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Darling's prescription... It's spend, spend, spend on the banks... but cuts, cuts, cuts for the NHS

Manchester: No redundancies at IMI!

Campaigning to save post offices

'We're not taking these job cuts'

U-turn over post office card account

Drop the witch-hunt in Unison fight to Defend trade union democracy

Student democracy under attack

'Students in the Red' day of action

Prescott: the class system and me

Striking against low pay

Worlds apart... in 'them and us' society

Postal workers march for their jobs

Defeat NUS' undemocratic plans

'Why not save our jobs?'

NHS props up the private profiteers

Policies...




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Standing up for socialism

SOCIALIST PARTY members are standing in local council and Greater London Assembly elections on Thursday 1 May. They aim to put forward a clear socialist alternative to the mainstream parties - Tories, New Labour, LibDems - that base their policies on the needs of big business. Socialist candidates are standing in the wards or constituencies listed below.

Area	Ward/Constituency	Candidate
GLA elections	Lewisham and Greenwich	Cllr. Chris Flood
Manchester	Baguley ward	Lynn Worthington
Sefton	Netherton and Orrell ward	Peter Glover
City of Lincoln	Carholme ward	Nicholas Parker
Cardiff	Adamsdown ward	James Mapstone
Cardiff	Canton ward	Lianne Francis
Cardiff	Pentwyn ward	Stephen Williams
Swansea	Castle ward	Alec Thraves
Swansea	Castle ward	Sarah Mayo
Nuneaton / Bedworth	Camp Hill ward	Peter Bradley
Coventry	St Michael's ward	Cllr. Dave Nellist
Coventry	Sherbourne ward	Jason Toynbee
Coventry	Whoberley ward	Jim Donnolly
Stoke on Trent	Burslem South ward	Jane Mellalieu
Sheffield	Graves Park ward	Alan Munro
Wakefield	Wakefield East ward	Mick Griffiths
Huddersfield	Crosland Moor and Netherton ward	Ian Slattery (onbehalf of Huddersfield Save Our NHS)

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'We're striking against low pay'

Birmingham strike

Editorial: 24 April strikes: step forward in pay battle

Unison witch-hunt

Unison witch-hunt: Defend 'the four'

Stop the witch hunts!

National Shop Stewards Network

Workplace news and analysis

Re-elect a fighting PCS leadership

Global food crisis

Global food prices: anger erupts in mass protests

How the other 0.01% live

Socialist Party election campaign

Health campaigners fight council cuts

Standing up for socialism: candidate list

Campaign for a New Workers Party - conference 2008

Socialist Party feature

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: why all the controversy?

Socialist Party news and views

Housing crisis: Britain's house of cards

Tax attack hits low paid workers

Water 'regulators' hide real prices

International socialist news and analysis

Rising class struggles across Europe

Italian election: new Berlusconi victory will provoke mass opposition

France 1968: 10 million workers occupied factories

France 1968: month of revolution by Clare Doyle

The radical life of Martin Luther King

Socialist Students

Portsmouth Activists Academy day of debate

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Socialism:

Drop the witch-hunt in Unison fight to Defend trade union democracy

Socialism 2008 - an inspiring weekend

If Obama wins - Looking beyond the hope bubble

Time to change the world - come and hear the case for socialism

Capitalism in crisis: Why you should come to Socialism 2008

Coventry:

Coventry fights post office closure

Markets cannot end house building crisis

Give us back our Post Office!

Cardiff:

Boom to bust in Cardiff Bay

Fightback saves Cardiff school

Huddersfield:

No to post office closures

Health campaigners fight council cuts

Wakefield:

Reopen the battle on NHS pay

MPs' insult to low-paid workers

Swansea:

Workplace news in brief

Health Trust concessions on Swansea casualty unit

Stoke:

Fighting the racist BNP in Stoke

No to racism: Yes to decent jobs, homes & services!

Chris Flood:

Saving our post offices!

Socialist Party: a clear difference from 'free market' policies

Lewisham:

Lewisham housing: Arguments against privatisation win

Fighting for youth in Lewisham

Dave Nellist:

Socialist measures to fight capitalist crisis

Campaign for a New Workers' Party

Manchester:

Manchester: No redundancies at IMI!

Protesting against Bush and Brown's wars

London:

Campaign Against Climate Change march

Canary Wharf: Low paid workers welcome socialist campaigners

Lincoln:

Lincoln - fight council cuts plan

Opposing cutbacks in Lincolnshire

Greenwich:

Turkish dockers fight workplace 'massacres'

Another victory in Greenwich

Sheffield:

Save our Post Offices: Sheffield campaign builds strength

Teachers vote to strike