Articles from the Socialist, issue 598
20 October 2009
Postal workers must win
Post – a battle that mass strike action can win
War and occupation
Afghanistan – end the bloody occupation
EIGHT YEARS after US president George Bush – aided and abetted by his ‘loyal lieutenant’, UK prime minister Tony Blair – launched an invasion of Afghanistan, their ‘war on terror’ shows no sign of abating…
Anti-racism
Protests at the BBC: No to the far-right, racist BNP
As the Socialist goes to press, Nick Griffin, leader of the far-right racist British National party (BNP) is due to appear on Question Time on Thursday 22 October, writes Hannah Sell.
WDL racists chased out of town
International socialist news and analysis
Sri Lanka protest: Shut down the prison camps!
DISGUST AT the inhuman treatment of hundreds of thousands of Tamils held under armed guard in open prison camps in Sri Lanka brought tens of thousands on to the streets of London on 17 October, writes Manny Thain.
Chinaworker.info journalist refused entry into China
Socialist Party news and analysis
Tommy Sheridan – a socialist fighter on a worker’s wage
Glasgow North East by-election: TOMMY SHERIDAN is standing in the Glasgow North East by-election on 12 November. Standing as a “Workers’ MP on a Worker’s Wage” for Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement – Tommy contrasts strongly…
Laughing all the way to the bank
Socialist Party workplace news
FBU strike to defend fire service
FIRE BRIGADES Union (FBU) members in South Yorkshire have shown strong support during the first of two 24-hour strikes against management attempts to impose new shift patterns under threat of mass dismissals…
Leeds bin workers fight on
Giant energy company hounds unemployed electrician
First bus drivers give bosses a ‘fright’
400 jobs under threat at Leeds
Striking at London Metropolitan
Education
Primary education: Report slams government policy
EVER SINCE New Labour was elected, they have sought to dictate to schools what to teach and even how to teach it, writes Martin Powell-Davies, secretary, Lewisham NUT.
Political representation
Union activists discuss pulling the plug on Labour
A RECENT special meeting of Unite’s United Left (UL) in the north west discussed the question of political representation, writes Paul Astbury.
Conference on political representation
Socialist Party reviews
The Greatest Show on Earth: The evidence for Evolution
Reviews: This year included the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and, in November, the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species…
Hard Times by Charles Dickens, reviewed by Linda Taaffe
Marxist analysis: history
When Britain’s spies backed Mussolini
TO FURTHER their interests at home and abroad, Britain’s government and secret services have always had secret deals with the most brutal dictators and anti-working-class organisations, writes Naomi Byron.
