Articles from the Socialist, issue 593
15 September 2009
Big business to blame for climate change
No Job Cuts
No to cuts in jobs and services
ALL OF Britain’s capitalist politicians aim to tackle the economic crisis of recession and public-sector debt by hitting out at vital public services and public-sector workers…
Capitalist market prescribes diet of cuts
TUC conference – reactions to Brown’s speech
TUC conference: Fightback rally
War and occupation
Death and destruction to prop up rotten regime: ‘OPERATION PANTHER’S Claw’ was intended to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the Afghan elections, writes Ken Douglas.
Socialist Party workplace news
Nationalise Anglesey Aluminium to save jobs
THE RUNNING down of smelting facilities at Anglesey Aluminium is a devastating blow to the economy of Holyhead and the rest of the island of Anglesey, North Wales, writes Dylan Roberts and Iain Dalton.
Rover – Gangster capitalists were treated as saviours
London RMT: Discussing an election coalition
Leeds council workers on indefinite strike
Construction workers’ pay – reject the deal!
The fight against the building blacklist
Socialist Students
Higher education funding crisis: According to The Guardian 170,000 students face the prospect of starting term without the loans and grants they are entitled to, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Students national organiser.
College workers strike against vicious cuts
Vestas
Vestas: the fight is far from over
Interview: At the Socialist Party’s summer camp, Mark Smith and Mark Flowers, workers who had been in occupation at the St Cross Vestas wind turbine manufacturers on the Isle of Wight (IOW), spoke to The Socialist…
Coventry Socialist Party councillors show support for Vestas
Socialist Party feature
Interview with POA leader Brian Caton
Socialist Party industrial organiser Bill Mullins recently interviewed Prison Officers Association (POA) general secretary Brian Caton…
Socialist Party women
Victory – Decent jobs not exploitation
Socialist Party members in Leytonstone, east London, held a protest on Thursday 10 September outside a local bar called Zulus, and scored a quick victory…
Socialist Party review
Review: NIALL MULHOLLAND reviews A New World: A Life of Thomas Paine by Trevor Griffiths, at Shakespeare’s Globe, South Bank, London until 9 October…
International socialist news and analysis
Japan: Election ends Liberal Democrats’ 54-year reign