Articles from the Socialist, issue 577

29 April 2009

While bankers receive billions of pounds in bailouts, despite being responsible for triggering the economic collapse, hard-working people are faced with a diet of cuts in public services, tax hikes and lay-offs, writes Paul Callanan, Greenwich Socialist Students.

Olympics: Defend jobs, pay and conditions

European elections: Build support for a workers’ alternative to Labour

As convenor of No2EU – Yes to Democracy, I recently visited the Visteon factory in Basildon currently being blockaded by the sacked workforce, writes Bob Crow, General Secretary, RMT

STOP PRESS: Key union activist sacked

Socialist Party member Rob Williams, the Unite convenor of the Linamar car parts factory in Swansea, was called into the directors’ office of the plant on Tuesday 28 April and told that he was being sacked for “irretrievable breakdown of trust”…

Sacked workers protest in Newcastle

WORKERS AT Stead McAlpin, who were sacked and given just 15 minutes to leave the factory, brought their protest to Newcastle where they picketed John Lewis at its shop inside Eldon Square shopping centre, writes Elaine Brunskill.

Visteon workers fight on

Prisme workers win funding for jobs

Little debate at Unison health conference

Budget 2009 – debts passed to all of us

“Get ready for dirty hospitals and crumbling schools” warned a journalist following the government budget last week…

It’s tough at the top!

Jack Jones obituary

Workers’ internationalism: A history of the first four socialist international organisations

Today, with world capitalism in its gravest crisis since the 1930s, there is a crying need for a mass political alternative of the working class. The task of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) is to help to create the conditions for the formation of such an international.

National Union of Teachers conference: Fighting “teaching-on-the-cheap”

For a few years now the composition of the leadership of the NUT has been changing. The main left groupings, the STA and CDFU work as one, and the previous right-wing controlling group has grown ‘softer’, writes Linda Taaffe

Being a new teacher – a shock to the system