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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 4 January 2007, issue 468  Super-rich pocket £18 billion
FAMILIES who lost their savings due to the collapse of the company Farepak struggled to have a good Christmas.
At the same time London's top financiers were living it up with bonuses totalling £9,000,000,000 (£9 billion). Across Britain as a whole, the bonuses received by directors were estimated to be double that figure, a staggering £18 billion.
Transport deregulation rip-off
We want our busses back! Bus fares rise again: We Want Our Buses Back (WWOBB) campaigners will be on the march again in Sheffield, on Saturday 6 January, protesting against bus fare rises...
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Build for a March demo  NHS: THE BATTLE to save the National Health Service must be stepped up in 2007 to stop cuts, closures and privatisation...
Video National Save Our NHS Whitehall campaign Protest (340Kbits) (4 min video)
Merthyr fights Labour's 'designs'
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Fighting the bosses' offensive 2007 - a new year of struggle worldwide: As the new year begins, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe looks at the challenges lying ahead for socialists in 2007
War and terrorism
Saddam Hussein: Barbaric hanging deepens divisions Saddam's execution: THE HANGING of Saddam Hussein on 30 December had nothing to do with obtaining justice for his victims or the working people of Iraq and everything to do with satisfying the agenda of the elite Iraqi Shia-dominated government ...
Frankenstein kills out of control monster
Arise, Sir Dodgy Dossier
Violence against women
Ipswich murders lifts lid on violent world THE DISCOVERY of the bodies of five young women in Ipswich, all brutally murdered, shocked and touched people all over the country...
Vigil remembers the victims
Socialist Party workplace news
Workers prepare for action over jobs, pay and services NEARLY 300,000 members of the PCS civil service union are balloting for national strike action over jobs, pay and privatisation...
Strike action brings victory
Victory for Surrey social workers
No to the 'Single Status' race to the bottom
Railworkers fight for quality of life
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