Solidarity 3/76
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Solidarity 3/76 is online. Read the articles here.
Solidarity 3/76, 7 July 2005
After the G8
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We asked socialists and activists to comment on the way to campaign against world poverty after the G8 summit.
South African workers show how to fight poverty
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Two million South African workers showed how to fight poverty at the end of June with the biggest strike since the days of apartheid.
Gaza withdrawal: step up our solidarity with Palestinians
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At the end of August the Israel government plans to withdraw from Gaza, dismantling 21 Israeli-Jewish settlements.
Writing on the wall
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Go London!
As we go to press we find that London has won the bid to stage the 2012 Olympics.
The world's poor need solidarity
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After their own fashion, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown do have a “third way”. Their friend Peter Mandelson, now European Union trade commissioner, explained it in the Independent on 4 July.
The long hours scandal
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By Stan Crooke
Workers in the UK work the longest hours in Europe. Nearly four million workers in the UK regularly work over 48 hours a week — 700,000 more than a decade ago.
TUC LGBT conference: uniting to fight oppression
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When Meg Munn, the deputy minister for women and equality, addressed the TUC’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender conference on 30 June/ 1 July, she was asked repeatedly why the government did not act to ensure that equalities legislation comprehensively protected all minority groups.
Rail: keeping fascists out
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The Annual General Meeting of the rail union RMT, at the end of June, voted to endorse the union’s decision to expel ultra-fascist Patrick Harrington.
Civil service jobs fight stalled
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A national ballot in the civil service by the union PCS, over job cuts in the Department of Work and Pensions, is still on hold as the union has yet to have proper talks with the Government.