Articles from the Socialist, issue 529

16 April 2008

Birmingham strike

Editorial: 24 April strikes: step forward in pay battle

Unison witch-hunt: Defend ‘the four’

Onay Kasab, photo Paul Mattsson

Greenwich Unison branch secretary Onay Kasab is one of four Unison officers currently facing a disciplinary hearing as part of a witch hunt being carried out by the union bureaucracy, writes Susan Wilson.

National Shop Stewards Network

Re-elect a fighting PCS leadership

The elections for the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union have just started, writes Katrine Williams, PCS Wales chair, personal capacity.

Global food prices: anger erupts in mass protests

HUNGER AND malnutrition are getting far worse due to rising food prices. Even those fortresses of global capitalism, the World Bank and the International, writes Jon Dale and Jan Rybak.

Elections 2008

Lynn Worthington (left), photo Alison Hill

SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE election canvassers are being well received on the doorsteps in Wythenshawe in Manchester, writes Lynn Worthington, Socialist Alternative candidate for Baguley ward, Manchester.

Standing up for socialism: candidate list

Campaign for a New Workers Party – conference 2008

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: why all the controversy?

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill going through parliament at the moment is causing controversy…

Housing crisis: Britain’s house of cards

AS THE US economy moves sharply downwards, the threat of a crash in the British housing market is becoming ever more real, writes Marc Glasscoe, Socialist Party Lincoln.

Water ‘regulators’ hide real prices

Rising class struggles across Europe

French workers demonstrate in 2003, photo Paul Mattsson

Striking workers in Greece and Portugal show the wayRepresentatives from European sections of the Committee for a Workers’ International recently discussed events in Europe, particularly Greece, Germany and France.

France 1968: 10 million workers occupied factories

France 1968: month of revolution by Clare Doyle

The radical life of Martin Luther King

Portsmouth Activists Academy day of debate

On Saturday 12 April, Portsmouth students union, aided by Socialist Students members, held its inaugural Activist Academy, which brought together around 30 campaigners during the course of the day from groups across the south. Will Schafer-Peek, Southampton Socialist Students reports.