The Socialist

The Socialist 5 June 2009

Action to defend union rights

Action to defend union rights

Visteon pensioners battle on

Vauxhall jobs threat - unions must organise a fightback


Royal Mail sell-off - Time for action!

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

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

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 Frock-Coated Communist: the revolutionary life of Friedrich Engels


Tiananmen Square 1989: Counter-revolution crushes China's democracy movement

 
 

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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

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, CWU, lobby of parliament over the privatisation of Royal Mail postal services Feb 09, photo Paul Mattsson

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

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

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...