The Socialist

The Socialist 8 November 2003

End The Occupation Of Iraq

End The Occupation Of Iraq

Civil servants launch pay battle: End Low Pay

Firefighters Take Action

Tory Party Victory For 'Something Of The Right'

Postal Workers Win Important Victory

Lewisham: Socialist Party Standing In Council By-Election

Galloway Takes Road Of 'Popular Unity'

Police Racism - Caught Red-Handed

'Oligarchs' And 'Bonapartes' - Capitalism In Post-Soviet Russia

 
 

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The Socialist 8 November 2003, issue End The Occupation Of Iraq

spotEnd The Occupation Of Iraq

Protest against George Bush visit: THE NIGHTMARE scenario for George Bush - a Vietnam-like guerrilla war - looms larger with each day the US-led occupation of Iraq continues...


spotCivil servants launch pay battle: End Low Pay

IN REAL terms, civil service pay has fallen behind that of other public sector workers. Between 1992-2002 real earnings of the lowest-paid staff rose by only 3.5%-3.7% compared to 21% for nurses and 14%...


spotFirefighters Take Action

FIREFIGHTERS AT stations in Yorkshire, the Midlands, Wiltshire, East Anglia and Scotland are taking unofficial industrial action...


spotTory Party Victory For 'Something Of The Right'

TWO MONTHS ago the Conservative Christian Fellowship posted prayers for their party on their website, writes Alistair Tice.


spotPostal Workers Win Important Victory

THE COURAGEOUS unofficial action by tens of thousands of postal workers in the last two weeks has shown that bullying bosses can be stood up to and forced to retreat...


spotLewisham: Socialist Party Standing In Council By-Election

LEWISHAM COUNCIL recently 'discovered' asbestos on some of their properties on the Honor Oak Estate...


spotGalloway Takes Road Of 'Popular Unity'

Editorial: What We think: ON WEDNESDAY 29 October around 1,400 people came to a meeting in London entitled 'British politics at the crossroads'...


spotPolice Racism - Caught Red-Handed

Special Feature: "IT WAS just revolting. These were young thugs. We have to say to ourselves, what is the difference between them and the people who murdered Stephen Lawrence? I never saw anything like this even 25 years...


spot'Oligarchs' And 'Bonapartes' - Capitalism In Post-Soviet Russia

Khodorkovskii arrest: Mikhail Khodorkovskii, head of the oil giant Yukos and one of Russia's richest men, was taken by armed men from his private jet...