Articles from the Socialist, issue 588
21 July 2009
Corus… Vestas… Defend every job!
No Job Cuts
Vestas: Support the occupation
Faced with the closure of the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, the workers have decided to occupy the factory immediately and step up the fight to save the factory and their jobs…
Vestas jobs fightback
Action to save steel jobs at Corus
Unison witchhunt
Defend the Four: Protest at the Unison witch-hunt
Four Socialist Party members under attack from the Unison leadership have been found “guilty” of two charges – one that they produced a leaflet at the annual conference of Unison in 2007 which questioned why the Standing Orders Committee had ruled out key motions from being debated…
Unison witch-hunt verdict causes outrage amongst trade unionists
Youth fight for jobs
Youth fight for jobs fortnight of action
The government’s latest unemployment figures show that, as expected, young people are still facing the brunt of job losses, writes Sean Figg, YFJ national organiser. Reports on the fortnight of action from around the country.
Workplace news
National strike action to halt attacks on workers and our postal services
Royal Mail dispute: THE RECENT strikes by postal workers and the many balloted workplaces around the country are a direct result of the war by Royal Mail on its workforce and the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU)…
Tube workers’ action wins concessions
South Yorkshire First Buses strike over pay
Every little helps Tesco’s as they attack workers
Teachers strike against job cuts
Pensions
Union action to fight the attacks on our pensions
FOLLOWING AN avalanche of private sector ‘final salary’ occupational pension scheme closures, the employers and the establishment political parties are baying for a similar fate for workers in the public sector…
Pensions – in brief
Anti-racism
BNP get police to arrest socialists
On Tuesday 14 July I was arrested, along with two other Socialist Party members, on alleged public order offences following a complaint made by local members of the fascist-led British National Party, writes Dylan Roberts, Wrexham Socialist Party.
Lincoln fights back against racist BNP
Stop the BNP’s ‘festival’ of hate
Socialist Party campaigns
THE PCS (Public and Commercial Services Union) is campaigning to keep the Jobcentre in Deptford open, writes Mick Philipsz.
Build the Tamil Solidarity campaign
Devon residents against incinerators: Alternative waste schemes needed
Another stepping stone towards health privatisation
Marxist analysis: history
20th anniversary of Soviet miners’ strike
JULY MARKS the 20th anniversary of the first national miners’ strike in the former Soviet Union, which, spreading like wildfire through the Siberian Kuzbass and Artic Vorkuta, Ukrainian Donbass and Karaganda in Kazakhstan, marked the beginning of the end of the bureaucratic soviet regime led by Mikhail Gorbachev, writes Rob Jones, Moscow.
Comment
40th anniversary of the moon landing What steps has humanity taken?
Comment: “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong’s famous phrase marked the first human footstep on the moon, writes Tom Baldwin.
