Articles from the Socialist, issue 583
10 June 2009
Step up the fight for a new workers’ party
A socialist MEP Joe Higgins elected in Ireland
‘The best fighter that money can’t buy’
STOP PRESS: BNP feel the anger
Socialist Party election campaign analysis
No2EU: a step towards a workers’ political voice
No2EU-Yes to Democracy held its launch seven weeks ago. Initiated by the transport workers’ union – the RMT – this hastily constructed electoral alliance succeeded in winning 153,236 votes in the European elections, writes Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy general secretary.
Socialist Party workplace news
Reinstate Rob Williams now! Support Linamar strikers
STOP PRESS: ROB HAS BEEN REINSTATED! WORKERS AT the Linamar car components plant in Swansea are taking indefinite strike action from Thursday 11 June to get their sacked Unite trade union convenor and Socialist Party member, Rob Williams, reinstated, writes Alec Thraves, Socialist Party secretary, Wales
London Underground: Solidarity with strike over jobs and pay
Glasgow council street cleaners start workers’ fightback
Bristol bins strike threat brings new conditions offer
Unison NEC elections bring gains for Socialist Party
Engineering construction workers ballot: End ‘race to the bottom’
Socialist Party publication
The Masses Arise: The French revolution and today’s struggles
The Masses Arise, by Peter Taaffe, which was first published in 1989 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the start of the French revolution, is now back in print, writes Kevin Parslow.
In a new introduction, the author recounts the events of the revolution, bringing out the heroic role of the sans-culottes – who have been vilified by right-wing historians – and the relevance of these events to what is likely to develop in the coming period in France, Europe and throughout the world. “This book is more relevant today than when it was first published in 1989,” writes Peter Taaffe.
International socialist news and analysis
European parliament elections 2009: Europe on the edge
Last week’s European elections gave a snapshot, albeit often distorted by low turnouts, of the continent’s anxious mood and the distrust, if not hostility, to most governments…
General strike in Basque country
Brazil: “Liberty, Socialism and Revolution” is born
Youth fight for jobs
CWU conference backs Youth Fight for Jobs campaign
THE COMMUNICATION Workers Union (CWU) conference is meeting with its members facing huge threats of mass job losses, pension cuts and post office privatisation, writes Dave Griffiths.
No to cuts at Kings
