WW archive > Issue 81 - 09 February 1995
No speed ups No job cuts
Latest for the axe are teachers’ jobs. A limited pay rise will be accompanied by education cuts, forcing job losses and increasing an already high workload. Teaching is already one of the worst professions for stress due to overwork and restructuring. But making fewer workers do more work for less pay is a trend that goes right across the board
Letters
Who, me?; Diverse mix; Stalin fan club
Performance-related profits
Running for profit
Mexican house of cards teeters
Zapatistas took up arms against the results of Nafta, but workers unity across North America is needed
Cuba - the candle that yet burns
Viewpoint
Towards the Communist Party
From an interview published in The Call, paper of the British Socialist Party, with Albert Inkpen, the party’s general secretary, February 12 1920
Loyalist socialist?
Anti-racism charter calls for state bans
Militant hushes up election stand split
Beating them at their own game
An article in Socialist Worker (January 28) criticised Bill Morris and the Transport and General Workers Union leadership in the Badgerline bus dispute in Chelmsford for appealing to public opinion rather than for solidarity action - a well know bureaucrat’s cop-out. But it particularly criticised the free bus service the union was running. We spoke to Bill Horslen, one of the sacked workers and a Labour councillor, about the dispute and how the bus service can be used to gain solidarity action
Gesture politics
M77 dead end
Royal Mail attacks right to strike
Fighting fund
Phil Kent reports on the Weekly Worker fighting fund