Articles from the Socialist, issue 559
3 December 2008
Job losses
Fight back now against job cuts
Fighting the threatened closure of Hoover factory
Environment and socialism
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Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
Everyone on the march against climate change on Saturday 6 December agrees on one thing: the planet is in danger, writes Paula Mitchell.
Socialist Party editorial
Editorial: Once again, terrorist carnage – this time in Mumbai in India – has shocked working people around the world…
Terror mayhem strikes Mumbai
Socialist Party campaigns
Judiciary challenged over the right to protest
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Policing on an anti-war demo, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE MAY Day Detainees went back to court last week. This time they appealed to the House of Lords against the judgement from the High Court, which said it was lawful for the Metropolitan Police to hold…
Building a left wing political alternative
Southampton uni students fight fees
Liverpool: mobilising against the far right
Comment
Social workers demand proper resources
Overworked, underpaid, undervalued: I agree with the comments of the social worker in issue 557 of The Socialist (‘Social workers say: Investment needed’), writes A south Wales social worker.
Secondary education: PFI’s gloss soon peels away
Socialist Party LGBT
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Socialist Party members campaigning at Pride, photo Chris Newby |
Twenty years since Section 28: This year is the twentieth anniversary of the infamous Section 28, an openly anti-gay law pushed through by Thatcher’s Tory government, writes Greg Randall, Convenor of the LGBT socialist group.
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Crisis-hit capitalism fears prospect of revolution
CWI International Executive Committee 2008: THE INTERNATIONAL Executive Committee (IEC) of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) met in Belgium on 23-29 November. Hannah Sell gives a summary of Peter Taaffe’s introduction to the session on the global economic crisis and its political consequences with highlights from the discussion.
International socialist news and analysis
Venezuela elections: Chávez wins victory but opposition gains ground
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in the UK , photo Paul Mattsson |
ON SUNDAY 23 November, more than 14 million people in Venezuela came out early in the morning to elect governors, mayors and regional representatives, writes Johan Rivas, Colectivo Socialismo Revolucionario, the CWI group in Venezuela…
Marxist analysis: history
The Isle of Man general strike 1918: Workers’ power paralysed government
On 3 July this year it was the 90th anniversary of the little-known Manx general strike, the Isle of Man’s first and only general strike, writes Christian Daugherty.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Help fund the alternative to big business politics
More and more people are looking for a socialist alternative. They are drawing the conclusion that it is capitalism itself, a system based on exploitation for profit in which crises are inevitable, that…
Socialist women: Looking at the past to take action today
Housing crisis
More homeowners fall behind on mortgage payments: At least 5,000 homes a week are being put up for sale as the owners can no longer afford their mortgage…
New Labour’s housing crisis
Socialist Party workplace news
Vote ‘no’ to BT’s pension cuts
BT is pursuing its pre-existing plan to get its workforce to accept a cut in pensions provision. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) executive committee (NEC) is now recommending that members vote to…
A Christmas message from the Unite leadership
