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Issue 154 of Socialist Appeal now out!
The fight is on. Postal workers organised by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are staging a series of national strikes
following a 77% yes vote to defend jobs and conditions - in fact the very service
itself. Post office management have spent the last few years running the post
service down and down and then complaining about lost income!
This audio file, recorded on the 11th June at the Socialist Appeal London aggregate, hears Rob Lyon talk on the National Question in relation to the current and historical situation in Quebec.
The media has always distorted the truth to justify the actions of its big business backers. This article from 
In the education
field Brown is continuing where Blair left off. In his endorsement of city
academies, Brown has called on Britain's big business to form partnerships with
every primary and secondary school in order to get the kind of education
capitalism needs.
From more than 10 years the Blairites have attacked the democratic structures of the Labour party and reduced the democratic rights of party members to an absolute minimum. This was part of their campaign to shift the party to the right and turn it into a Tory party mark two. But today there is a growing backlash against Blairism but an urgent need to reestablish the accountability of the leadership.
More than 600 workers at Rosyth naval dockyard in Fife walked out in a
wildcat strike on June 21 over an attack on their pensions. The
former Royal navy base was privatised in 1987 under Thatcher's Tories and is
now owned by Babcock International. The situation as it stands means workers
who paid into the company pension scheme can expect on average a reduction
of around £60-£70 a week on the expected return.
The most astonishing piece of news to have been
greeted with relative apathy by the bourgeois press this week has to be the
rumour that Tony Blair could be serving as a Middle East envoy. When the ruling class becomes this divorced from reality, what they might do next is anyones guess.
Alan Woods was recently interviewed by the Humania del Sur magazine, published by the Universidad
de Los Andes, in Mérida, Venezuela. They asked him
Monday was a red letter day for the Hands Off Venezuela
campaign. Amicus/Unity, the second biggest union in Britain, voted practically
unanimously to affiliate to the HOV campaign.
This represents a great step forward for the campaign in the trade union
field.
