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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 19 July 2003, issue Blair: Time To Go!  Tony Blair: Time To Go!
Tony Blair - Bosses' puppet, photo Alan Hardman He lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction. 66% of people think Blair misled us about going to war with Iraq...
Devon Bus Workers Fight Low Pay ON 8 July rail and transport union (RMT) members working for bus company Stagecoach Devon took the first of a series of one-day strikes, writes Steve Bush, Devon.
Right Wing Booed Out Of PCS Leadership THE VICTORY of the left and the demise of the right wing in the PCS civil service union has to be one of the most significant developments in the trade union movement in recent years, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party industrial organiser.
Say No To Poverty Wages Kick big business out of the NHS: HEALTH WORKERS at Royal Bolton Hospital (RBH) are continuing their fight with ISS Mediclean for a living wage, writes Hugh Caffrey, Manchester Socialist Party.
Iraq Watch: Debts and democracy: IRAQ'S POVERTY-wracked people face being "lumbered with billions of dollars of debt" under US plans to mortgage future Iraqi oil supplies, claim campaigners for debt relief...
Whipps Cross hospital workers: "Where we fight, we win" LOW-PAID health workers at Whipps Cross hospital, east London, have scored an important victory in their fight for a living wage...
Asylum Seekers Fear Repression SHAHIN PORTOHFEH, an Iranian asylum seeker living in Coventry sewed up his lips, eyes and ears in protest at the threat of deportation last week. He took no food or fluids for nearly five days, writes Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist Party councillor.
Kirklees Nursery nurses: United Action Gave Us Confidence KIRKLEES NURSERY nurses recently won a regrading battle through strike action. Like their fellow workmates in Tower Hamlets, this victory was only achieved by a hard-hitting and united combination of strikes,...
Fight For Trade Union Rights In Colombia There are many companies in Colombia who use violence and repression to try and stop trade union activists, writes Wales ISR.
Low Pay - No Way! Did you know that the chief executive of Tesco receives £916,000 a year basic salary? If he works a 40 hour week this means he gets £440.38 an hour! On top of this obscene pay, he received 'additional...
Reclaiming Feminism? THE EQUAL Opportunities Commission recently published an 'equality' survey to coincide with the 75th anniversary of all women over 21 securing the vote, writes Carol Edge.
Weapons of mass destruction: A Web Of Lies From Day One THE JUSTIFICATION for Bush and Blair launching a destructive war on Iraq was based on a lie. Who says so? CIA director George Tenet...
Gay Rights Aren't Only For Bishops GAY RIGHTS campaigner Peter Tatchell, with six other members of Outrage disrupted the Church of England's General Synod on 12 July for 30 minutes over the C of E "withdrawing" the appointment of a gay bishop, writes Marc Vallee, Socialist Party LGBT Group.
Genetic engineering: Science And Big Business 'Engineering', 'modification' or change?: A CABINET office report on genetically modified (GM) crops has concluded that, in spite of claimed long-term benefits, GM crops will not be profitable until demand increases...
Kazakhstan: Foundry workers fight for nationalisation of factory The struggle to defend the jobs and living standards of the workers at the Irtyishskii Foundry in Glubokii, near Ust-Kamenogorsk, in East Kazakhstan, has been stepped up and workers are appealing for support, writes Ainur Kurmanov, President, Workers' Movement of Kazakhstan.
Africa in Crisis: Development reversed by Capitalism BUSH'S VISIT to Africa, no doubt to pave the way for more privatisation contracts for US multinationals, has seen a lot of media interest in the continent that will be dropped as soon as Bush returns to the US, writes Chris Newby.
"Stop The Reform Or We Will Stop The Country" TRADE UNIONISTS in France and Austria have fought major battles this year to stop their right-wing governments attacking workers' pension rights...
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