Articles from the Socialist, issue 550
2 October 2008
Socialist Party editorial
Credit crunch
Bradford & Bingley: We need real nationalisation
THE CAMPAIGN for a New Workers’ Party (CNWP) issued the press release below, written by Coventry Socialist Party councillor and the CNWP national chair Dave Nellist…
The bishop and the ‘bank robbers’
What is short-selling and will the ban have any effect?
Another nail in New Labour’s coffin
Socialist Students
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Exeter Socialist Students organised a protest outside the office of the university vice-chancellor, photo Exeter Socialist Students |
STUDENTS BEWARE! The price of beans, bread and beer is going through the roof! And with a financially punitive student loans system debt is piling up for those going to university…
Lots of new recruits for Socialist Students
Global Warming
Climate change calamities: Socialist planning needed
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Climat change demo December 2005, photo Paul Mattsson |
The “methane time bomb” has ignited, the Independent newspaper recently declared. The arctic permafrost is melting and releasing a greenhouse gas twenty times more powerful than carbon dioxide, which threatens to rapidly heat up the planet. Urgent action is needed…
Cuts and privatisation threaten new floods
Socialist Party workplace news
Local government pay dispute in Scotland: solid support for strike
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Scotland council workers strike, photo International Socialists |
Council workers across Scotland responded in massive numbers to the second national all-out strike day on 24 September…
Unison goes to arbitration – a strategy or surrender?
Union calls ballot over health pay
Unions must fight to defend Ford jobs
Lincoln – fight council cuts plan
Socialist Party campaigns
ANOTHER INQUIRY is now underway into the killing of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes in July 2005 in south London…
Comment
Comment: With the US mired in crisis, some commentators look to China and other so-called emerging powers to fill the breach…
Socialist Party review
Liberty by Glyn Maxwell at Shakespeare’s Globe
Reviewed by Nancy Taaffe Marxists are often accused of being idealists. However, in my mind, the million dollar questions are always whether the idea is any good, whether it can become a reality, and whether it moves history society forward or drags it back.
