Archive for February 2002
1 February 2002
Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) went on strike on 28 and 29 January, to demand a safe working environment
1 February 2002
Solidarity And A Bold Leadership Needed
THE THREAT to sack striking train workers at South West Trains (SWT) by Brian Souter is the most serious development for trade unions in the last decade
1 February 2002
Middle East conflict: Sharon Out To Crush Palestinians
AFTER INTERCEPTING a ship carrying arms in the direction of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israeli government forces have stepped up their brutal repression in the PA areas, writes Judy Beishon.
1 February 2002
AS TRADE union branches meet to discuss conference resolutions, the question of the relationship of the trade unions with New Labour will be discussed by many union members
1 February 2002
THOUSANDS OF workers have been on strike over the last few days to defend working conditions and to fight for a living wage
1 February 2002
Enron scandal: End Bosses' Rule
HOW DOES big business get influence with top politicians? After your firm's share prices soar by 1,700% in 16 years, your fortunes fade - how can you lie about your profits to keep those share prices
1 February 2002
WEF Meeting: War, Exploitation, Famine
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) - the annual get-together of politicians and big business representatives - takes place this week in New York rather than its usual venue, Davos in Switzerland
8 February 2002
NEW LABOUR'S privatisation juggernaut is ploughing forward, attempting to destroy everything in its path
8 February 2002
A SENIOR rail union RMT rep spoke to The Socialist about their pay battle with Arriva Trains Northern. They were on strike on 5 and 6 February
8 February 2002
Militant Tendency Shows The Way
IN HIS speech to New Labour's local government conference, Tony Blair attacked as "wreckers" anyone who opposes his privatisation plans and compared them to the Militant Tendency (forerunner of the Socialist Party)
8 February 2002
FADIME IS dead. She was murdered for being a woman and fighting for an independent life. This tragic event has touched everybody and is another reminder of why the struggle against women's oppression
8 February 2002
BOTH TONY Blair and transport secretary Stephen Byers have had the nerve to attack trade unionists and socialists who oppose privatisation as 'wreckers'. What hypocrisy!
8 February 2002
Letter Delivery Gifted To Privatisers: THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the end of Royal Mail's monopoly by the regulator Postcomm was greeted with anger and disbelief by postal workers, writes a London postal worker.
8 February 2002
World Economic Forum: "Money For Jobs - Not War"
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) participants claimed that they came to New York to show "solidarity with the people of New York", writes Alan Jones, Socialist Alternative (CWI), New York city.
8 February 2002
World Social Forum: Another World Is Possible - Socialism
AS THE world's rich and powerful gathered in New York to discuss their plans for the capitalist new order (see above), 100,000 anti-capitalists, trade unionists, socialists and environmentalists met at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
8 February 2002
GEORGE W. BUSH'S warmongering state of the union address appeared to mark a new stage in the 'war against terrorism' writes Per Olsson of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI)
8 February 2002
Explosion Exposes Nigeria's Rotten Regime
THE NIGERIAN city of Lagos was devastated by the explosion of an ammunition dump at the Ikeja military barracks on 27 January
15 February 2002
ON 20 February, students will show their anger about tuition fees in a massive demonstration in London, writes Christian Bunke, Manchester.
15 February 2002
Welsh Assembly Short-Changes Students
STUDENTS IN Wales will greet the recent announcement by the Labour-Liberal administration in the Welsh Assembly that they are restoring grants as a partial victory for their campaigning for "Grants not Fees"
15 February 2002
LAST SATURDAY Coventry ISR hit the streets for its first public activity, with a stall campaigning against low pay and for a mass socialist/anti-capitalist movement
15 February 2002
Blunkett's White Paper Reinforces Racism
THE GOVERNMENT'S new white paper on nationality, immigration and asylum is yet another attack on refugees' rights and a step backwards in the fight to cut across racism and division in Britain
15 February 2002
Capitalism Has No 'Conscience'
TONY BLAIR dismally failed to resolve any of the many problems facing the peoples of central Asia on his recent tour
15 February 2002
THE QUEEN'S private wealth is valued at £1.15 billion, excluding the main royal palaces and property "held in trust for the nation" (which we never get to see) such as the world's largest private art collection
15 February 2002
Sleazy Labour Rewards Greedy Bosses
ROGUE TRADER John Rusnak hit the headlines when he gambled away £530 million at a US outpost of Allied Irish Bank
15 February 2002
Free Education Now! International Socialist Resistance Day of action 15 March
THE INTERNATIONAL Socialist Resistance (ISR) conference held in Brussels on 15 December, decided to launch an international campaign for free education, writes Bart Vandersteene, International Resistance, Belgium.
15 February 2002
A MEMBER of Bristol Communication Workers' Union (CWU) spoke to The Socialist about the ballot result for a postal strike
15 February 2002
Colombia: Workers Win Victory In Teeth Of Reaction
A DECADE of civil war in Colombia has left 300,000 people dead and two million internally displaced, writes Simon Carter.
15 February 2002
Queen's golden jubilee: Last Stand Of A Feudal Relic?
MEMBERS OF "the establishment", it seems, are very worried by public apathy towards street parties celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee this year, writes Steve Score.
22 February 2002
Trade Unions' Leftward Move Worries Blair
BOB CROW'S election as general secretary of the rail workers' union RMT is good news for railworkers and all trade union activists
22 February 2002
Left Victory In Northern Ireland Union
THE LEFT has won an historic victory in elections for the executive of Northern Ireland's largest trade union NIPSA
22 February 2002
Linking Up The Workers' Struggles
CWI MEMBER Dimitri Silveira from Brazil spoke at the meeting of the Inter-Barrial Assemblea Popular of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 17 February
22 February 2002
Mittal scandal exposes sleazy Labour: NEW LABOUR came to power in 1997 promising to clean up politics. This empty promise was never going to be realised - New Labour had made another, more serious, promise to the City of London and the unelected
22 February 2002
Strike for the full claim: Support Postal Workers
THE POSTAL workers' union CWU is negotiating with Royal Mail management for a 5% pay rise. The negotiations are against the background of a 64% majority in favour of strike action.
22 February 2002
Time To Break Unions' Links With Labour
IN THE Guardian (19 February) anti-capitalist commentator George Monbiot declared that: "The Confederation of British Industry, which does not give the [Labour] party a penny, swings far more weight with Tony Blair than all the hard-earned millions scraped together by the people whom Labour is supposed to represent."
22 February 2002
Britain: Growing anger at capitalism: THE CONGRESS of the Socialist Party on 16-18 February brought together 250 delegates and visitors, with a wealth of experience in trade union work, in building the party, in campaigns amongst young people and international campaigns
22 February 2002
Revolt From Below At Berlusconi's Attacks: Thousands march in Rome
THE WORKERS and young people of Italy are locked in a mighty battle with the right-wing Berlusconi government, writes a CWI member, Rome.

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