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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 25 October 2003, issue Safety Not Profit  Safety Not Profit: End Privatisation
Tube workers speak to The Socialist: IN YET another condemnation of the safety record of Britain's privatised railways, two tube trains were derailed on London's 'part-privatised' Underground rail system over last weekend...
London Underground: How Workers Made The Bosses Listen ON FRIDAY night, 17 October the Piccadilly Line of London Underground had a cracked running rail that it was estimated had been broken for four or five months...
Postal Workers Victory: Defend the right to have an effective trade union POSTAL WORKERS in London and across Britain had been forced to walk out over the last few days, in successful strike action to defeat an aggressive management, writes Bill Mullins and Ken Smith.
CWU Leaders Welcome Joint Union Action ON 16 October, London members of postal union CWU and of local government union UNISON both came out on strike and demonstrated for better London weighting...
Postal workers determined to fight AT THE same time as CWU strikers rallied in central London, 65 postal workers met in Dagenham, east London. Bob Gibson, a national CWU official, was there to address rank-and-file activists, writes Manny Thain.
Fight Fees Education not occupation NUS demonstration 26 October: NEW LABOUR'S plans to introduce top-up fees are facing huge opposition. 80% of people are against them. Because of this mass opposition, the government can't even be sure of getting their plans through...
Fighting For Free Education DESPITE MASS opposition by students, parents, many universities and some vice-chancellors, New Labour are now trying to introduce top-up fees...
"Proud, Unrepentant, Defiant And More Determined": Joe and Clare after their release from Mountjoy prison Socialist Party TD (MP) Joe Higgins and Socialist Party councillor Clare Daly were released from Dublin's Mountjoy jail last Saturday after serving a one-month jail sentence for defying a high court injunction...
Defend school students' right to strike Support Karl Debbaut: ON FRIDAY 24 October, Karl Debbaut, the international co-ordinator of International Socialist Resistance (ISR), began his trial for his part in protests on Day X, the day war started...
Come To ISR Conference Young people are facing continuing cuts and privatisation of the education system across the world and, in England and Wales, the prospect of top-up university fees, writes Clare James, ISR national co-ordinator.
Germany in Crisis: 'This Policy Deserves No Applause - But Resistance' TRADITIONALLY, THE German chancellor and the leaders of the political parties would speak at the national congresses of the big trade unions and expect a warm response, writes Sascha Stanicic, Berlin.
Time to Put Forward a Socialist Alternative European Social Forum: The second European Social Forum (ESF) is taking place in Paris from 12 to 15 November. The first one in Florence was a success, particularly with the involvement of young people, workers and trade unionists...
Michael Moore: 'Dude, Where's My Country?' The Socialist review: MICHAEL MOORE said "barring success", Stupid White Men, (reviewed in The Socialist, issue 254), would be his last book, writes Alison Hill.
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