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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 20 July 2006, issue Middle East crisis: Stop the carnage War and occupation
 Stop the carnage
THE ISRAELI government is bombing Lebanon into rubble. Airports, roads, buildings and, not least, hundreds of human lives have been destroyed. Workers and young people around the world were already sickened by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) attacks on Gaza, but what has taken place in the last few days is a massive escalation of the nightmarish crisis in the Middle East...
Lebanon: Israel's air war threatens regional war
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Fighting for the future of the NHS Health workers demonstrate at Whipps Cross hospital in East London, photo Paul Mattsson Healthworkers and campaigners step up their struggle: ACROSS BRITAIN people are marching in their thousands to defend their NHS. From ward closures to bed cuts, to ripping off patients' relatives for phone calls and parking charges, people have had enough of New Labour's running...
Hundreds march to stop Labour's 'leeches'
West Mids march builds links
No to cuts, no to privatisation
Activists organise for action
What the Socialist Party says
Socialist Party campaigns
Low pay, no way! PRIMARK PAYS peanuts!" "BBC are misers!" "New park nursery - charges parents a fortune, pays workers a pittance". Young people around the country are adding managers, supervisors and well-known retail chains to ISR 'walls of shame' that name these Scrooge bosses, writes Ben Robinson, ISR national coordinator.
Police not to face charges
Arrested on suspicion
Bury campaign SOCs it to the council
International socialist news and analysis
Anger in St Petersburg as the 'Big Eight' arrive MORE THAN $10 billion is being spent on the 'Big Eight' in St Petersburg, including a massive security operation. Guests of Vladimir Putin, president of what is being dubbed the 'energy superpower' of the world, spent two days agreeing policies that won't change one iota the fate of the majority of the world's population who live in poverty and fear, writes Elizabeth Clarke, St Petersburg, Russia.
Kazakhstan: Shanyrak shanty town in revolt
Scottish Socialist Party
Serious crisis for Scottish Socialist Party Tommy Sheridan court case: THE PRESS in Scotland have dubbed it the libel trial of the decade. A case that has already resulted in saturation coverage in the Scottish media. Tommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist Party MSP and former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party versus the News of the World. Philip Stott, International Socialists, reports.
Campaign for a New Workers Party
Sea of sleaze rises around Blair DESPITE HIS bravura performance at the G8, Tony Blair may not be able to deliver his promise to see all the other leaders at next year's summit...
RMT rejects move back to New Labour... THE KEY political debate at the Rail Maritime and Transport workers' union (RMT) meeting in Dublin this month was on the crisis in working-class political representation...
Can the Left reclaim Labour?
Gordon Brown steps up attacks on the public sector
New Labour's attack on the sick and disabled
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