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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 15 November 2003, issue Protest Against Bush  End the occupation of Iraq: Protest Against Bush
ON THE eve of his visit to Britain, George Bush has complained about the lack of democracy in the Middle East. What hypocrisy. This from a man who cheated the electoral system to become US President!...
Occupation of Iraq: A Disaster Happening Now A POLL in the Times newspaper shows that most people now think that the "strong personal relationship" between George W Bush and Tony Blair is bad for Britain...
Vote For Real Change: Vote Socialist in Lewisham Lewisham By-election 4 December: THE SOCIALIST Party is standing in the by-election in Telegraph Hill ward in Lewisham on 4 December. The Socialist Alternative candidate is health worker Chris Flood - we aim to get another socialist councillor...
Lessons of the postal strike: The Bosses Can Be Beaten THE POSTAL workers' decisive defensive victory against management intimidation will give confidence to all workers involved in struggle against the bosses...
Teachers Ballot Against Sats THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) National Executive (NEC) has unanimously decided to ballot its members against the school SATs tests, writes Linda Taaffe, NUT.
A Decade On The Wrong Tracks FEW PEOPLE are celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Tory Transport Act which ushered in rail privatisation. Shareholders in the private rail companies are an exception of course...
London's Low-Paid Fight Back COUNCIL WORKERS, UNISON members, in London have started another five-week round of selective strike action to win £4,000 a year London weighting, writes Mike Cleverley, proud member of Waltham Forest UNISON.
Northern Ireland elections: Capitalist Politicians Bring Stalemate And Division NORTHERN IRELAND will be going to the polls on 26 November. But no agreement has been reached on how a new Executive will be put in place after the election...
Ireland: Fighting The Bin Tax DUBLIN'S HIGH Court jailed six residents last week for three weeks and each were fined €1,500 for protesting against the bin tax, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Dublin.
Global warming: How Capitalism Puts Our Planet At Risk THIS YEAR'S hot summer in Britain, bringing with it the threat of a winter drought, has directed some new media attention onto the most serious environmental danger facing the planet, global warming...
Strikes Rock Government in Greece A FEW months before the general elections in spring 2004, the social-democrat PASOK government is in serious trouble, writes Elektra Kleitsa, Xekinima, Athens..
Sri Lanka's Political Crisis Unresolved PRESIDENT CHANDRIKA Kumaratunga's attempted semi-military coup against the United National Party (UNP) Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe appears to have boomeranged back against her, writes Robert Bechert.
John Marek Launches Forward Wales, Cymru Ymlaen AS DISSATISFACTION with New Labour grows and people in Wales become more and more disillusioned with the main parties, the need for a new mass party for working people has never been more urgent, writes Dave Reid, Socialist Party Wales.
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