Articles from the Socialist, issue 582
5 June 2009
Action to defend union rights
Vauxhall jobs threat – unions must organise a fightback
Workplace news and analysis
Royal Mail sell-off – Time for action!
The Postal Services Bill has its first reading in the House of Commons on 9 June and the privateer sharks are circling, writes A Bristol postal worker.
Fast news
Battling against the blacklist
Socialist Party election campaign
Prepare now for next election challenge
ANALYSIS AND comment on the local and European election results will be carried in next week’s issue of The Socialist…
European elections: Putting forward a workers’ alternative
A Parliament of celebrities and a speaker of integrity
Youth
Aston University socialists fight for student democracy
The students union, or ‘guild’ as it now calls itself, at Aston University faced attacks on its, already limited, democratic structures last week, writes Stephen Burrell, Aston Socialist Students.
Sussex University: Save Linguistics campaign
Socialist youth conference and protest
Youth Fight for Jobs: Fortnight of action 27 June to 10 July
Socialist Party feature
NATO anniversary: 60 years of aggression and terror
THE NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) marked 60 years of its existence at the start of April in Strasbourg, France…
Socialist Party review
The Frock-Coated Communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels
Review FRIEDRICH ENGELS wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England when he was just 24 years old. Tristram Hunt says: “The power, incisiveness and prescience of Engels’ polemic remains undiminished…
Marxist analysis: history
Tiananmen Square 1989: Counter-revolution crushes China’s democracy movement
ON 3-4 June 1989, Deng Xiaoping and other aged leaders of China’s so-called ‘communist’ party, ordered 200,000 troops to crush a two-month long movement of workers and students against bureaucratic rule and for workers’ democracy…