Solidarity 3/168 to download
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Solidarity 3/168, 5 March 2010
Civil Service strike: all out to defend terms and conditions!
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Members of the civil service union PCS have voted decisively to take industrial action over redundancy and early retirement terms. National strikes will take place on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 March.
Local Government: resist these cuts
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A BBC survey of councils has made the extent of cuts threatening local services clear. The first batch of councils which answered the survey reported job cuts of at least 25,000 in the next three to five years. The BBC calculates that, translated across the board, this could mean 180,000 job being slashed.
The theory of Permanent Revolution and Ireland: is there a socialist quintessence in Irish nationalism? . A reply to Lysaght
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[This is a copy-edited and slightly expanded version of the text in Solidarity replying to Lysaght.]
A dozen years on from the “Good Friday Agreement” (GFA) things in Northern Ireland are far from settled. The recently threatened breakdown of the power-sharing executive was avoided. But the Good Friday system is far from stable.
Tory Party: Cameron's weather vane politics
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Swindon councillor Lynden Stowe isn’t the only Tory politician who risks being confused with right-wing extremists. Stowe, a near perfect doppelganger of British National Party leader Nick Griffin, was accosted by police officers at the Conservative’s pre—election conference in Birmingham recently when fellow delegates mistook him for the fascist leader. No such vigorous action was taken to bring David Cameron to account for his spurious commitment to cut immigration by 75%.
East London anti-fascists unite
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Trade unionists have come together under the umbrella of Havering and Barking and Dagenham Trades Councils to form Barking, Dagenham and Havering Together, a new campaign to combat the rise of the BNP in boroughs.
Tackling the BNP in print
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A new campaign has been launched to highlight and improve the impact that the media can have in fighting the British National Party
Scottish Defence League: Lockerbie 'vigil' planned
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The Scottish Defence League (SDL) decision to stage what it calls a “respectful vigil” in Lockerbie on Saturday, 27 March, represents a sign of weakness — if not outright desperation.
Michael Foot: the man who accepted defeat to avoid defeat!
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It was a tragedy for the British working class and its labour movement that Michael Foot, who has died at the age of 96, was its political leader when it faced its life-and-death confrontation with Thatcherism at the beginning of the 1980s.
The AWL and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
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Over the last few months we have commented in Solidarity on the talks between various leftists and left groups on working together in the General Election. And comment is all we have been able to do, because those talks were held behind closed doors.