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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 5 June 2009, issue Action to defend union rights Action to defend union rights
 | Limamar workers support sacked covneor Rob Williams, photo by Sarah Mayo | Reinstate Rob Williams: Shopfloor workers at the Linamar car parts plant in Swansea have voted for an all-out strike in support of their sacked convenor Rob Williams...
Visteon pensioners battle on
Vauxhall jobs threat - unions must organise a fightback
Workplace news and analysis
Royal Mail sell-off - Time for action!
 | Communication Workers Union lobby of parliament over the privatisation of Royal Mail Feb 09, photo Paul Mattsson | The Postal Services Bill has its first reading in the House of Commons on 9 June and the privateer sharks are circling, writes A Bristol postal worker.
Fast news
Tube workers vote to strike
Bristol refuse workers strike
Battling against the blacklist
Glasgow care workers' success
Prepare now for next election challenge
 | Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, speaking at the London No2EU election rally, photo Paul Mattsson | ANALYSIS AND comment on the local and European election results will be carried in next week's issue of The Socialist...
European elections: Putting forward a workers' alternative
A Question Time carve up
Challenge these disgraced MPs
A Parliament of celebrities and a speaker of integrity
Aston University socialists fight for student democracy
 | Campaigning at Aston University, photo Socialist Students | The students union, or 'guild' as it now calls itself, at Aston University faced attacks on its, already limited, democratic structures last week, writes Stephen Burrell, Aston Socialist Students.
Sussex University: Save Linguistics campaign
Socialist youth conference and protest
Youth Fight for Jobs: Fortnight of action 27 June to 10 July
NATO anniversary: 60 years of aggression and terror
THE NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) marked 60 years of its existence at the start of April in Strasbourg, France...
The Frock-Coated Communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels
Review FRIEDRICH ENGELS wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England when he was just 24 years old. Tristram Hunt says: "The power, incisiveness and prescience of Engels' polemic remains undiminished...
Tiananmen Square 1989: Counter-revolution crushes China's democracy movement
ON 3-4 June 1989, Deng Xiaoping and other aged leaders of China's so-called 'communist' party, ordered 200,000 troops to crush a two-month long movement of workers and students against bureaucratic rule and for workers' democracy...
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