Articles from the Socialist, issue 515
10 January 2008
Fight for socialism!
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Make Socialism Our Future: ISR / CWI banner on the Anti-G8 demonstration in 2005, photo by Paul Mattsson |
Last year ended to the roar of the assassin’s bullet and bomb, cutting down Benazir Bhutto, the fourth such civilian leader or president to be murdered since the foundation of Pakistan 60 years ago… By Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary
Defeat the pay limit
Feature: Socialism and democracy needed to reshape the world
Socialist Party workplace news
Postal workers fight to defend the Burslem 12
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The CWU postal strike 2007 |
No victimisation: One hundred postal workers at Burslem, Staffordshire, are now into their fourth week of strike action against the victimisation of twelve workers who have been unfairly suspended since September on trumped up charges… By Andy Bentley, Stoke Socialist Party
Scrooge employers attack shop workers
Building workers fight for real union representation
Socialist Party editorial
Renationalise the energy industry
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Flooded with Debt, cartoon by Suz www.squashdonkey.co.uk |
Editorial: With the price of oil going over $100 a barrel, the main energy suppliers are using it as an excuse to increase fuel prices and boost their already bloated profits…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Police ballot for industrial rights
GORDON BROWN is trying to enforce below-inflation pay rises on public-sector workers, from the civil service to local government workers, teachers and nurses… By Iain Dalton
Straw provokes POA
Soaring food prices hit world’s poor
Big business hands off our NHS!
The privateers are taking over
International socialist news and analysis
Pakistan: Mass opposition to Musharraf regime after Benazir killing
BENAZIR BHUTTO, leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), was killed in a suicide attack after addressing a public rally in Rawalpindi on 27 December…
Kenya: Stolen election explodes into mass anger and bloodshed
Socialist Party feature
Victory! Tenants beat £1 million sell-off campaign
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Socialist Party councillor Ian Page with tenant activists |
COUNCIL TENANTS and local campaigners have won a significant local victory in Lewisham, south London, against the privatisation of council housing…
Obituary
With great sadness, we report the death of Andrew Glyn, an internationally renowned socialist economist and a former supporter of the Militant, the Socialist Party’s precursor…
Socialist Party review
Review: Marx’s Das Kapital: a biography, by Francis Wheen
This is a disappointing book. Francis Wheen’s earlier biography is definitely worth a read and shows he has made a serious study of Marx’s writings….
