The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) is one of the UK’s largest trade unions. The PCS has nearly 325,000 members who work in government departments, agencies, public bodies and in a number of private companies. Socialist Party members take up many leadership positions in this union.
By Bill Mullins Socialist Party England and [...]

Early in the morning on Thursday, 15 June, two claymore mines exploded destroying a bus packed with farmers, workers and children. Over sixty were killed and another 40 injured. This worst incident for many years took place in Kebithigollewa a remote village about 20 kilometres north of Anuradhapura ? the ancient capital of Sri Lanka, [...]

Hip hop’s not dead - It’s just buried in the underground. Reviewed By Olivia O’Neill
The commercialisation of Hip-Hop and Rap music, originally a class-conscious music bred in US ghettos, is one of the biggest tragedies to hit music and contemporary culture.

The issue of migrant labour is increasingly becoming a topic of discussion in the labour movement across the world. In the article below KEVIN PARSLOW from the Socialist Party (England & Wales) calls for the trade union movement to help migrant workers get organised and fight for their rights. We can’t let big business succeed [...]

JIM Sutton liked the sound of John Howard’s new workplace laws. In April, he used the Work Choices legislation to put his work force on individual contracts to lift production rates at his struggling engineering business in suburban Melbourne. If his employees didn’t like it, so be it. The new unfair dismissal laws allowed him [...]

The 2006 Australian federal budget is a banquet for the rich and ?well to do? with a few scraps and bones for the rest of us.
The Coalition government budget once again is geared for the greed of the wealthy and offers nothing for health, education and finances of those not so well off.
Editorial from the [...]

‘We need to fight back’ - that?s the conclusion that most working class people draw from the Liberal?s industrial legislation changes. We need to fight back against these attacks on our living and working conditions. The Liberals continue to give huge tax cuts to the rich, cut back welfare benefits, and drive down wages [...]

Before November 2007, the Victorian ALP state government will be forced to make a decision on whether to renew private contracts with Connex and Yarra Trams, or take the public transport (PT) system back into public hands. The problems that have plagued the system, including safety and quality of service, have been prolonged and heightened [...]

Part Two of a Two Part Series
The Crisis of Black leadership
The post civil rights era can be best described as a massive political vacuum existing in the black community. Much of the militant black leadership has been bought off, killed by police violence, demoralized or imprisoned.
By Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative (CWI), Harlem, [...]

In the second week of May there was a convulsion in the world financial system. Shortly after rising to near-peak levels, shares fell sharply on world stock exchanges. Prices of commodities, such as copper, which had soared over recent months, also plummeted. There was a general flight of fluid, speculative capital from risky (if potentially [...]