Bonuses for Bankers… Dole for youth…
CAPITALISM STINKS!
Join the socialist opposition
Bankers at Barclay’s Capital have been thrown a pay increase of a staggering 93%. From a modest £99,000 these investment bankers have gone up to £191,000 in just one year and that doesn’t include their bonuses!
Michael Foot - the end of an era
Many "Old Labour" workers and socialists will be saddened at the death of Michael Foot and will see it as signifying the death of an era.
However the ideas of Michael Foot - of piecemeal socialist reform of society through successive 'progressive' Labour governments - died long before he physically passed away on 3 March.
Paying for the rich to party
Belfast City ratepayers are to pay £1,200 for booze for the Ulster Reform Club's anniversary dinner. The Council has set the money aside for the clubs dinner in November.
100th International Women’s Day
Fighting capitalism to win equality
In 1910 at the second International Conference of Working Women, Clara Zetkin, a German revolutionary socialist, proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day - a Women's Day - to press for their demands.
PCS - All out to defend jobs & services
Defend the Civil Service Compensation Scheme
The decision by PCS members to take industrial action on the 8th and 9th of March and to impose a national overtime ban is a clear message that they will stick together to secure an acceptable settlement that defends their contractual rights under the Civil Service Compensation Scheme.
Britain - The great anti-poll tax victory
How 18 million people brought down Thatcher
The majority of trade union leaders are completely unprepared to meet the onslaught on jobs and public services, the worst for 40 years. But that does not mean that the inevitable resistance is destined for defeat. On the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the poll tax to England and Wales, PETER TAAFFE looks back on the ‘unofficial’ mass movement which humbled the seemingly invincible Margaret Thatcher.
Hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day
A century of struggle
At its very beginning, in the early 20th century, International Women’s Day – the 8th of March - was a day of struggle for working women. Nowadays it has largely been hijacked by the capitalist establishment as a ceremonial and sometimes highly commercial affair. Much has happened over time, providing welcome proof that women’s oppression can be fought and pushed back, but despite this, the oppression rooted in society continues. Indeed, in the past years many earlier conquests for women have been lost as a result of the crisis of capitalism.
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