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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 26 January 2001, issue Put the Fat Cats on Trial  Put the Fat Cats on Trial
Stop the privatisation disaster: PUT THE privatised rail bosses in the dock! That's the message from The Socialist and one that's coming loud and clear from the travelling public after last October's fatal Hatfield crash...
Hackney Council Crisis Workers strike back at jobs threat HACKNEY COUNCIL workers are holding mass meetings as we go to press to discuss three more days of strike action against council attacks on 29, 30 and 31 January, writes Chris Newby.
Car workers: Turn pressure into strike action SATURDAY'S MAGNIFICENT 10,000-strong demo of Luton car workers, their families and other supporters reflected the anger people feel against the multinational companies who threaten to close down whole towns after the first nervous twitch of their shareholders...
Show of strength from car workers THE DEMONSTRATION became more upbeat as it went along and felt the support from the Saturday shoppers, many of whom joined the demo...
Huntingdon Life Sciences: Big Business rescues a friend ANIMAL TESTING at Huntingdon Life Science (HLS) had gone on for many years before it began attracting attention, writes Ken Smith.
Scotland - an exchange of letters LAST WEEK we reported in The Socialist of the International Socialist Movement in Scotland's decision to abandon the Committee for a Workers' International - the international socialist organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated...
10th anniversary of the Gulf War Much blood for oil: TEN YEARS ago a US-led coalition of military powers went to war with Iraq, marking a new period of instability on a world scale...
Privatised power blacks out California FOR THE first time since World War Two the state of California imposed a black out of electricity supplies...
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