Articles from the Socialist, issue 564
28 January 2009
JOIN THE MARCH FOR JOBS
Say no to youth unemployment: On 2 April the G20 – the leaders of the world’s 20 major world powers – will be meeting in Watford. Young people and trade unionists will be marching from central London to meet them – demanding a future.
Defend jobs and services
Era of illusions in capitalism ending
The crisis in manufacturing: Fighting for jobs and living standards
No pay discrimination against young people
Slaughter in Gaza
Coventry protest over Gaza onslaught
FOLLOWING THE weekly protests in Coventry called by the Socialist Party against the Israeli state onslaught on Palestinians in Gaza, a dignified vigil and a 300-strong protest rally were held to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day last Sunday…
Israel: Thousands march in Jaffa against Gaza massacre
Anti-racism
ON SATURDAY 31 January, hundreds of people will be protesting against the British National Party (BNP) in Liverpool, writes Hugh Caffrey.
Stop the deportation of Yahya Al-Faifi
Socialist Party campaigns
Socialist councillor opposes Tory plans for education privatisation
Labour’s abandoning of the working class
Croydon: Striking against academies
Scotland: Step up opposition to cuts
Socialist Party workplace news
Greenwich Unison in south London has won the first round of a campaign to stop Greenwich council’s plans to ‘reconfigure’ the child protection service, writes Onay Kasab, secretary Greenwich Unison, personal capacity.
Say ‘no’ to the Metro privateers
Amicus Unity Gazette left with egg on its face
Victory for left in Glasgow Unison
Solid support for Glasgow strike
Building a fighting Unison leadership
Education
Build a mass movement for free education
NUS leadership severs links with students: The National Union of Students (NUS) governance review was passed at an extraordinary conference on 20 January in Wolverhampton, writes Ben Robinson.
Save our school!
Marxist analysis: history
Germany 1919 The Spartacist uprising
Historical feature: NINETY YEARS ago this month the German workers rose in the ‘Spartacist uprising’ – a turning point in the German revolution of 1917-1923 which led to the tragic deaths of revolutionary socialist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht…
International socialist news and analysis
Russia: Bosses sack auto-factory union leader
ON 19 January at the end of his shift, Dmitrii Kozhnev, Chair of the Tsentrosvarmash factory branch of the Trade Union of Auto Industry Workers (MPRA), and a supporter of Socialist Resistance (CWI, Russia), was sacked from his workplace in Tver city, Russia…
Courageous socialist activist, campaigning journalist and human rights activist
Socialist Party news
With regret I must inform members of the Socialist Party of the death of Barry Malone, Shropshire branch, on 12 January. Barry was just 60 but was battling with illness, writes Jim Reekie, secretary, Shropshire Socialist Party.
Socialist Party reviews
A People’s History of Sports in the United States
Book review: When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in the city were left homeless…
The Reader
