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The Months of Action Ahead

ProtestAs the crisis deepens, those who caused it are increasingly determined that we will pay the price.  We have to make sure that we don't.  There are a number of things taking place over the next few critical months that will help organise the fightback.  These include union and political election campaigns, marches and demonstrations, public meetings and a referendum.

The year has started with the re-election of Robbie Segal to the national executive of USDAW (Robbie also received an excellent vote in the Presidential ballot), and the successful strike action taken by the Lindsey Oil Refinery workers.  Across Europe and the world workers are moving, and Devon Socialist Party will be doing its utmost to organise the fightback against unemployment, exploitation, and the rotten system which causes it.

Last Updated on Friday, 20 March 2009 20:22 Read more...
 

Angry Workers at Oxford BMW Plant

850 agency workers at the BMW Oxford Plant were sacked last week, a video of the sacking filmed on a mobile phone has emerged on the internet. It shows disgraceful actions from BMW giving employees an hours notice and a weeks pay. As well as threatening to deduct money if uniforms and cards were not handed back promptly. As you can imagine tempers were running high, at BMW as well as at inept union leaders acting as lap dogs to the BMW bosses instead of representing the workers.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 March 2009 10:34 Read more...
 

Anti-incinerator group launched

An incinerator near Stoke

Concerned residents and activists from North Devon Socialist Party and North Devon Green Party gathered last night to discuss the formation of a campaign group to oppose the construction of a waste incinerator in North Devon.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 February 2009 11:30 Read more...
 

USDAW Election - Vote Robbie Segal for a democratic, campaigning union

Robbie Segal

USDAW members have just a few days left to cast their votes for the Executive Council and the position of President.  There is a clear choice - vote for those who will continue with the failed policies of tailing New Labour and the bosses, or vote for an experienced union activist who rejects the gravy train, and stands for greater union democracy, and more power to union members to fight for better pay and conditions.

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Lindsey refinery: workers show their strength

Strikes repel attacks on jobs and conditions

Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party, reporting from the Lindsey refinery strike

Shades of the miners' strike - mass protests, car park meetings, loud hailers that don't work. Not so much flying pickets as flying texts and emails leading to spontaneous unofficial walkouts and 'illegal' strike action. The anti-trade union laws have been brushed aside without a thought.

Each day brings news of more power plants and construction sites walking out. There's a feeling of: "We must strike while the iron's hot. Enough is enough. If we don't win this we'll be signing on for the rest of our lives."

Last Updated on Friday, 06 February 2009 17:57 Read more...
 


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