Sacked Belfast Airport Workers
No Cover Up! Lift the Gagging Clause
Press Release 27 August 2008
Gordon McNeill is set to resume his protest at Transport House from midday 28th August against the attempts by the UNITE leadership to bribe and gag him.
Georgia / Russia Conflict
Implications of five day war
What does the war mean for the Caucusus and beyond?
Background to the present crisis
A political analysis of developments in the Caucusus, 1990 - 2004
Rob Jones, CWI, Moscow Aug 2008
China
The ‘Green Olympics?’
By
Vincent Kolo and Chen Lizhi, from chinaworker.info
The Beijing Olympic Games have been billed as the ‘Green Olympics’. This slogan was used by the Chinese regime in its successful bid for the games in 2001, and was backed up by ambitious commitments to improve air and water quality in the Chinese capital. But this was always going to be a tall order.
Southern Ireland
220,000 unemployed... Recession looms...
Unions must defend jobs and fight cuts
By Stephen Boyd, The Socialist Aug 2008
South Ossetia:Georgia / Russia conflict brings disaster for working people of region
Statement issued by the CWI in CIS (Former Soviet Union), 9th August 2008
By Pat Lawlor, Unison convenor RVH, personal capacity, 29th July 2008
The National Shop Stewards Network’s second conference got off to a great start in London on the 28th June with over 200 delegates and 75 visitors attending from unions throughout Britain.
Rebuild the trade union grassroots
Time to launch a shop stewards network
Download the leaflet here
New Labour suffer electoral disaster in Glasgow East
Gordon Brown and New Labour suffered an electoral disaster in Glasgow East last Thursday. A 22% swing to the SNP resulted in the overturn of a previous 13,500 Labour majority. The SNP won with a majority of just over 300.
24th July 2008
Gordon McNeill, one of the sacked Belfast airport workers, today held a protest outside Transport House in Belfast demanding the leadership of Unite lifts the injunction against his right to protest.
US: The fall of Fannie and Freddie
- Symptom of growing crisis in world capitalism
By Lynn Walsh, Editor of Socialism Today (monthly magazine of the Socialist Party England & Wales, 21st July 2008
Step up the pressure to
SCRAP WATER CHARGES
By Dagmar Walgraeve, 21st July 2008
According to media sources the Northern Ireland Executive may defer water charges by yet another year. If true, this would be the fourth year water charges will have been deferred.
Protect the environment, not profitsBy Gary Mulcahy, 17 July 2008
The appointment of the DUP’s Sammy Wilson as Minister for the Environment in the Northern Ireland Executive is a clear statement to big business that environmental concerns will take second place to profits.
Local government
Reject the 2.45% insult
By Kieran Molloy, Unite shop steward
Belfast City Council Parks & Cemeteries
personal capacity, 10th July 2008
By Owen McCracken 7 July 2008
The fallout from the global credit crisis, a toxic mix of rampant inflation and stalling economic growth, is wreaking havoc on the budgets of local workers.
Obituary: Terry Fields
Tragically Terry Fields has died from lung cancer at the age of 71.
Terry was a supporter of Militant, forerunner of the Socialist Party, and a defender of the working class.
In 1983, after many years as a lay official for the fire fighters' union, he was elected as an MP for Liverpool Broadgreen as 'a workers' MP on a worker's wage'.
Sacked airport shop stewards win historic victory in Court of Appeal
“Judgement strengthens all trade union members”
Press release issued by Gordon McNeill, 25 June 2008
The Court of Appeal has issued its judgement on the case of the Belfast airport shop stewards who were sacked in 2002 by airport security firm, ICTS, after they had organised a strike over pay.
Bush not welcome in Belfast
By Paddy Meehan, 18 June 08
George Bush’s recent visit to Belfast was met with protests wherever he went. Hundreds of people, enraged that this warmonger should be welcomed by our local politicians, met outside City Hall and Stormont to vent their anger.
Lisbon defeat
A major setback for Europe’s elite
IN A higher than normal turnout for a referendum, 53.1%, the Lisbon Treaty (the renamed EU Constitution) was clearly rejected by 53.4% to 46.6%. As the no side trailed in every opinion poll until one poll in the last week, this is a major shock for the political and business establishment in Ireland. KEVIN McLOUGHLIN analyses the situation.
Stand against homophobic bigotry
By Kevin Henry 18 June 2008
"I have a very lovely psychiatrist who works with me in my offices and his Christian background is that he tries to help homosexuals - trying to turn away from what they are engaged in. I'm happy to put any homosexual in touch with this gentleman and I have met people who have turned around and become heterosexuals."- Iris Robinson MP MLA
Socialist View Issue 21
Includes articles on
World Food Crisis , The Revolution of the hungry
Northern Ireland public services for sale
Lisbon defeat: A major setback for Europe’s Elite
Britain: New Labour meltdown
Belfast Airport Workers: Setting the true record straight
plus much more -
To purchase a copy contact the Socialist Party on 02890232962
EXCLUSIVE - George Bush to visit Loughview Integrated Primary School
