Articles from the Socialist, issue 572
25 March 2009
Capitalist crisis: Make the bosses pay!
As the global economic crisis intensifies, the world’s leaders – the G20 – are meeting this week next to the symbolic heart of the economic maelstrom – the City of London, writes Hannah Sell.
March for jobs!
March for jobs!
Thursday 2 April
10-11am – south London trade unions will host breakfast and a send-off rally.
March past the Bank of England, through some of London’s unemployment hotspots and on to the ExCel centre for 3pm where Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, will address a rally.
Lunch time rally at 1pm at Mile End Park.
Map of Youth March for Jobs route
Socialist Party editorial
Tide of job losses must be fought
Unemployment statistics released on 18 March confirmed that there are now two million people without work…
Socialist Party election campaign
Rail union launches euro election challenge
AS THE G20 leaders assemble in London this week to discuss the worst economic crisis since the 1930s, even the most casual onlooker must be asking, ‘aren’t these the same people who got us into this mess in the first place?’, writes Clive Heemskerk.
An appeal from Bob Crow
Socialist Party campaigns
Students need a mass fighting organisation
NUS conference – 31 March to 2 April: Most students have to borrow thousands of pounds each year to pay tuition fees and living costs which mount up into colossal student debts, writes Iain Dalton, Candidate for NUS ‘block of 15’.
Credit crunch hits home
Campaign for a new workers’ party
MPs – an honourable profession!
Socialist Party feature
Low wages, long hours, residents at risk: LAST YEAR, the TUC Commission on Vulnerable Employment report highlighted the care sector as having “some of the highest incidence of employment rights abuse.” Since I was 19 I have worked in the care sector with the most vulnerable people in society, writes Janet Thompson.
Pay for your own vetting
Socialist Party marxist analysis
Binyam Mohamed has made allegations of MI5 collusion in his torture at various detention camps, including Guantánamo Bay. A wave of repressive legislation has been introduced.
Tony Saunois looks at these and other attacks on civil liberties, and the need for all socialists and trade unionists to take up the important task of defending democratic rights.
Keeping (illegal) tabs on us
International socialist news and analysis
France: Three million take to the streets in national strike
THURSDAY 19 March saw three million workers and young people take to the streets of over 200 French cities, writes Danny Byrne, Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI).
Canada: “Fighting back makes a difference”
Mass demo in New York against budget cuts
Scotland: International Socialists conference a big step forward
Dundee Prisme occupation: Workers remain defiant
Stop the slaughter of Tamils: London campaign meeting
Socialist Party workplace news
JOURNALISTS AND other media workers’ jobs are at risk as 1,000 job cuts are planned at the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) national and local publications, writes Roger Shrives.
New allegations hit Unison’s right wing
Unison Four to face further hearings
Wales: United battle needed to stop college cuts
Fighting for justice for cleaners!
