Articles from the Socialist, issue 591
26 August 2009
Jobs and education not dole and debt
* Fight for real jobs
* Fight for free education
Join the demonstration on 28 November in London
How many obstacles can the government put in front of young people who want a decent future? The brutal testing regime of the British education system and the bleak prospect of £23,000 worth of graduate debt have not satisfied Gordon Brown and Co, Danny Melia and Sarah Sachs-Eldridge write.
War and occupation
Afghanistan: Withdraw foreign troops
Demonstrate
Saturday 24 October, Central London
Called by Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British Muslim Institute
The August presidential elections in Afghanistan will bring no relief to the Afghan people. A similar government to the previous one is the expected outcome, with even less room to make meagre concessions…
Socialist Party NHS campaign
No to health privatisation and ‘the market’
Britain’s NHS has become a pawn in the offensive by US Republicans and the big insurance and healthcare companies against Barack Obama’s proposals to reform the US healthcare system…
Private Finance Initiative still threatens NHS future
Socialist Party campaign news
“WHAT DO we want? Nationalisation”, “Vestas Out, Workers in!”, were the chants of Vestas workers and their supporters as we took to the streets of Sandown, Isle of Wight, on 22 August getting great…
Ireland – workers campaign against Lisbon Treaty
Time to Fight Back: demonstrate at TUC conference
Socialist Party workplace news
Construction workers defending jobs and conditions
Construction workers have been protesting for two weeks outside the Uskmouth power station site near Newport, writes Mike John, Newport Socialist Party.
Postal strike reports
Fiddlers Ferry protest continues
South Yorks firefighters plan industrial action
Youth fight for jobs
No to Future Jobs Fraud scheme
Youth unemployment: The situation for young people looking for work in this recession is still desperate and it is getting worse, writes Sean Figg, Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser.
Leaving education: comment
Socialist Students and Youth Fight for Jobs campaign material
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
World recession, revolution and counter-revolution in Latin America
Former president of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan has described the economic situation we are living through today as a: “once in a century economic crisis”, writes Aron Amm, CWI Germany.
Socialist Party news and analysis
March shows growing opposition to far right BNP
AROUND 1,500 marchers turned out to protest against the far-right racist BNP’s “festival” in Derbyshire on 15 August, writes Naomi Byron.
Daventry: socialist candidate in council by-election
Passengers want publicly owned buses
Unison witchhunt
Unison witch-hunt/employment tribunal: The truth is coming out
As we reported in the last issue, four Socialist Party members have been banned from holding office in Unison for three to five years by a Unison disciplinary committee…
Housing crisis
ON 3 July this year, a devastating fire swept through Lakanal House in Camberwell in south London. This horrifying incident, which left six people dead, highlighted the poor state of housing locally, writes Jon Redford, Southwark Socialist Party.
Global Warming
Poorest suffer globally from climate change
“The Black Saturday fires created winds of 120km/h that snapped trees in half. The fires created their own weather, triggering storm clouds and lightning strikes that started more fires. They created…
