Articles from the Socialist, issue 605
9 December 2009
Corus steel closure: ‘Bail out our jobs, not greedy bankers’
Corus closure
Defend Every JobNationalise Corus Steel |
Public meeting called by the National Shop Stewards Network
Monday 14 December, 7.30pm
Westgarth Social Club, 99 Southfield Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 3EZ.
Youth Fight for Jobs campaigners speak out on Corus closure
Socialist Party editorial
Socialist nationalisation – the only way to save manufacturing jobs and end the bank bonus scandal
Editorial: The year 2009 is ending as it began. Thousands of workers are losing their jobs in factory closures while bankers rescued by government intervention and money from working class taxpayers continue to rake…
Teesside steel: No trust in big business ‘solutions’
War and occupation
THE OCCUPATION of Afghanistan has lasted eight years; it has cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, writes Ken Douglas.
Global Warming
Climate change summit: Coming up short in Copenhagen
Paying the price of global warming: TENS OF thousands of people marched through central London to the Houses of Parliament on Saturday 5 December to demand action from the Labour government, and the world’s leaders, ahead of the Copenhagen summit on climate change, writes Dave Carr.
Socialist Party news and analysis
AS PART of an international day of action, Tamil Solidarity organised a protest outside the Indonesian embassy in London on Friday, writes Manny Thain.
Fight the political witch-hunt in Unison
Youth fight for jobs
Youth Fight for Jobs organises demo in Barking
The London borough of Barking and Dagenham is an area particularly blighted by capitalism’s failure…
Socialist Party workplace news
New Labour gift wraps Tyne and Wear Metro
On 4 December it was announced that DB Regio is the preferred bidder, over the in-house bid, to operate the Tyne and Wear Metro from April next year, writes Norman Hall, Keep Metro Public (KMP) steering committee and Socialist Party member and Stan Herschel, RMT regional organiser and Socialist Party Member.
Stoke Axiom workers escalate the action
Twinings workers fight job losses
Management bullying? Surely not…
Socialist Students
Uniting to stop cuts at Sussex
An emergency senate meeting on 3 December, called by Sussex University management to discuss savage cuts, was picketed by over 400 students, writes Sussex University Socialist Students.
Starting Socialist Students at a Coventry sixth form
Northampton protest against student loan delays
Socialist Party feature
150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species: Charles Darwin’s theory of ‘natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ‘intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment.
In this feature, ROY FARRAR marks this year’s bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his book On the Origin of Species by summarising some of Darwin’s ideas and their significance.
International socialist news and analysis
Solidarity with striking South African miners
SOLIDARITY IS urgently needed for striking South African mineworkers at a plat-inum mine in Rustenburg whose dispute has become extremely bitter, writes Weissman Hamilton and Mametlwe Sebei, Democratic Socialist Movement, (DSM, CWI South Africa).
Scotland: The national question and the general election
Anti-racism
English Defence League show themselves up
Battling the far right in Nottingham: Hundreds of mainly young, local people turned out in Nottingham city centre on 5 December to oppose the racist ‘English Defence League’ (EDL), writes Nottingham Socialist Party members.
Socialist Party appeal
Christmas 2009 donation appeal
The Socialist Party is appealing to all its supporters and readers of The Socialist to make a donation this Christmas to support the party’s fight to build a socialist alternative, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
A present that can last all year – a subscription to The Socialist
Get someone a subscription to The Socialist for Christmas and they will receive a socialist seasonal card telling them about their present…