Articles from the Socialist, issue 570
11 March 2009
Fight against unemployment
IT’S LESS than three weeks to go until the Youth Fight for Jobs march on Thursday 2 April. The march assembles between 9am and 10am at Camberwell Green in Southwark, the borough with the tenth highest…
War and terrorism
Northern Ireland: Sectarian violence returns
Working-class people in Northern Ireland have been shocked by the shooting dead of army and police personnel by dissident Republican groups, writes Ciaran Mulholland, Socialist Party Northern Ireland.
Guadeloupe: Workers’ general strike victory
Socialist Party campaigns
In yet another humiliating blow to its pro-big business economic policy the New Labour government is providing state ‘loans’ of up to £2 billion to prop up the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), writes Adrian O’Malley, Unison health service group executive Yorkshire and Humberside (personal capacity).
No college cuts in Wales
Socialist Party feature
The Tories’ £6 billion battle against the working class. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago the great miners’ strike of 1984-85 started. It was the longest lasting and most bitter industrial dispute of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. It had a huge impact…
Socialist Party workplace news
Dundee workers occupy to fight for rights
The occupation at the Prisme packaging factory in Dundee has continued into its sixth day. 12 workers have been sacked without notice. They were given their P45s along with letters stating that although…
Thousands of workers affected by construction industry blacklist
