Articles from the Socialist, issue 553
21 October 2008
Ford workers strike
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Fords: Our jobs – here to stay |
Billions to save banks: Hundreds of Southampton Ford workers took unofficial action to defend jobs on 20 October, bringing production at the Transit plant to a standstill, writes Nick Chaffey, Southampton Socialist Party.
Socialist measures to fight capitalist crisis
Socialism 2008
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Socialism 2008 Rally |
Socialism 2008 details pdf
Socialist Party editorial
Socialist Party campaigns
Liverpool: Mass protest wins back the right to campaign!
FOLLOWING MONTHS of protest against Merseyside police harassing and arresting local campaigners, our democratic right to hold stalls and campaign has been re-established, writes Tony Aitman.
Demonstrators stop fascist march
42-day detention dropped – for now
Socialist Party workplace news
Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members across all government departments have voted to take strike action against the government’s imposed 2% pay rise maximum, writes Bill Mullins.
Fight for jobs at JCB
Protest at disciplinary action against teachers
Socialist Students
Bangor students vote to fight fees
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Bail out the students – not the bankers! – Campaign to Defeat Fees protest, photo Bob Severn |
The Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF) won a victory when students at Bangor University in Wales voted to support the campaign’s aims in a student union referendum, writes Iain Dalton and Matt Dobson.
Fighting for youth in Lewisham
Campaign to Defeat Fees day of action
Kirklees: The battle to save our schools heats up
Comment
NHS props up the private profiteers
Comment: With the recent events in the world of high finance, we have seen many examples of the state bailing out private financial institutions, a practice nurse in Wales writes.
We can’t afford private rail. Nationalise the railways now!
International socialist news and analysis
Iceland: A victim of the casino economy
ITS THREE main banks have collapsed and the currency has effectively ceased trading. And with debts totalling ten times the national income of the country, an Icelandic delegation went cap in hand to Moscow. Per-Ake Westerlund (Rattvisepartiet Socialisterna – CWI in Sweden) reports.
Aer Lingus threatens to axe 1,500 posts
Socialist Party review
Persepolis, directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Film review: Based on a graphic novel memoir written by Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is a treat. An animated film, it is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, mainly, but not entirely, in black and white and very…
Black Power Salute (BBC 4)
