Articles from the Socialist, issue 592
9 September 2009
One million unemployed young people: ‘We demand real jobs!’
Youth Fight for Jobs action
Protest at 11am on Wednesday 16 September at the Churchill statue in Parliament Square when the next unemployment figures are announced.
National demonstration in London on Saturday 28 November. Book your transport now.
See www.youthfightforjobs.com for more information.
Youth unemployment: Future jobs or fake schemes?
War and occupation
End the war in Afghanistan: “I JUST don’t want anyone else to feel as bad as I feel” said the girlfriend of a soldier killed just five weeks ago as she signed our petition to bring the troops home, writes Alec Thraves and Mike John, (Socialist Party Wales).
Trades Union Congress
TUC conference: Workers willing to fight – in spite of leadership
This year’s TUC conference takes place in Liverpool. There could not be a greater contrast between the city’s working class, with their tremendous history of struggle and the TUC leaders, who lack any…
Socialist Party TUC meeting
Socialist Party TUC meeting
Tuesday 15 September, 7:30 pm
The Liverpool bar, 14 James Street, Liverpool, (near James Street station)
Speakers:
Brian Caton, general secretary POA
Chris Baugh, assistant general secretary PCS, personal capacity
Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool 47
Jane James, Socialist Party executive committee
No to bosses’ agenda
Socialist Party workplace news and analysis
Workers’ action can stop NHS cuts
THE TORIES’ scare tactic, exposing New Labour’s threatened 137,000 NHS job cuts to save £20 billion, is sheer hypocrisy, writes Mick Griffiths, Unison Wakefield and Pontefract branch secretary (personal capacity).
PCS members prepare to fight cuts and privatisation
Unite election: United Left hustings
Witch-hunted Unison member given extra charge
Inaugural meeting to establish a North Wales branch of the National Shop Stewards Network
Socialist Party trade unionists meeting
Postal workers strike
Postal workers national ballot: Vote ‘yes’ for strike action
Postal workers in the CWU will soon be balloting for a national strike against cuts, job losses and attacks on the union, writes Jane James, Socialist Party industrial co-organiser.
Protesting against scabbing managers
RMT action
RMT action: Bus workers strike for pay rise
Vectis bus workers in Newport and Ryde (IOW) took strike action on 3 September over pay. Their picket was well supported with Vestas RMT members joining in in solidarity. RMT branch secretary Keith Murphy…
Vestas workers: Stop the blades
RMT wins no compulsory redundancy position but future battles loom
Marxist analysis: history
Marxists and the Second World War
The seventieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War fell on 3 September, writes Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
Nuclear weapons were first obscenely deployed at the very end of the war on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki…
International socialist news and analysis
Return of al-Magrahi to Libya ignites a political storm
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has denied any ‘oil for al-Magrahi’ deal with Libya. However, according to The Times, Straw was personally lobbied by oil giant BP over Britain’s prisoner transfer agreement…
Northern Ireland: Councillor joins Socialist Party
Education
IN A desperate move to revive Labour’s failing private academies scheme, education secretary Ed Balls has announced that the government is dropping the £2 million sponsorship criteria…
Socialist Party review
THE FILM City of Life and Death depicts the Japanese Imperial army’s infamous massacre of the Chinese city of Nanking in 1937, writes Rob Bishop.
