Articles from the Socialist, issue 558
26 November 2008
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Darling’s prescription… It’s spend, spend, spend on the banks… but cuts, cuts, cuts for the NHS
Top-up payments for private health care another step towards two-tier National Health
Environment and socialism
Socialist ‘deal’ for environment needed
Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
BARACK OBAMA put the environment at the centre of his US presidential election programme by pledging to bring in a ‘Green New Deal’ that could tackle the threat of climate change while generating many new jobs to combat the growing economic recession, writes Pete Dickenson.
Campaign Against Climate Change march
Campaign Against Climate Change march
Saturday 6 December.
Assemble 12 noon
Grosvenor Square, London
Socialist Party editorial
Alistair Darling’s pre Budget Report: Pain now, pay later
Unison witchhunt
Activists discuss how to reclaim Unison
Demonstration at Unison HQ against witchhunt of four unison members: protest letters handed in , photo Paul Mattsson |
On 22 November, over 100 angry Unison activists gathered in Birmingham to discuss how to re-claim their union, a Unison member writes.
Meeting pledges to fight witch-hunt
Unison leadership takeover Newham branch
Socialist Party workplace news
Manchester: No redundancies at IMI!
At IMI Scott (IMI) in South Manchester, a factory specialising in the manufacture of electrical wiring, four of the twenty five shop floor workers have been made redundant due to a lack of orders, Wythenshawe and Sale Socialist Party members write.
Strike saves jobs at Fiddlers Ferry
Anti-racism
BNP membership list: A weak divided party exposed
Despite the huge amounts of media coverage the British National Party has received over the years, the publication of their list of members, ex-members and others makes it clear that the BNP is a relatively small party, writes Naomi Byron, Youth Against Racism in Europe.
New Labour hypocrisy on racism
Socialist Party campaigns
Campaigning to save post offices
AFTER THE announcement in June that 22 post offices would close in Leeds, three in the Beeston area alone, as part of the government’s closure programme Beeston Communities Against Post Office Closures (CAPOC) campaign launched into action, writes Manny Dominguez.
Rover’s ex-workers wage cut scandal
Socialist Party feature
China’s food contamination crisis deepens
FISH, PORK, and chicken contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine, along with milk and eggs. China’s food contamination crisis deepens by the day, writes Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info.
Socialist Party women
Protesting outside parliament in October 2008, photo Paul Mattsson |
The 1967 Abortion Act made abortion legal and safe and available on the NHS. It was an important reform won by women demanding the right to have control over their own bodies, writes Elaine Brunskill, Socialist Party national committee.
Comment
What is the relationship between art, revolution, capitalism and class struggle? This year was the first time there was a commission on ‘art and revolution’ at the annual summer school of the Committee…
International socialist news and analysis
Somalia piracy – a consequence of western powers’ intervention
THE HIJACKING of the supertanker Sirius Star, carrying 2 million barrels of oil, has dramatically highlighted the problem of piracy along the Somali coast, writes Neil Cafferky.
France: Education strikes on the agenda