Month: July 2009
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Trade Union
Support Vestas Workers
Nationalise to save jobs and the environment The 25 Vestas workers occupying the wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight…
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Breakthrough in Admin dispute
Action delivers UNISON members in Glasgow Council's Social Work Services who are Clerical Officers and Admin Assistants have accepted offers to…
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History
25 years on – Liverpool a city that dared to fight
On 9 July 1984 Liverpool City council, led by Militant (the Socialist Party's predecessor), won a sensational victory over the…
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Trade Union
Unison witchhunt – Four banned
Outrageous "racism" charge leads to union ban Four members of the public sector union Unison were last week banned from…
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Mass protest to save Johnnie Walker jobs
Last Sunday, 20,000 people took to the streets of Kilmarnock to defend the 900 whisky jobs due to be cut…
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Ireland
Joe Higgins first speech to European parliament
Video Socialist MEP launches attack on capitalist representatives http://socialistworld.net/eng/2009/07/2102.html Here in Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) MEP Joe Higgins´ first…
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Committee for a Workers International
CWI Summer School 2009
Inspiring discussions on the struggle for International Socialism The Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) held its world Summer School…
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Support Vestas occupation
Vestas jobs fightbackFaced with the closure of the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight, the workers have…
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Workplace News
Johnnie Walker – Support the fight to save jobs
Workers action can defeat bosses jobs cuts“We have to look at our cost base on a global basis."This was the…
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Middle East
Withdraw the troops from Afghanistan
End UK and US led occupation of Afghanistan In this month alone, eighteen British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. Eight were…
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