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By Unison Socialist Appeal Supporters
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Monday, 19 July 2010 |
 On Saturday 10th July, around
200 trade unionists, local residents, and health campaigners took to the
streets in opposition to plans to franchise the management of
Hinchingbrooke
Hospital in Huntingdon to the private sector. Protestors received
support along
the route of the march through the centre of Huntingdon chanting, “Hands
Off
Hinchingbrooke; Defend the NHS”.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 |
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This year marks the hundredth
anniversary of one of the great events in modern history. On November
20th of 1910 Francisco I. Madero denounced the electoral fraud
perpetrated by President Díaz and called for a national insurrection.
This marked the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. Today, the
conditions have matured for another revolution, this time with a mighty
proletariat at its head.
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By Rob Sewell
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Monday, 12 July 2010 |
 More than a century after the
formation of the Labour Party, the
party still remains rooted in the organised working class. Despite
everything, the results of the recent general election confirm the
ingrained support for Labour throughout the working class areas of
Britain.
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By Unison Socialist Appeal supporters
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Thursday, 08 July 2010 |
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Campaigners, trade unionists, and local
residents are set to take to the streets in Huntingdon this Saturday
10th July to
protest against plans to franchise the management of Hinchingbrooke
Hospital to
the private sector.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 |
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The draconian budget rolled out in June is only the first instalment in
a five year programme of austerity to be inflicted upon the British
people. The Tory-dominated government is telling us that the economy is
in a hole. This is true. They are softening us up for drastic cuts in
public spending, saying we can’t afford it and (in the words of
Thatcher) that there is no alternative. This is a lie.
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By Dan Morley
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Monday, 05 July 2010 |
We conclude Dan Morley's three part study of the crisis inside UK housing.
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By Fred Weston
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Monday, 05 July 2010 |
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The recent G20 summit in Toronto brought
to the surface all the
contradictions of global capitalism. Every capitalist nation wants to
climb out of the crisis at the expense of its competitors. Everyone is
calling for demand to be kept up, while at the same time applying cuts
in public spending at home. At the heart of this are the mountains of
debt that have accumulated everywhere.
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By Séamus Loughlin (Fightback Ireland)
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Monday, 05 July 2010 |
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The results of the SIPTU and IMPACT ballots recently
that the Croke Park deal was eventually pushed through by the ICTU
leaders, aided and abetted by the whole of the bought and paid for press
and with the full support of the bourgeois. After all, the whole of
official bourgeois society was united around one thing, the Irish
working class, if not to blame directly for the crisis are going to have
to foot the bill.
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By LRC Press Release
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Monday, 05 July 2010 |
 John McDonnell, supported by the Trade Union Co-ordinating Group,
presented his Private Members’ Bill to parliament on June 30th. If
adopted, the
Bill would significantly improve unions’ ability to defend their
members and would be the first step towards the full restoration of
trade union rights.
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By Dan Morley
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 |
 Here is part two of a three part article looking at the crisis in UK housing today.
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By Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
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The public clash between Obama and his
top general in Afghanistan
highlight the difficulties US imperialism is facing in what is clearly
an unwinnable war. What the general has done is to express in public
what is normally reserved for private conversation, but it does bring
out clearly the impasse the US is facing in Afghanistan.
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By Rob Lyon (Fightback - Canada)
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
The mood leading up to this weekend’s G20
summit and the protest
against it became increasingly tense throughout the week. The police
and the state spent plenty of time informing the public of its vast
arsenal, troop numbers, facilities, and readiness to defend the
fence—itself a graphic symbol of the growing class divide not only here
in Canada, but around the world. Rob Lyon reports on the action on the streets.
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By Fightback (Ireland)
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 |
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Some 38 years after the horrific events in Derry
on Sunday 30th January 1972 the publication of the Saville Report has
been welcomed by the bereaved families whose 14 relatives were killed by
British Paratroops at a Civil Rights March on what became known as
Bloody Sunday.
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By Darrall Cozens, CTUC, UCU and Coventry NE Labour Party.
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Friday, 25 June 2010 |
 Over the past few days the labour and trade union movement
in Coventry has begun to move into action to mobilise working people against
the cuts announced by the Lib-Con government. The mass Unite rally last Saturday,
June 19th, already reported on the Socialist Appeal website, was the
first step.
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