Articles from the Socialist, issue 603
24 November 2009
‘We wont pay for the crisis’
Socialist Party editorial
How could full youth employment be achieved?
Editorial: Instead of throwing millions on the scrap heap, the available work should be shared out. In Britain the working week is one of the longest in Europe. The average working week for full-time workers is 41…
Bristol Youth Fight for Jobs challenges council leader
Marxist analysis: history
Lessons of struggle: If you fight, you can win!
Liverpool Council 1983 – 1987: Young people face enormous attacks on their right to a future – unemployment, low pay, ever-increasing university fees and slashed public services.
Here, Socialist Party activists provide a small taste of some of the past battles they have been involved in where victories were won by working and young people.
Environment and socialism
ONLY FOUR years after devastating floods forced thousands from their homes across the county, the heaviest rainfall on record brought rivers crashing over their banks and through people’s homes, writes A Cumbrian resident.
War and occupation
Afghanistan: Brown and Obama scrabbling for an exit strategy
THE CORONATION of Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai offers no solution to the long suffering workers and poor peasants of Afghanistan, writes Nick Chaffey.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Main parties plan cutbacks: It’s time for a fightback!
THERE MUST be an election coming. All of a sudden, New Labour want us to believe that they’re different to the Conservatives. After over 12 years of carrying out Tory policies, Gordon Brown and Co. used…
Mobilising to stop Griffin
Racists – stay out of Wrexham!
Successful Manchester Tamil Solidarity meeting
People’s Charter
People’s Charter – a step towards workers’ political representation?
The first convention of the People’s Charter took place on Saturday 21 November. Speakers included Matt Wrack, general secretary of the FBU, Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT, and John McDonnell…
Education
The battle for state education
When Labour came to power with a mission to sort out education, they bulldozed ahead with the mantra of “whatever works”, writes Linda Taaffe.
Socialist Party candidate increases vote in NUT election
Education: ‘Try your best’ is not enough
Attacks begin at Bangor University
Socialist Party workplace news
As the bin strike in Leeds entered its twelfth week, an agreement was reached between refuse collectors and Streetscene workers, and the council, writes A Leeds Unison steward.
Superdrug workers show industrial action can win victories
Postal dispute: Bosses still on the attack
Axiom railworkers’ strike remains solid
Cuts crisis on the Isle of Man
International socialist news
Guadeloupe – End the profiteering and exploitation
THE SOCIAL situation in the “French West Indies”, and particularly in Guadeloupe, is boiling over once again, writes Virginie Prégny, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France).
Socialist Party review
The 1970s, mainly viewed from the top
Review: DAVE GORTON reviews When The Lights Went Out; Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett…
