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SOCIALIST PARTY public representatives have a proud history of standing for election as workers' representatives on a worker's wage.
WORKING CLASS people are furious about MPs' huge 'expenses'.
On Thursday 4 June, elections take place for the European Union, which for many members of the European Parliament (MEPs) is an even bigger gravy train than Westminster.
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Onay Kasab, branch secretary of Greenwich Unison is a candidate standing on the RMT union-led 'No2EU - Yes to Democracy' list for the London region in the 4 June election. He explains why voters need a real workers' representative.
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Rob Williams, trade union Convenor of Linamar Swansea, was sacked by the Linamar management last week, and then temporarily re-instated following militant action by the Linamar workforce.
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The Socialist Party is backing the RMT transport union-led No2EU-Yes to Democracy coalition in June's European elections. Below, Clive Heemskerk explains why we need an alternative to the bosses' EU.
Many have been inspired by the stand taken by the workers in the ex-Ford plants in Belfast, Enfield and Basildon. Instead of walking meekly away when their jobs were snatched away by Visteon management, they have taken a stand. Facing nothing but the minimal statutory redundancy payments, the workers have organised factory occupations and pickets to force Ford and Visteon management to negotiate.
Rob Williams, the trade union convenor of the Linamar plant in Swansea, an ex-Visteon plant, has been visiting the occupations.
He spoke to The Socialist:
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The G20 meeting, hosted by Gordon Brown, in London was met with an outpouring of anger. However, of all the many protests against the summit, the 'youth march for jobs' on 2 April stood out a mile. The clarity of the demands marked it out. This was a march of young people, organised by young people, fighting for their future. Throughout the day around 600 young people participated.
Report by Sean Figg and, Sarah Sachs-Eldridge
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ago the great miners' strike of 1984-85 started. It was the longest lasting and most bitter industrial dispute of the second half of the 20th century in Britain. It had a huge impact on virtually every subsequent industrial and political development.
George Bailey
Today, with mass unemployment rising and communities facing devastation as a consequence of the capitalist economic crisis, there are many lessons arising from the miners' strike that can assist those fighting to defend jobs.
Socialist Party members, Rob and Josie, from Stafford have sent in the following report;
"Cure the NHS’ a local campaign group, celebrated a small victory this week after it was announced that two senior managers at the ‘failing’ Stafford General Hospital had resigned.
An occupation is taking place at Prisme Packaging in Dundee. It started at 5pm on Wednesday 4th March after the twelve employees were told their contracts were being immediately terminated without redundancy pay.