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22 November 2009
1 million unemployed young people: Demonstrate this saturday!
Youth Fight for Jobs - for real jobs Assemble 12 noon, Malet Street, central london, WC1E. Nearest tube Euston / Russell Square.
22 November 2009
Sunday 22nd November:
22 November 2009
Sunday November 22nd:
19 November 2009
Barking RMT orgainsed protest against a media stunt by Nick Griffin, who plans to stand in the area, writes 6pm 19 November 2009.
19 November 2009
20 years since Berlin Wall fell: lessons for today
Walthamstow Socialist Party meeting
19 November 2009
Youth Fight For Jobs - Young People Fighting For a Future
Youth Fight For Jobs - Young People Fighting For a Future - Swansea Socialist Party meeting.
18 November 2009
Save Ashford further education
Students and staff at Brooklands college Ashford site in Surrey, previously Spelthorne college, received the shocking news last week that the Ashford college is to close next year...
18 November 2009
Saturday 28 November 2009
Assemble 12 noon, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY, nearest tube Euston or Russell Square.
The government has been patting itself on the back, claiming that the latest unemployment figures show that the UK labour market is performing better than most major economies...
18 November 2009
More evidence of climate change: Socialist planning needed
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18 November 2009
USSR 1989 - the collapse of Stalinism
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18 November 2009
British Airways merger plan poses new threat to workers
FRIDAY 13TH was the date BA and Iberia announced the details of their proposed merger. While the potential pay-off of a successful merger will prove very lucky for the bank balances of bosses at BA and...
18 November 2009
Tamil refugees in desperate situation
TAMIL-SPEAKING refugees remain on a boat in the Indonesian harbour of Merak, denied their fundamental human rights, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity.
18 November 2009
THE GOVERNMENT has fast-tracked the building of ten new nuclear stations - riding roughshod over the objections of local communities, and ignoring cost and safety concerns...
18 November 2009
War legacy: A HUGE number of chronic infant deformities have been recorded in Falluja, Iraq. The city was flattened by US-led forces over a two month period in 2004 to suppress a Sunni-based insurgency...
18 November 2009
Glasgow North East by-election: Mass abstentions in Labour's 'surprise win'
LABOUR'S VICTORY in the Glasgow North East by-election last week by more than 8,000 votes over the Scottish National Party (SNP) seems, on the face of it, to be a surprise, writes Philip Stott, International Socialists (CWI Scotland).
18 November 2009
Far right SDL driven out of Glasgow city centre
OVER 3,000 anti-racist protesters achieved their stated aim of keeping the far right-wing Scottish Defence League (SDL) from marching in Glasgow on 14 November...
18 November 2009
Interview with Mark Serwotka, PCS general secretary
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Mark spoke to The Socialist about the challenges facing the union and its members.
18 November 2009
Brighton bin workers score quick victory
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18 November 2009
Leeds council delays talks to end bin dispute
Now into week 11, the bin strike in Leeds has been the most significant piece of industrial action in Yorkshire since the miners' strike, writes A Leeds Unison steward.
18 November 2009
Third week of Superdrug strike
Superdrug workers at the company's distribution centre in South Elmsall, West Yorkshire, were in defiant mood as their strike entered its third week, writes Steve Faulkner, South Elmsall.
18 November 2009
Sheffield First bus drivers beat back bullying management
The dispute between 700 bus drivers, members of Unite, and First Bus in Sheffield has been in force for a few months, writes An Olive Grove depot bus driver.
18 November 2009
Steve Bell of Aylesbury Socialist Party recently interviewed a car worker at the BMW plant in Oxford, writes What is your working life like at the moment?.
18 November 2009
Ericsson closure condemned by Coventry socialist councillor
Ericsson announced on 10 November the axing of 700 workers and the closure of its research and development facility at Ansty, near Coventry...
18 November 2009
Service with a snarl: Robert Service refuses to answer questions
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18 November 2009
London trade unionists meet to build workers' solidarity
At the instigation of the London Shop Stewards Network, an important meeting took place on 16 November, writes Greg Maughan.
18 November 2009
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What do the bosses do? They cut jobs, pay and conditions.
17 November 2009
The Socialist Party's demands include:
We won't pay for their crisis: Nationalise all the banks on the basis of democratic public ownership - run by representatives of banking workers and trade unions, the wider working class, as well as the government...
17 November 2009
While socialist ideas are beginning to resurge, the political representatives of capitalism have suffered an enormous ideological blow...
17 November 2009
The current crisis is not just caused by the greed of the City financiers or even the domination of finance capitalism...
17 November 2009
The deregulated 'free market' associated with Thatcherism is discredited. For many workers this will mean turning towards socialist ideas. For the representatives of capitalism, however, it is a question...
17 November 2009
A global crisis, and the particular crisis in Britain
This is a truly global crisis. Virtually no country has escaped its effects. Globally it is the poorest people in the poorest countries who are suffering the most. However, the OECD correctly predicted...
17 November 2009
Half a million, one in five, young people were unemployed even before economic crisis hit. As it has developed they have been disproportionately affected, along with women and migrant workers...
17 November 2009
Capitalism expects workers to rely on private pensions; a living state pension is considered out of the question...
17 November 2009
In New Labour Britain, privatisation rules. New Labour's sudden support for nationalisation of the banks will not prevent it continuing to try and sell off other public services, although in some cases...
17 November 2009
Unemployment and the working week
As unemployment soars Britain will still have the longest working week in the European Union. New Labour has consistently fought for the right to opt out of EU laws limiting the working week to a maximum...
17 November 2009
The nationalisations, part-nationalisations and state interventions being undertaken by the world's governments bear no resemblance to genuine socialist nationalisation...
17 November 2009
Time for a new mass workers' party
A particularly important factor is the absence of a mass political voice for the working class. Since 1997 the trade unions have given over £100 million of their members' money to New Labour. And what...
17 November 2009
Capitalism in crisis: The profound crisis that global capitalism entered in 2008 is resulting in increased hardship for the majority, in Britain and internationally...
15 November 2009
Sunday 15th November:
13 November 2009
Anti-fascists tactics - What happened in Newport?
ON 24 October, Newport Communities Against Racism (NCAR) organised a rally of 600 local people against the far-right English/Welsh Defence League (E/WDL) that shut the League out of Newport...
12 November 2009
After RMT Conference: What Now for the Campaign for a New Workers Party?
Swansea Socialist Party meeting:
11 November 2009
RMT conference on political representation
The RMT transport union hosted an open-to-all conference on the crisis in working class political representation on Saturday 7 November. This followed the overwhelming backing given at the RMT's annual general meeting in July to the union's participation in the 'No2EU, Yes to Democracy' European election coalition, and a decision at that meeting to continue the discussion on the lack of working class political representation.
11 November 2009
Postal workers force management back
What we think The postal strike interim agreement between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail contains a number of concessions forced out of the bosses...
11 November 2009
Socialism 2009 - an excellent weekend!
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"This event allowed me to really understand what the Socialist Party is actually about," said Jessica from Peckham in south London. "I joined the Socialist Party at the event."
11 November 2009
End the war in Afghanistan: Bring the troops back now!
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11 November 2009
20 years after fall of Berlin Wall, capitalist triumphalism turns rotten
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11 November 2009
Ireland: 90,000 march against government cuts
AROUND 90,000 people took part in a trade union national day of action on Friday 6 November in opposition to the plans of the Irish government to cut €4 billion in pay, services and jobs in its December budget...
11 November 2009
General Motors - no to 'divide and rule' in Germany
THOUSANDS OF General Motors (GM) car workers walked out across Germany on 5 November after the company pulled out of the sale of Opel/Vauxhall to Magna-Sberbank, the Austrian/Canadian/Russian consortium, writes Stephan Kimmerle, Committee for a Workers' International (CWI).
11 November 2009
United Socialist Party congress delegates defy difficult conditions in Sri Lanka
The United Socialist Party (USP), the Sri Lankan section of the Committee for a Workers' International, held its eleventh national congress from 31 October to 1 November 2009 in Colombo, writes Siritunga Jayasuriya, secretary, United Socialist Party.
11 November 2009
East London Bus Group workers, organised by Unite, held a 24-hour strike on 9 November. East London Bus Group (ELBG) bosses are trying to implement a pay freeze and attack pensions and holiday entitlement...
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