Articles from the Socialist, issue 584
17 June 2009
Tories or New Labour – it’s cuts, cuts, cuts!
A rat on Labour’s sinking ship
International socialist news and analysis
Mass demonstrations have erupted in Iran in protest at the apparent rigging of the presidential elections by the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime, writes Tony Saunois, CWI.
Only working class action can end war threat in Korean peninsula
Socialist Party editorial
Recent industrial disputes bring important lessons for the future
Editorial: THE VICTORY of Rob Williams, in getting his job back and being reinstated into his position as convenor of the Swansea Linamar car parts plant has tremendous lessons for the future…
Postal workers
Standing up to bullying mail bosses
London postal strike: London postal workers are taking strike action for 24 hours, starting with the early shift on Friday 19 June…
CWU conference: Fighting for jobs and working conditions
Lindsey Oil Refinery construction workers
Lindsey workers fight the bosses’ redundancy scam
ON TUESDAY 9 June, Shaw UK issued ‘at risk of redundancy’ notices to 81 construction workers on the Lindsey oil refinery expansion project, writes Keith Gibson, GMB, Shaws.
Socialist Party workplace news
Victory at Linamar! Rob Williams reinstated
ROB WILLIAMS, the Unite trade union convenor at the Linamar car components factory in Swansea, Wales, has won a stunning victory in his fight for reinstatement…
National Shop Stewards Network conference
Glasgow cleaners score success
Anti-racism
Defeat the BNP: Build a socialist alternative
THE FAR-right, racist BNP’s success in narrowly getting two members elected to the European parliament has horrified millions, writes Hannah Sell.
Protests at BNP
Socialist Party review
Billy Bragg’s Miners’ Strike Tour
UNDER THE South Wales area National Union of Mineworkers’ banner with the words “Forward to a Socialist Britain and World Peace”, singer Billy Bragg treated us to a great concert in Caernarfon on 11 June, writes Jan Underwood, Bangor Socialist Party.
