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The Socialist, issue 538: No! to racism: Yes! to decent jobs, homes & public services

Articles from the Socialist, issue 538

17 June 2008


spotNo! to racism: Yes! to decent jobs, homes and public services

Love Music Hate Racism 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Love Music Hate Racism 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

  • Unite and fight against low pay and cuts in jobs and services.
  • No to the far-right, racist BNP.
  • End cheap labour. For a minimum wage of £8 an hour. No exemptions.
  • A massive public spending programme to create more houses, schools, hospitals and all the facilities we need. End privatisation.
  • Campaign to form a new mass party of the working class.

spotNo! to racism: Yes! to decent jobs, homes and public services

Demonstrate

21 June, 12 noon

assemble Tooley Street, London SE1 behind Greater London Assembly building, near Tower Bridge

called by love music hate racism


spotUnite and fight against racism

Love Music Hate Racism 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Love Music Hate Racism 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Feature: It was only a little over forty years ago that black people in the US, the most powerful capitalist country in the world, won equal rights in law – and only then as a result of a magnificent mass movement that shook the country to its foundations…


spotProtest at BNP ‘hate festival’

spotLet AmDani stay!

spotconference

Campaign for a new workers’ party

Conference

Sunday 29 June 11am – 5pm
South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1
Nearest stations – Kings Cross & St Pancras, Euston, Mornington Crescent

Speakers confirmed so far include:

Bob Crow, RMT general secretary
Dave Nellist, Campaign for a New Workers’ Party national chair
John McInally, PCS vice president
Simeon Andrews, Labour Representation Committee secretary
Rob Hoveman, Respect co-ordinating committee
Dave Church, Walsall Democratic Labour Party
Mike Davies, Alliance for Green Socialism chair

International socialist news and analysis

spotLisbon Treaty ‘No’ vote delivers major shock for political and big business Establishment

Socialist Party leaflet gets attention in the campaign for a No vote in the referendum of the Lisbon Treaty, photo Paul Mattsson

Socialist Party leaflet gets attention in the campaign for a No vote in the referendum of the Lisbon Treaty, photo Paul Mattsson

IN A higher than normal turnout for a referendum, 53.1%, the Lisbon Treaty (the renamed EU Constitution) was clearly rejected in Ireland on Thursday 12 June, by 53.4% to 46.6%, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin.


Socialist Party campaigns

spotShell drivers strike

According to press reports, the strike by tanker drivers at multinational giant Shell’s depots has concluded with a deal. It was 100% solid at the Shell Haven site in Coryton, Essex. Drivers were angry about their treatment from Shell and the contractor Hoyer. A driver on the picket line, Gary, spoke to The Socialist.


spotDavid Davis – sanity or carving a position?

spotGreater Manchester – save your post office

spotLondon protest over Rajapaksa’s dismal human rights record

spotStop big business polluting our environment

Education

spotStop New Labour’s divisive school academy plans

Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

LABOUR’S ‘IMPROVE or close’ ultimatum to 638 English schools is a thinly disguised plan to accelerate the privatisation of secondary education. Under their “National Challenge Strategy”, schools that have failed to meet the imposed minimum target…


Socialist Party NHS campaign

spotNHS: Polyclinics – Stop this backdoor privatisation

Feature: IN MANY parts of the country, new ‘polyclinics’ are opening up, replacing established GPs’ surgeries. JO SECHER warns that the government’s new polyclinics are not “community based health care”, and they are certainly not “GP-led surgeries”.


spotPFI – a very bad deal for the NHS

spotReopen the battle on NHS pay

Socialist Party campaigns

spotEnd the occupations

Protest against George W Bush visit to Britain, photo Paul Mattsson

Protest against George W Bush visit to Britain, photo Paul Mattsson

SEVERAL THOUSAND anti-war demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square, London, last Sunday evening to protest against the two-day visit to Britain of US president George Bush…


spotUnison conference: Angry delegates attack leaders

Post office closures

spotLeeds: Stop Beeston post office closures

Leeds protest to stop Beeston post office closures, photo Nigel Poustie

Leeds protest to stop Beeston post office closures, photo Nigel Poustie

The Leeds Socialist Party branch has been campaigning against the closure of three post offices in Beeston. We have done several stalls in the area and had a good response…


Socialist Party workplace news

spotNational Shop Stewards Network Conference

Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Standing up for our rights!: The prospects facing the majority of young workers today can only be described as dire. Many young people can only dream of earning a decent wage and carving out a secure future for themselves, writes Tracy Edwards, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), young members’ organiser.


spotCWU’s link with Labour hotly debated

spotVictory against bosses at Keele

spotWorkplace news in brief

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