Articles from the Socialist, issue 579
12 May 2009
Fight all job cuts
Thieving MPs
MPs live it up at our expense !
“WE HANG the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office” – Aesop.
Ken Douglas passes judgement on the thieves in public office.
These politicians make you sick. They publicly attack people claiming unemployment and disability benefits – the poorest in society, while enriching themselves at our expense. And when they’re caught red-handed they squeal that it is the ‘system’ that’s to blame.
Socialist Party editorial
Sweep away the thieves and their system
Editorial: ‘Fish rot from the head first’. The stink arising from the outright corruption, outright thievery – to give it its proper name – from the ‘public purse’, by the overwhelming majority of ‘dis-honourable members’ of the House of Commons presents a nauseating spectacle…
Socialist Party news and analysis
THE GOVERNMENT’S budget for Britain’s rail system is facing chaos. First Great Western wants to walk away from a vital updating contract without footing the entire bill of £1.1 billion. Mark Pickersgill reports.
Sri Lanka’s killing zone
Corus jobs slaughter – fight the closure
Linamar and Visteon
Linamar sack Swansea trade union leader
Socialist Party member Rob Williams, trade union (Unite) convenor of the Linamar car parts plant in Swansea, was sacked on 6 May. This was in spite of a walkout by his fellow workers when he was first told he was being sacked, and the intervention of Unite leader Tony Woodley.
The campaign for Rob’s reinstatement is continuing, with the union balloting for strike action. Rob Williams spoke to The Socialist.
A victory at Linamar would be a victory for all workers
Visteon workers discuss socialism
Socialist Party election campaign
No2EU – Yes to Democracy campaign news
No2EU On Thursday 7 May the ‘No2EU – Yes to Democracy’ campaign declared its full slate of candidates for the 4 June European electon…
No to the EU gravy train
Youth fight for jobs
Youth Fight for Jobs Launch conference
Building on the success of the excellent March for Jobs in April, the launch conference of Youth Fight for Jobs was held on Saturday 9 May in London. Reports of the rallies and workshops that took place throughout the day from young people who attended.
International socialist news and analysis
THREE MONTHS after Israel’s war against Gaza that killed nearly 1,400 people, 314 of them children, and wounded thousands, conditions in the strip remain appalling and are worsening rapidly, writes Niall Mulholland, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).
Imperialism sucked deeper into Afghan quagmire
Socialist Party workplace news
Defending jobs and conditions at the Olympics site
Defending jobs and conditions at Fiddlers Ferry
Wales TUC: For trade union democracy and for trade union rights!
This year’s Wales TUC, meeting in Llandudno from 19-21 May, looks likely to be the last annual gathering of the conference, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea trades council delegate.
Socialist methods tested
PCS conference: A fighting union that defends its members
NSSN – fight the bosses’ offensive
NSSN Conference: Saturday 27 June
Marxist analysis: history
Despite being “too young to remember the anti-poll tax battle”, Bob Severn (The Socialist issue 578) rightly criticises the middle-class editors of a middle-class paper, the Independent, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist councillor and former anti-poll tax federation secretary, Coventry.
Education
Save our schools Weston Favell, Northampton
AT A public meeting in Weston Favell school, Northampton, 120 parents, students, staff and trade unionists discussed the proposal to change the state comprehensive into an academy…
Lewisham Bridge primary school
