Solidarity 3/157
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Solidarity 3/157, 20 August 2009
Iraq: unions press for labour law
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According to Iraq Oil Report (4 August), the Ministry of Industry and Minerals has written a memo “advising” its employees to avoid unions.
Workers of the world: Zanon and other reports
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Zanon victory; US union recognition law setback; Korean occupation ends; Chilean miners' strike
Outcry over US health plans: Lies, opportunism and the NHS
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Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been posing as champions of the National Health Service against the rabid outcry by US right-wingers.
Short industrial reports
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Tube; National Express; Unison Four
Thomas Cook: Lessons of the Dublin occupation
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Eighteen Thomas Cook employees, six officials of the TSSA union, and the partner of one of the workers appeared in the Irish High Court last week after they refused to end their four-day sit-in agains
Socialist election campaign: fight for working-class politics
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The AWL is standing Jill Mountford against New Labour's Harriet Harman in the general election. Our election campaign continues to roll on, as the local AWL branch leaflets and runs stalls across the Peckham and Camberwell constituency.
Iran after the election: the repression continues
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Iranian socialist Nasrin Parvez was imprisoned for eight years by the Iranian regime during the 1980s. She spoke to Solidarity about why British socialists should make solidarity with Iranian political prisoners and workers.
Harry Patch: a human understanding
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Harry Patch, the last surviving British soldier to have fought in the First World War, died aged 111 in July. Conscripted in 1917, he went “over the top” at the Battle of Passchendaele, in which half a million men died on both sides. It was probably only his being seriously injured and taken out of the front line that enabled him to survive the war and live to such a great age.
Siegfried Sassoon: after war, a new world?
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Siegfried Sassoon is best known as a “war poet” of the First World War. But after the war he became involved in the Labour Party, and covered union issues as a journalist. He was the literary editor of the Labour newspaper Daily Herald for a brief period in 1919, and continued to write poetry.