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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 5 January 2001, issue Who's Pulling Labour's Strings?  Who's Pulling Labour's Strings?
NEW LABOUR started the year showing its willingness to fight the forthcoming general election on behalf of big business by accepting mega bucks from the wealthy...
Special Appeal - Fund our campaign THE SOCIALIST Party has smashed through its quarterly fighting fund target with a few days to go, thanks to the excellent campaigning activity throughout the quarter, despite the appalling weather...
Nationalise the Railways Rail Privatisation Bring Chaos: THE RAIL chaos that followed last October's Hatfield disaster has continued into the new year with more cancellations and lengthy delays adding to passengers' misery...
Strike Shuts Down Hackney OVER 5,000 Hackney council workers walked out on a 24-hour strike on 20 December. At least 23 schools closed down due to action from UNISON and GMB union members...
School students join the protest HACKNEY COUNCIL is making over £22 million of cuts including £650,000 cuts in education services. Worse still it is seriously considering privatising every school, writes Clare James.
Hackney Workers can win OVER 5,000 Hackney council workers across dozens of separate workplaces came out on strike on 20 December against draconian cuts to jobs and services, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party Industrial Organiser.
Vauxhall Luton - Angry workers ready for Action AFTER CAR multinational General Motors (GM) announced it was closing its Vauxhall plant in Luton, angry workers laid siege to the firm's headquarters...
Socialist Alliances: another step in the wrong direction THE SOCIALIST Alliances were initiated by the Socialist Party in the early 1990s. Throughout their history they have tried to bring together different Left parties and organisations, writes Hannah Sell.
2001 - a year of Workers' reawakening EIGHTEEN MONTHS ago, George W Bush was told by an economic adviser that the USA was heading for a "painful adjustment" (read recession or slump), writes Peter Taaffe, general secretary, Socialist Party.
Greek general strike against bosses' attacks ON THE same day that tens of thousands workers and youth were demonstrating on the streets of Nice, (7 December), the Greek working class held a general strike - the second in the last two months, writes Christina Ziaka, Xekinina, Greek section of the CWI.
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