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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 30 June 2005, issue Down with the G8 - Fight for a socialist future  Workers and poor rise up against poverty
THE G8 countries' debt relief programme is soaked in cynicism and hypocrisy. ...
Sri Lanka: The struggle for survival and justice goes on THE PEOPLE in Sri Lanka who lost everything in the tsunami disaster of 26 December are still left with nothing...
Capitalism means poverty and exploitation FOR YEARS, the majority of Pakistanis, like many people throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, have seen their living standards slashed by their government's 'neo-liberal' policies - encouraged by Western imperialism...
CWI - who we are - what we fight for THE COMMITTEE for a Workers' International (CWI) is an international socialist organisation fighting for the interests of working class people and youth across the globe...
Iraq sinks deeper into the quagmire Iraq: NO-ONE believed US vice-president Dick Cheney when he said the Iraqi insurgency was in its "last throes"...
How can we change the world? FEW SCIENCE fiction writers have succeeded in imagining a dystopian society more horrifying than the one we actually live in...
Fight for a socialist plan MORE THAN 20,000 people die each day in the neo-colonial world because of "extreme poverty"...
Socialism 2005 Socialism 2005 is an opportunity for anyone who is angry at the poverty and inequality in society to come together to debate socialist ideas...
ISR - youth on the march INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST Resistance (ISR) is an international socialist organisation which is run by and for young people...
The struggle for socialism in Scotland Sinead Daly from International Socialists and a member of the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) executive committee looks at the programme and evolution of the SSP...
Make Homophobia and Capitalism History! THIS IS the Socialist Party Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) group message at this year's Pride...
30 June 2005
Organising against the two-tier workforce SIX HUNDRED caterers, laundry workers and domestics were on strike at Aintree Hospital, Liverpool, on 20 and 21 June. They are members of GMB, TGWU and UNISON, writes Andy Ford, Amicus North Manchester NHS Branch, personal capacity.
Labour declares war on the NHS Kick out the private sector parasites: HEALTH SECRETARY Patricia Hewitt, on behalf of the government and the private companies it represents, has declared war on our National Health Service...
Fiery speeches but bland policy statements THE SOCIALIST Party's industrial organiser, Bill Mullins, reports from UNISON's annual conference, writes UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis gave a rousing speech to the conference:.
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