Articles from the Socialist, issue 594

22 September 2009

Not content with yearly pay-cuts, repossessing our homes, trying to rob us of our measly pensions and consigning our kids to the next ‘lost generation’ unemployment figures, this government of parasitic hypocrites, happy in its world of bonuses and backhanders, is now coming with a hatchet for our jobs…

Higher education – cuts cuts cuts!

Universities in crisis – Join Socialist Students

Defend education – stop the £2 billion cuts in spending

Brown declares war on workers

GORDON BROWN’S speech to the Trades Union Congress was an open declaration of war on working-class people, writes John McInally, national vice-president, Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS).

Afghanistan: An unwinnable war

THE US and NATO’s top military chief in Afghanistan has told his political bosses that western forces will fail there unless there is a change in policy…

Demonstrate against the continuing occupation / bring the troops back – Saturday 24 October, central London

Postal workers strike as national ballot continues

Action by postal workers has continued in many parts of the country, against management’s attempts to impose new shifts and working conditions without consultation, writes A London postal worker.

Vestas workers determined to continue fight for jobs

Vestas wind turbine workers and their supporters rallied and took to the streets of Newport, Isle of Wight, on their day of action on 17 September…

Youth unemployment hits record level

THE ANNOUNCEMENT by the government on Wednesday 16 September of 2.5 million unemployed was met by public protests organised by Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ)…

Campaign for a Salford workers’ MP

OVER 100 local residents packed into the Link community centre on Wednesday 16 September for the second meeting of the ‘Hazel Must Go’ campaign in Salford, writes Al McElroy, Hazel Must Go campaign and Salford Socialist Party.

Threat to Coventry homeless

Socialist Party MEP denounces “campaign of fear” on Lisbon Treaty

Speaking in the European Parliament, Irish Socialist Party MEP Joe Higgins opposed the nomination of Jose Manuel Barroso for re-election as President of the EU commission and discussed the debate on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland…

Engineering construction: Stewards’ forum recommends bosses’ offer Workers should reject!

Ste Jones from Lindsey Oil Refinery construction site attended the national shop stewards forum for engineering construction on 17 September…

Bosses ask JCB workers for sacrifice

Battle over pensions means strike threat at Corus

Liverpool bin workers score victory

Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy

Review: Reading Arundhati Roy’s collection of lectures and articles about India could make you want to weep, or to emit the ‘feral howl’ she herself is tempted to resort to…

The Anti-Flag album ‘The People or the Gun’