Archive for December 2007
6 December 2007
System change not climate change
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Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
6 December 2007
The biggest transport strike in 25 years paralysed Italy last Friday....
6 December 2007
The socialist review: 'Taking Liberties'
PAPER MASKS, scissors and some toy soldiers. These are the offensive items found by 100 police officers, after holding three busloads of anti-war protesters... By Michael Wrack, Hackney Socialist Party
6 December 2007
South African miners strike over safety
THIS YEAR over 200 miners were killed in South Africa's gold, platinum and diamond mines...
6 December 2007
Argos strike in southern Ireland
Argos strike in southern Ireland: ON 1 December workers in Argos stores across Ireland took strike action to demand a 90 cent an hour pay rise...
6 December 2007
THE LATEST report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that 200,000 more children were living in poverty in 2005-6 than the year before...
6 December 2007
Northern Ireland classroom assistants
MEMBERS OF the Nipsa union who have been on strike for 16 days fighting for a decent pay deal for Northern Ireland's classroom assistants returned to work on 4 December...
6 December 2007
THE PRIVATISED firms in the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) are raising rail fares throughout Britain again - this time by up to 15% from 2 January...
6 December 2007
The demonstration on 8 December marks a new point in the campaign to keep the Cadbury site open in Keynsham.... By Robin Clapp, Bristol Socialist Party
6 December 2007
Socialists and the trade union leaderships
THE LETTER from Tom Lloyd in issue 511 of the socialist raised some important issues about the trade union leaders, the rank and file and the left, in respect of ensuring that unions become fighting bodies...
6 December 2007
Unison's right wing still witch-hunting
The witch-hunt against the five officers of some London Unison branches has not yet been resolved....
6 December 2007
Kosova: After the elections - before the explosion
A FINAL round of talks held in Baden, Austria last week between Serbian and Kosovan diplomats (mediated by the EU, US and Russia) to resolve the disputed province of Kosova's future, ended in failure...
6 December 2007
Keep the 'people's Post Office' public
TV ADVERTS call it the "People's Post Office" but the Post Office's top management want to wrest this public service from the people's hands and give it to the private sector.... By Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist councillor
6 December 2007
Private Finance Initiative: IT IS another sign of the unhealthily close link between big business and the Labour government...
6 December 2007
Annapolis - a framework for further conflict
IT IS hard to imagine an international peace conference that could come up with less... By Judy Beishon
6 December 2007
PAUL GRAY, the chief civil servant at the centre of the missing child benefit computer discs, was widely praised for 'doing the honourable thing' by resigning his top post at HM Revenue and Customs....
6 December 2007
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Brown has more in common with Margaret Thatcher than the trade unions |
6 December 2007
Manchester's striking mental health workers: Defending trade union rights
After four weeks in dispute, Manchester's striking mental health workers remain determined to win reinstatement of their union representative, Karen Reissmann... By Hugh Caffrey, Manchester Socialist Party
6 December 2007
CWU ballot result: Postal workers who have been in dispute with Royal Mail and took strike action during the summer have voted to accept the deal which the Communication Workers' Union (CWU) has negotiated.... By Jane James, Socialist Party industrial organiser
6 December 2007
Compulsory school to 18 - a rosy future for young people?
MANY YOUNG people hoping for a decent future, desperately seeking work, training and apprenticeships, might hope Gordon Brown's recent announcements will help them... By Nick Chaffey
6 December 2007
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Lewisham demonstration against destructive school policies, photo Paul Mattsson |
6 December 2007
UNLIKE THE referendum vote in Venezuela, the 'landslide' victory of president Putin's United Russia party in the country's general election last Sunday came as no surprise...
6 December 2007
A declassified US intelligence report says Iran halted a programme to build nuclear weapons in 2003....
6 December 2007
Chavez referendum result a big setback
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the UK. Photo Marc Vallee |
6 December 2007
PCS members in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are being called out on strike on 6-7 December over an outrageous imposed three-year pay offer... By Jane Aitchison, PCS DWP group president, personal capacity
6 December 2007
Feature: The free market brings fire, flood and famine
Socialist planning needed: Yet the IPCC also points out that annual spending of less than 1% of world gross domestic product would be enough to stop global warming...
7 December 2007
Our Planet, not Private Profit: Public transport, such as buses and trains, has been privatised. Costs have gone up and services are worse. But public transport could play a key role...
13 December 2007
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The CWU postal strike 2007 |
13 December 2007
China: Mass protests erupt in Shenyang
THOUSANDS OF people in Shenyang, capital of north-eastern China's Liaoning province, took to the streets over several days recently...
13 December 2007
Extraordinary tape destruction at CIA torture camp
LAST WEEK it was disclosed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had destroyed video tape evidence of prisoners ("detainees") being tortured at the US-run Guantanamo Bay concentration camp in Cuba... By Dave Carr
13 December 2007
Interest rate cut will bring no reprieve
Editorial: FOLLOWING THE interest rate cut there are continued fears that the current downturn in the economy could lead to a recession. 2008 could be the toughest year for the British economy for a long time.
13 December 2007
Beijing Olympics under a cloud
China: On a recent trip to India, said to have cost around £750,000 of public money, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone offered the Bollywood film industry a cheap deal for the use of some of the Olympic buildings in East London a... By Clare Doyle
13 December 2007
End Murdoch's vendetta: No more public money for billionaire's campaign
Tommy Sheridan's sensational defamation victory over the News of the World (NotW) in July 2006 sent shock waves through Rupert Murdoch's global media empire... By Philip Stott, International Socialists, Scotland
13 December 2007
Thousands march against climate change
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Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
13 December 2007
Have you seen the Activist? The e-bulletin of Socialist Party members working in retail and distribution trades. If you know anyone who would like a copy,...
13 December 2007
DWP strike: Fighting the pay cuts
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PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
13 December 2007
Manchester: Karen Reissmann sacked - and cuts still loom
If your hospital trust is £3 million in the red while you have £160 million sitting in the bank, what do you do...
13 December 2007
Newham council sack Unison chair
Michael Gavan, Unison chair at Newham council, east London, having been suspended as reported in a previous report in the socialist, was sacked on 21 November 2007....
13 December 2007
BRITAIN'S HIGH street banks have been using charities, particularly children's charities, to benefit from tax breaks and maximise their profits with no obligation to give them a penny...
13 December 2007
AROUND THE world, demonstrators in over 50 countries took to the streets on 8 December in protests coinciding with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bali.... By Roger Shrives
13 December 2007
Sefton's first citizen "cheating the system"
JUST OVER two years ago, New Labour's rulers in Sefton on Merseyside victimised six Unison activists for protesting against privatising the borough's housing stock... By Merseyside Socialist Party
13 December 2007
Unite Cardiff schools campaigns
OPPOSITION FROM angry parents is hitting Cardiff's Liberal-controlled council's school closures programme... By Ross Saunders
13 December 2007
National Union of Students: Right wing force through undemocratic changes
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) held an extraordinary conference in Leicester on 4 December... By Edd Mustill and Matt Dobson
13 December 2007
Leicester students debate tuition fees
LEICESTER UNIVERSITY students union held a panel debate on the subject of tuition fees, instigated by campaigns and involvement officer Alex Smith, who also runs the union's campaign to keep the top-up fees capped at £3,000 ... By Vicky Cowell, Leicester University Socialist Students
13 December 2007
GORDON BROWN'S government is still trying to convince every MP that a draconian 42-day maximum detention without charge period is needed for 'terror suspects'...
13 December 2007
Birmingham city council: Workers boo 'lead balloon' councillors
Birmingham city council: "WE'VE GOT a grudge with councillor Rudge," was one of the slogans displayed on placards by several hundred angry Birmingham city council workers... By Clive Walder
13 December 2007
Action can beat Cadbury closure threat
AROUND 1,000 people braved atrocious weather on 8 December to attend a protest march organised by Unite, the union, against Cadbury Schweppes management's decision to close the Keynsham site near Bristol and relocate product... By Domenico Hill, Socialist Party and Unite Rep
13 December 2007
Warning: NHS cuts seriously damage your health
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NHS demonstrations November 2007., photo Paul Mattsson |
17 December 2007
Solidarity tonight declared its 100% support for our convenor Tommy Sheridan who has been charged with perjury by Lothian and Borders Police...
18 December 2007
Defend Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch's witch-hunt
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Tommy Sheridan speaking at a Campaign for a New Workers Party meeting in Liverpool, photo Harry Smith |
31 December 2007
Frankenstein kills out of control monster
Saddam's execution: The rushed execution of Saddam Hussein has all the hallmarks of desperation. Bush needed some "good" news out of Iraq, particularly as any day now there will be the announcement of the 3,000th US military fatality in Iraq.
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