Archive for July 2007
5 July 2007
THE CNWP'S newly elected officers met recently to discuss the way forward for the campaign...
5 July 2007
Blair's toadying surpasses all clichés
The Blair moment: TONY BLAIR'S last prime minister's question time and subsequent departure from Downing Street defied historical precedent...
5 July 2007
Campaign for a New Workers' Party: Giving workers a voice
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Campaign for a New Workers Party (CNWP) conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
5 July 2007
National Shop Stewards' Network conference: Join the fightback against the bosses' offensive
National Shop Stewards' Network conference: This Saturday 7 July will see hundreds of shop stewards and workplace reps from all unions and industries gather together in London at the founding conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN)....
5 July 2007
Lively CNWP meeting in Cardiff
ON 28 June, the Wales CNWP's public meeting in Cardiff heard Armajit Singh, CWU postal secretary in Cardiff, explain why CWU members were going on strike the next day...
5 July 2007
Unite against war, poverty and terrorism
THE FAILED car bombs in London and Glasgow, targeting a packed nightclub and busy airport, marked the end of Blair's premiership and the beginning of Brown's...
5 July 2007
Postal workers: we're striking to win
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Postal workers on strike in June 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
5 July 2007
Postal workers' strike gets solid support across the country
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Postal workers on strike in 2007, photo Socialist Party |
5 July 2007
Under several feet of flood water - after flood defence budget cut
ON 25 June, the equivalent of one-sixth of a year's rainfall fell on South Yorkshire in 24 hours...
5 July 2007
Surplus cash yet cutbacks continue
Manchester health: AS THE health service reaches its 60th year, cuts are still on the order of the day in greater Manchester...
5 July 2007
Why the United Nations fails the test of internationalism
DESPITE THE failure of the United Nations (UN) since its inception to prevent and resolve wars and conflicts, and its inability to eradicate crushing poverty and prevent climate change on a world scale, many (including those ...
5 July 2007
Iran: Riots over petrol rationing
ON 26 June, the Iranian regime implemented its secret plan of rationing petrol and increasing the price...
5 July 2007
Climate change: socialist international planning needed
Climate change: ORGANISED TO raise awareness of climate change, Live Earth is a series of concerts with an estimated worldwide audience of 2 billion people, taking place over seven continents on 7 July...
5 July 2007
George Bush - a get out of jail ticket
WITH GEORGE Bush commuting Lewis "Scooter" Libby's prison sentence for obstructing justice, perjury and giving false statements to the FBI, the rich socialite, dilettante, Paris Hilton, must be ruing not making a substanti...
5 July 2007
Tales from the council chamber
Lewisham One victory, one defeat : LEWISHAM'S TENANTS won an important victory against New Labour's homes privatisation plans at last week's council meeting...
5 July 2007
'Living in a parallel universe'
Coventry: COVENTRY COUNCIL'S last meeting was like entering some parallel universe. The Tories (majority group on the council) moved a motion opposing the closure...
5 July 2007
UNISON delegates challenge leadership
UNISON conference: THE MOST important point about UNISON conference was that the mood of anger and dissatisfaction reflected in the recent elections for the national executive council (NEC) also surfaced at conference...
5 July 2007
RMT conference: Fighting a thousand cuts
RMT conference: Dave Reid continues his report from the AGM (conference) of rail union RMT (see earlier report)....
5 July 2007
Victory over bullying management
On 29 June Manchester Advice (MA) workers closed Manchester City Council's advice centre for the first time ever, due to health and safety fears over bullying management tactics....
5 July 2007
RMT rail union members working for Virgin on the West Coast mainline took strike action on 27 and 28 June in defence of a member who had been sacked for allegedly causing "wilful damage to company property."...
5 July 2007
"A new gilded age of inequality"
LAST YEAR the world's richest people increased their wealth at the fastest rate in seven years...
5 July 2007
Stop subsidising private schools
OVERALL JUST 7% of children are educated at 'independent' ie private, fee-paying schools...
5 July 2007
Pakistan: Union activist has suspension withdrawn following protests
AZAD QADRI, Deputy General Secretary of the Lion's Unity Union, suspended by the management of the privatised Pakistan Telecommunications company, has won reinstatement after a protest campaign by trade unionists in Pakistan...
5 July 2007
Two plays reviewed by Mark Baker: 'Philistines' and 'The Last Confession'
Philistines was written in 1902. Its author, Maxim Gorky, was a Marxist and a close associate of Lenin up to 1913 when he broke from the Bolsheviks. ...
5 July 2007
Socialism 2007
Sick of low pay and long hours? Angry at cuts, closures and privatisation?
Had enough of war and poverty across the globe?
Then come to Socialism 2007!
17-18 November 2007
University of London Union, Central London
Rally for Socialism
17 November 2007
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS trade union
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
Go to socialism2007.net to find out more and book your tickets.
www.socialism2007.net
5 July 2007
Brown's government for the rich
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Demonstration against cuts in the NHS, 1 November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
12 July 2007
A SECOND day of strike action by postal workers was called because the Royal Mail management point blank refused to even negotiate with the Communication Workers Union (CWU).The bosses are demanding, in effect, complete capit...
12 July 2007
Public support for Post Office counters strike
Post Office Counters staff are usually very moderate but 73% voted for industrial action because of Crown Office closures, job losses and real pay cuts....
12 July 2007
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Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, addresses the National Shop Stewards Network conference July 2007, photo Dave Carr |
Delegates from all over the country were inspired during the course of the day by the mood of unity and determination to build the network.
12 July 2007
National Shop Stewards Network conference: A good starting point for strengthening struggle
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National Shop Stewards Network conference July 2007 |
12 July 2007
TGWU/Unite conference delegates cheer call for action on anti-trade union laws
TGWU/Unite conference: The final Biennial Delegate Conference of the TGWU, taking place this year as a section of Unite, had the theme of a 'fight-back union'...
12 July 2007
HOSPITAL CAMPAIGNERS People United Saving Hospitals (PUSH) organised protests on 5 July, the 59th anniversary of the national health service...
12 July 2007
Campaign saves Swansea hospital unit
HEALTH CAMPAIGNERS have won a major victory by ensuring that Morriston Hospital's neurosurgery unit remains in Swansea for the indefinite future...
12 July 2007
Sussex must fight back against NHS cuts
TWO OR three of West Sussex's accident and emergency (A&E) hospitals are threatened with downgrading, with privately-run Urgent Care Units being set up...
12 July 2007
Durham health cuts show need for new workers' party
SEVEN HUNDRED 'surplus' jobs were cut from Durham's NHS in the last year...
12 July 2007
Wales Assembly coalition no answer to workers' problems
Wales Assembly: LABOUR PARTY Wales and the Plaid Cymru party have reached an historic agreement and formed a new government in Wales, the One Wales coalition...
12 July 2007
Cardiff: Fight school cuts and closures
PARENTS, SCHOOL students, teachers, school workers and local communities are united in condemning Cardiff Liberal council's latest round of school cutbacks....
12 July 2007
Nurseries campaign embarrasses councillors
THE STRUGGLE to save three Huddersfield nurseries from closure has entered a critical stage...
12 July 2007
Southall Labour councillors cross floor
ON 9 July the Conservatives in Ealing, west London, celebrated five leading Labour councillors in Southall defecting to their party...
12 July 2007
Kwik Save workers betrayed by bosses and union
SHOPWORKERS' UNION USDAW have proclaimed 11 July as 'Respect for Shopworkers' Day'...
12 July 2007
Salford : Salford council workers are striking against management breaking long-standing agreements and casualising their jobs...
12 July 2007
Socialist Party Youth and students
It was clear from the discussion at the recent Socialist Party youth and student meeting that activists could have a busy summer ahead....
12 July 2007
The 'July days' - rich in lessons for today
Following previous articles on the 1917 February revolution and the April Days, PETER TAAFFE now moves on to the 'July Days'....
12 July 2007
Political discourse can swing!
From the plantation to the penitentiary by Wynton Marsalis: Wynton Marsalis has never shirked controversy but with the release of From the Plantation to the Penitentiary, it appears he decided to take on all comers...
12 July 2007
South Africa: union leaders call off biggest-ever strike
ON 28 June, public sector unions called off South Africa's biggest-ever strike, involving nearly one million workers which began on 1 June...
12 July 2007
NEWS OF slavery, torture, human trafficking and children imprisoned in conditions "worse than dog kennels" has exploded like a bomb in China and dealt a serious blow to the credibility of the ruling 'communist' party....
12 July 2007
London Underground derailment: Kick out dangerous profiteers!
JUST AFTER 9am on 5 July a London Underground Central Line train was derailed, trapping 800 passengers underground for about two hours...
12 July 2007
Fighting low pay, defending jobs and services
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Postal workers on strike, photo Socialist Party |
16 July 2007
The Committee for a Workers' International has received this appeal. A hunger strike is due to start on Tuesday and we need letters/e/mails of solidarity...
19 July 2007
Metronet - bankrupt firm, bankrupt PPP
METRONET, THE private company responsible for maintaining and upgrading two-thirds of London's underground network under the notorious public-private partnership PPP scheme (part-privatisation), is heading for administration...
19 July 2007
Postal workers - fighting low pay, against privatisation and job cuts
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Postal workers on strike, photo Socialist Party |
19 July 2007
Fight cuts threat to London hospitals
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Health workers demonstrate at Whipps Cross hospital in East London, photo Paul Mattsson |
19 July 2007
USA: The case for socialised medicine
THE FOLLOWING articles appear in Justice, the newspaper of Socialist Alternative -the Socialist Party's counterpart in the USA...
19 July 2007
'Universal healthcare' plans of the Democrats fall short
WITH HEALTHCARE costs at an all-time high and one-in-five non-elderly Americans uninsured, 'universal healthcare' is a top promise of all the serious Democratic presidential hopefuls...
19 July 2007
'Strategic failure' in Iraq and Afghanistan
Editorial: Bush still claims that Iraq under US and British military occupation is making progress towards a stable, democratic society...
19 July 2007
Glasgow social workers vote for indefinite strike
Six hundred social care workers (SCW), employees of social work services in Glasgow city council and members of UNISON, are due to begin all-out indefinite strike action from Tuesday 24 July...
19 July 2007
Defend democracy - stop the witch-hunt in UNISON
The leadership of UNISON is attacking the rights of ordinary members. So fearful are they of the growing opposition to their misrule that they are seeking...
19 July 2007
School dinners saved... for now
On 24 May, Waltham Forest's Labour leader faced a 300-strong crowd of protesting catering workers, parents and school students on the town hall steps...
19 July 2007
Living in the GDR: Balancing between two different worlds
Sonja Grossner joined the Socialist Party last year. She is the daughter of two German socialist and anti-Nazi fighters. She was born in England in 1942...
19 July 2007
Can flood relief get Hull back on its feet?
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Flooded with Debt, cartoon by Suz at www.squashdonkey.co.uk |
19 July 2007
'War crimes' accusations by mine workers
A FEDERAL court in Birmingham, Alabama, is trying the US mining company Drummond for war crimes...
19 July 2007
WORKERS AT the Visteon plant in Swansea walked out on 17 July. Visteon is the parts organisation hived off by Ford....
19 July 2007
Lewisham schools: defending 'outdated' equality
Council cuts threaten schools: VOTERS IN Lewisham, south London thought they were electing their council to run local schools and services...
19 July 2007
Building resistance to schools closures in Cardiff
CARDIFF COUNCIL'S ruling Liberal Democrats have selected their first targets for closures and cutbacks of Cardiff's schools and leisure facilities...
19 July 2007
Education - not safe in Brown's hands
MANY UNIVERSITIES are in financial crisis, student debt has risen to over £3 billion and there is massive pressure on students and their families...
19 July 2007
Boost our pay: Organising for our rights at work
"Which is the first generation that will have to work to 68 before becoming eligible for a state pension...
19 July 2007
Socialism 2007 is a weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party, taking place on 17-18 November 2007....
19 July 2007
Come to Socialist Party summer camp
Friday 24 - Monday 27 August, near Chelmsford, Essex
19 July 2007
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PCS workers on strike 1 May 2007. Workers need a party that will defend their interests. Photo Paul Mattsson |
24 July 2007
Government cuts add to flooding crisis
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At Mount Priory in Gloucester people have been flooded three times in 18 months, so they set up an action group. Photo Chris Moore |
24 July 2007
AS SEVERE flooding hit England again, South Yorkshire and other areas were still suffering from the after-effects of June's floods - made worse by the New Labour government's inadequate response....
24 July 2007
Postal workers: Their fight is our fight
An end to Saturday deliveries; fewer collections from post boxes; staggered delivery systems so you don't get your mail every day; the closure of 2,500 crown post offices with the business being sold off to privateers W H Sm...
24 July 2007
Critical dispute for postal workers
Editorial: COMMUNICATION WORKERS' Union (CWU) members in the postal service are taking further action in their struggle for decent pay, to defend jobs and stop cuts to the service....
24 July 2007
New Labour ignored flood warnings
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Caution wet floor - flooding in the centre of Gloucester, photo Chris Moore |
26 July 2007
Support Glasgow's social work strikers
SIX HUNDRED Social Care Workers, members of Unison and employees of Glasgow city council Social Work Services, began all-out indefinite strike action on 24 July in pursuit of their claim for a higher grading....
26 July 2007
IN MAY the Tories announced they were abandoning their policy of re-introducing 'grammar schools in every town.' Their then education spokesperson, David Willetts, argued they could use New Labour's education 'reforms' i...
26 July 2007
If this is New Labour democracy...
THE BROWN government has produced a green paper on local democracy, entitled the 'Governance of Britain'...
26 July 2007
Metronet walks away from trouble...
LAST WEEK Metronet, the private company that maintained and upgraded two-thirds of London's underground (LUL) network under the notorious public-private partnership (PPP), called in the administrators....
26 July 2007
Vicious bile and grovelling sweet talk
Alastair Campbell's Diaries: TONY MULHEARN, a member of the Socialist Party and one of the '47 group' of Liverpool councillors who fought Thatcher's Tories in the 1980s, reviews The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries....
26 July 2007
ANOTHER SUMMER, another eleven weeks of temper tantrums, arguments and intrigues in the Big Brother (BB) house...
26 July 2007
Visteon workers continue fight for jobs
Visteon workers in Swansea are involved in a bitter dispute with management that spilled over into two stoppages last week, one of them for 24 hours. ...
26 July 2007
National Shop Stewards' Network hits the ground running
The first committee meeting of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) took place on 21 July...
26 July 2007
Another missed opportunity on teachers' pay
Despite the usual end of term frenzy in schools, many teachers responded to the National Union of Teachers' (NUT) call to make known to the union their disgust at Brown's proposed measly 2% a year pay increase up to 2011...
26 July 2007
WEATHER AND wallet permitting, the lure of summer holidays beckons, at least in the northern hemisphere...
26 July 2007
Airports industry expansion plans fail to take off
IN MAY 2007 a public inquiry started at Stansted Airport, Essex, over plans to increase the number of passengers from the current 25 million limit a year to 35 million...
26 July 2007
Brown's 'affordable housing' plan - all smoke and mirrors?
PRIME MINISTER Gordon Brown stirred up the press and the housing world last week when, after just two weeks in post, he promised a 20% increase in the country's housebuilding programme, claiming that three million homes woul...
26 July 2007
Erdogan's election victory reveals Turkey's faultlines
THE GENERAL election in Turkey took place on 22 July and, as expected, the ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) was returned to power with 47% of the popular vote compared to the 20% for the opposition Republican People...
26 July 2007
Mass protests planned at the APEC summit
Australia: THOUSANDS OF people will attend protests during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Sydney, Australia, on 7-8 September 2007...
26 July 2007
17 - 18 November 2007: Last November I attended the Socialism 2006 event hosted by the Socialist Party...
26 July 2007
Speakers Include:: Book your tickets online now at www.socialism2007.net...
26 July 2007
NHS: no more cuts, no more privatisation
The trade unions need to unite the campaigns to defend the NHS and fight for a living wage for a health workers...
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