Articles from the Socialist, issue 565
4 February 2009
Lindsey refinery
Lindsey refinery: workers show their strength
Firm strike leadership gains results
Organising real trade unionism
Staythorpe power station: “It’s all about money”
Socialist Party youth and students
United action needed to save education
London Metropolitan University’s vice-chancellor, Brian Roper, has announced that the college is in severe financial difficulties, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party.
Youth Fight for Jobs campaign
Gaza protests: Police attacks show stewarding vital
May Day: Lords judgement backs police
Socialist Party campaigns
Corus steal jobs: Workers must fight back
Rotherham in South Yorkshire has been devastated by job losses in the last four months. Since October, Rosebys, Woolworths, FADS and MFI have either closed or gone into administration…
Weather chaos exposes cutbacks
Wirral: Stop the cuts and closures
Liverpool: Far right BNP exposed
International socialist news and analysis
Sri Lanka: Stop the slaughter!
IN EXTREMELY cold weather, 125,000 Sri Lankan Tamils living in England took to the streets of London on Saturday 31 January to protest against the atrocities of the Sri Lankan government in its war on the Tamils in the north of the country, writes Senan, Socialist Party, London.
Sri Lanka: Thousands trapped in war zone
France: millions strike against Sarkozy’s policies
Economic crisis – cracks appear in the bosses’ EU
Iceland: Devastated by global crisis
Marxist analysis: history
Lessons of the Jarrow Crusade: no return to the 1930s!
Economic recession with growing unemployment, poverty and deprivation – these are some of the spectres facing working-class and young people across Britain and the world…