http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/ Socialist news and policies, Marxist analysis, socialist and anti-war campaigns, support for workers in struggle, Socialist Books en Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:59:32 GMT Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:59:32 GMT Socialist Party RSS feeder editors@socialistparty.org.uk (Editors) petemason@socialistparty.org.uk http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8372 Scourge of mass youth unemployment: Youth unemployment is at a record high and what does the government do? It plans to slash funding for youth training schemes. What do the bosses do? They cut jobs, pay and conditions. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8373 Saturday 28 November 2009 Assemble 12 noon, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Nearest tube Euston or Russell Square. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8374 Climate change is accelerating. On 4 November the North Sea arctic ice cap fell below the record lows for November set during 2007. Updated daily, the National Snow and Ice Data centre's website shows... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8376 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... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8377 TAMIL-SPEAKING refugees remain on a boat in the Indonesian harbour of Merak, denied their fundamental human rights, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8378 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... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8379 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... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8383 "Don't mess with the best!" Is what one worker quipped to sellers of The Socialist the morning that the Brighton bin workers returned to work after less than two days of solid strike action, writes Sean Figg. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8385 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. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8384 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. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8386 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. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8382 Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) is standing for re-election in the next few weeks. Mark spoke to The Socialist about the challenges facing the union and its members. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8375 Clare Doyle - of the Committee for a Workers' International - was an eyewitness to the tumultuous events in 1989, and for five years (1990-95) lived in Russia as the USSR collapsed... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8380 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). Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8381 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... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8389 HISTORIAN ROBERT Service recently wrote a well-publicised and widely distributed book Trotsky - a biography... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8387 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?. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8388 Ericsson announced on 10 November the axing of 700 workers and the closure of its research and development facility at Ansty, near Coventry... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8391 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... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/8390 At the instigation of the London Shop Stewards Network, an important meeting took place on 16 November, writes Greg Maughan. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT