and analysis
Lebanon – civil war or rule by sectarian landlords
AFTER THE last two weeks of street conflict between pro-government and opposition armed militias, workers in Lebanon are now facing two ‘choices’: either a sectarian civil war or ‘civil peace’ with a ruling ‘coalition’, writes Tamir Mahdi, Beirut.
Israel: Olmert will go, but the political crisis will stick
