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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 30 June 2009, issue Militant action pays!  Militant action pays!
 | Lindsey Oil Refinery: Keith Gibson at the burning of the redundancy notices, photo Jim Reeves |
Lindsey Oil Refinery workers victory: Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) construction workers have won a stunning victory. All the workers' demands have been met. The 647 dismissals have been withdrawn, the 51 redundancies rescinded and all employees...
Decent jobs not poverty schemes!  | Youth Fight for Jobs protest outside Mandelson's office, photo Ben Robinson |
No to mass youth unemployment: Young people make up 21% of the population, but 40% of all those unemployed. In an increasingly decimated jobs market, many young people understandably expect help finding work from the government. But,...
Victories show the way forward for struggles  | Clara Osagiede, the RMT Cleaners Grade Secretary for the London Underground tells of the cleaners' struggle for a living wage, photo by Socialist Party |
The third conference of the National Shop Stewards' Network (NSSN) could not have been better timed, coming just one day after the victory of the Lindsey Oil Refinery (LOR) construction workers...
Total's fat fingers in every pie
"We came out with Lindsey and we'll go back with Lindsey"
New Labour's house building plans amount to just a drop in the ocean NEW LABOUR, like all the establishment parties, is planning to decimate the public sector after the general election, writes Hannah Sell.
Pride not profit - London Pride Saturday 4 July
Crisis looms in FE colleges
Tower Hamlets demo
Councils try to gag us
Campaign to save Lewisham Bridge school continuing
Fast news
BNP: Looking beneath the suits
National Shop Stewards Network Conference Confident and enthusiastic  | National Shop Stewards Network conference 2009, photo Suzanne Beishon |
Saturday 27 June 2009 may well be remembered for the day the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) really came into its own, writes Dave Gorton, Unite 1/372 branch delegate, personal capacity.
25 years ago: Liverpool - a city that dared to fight  | Liverpool City Council demonstration, November 1983, photo Paul Traynor |
ON 9 July 1984 Liverpool City council, led by Militant (the Socialist Party's predecessor), won a sensational victory over the ruthless Tory government of Margaret Thatcher...
Glasgow council: Social work dept staff start all-out strike Frontline clerical/admin workers in Glasgow council's social work department began an all out indefinite strike action on 1 July, writes Brian Smith, Glasgow Unison branch secretary.
Justice for the Shrewsbury pickets march and rally
Construction industry in major crisis
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