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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 28 October 2009, issue Support Postal Workers  Support postal workers
 | Postal workers on strike in East London, photo The Socialist |
Fighting to defend jobs and services: The Postal workers' strikes are to defend a national service which we can be proud of. Yet Royal Mail management claim the strikes are against modernisation by a workforce who just don't want to work, writes Gary Clark, sub area rep, Scotland No.2, CWU
Support post workers, this is no time to equivocate
Postal strike reports: Defending the service
BBC Question Time panel - Workers' voice denied against BNP Editorial: Eight million people watched BNP leader Nick Griffin on Question Time, the biggest audience for the programme in its thirty year history...
BBC Griffin protest: Jobs and homes, not racism!
Far right shut out of Newport by mass protest
Socialism 2009 forum - can we build a party for working class people?  | Saturday Rally |
At Socialism 2009, the third session in the 'Britain after the general election' course will be a wide ranging debate on how the crisis in working class political representation can be solved, writes Dave Nellist, Coventry Socialist Party councillor.
Huddersfield march for jobs  | Huddersfield Youth Fight for Jobs march, photo Huddersfield YFFJ |
Students and young workers from Huddersfield took part in a Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) demonstration on 21 October, protesting against planned cuts in Kirklees council services, writes Ian Slattery, Huddersfield YFJ.
Young musicians support YFJ
Cardiff Socialist Student elected
Afghanistan: anti-war demo  | Anti-war demonstration October 2009, photo Rob Emery |
SEVERAL THOUSAND anti-war protesters marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, London, on 24 October to protest against the eight-year long military occupation of Afghanistan by Nato forces...
Tamil Solidarity fights for boat refugees
Socialist Party news and analysis
Darling you're talking rubbish! WHAT A turnaround. Just a couple of weeks ago, chancellor Alistair Darling, claimed he could see the green shoots of economic recovery. Many media commentators said so too. Then the Office for National...
Energy giant 'fanciful to the point of paranoia'
80th anniversary of the Wall Street Crash: Capitalist failure - then and now Scant attention has been paid in the media to the 80th anniversary of the October 1929 Wall Street crash. The capitalists can hardly repeat their theme of yesterday - "it can never happen again."
Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, takes a look at how much of it really has happened again, and spells out the underlying cause.
Strikes sweep across Yorkshire "Three strikes and we're out" was the front page headline of the anti-union local paper, the Sheffield Star, above a photo-montage of firefighters, busdrivers and posties, all on strike in Sheffield last Friday, writes Alistair Tice.
Leeds bin strike: 92% vote to reject council's 'final' offer
Battle for jobs in Land Registry
Ex Ford/Visteon pensioners protest in Swansea
Leicester uni cuts protest
Call centres - public services on the cheap THE PROLIFERATION of call centres within the civil service and related bodies is rooted in the government's pro-market 'reform and modernisation' programme of cuts in investment, jobs and conditions and office closures and privatisation...
Newport Rising 1839 Feature: ON 4 November 1839, 170 years ago, the 'Chartist Rising' in Newport, south Wales, ended in bloodshed...
Daily Mail homophobia Comment: Jan Moir, a Daily Mail journalist, has provoked outrage with a blatantly homophobic column attacking the recently deceased Boyzone singer, Stephen Gately, writes Conor Payne, Socialist Party Ireland.
Film review - Capitalism: a love story Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story opens with a simple message: "Capitalism is evil," and must be replaced with a system that puts the interests of ordinary people over profit, writes Reviewed by Dan DiMaggio, Socialist Alternative, USA.
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
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