Archive for September 2007
6 September 2007
Strike against public sector pay cap
Prison officers' action: On 29 August, the Prison Officers' Association (POA) held its first ever national day of strike action, with over 20,000 staff walking out from all public prisons in England and Wales...
6 September 2007
Prison officers defy government's pay cap
Editorial: The one-day strike on Wednesday 29 August by the Prison Officers Association (POA) was highly significant in that the entire Association, including its leadership, deliberately defied a no-strike 'agreement' with the govern...
6 September 2007
Prison Officers' strike reports
Prison Officers' strike: A SEA of shining white shirts greeted me as I walked up to the picket line at HMP Brixton, bringing solidarity from my local Unison branch....
6 September 2007
Defend Newcastle General Hospital
Fight Tesco's plans: IN NEWCASTLE, proposals have been put forward to close the General Hospital (NGH) and build a Tesco store on the site.
6 September 2007
Sheffield Northern General Hospital bulk stores strike
Agenda for cheap: "Agenda for cheap". That's how one Unison steward described the wage cuts being imposed by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust on bulk store workers... By Alistair Tice and Edd Mustill
6 September 2007
TUC conference resolutions need to lead to action
TUC conference 2007: The annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) takes place on 10-13 September, against a background of increasing attacks on workers' pay and conditions but also a willingness of some unions to take action in defence of jobs...
6 September 2007
National Shop Stewards Network: Speakers: Bob Crow, general secretary RMT, Brian Caton, general secretary POA, Chris Baugh, asst...
6 September 2007
Socialism 2007 - a weekend of discussion and debate, hosted by the Socialist Party
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Socialism 2007 |
Speakers include:
Brian Caton, general secretary POA, (recently led strike action which was declared illegal)
Mark Serwotka, general secretary PCS
Peter Taaffe, general secretary, Socialist Party
6 September 2007
The Super-Rich, the owners of Britain's industrial and financial giants, are getting enormously richer while workers are more and more forced to take industrial action merely to defend their pay, pensions and conditions...
6 September 2007
Cardiff: More schools fight closures programme
OPPOSITION IS still building against Cardiff council's school closures programme...
6 September 2007
OVERSHADOWING THE forthcoming general election in Greece has been the terrible tragedy of forest fires which have claimed many lives...
6 September 2007
Belfast Airport workers score a victory
Belfast airport workers have won a stunning victory in a Fair Employment Tribunal but the shop stewards vow that their fight for justice will go on.... By Bill Mullins
6 September 2007
Five Unison branch officers from four branches are under attack from the Unison leadership...
6 September 2007
There was a walkout of over 1,000 'non-industrial' workers at Plymouth Dockyard on 31 August... By Sean Brogan, Devon Socialist Party
6 September 2007
Fela Kuti, revolutionary musician
The socialist review: Ten years after the death of Fela Kuti, the resonating messages of a revolutionary musician are still all too relevant.... By Lanre Arogundade & Segun Sango
6 September 2007
'Holding Fire' by Jack Shepherd
While London theatre rarely concerns itself with labour history, this new play deals with the Chartist movement in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century...
6 September 2007
Save the 'Westie' in Aldershot
Residents, artists, music lovers, young and old, from Aldershot and surrounding areas spilled into the street outside Aldershot's West End Centre... By Nick Kirk Reading Socialist Party
6 September 2007
'Agitate, educate, organise': the role of the workers' press
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The Socialist issue 366 |
It has put forward strategies for opposing privatisation of public services such as the health, fire and postal services and the wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, among other issues.
6 September 2007
Strikers solid in London tubes stoppage
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RMT strike: London tube workers strike in September 2007 after Metronet bankruptcy, photo Paul Mattsson |
6 September 2007
Swansea: Visteon strike threat brings concessions
AS WE go to press, workers in the Swansea Visteon plant are voting on a company offer to settle their long-running dispute... By a Visteon steward
13 September 2007
Postal workers: "We have the power!"
Sarah Sachs-Eldridge spoke to Jason, a postal worker from east London, as negotiations between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union have broken down...
13 September 2007
TUC conference: Standing up to Brown's attacks
TUC conference: WHEN GORDON Brown spoke at the TUC, he stressed the point that most British workers have jobs, unlike in the past... By Jane James at the TUC conference
13 September 2007
Needed: a combative trade union movement
Editorial: THE SUCCESSFUL strike actions of the Prison Officers Association (POA) and the RMT maintenance workers on London Underground have potentially changed the industrial situation in Britain to the benefit of trade unions and work...
13 September 2007
Tube workers' strike scores victory
A strike by 2,300 RMT rail union members who work for the failed Metronet consortium brought the London tube network to a virtual standstill last week... By an RMT Metronet maintenance worker
13 September 2007
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A protest in Leeds against Health cuts |
13 September 2007
Manchester cuts maternity services
HALF A million objections, millions of £s in "consultation", an "independent" review and a few months for Health Secretary Johnson to think it over..... By Hugh Caffrey and Lynn Worthington
13 September 2007
Leeds - no more deficits and cuts
OVER THREE years, there have been big cuts in every hospital making up Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust... By Alan Turner, Leeds Socialist Party
13 September 2007
On 28 August, two firms ICL Plastics and ICL tech were fined a paltry £400,000 after admitting four charges of negligence, which resulted in the deaths of nine workers... By Liam O Connolly, Glasgow
13 September 2007
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International Socialist Resistance demonstrate against war |
13 September 2007
THE EROSION of real wages, growing bills, a grossly overpriced housing market and a financial crisis that led to five interest rate rises in 18 months...
13 September 2007
APEC summit: Thousands defy police crackdown
AS THE Asia Pacific Economic Co-Operation (APEC) forum wound up in Sydney last weekend, Australian prime minister John Howard was trying to spruik (champion) its success... By Socialist Party reporters in Sydney and Melbourne
13 September 2007
Overcrowded prisons, overworked staff
BRITAIN'S PRISON officers held their first-ever national strike, mainly on pay, in August... By Iain Dalton
13 September 2007
DNA database: A SENIOR appeal judge, Sir Stephen Sedley, has called for the genetic details of all the 60 million people who live in Britain and the 30 million who visit every year to be added to the national DNA database.... By Bob Severn
13 September 2007
Tory party struggles to recapture territory taken by New Labour
A FEW months ago there seemed to be a Tory revival. Yet now, senior Tories are carrying out a public spat and Cameron seems unable to contain it...
13 September 2007
Socialist Party member Ron Groves gives a first-hand report on the glaring social contradictions in modern-day China....
13 September 2007
Robert Blincoe - a life that illuminates an age
THE REAL OLIVER TWIST : Was the real life story of a parish orphan 'Robert Blincoe' the inspiration for Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'...
13 September 2007
Fighting Unions Need a New party
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RMT protest against Tube privatisation, photo Paul Mattsson |
20 September 2007
FOR TEN years Gordon Brown has claimed that New Labour have created economic stability, overcoming capitalism's "cycle of boom and bust"...
20 September 2007
Crisis will hit north east jobs
NORTHERN ROCK'S headquarters are in Gosforth, near Newcastle, and they employ around 4,700 people in North-Eastern England... By Elaine Brunskill
20 September 2007
Break with Labour: The new merged union 'Unite' is leading a lobby of Labour Party conference on Sunday 23 September... By Rob Williams, Unite convenor, Swansea Visteon plant, personal capacity
20 September 2007
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Socialism 2007 |
20 September 2007
Make Socialism 2007 an unforgettable weekend
Socialism 2007 is fast approaching and is shaping up to be the best Socialism event yet... By Greg Maughan
20 September 2007
TUC conference: Workers defy Brown
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Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher |
20 September 2007
Linking the struggles together
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) fringe meeting at the TUC met at the same time and in the same hotel as the Labour Representation Committee's "Saving Labour Party Conference" meeting... By Nancy Taaffe
20 September 2007
Remploy workers fight for jobs
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Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Chris Moore |
20 September 2007
CWU: Further national action discussed
Pay and jobs battle: There has been a further meeting between the CWU negotiators and Royal Mail over the national pay dispute...
20 September 2007
No victimisation of postal workers: Postal workers at Burslem delivery office in Stoke walked out on 11 September when twelve workers were suspended on trumped up charges of 'suspicion of harassment'... By Andy Bentley
20 September 2007
NHS: A REPORT has been published for the right-wing think tank, the Kings Fund, by Sir Derek Wanless, former adviser to Gordon Brown... By Lois Austin
20 September 2007
Victory! Campaign saves nursery
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Huddersfield Examiner reports on the saving of Tiddlywinks nursery. |
20 September 2007
THE LOCAL press in Medway, Kent, published a leaked local authority memo this week, which explained that ten unnamed schools will have their futures reviewed for merger or closure in the New Year... By Jacqui Berry
20 September 2007
Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq
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Save Sadiq: Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq, photo Jack Royston |
20 September 2007
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Students protest against fees |
20 September 2007
Student Socialist: Issue 5 out now!
Student Socialist: The Student Socialist is a magazine produced by Socialist Students for students who want to campaign and fight back....
20 September 2007
I work for a catering agency that pays £6.50 an hour. To make it worthwhile I work 12 hours, finishing very late at night. ... By What are your experiences of working as a student?
20 September 2007
Flexible hours? Suits you sir!
Like many students starting university this year, the idea of a £22,000 debt over my head is a shocking one... By Arran Cottam Exeter Socialist Party
20 September 2007
Consumed: How markets corrupt children, infantilise adults and swallow citizens whole
Readers of the socialist could readily agree with the title of this book. The destructive nature of the capitalist system, based upon production for profit... By Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party General Secretary
20 September 2007
Egypt: Worker militancy shows pressing need for political voice
THE EGYPTIAN working class over the last year has jumped into action, coming out in mass strikes, blockading their work-places and more importantly, establishing independent workers' organisations, set apart from the corrupt... By Jim Thomson
20 September 2007
Make the bankers pay: As panic spread that the building society Northern Rock was about to collapse, thousands of people queued overnight outside its branches to withdraw their hard-earned savings... By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy General Secretary
20 September 2007
Youth are apathetic; they only care about new trainers and the latest games consoles... this is the picture that is painted of how we think, feel and behave! By Carlene Ritchie Walthamstow branch
20 September 2007
Swansea - no more cuts for cash
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Marching through Swansea to save NHS services, photo Socialist Party Wales |
SWANSEA NHS Trust has announced the closure of 86 beds and plans to shed 742 jobs, almost half of them nursing posts... By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party
27 September 2007
British banking crisis: Toxic system exposed
THE NEAR collapse of Northern Rock bank, accompanied by the most astonishing scenes of panic for generations outside its branches, has serious political implications for Britain and the government of Gordon Brown...
27 September 2007
Brown's blue bluster in Bournemouth
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Unite trade union demonstration outside Labour Party conference 2007, photo Bob Severn |
27 September 2007
Union protest at Labour's sterile conference
THE UNITE union lead a demonstration of 2,000 people to lobby the start of the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, asking for a better deal for workers.... By Bob Severn
27 September 2007
Liberal Democrats - Struggling in third place
"PUBLIC OPINION will force Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling to hammer the rich at the next election," claimed Lib Dem leader Ming Campbell at his party's annual conference, before he announced plans to give the rich, at b... By Ken Douglas
27 September 2007
THE SCOTTISH National party (SNP) government recently marked its first 100 days in power in Scotland... By Philip Stott, Dundee
27 September 2007
Stoke's 'unpopular front' council coalition
NEW LABOUR and the Tories signed up to a coalition this May to run Stoke-on-Trent city council... By Andy Bentley, Stoke-on-Trent
27 September 2007
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Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006. Photo Paul Mattsson |
27 September 2007
Local health services under private control
AN ARTICLE in the British Medical Journal by Professor Allyson Pollock and colleagues exposes the power that private contractors now have over health services... By Councillor Jackie Grunsell and Ian Slattery
27 September 2007
Swansea NHS trust - balancing books at patients' expense
SWANSEA NHS trust's announcement that they intend axing 750 nursing and health care hospital posts and 86 beds over the next three years has angered nurses and hospital staff...
27 September 2007
PCS's national executive committee (NEC) has unanimously voted to hold a consultative ballot of PCS members for national industrial action to stop compulsory redundancies and defend pay and conditions... By John McInally, PCS NEC, personal capacity
27 September 2007
Belfast Airport workers continue their battle
The three former TGWU stewards at ICTS security firm at Belfast International Airport, whose victory in an Employment Tribunal we reported in issue 500, were back in London on 20/21 September... By Kevin Parslow
27 September 2007
Stagecoach bus drivers, members of RMT and Unite, went on a 24-hour strike in Chesterfield on 7 September over pay and won a pay rise from the management....
27 September 2007
Greek elections: Support slashed for New Democracy and PASOK
THE RESULTS of the Greek elections, on 16 September, represent the biggest blow for many years against the governing right wing New Democracy and the opposition social democratic, pro-capitalist PASOK party... By Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI, Greece)
27 September 2007
Northumbria University: IF YOU were a student at Northumbria University's freshers fair, and were interested in socialist ideas, our Socialist Student stall was the only stall for you!...
27 September 2007
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Postal workers on strike in June 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE BATTLE lines have been drawn between Royal Mail and the postal workers. Without doubt we are heading for a showdown, where the very future of our industry...
By Gary Clark, sub area rep, Scotland No. 2 branch Communication Workers Union (CWU)
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