Articles from the Socialist, issue 566
11 February 2009
Bankers’ bonuses – daylight robbery!
Vendetta continues against socialist fighter
JCB owner – still shovelling in the cash
Construction workers
Lindsey oil refinery strike: Workers score important victory
Socialist Party industrial organiser Bill Mullins writes on the deal done between the Lindsey oil refinery strike committee and the Total oil company, the refinery owners…
Construction workers’ battle to defend jobs and conditions
Motherwell Bridge bosses declare war on striking workers
Socialist Party youth and students
Youth workers, children’s workers and play and community workers are organising a national march and rally in Coventry on Saturday 14 February, writes Teresa Chalcroft, Chair, Community and Youth Workers’ Union / Unite, Warwickshire County Council.
College students – keen to fight back
Socialist Party campaigns
Tyneside Metro: Workers’ action to stop privatisation
TO A packed meeting of over 150 people last week, the RMT’s general secretary Bob Crow announced that Tyneside Metro workers are to be balloted for strike action over the threat to jobs, pensions and conditions posed by privatisation plans, writes Elaine Brunskill.
Carbon trading crisis creates bonanza for polluting firms
Exeter: Mobilising to stop the far right
Car workers
Short-time working at Ford Dagenham has been a hard blow to take for the 5,000 workers at the east London plant, writes Manny Thain.
Car industry in crisis – national meeting
Socialist Party workplace news
Wirral cuts: We need a new party
On 9 February around 150 people rallied at Wallasey town hall against the wholesale destruction of local services by Wirral council, writes Hugh Caffrey.
Victory for Salford Unison
Defend jobs at Salford University
Protest against the Unison witch-hunt
Greenwich council: An injury to one is an injury to all
International socialist news and analysis
Nationalise Waterford Crystal!
Ireland – workers’ factory occupation: SPECIALLY HIRED security individually delivered letters to employees saying that from the following Monday there was no need to report for work, as the world-renowned Waterford Crystal factory would be closed, writes Kevin Mcloughlin, Socialist Party Ireland.
United Socialist Party members remanded on trumped-up charges
Sri Lanka: THE LEADING United Socialist Party candidate for the Provincial Council Elections on 14 February, Murugesh Chandiran, and two other members of the USP campaign have been remanded in custody until 16 February by the Nuwara Eliya magistrate on trumped-up charges, writes Srinath Perera, USP (CWI, Sri Lanka).
Socialist Party review
Review: You would expect a film that has won five Critics’ Choice Awards, four Golden Globes and seven Bafta Awards, and has been nominated for ten Academy Awards to be outstanding, or at least have some qualities that can inspire…
Football
Football and big business: In the growing economic crisis, Bradford City (Bantams) fan Manny Dominguez assesses the prospects for building the football supporters’ movement…
