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The Socialist 4 January 2007

Super-rich pocket £18 Billion

Super-rich pocket £18 billion


We want our busses back!


Build for a March demo

Video National Save Our NHS Whitehall campaign Protest (340Kbits) (4 min video)

Merthyr fights Labour's 'designs'


Fighting the bosses' offensive


Saddam Hussein: Barbaric hanging deepens divisions

Frankenstein kills out of control monster

Arise, Sir Dodgy Dossier


Ipswich murders lifts lid on violent world

Vigil remembers the victims


Workers prepare for action over jobs, pay and services

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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Ipswich murders

Vigil remembers the victims

OVER 200 people joined the Reclaim the Night candle-lit vigil, march and minute's silence in Ipswich on 29 December in memory of the five young Ipswich women who were recently murdered.

Socialist Party member and secretary of Ipswich TUC, Teresa MacKay, opened the event by stating what a terrible impact the murders had had around the country. People travelled from Birmingham, Portsmouth, Yorkshire and Wales to demand the right for women to live free of violence.

Teresa illustrated the terrible violence that affects all women in society and said the community and trade unions had a duty to debate issues such as decriminalisation and tolerance zones if we are to lift the violent lid on street prostitution.

Sarah from the English Collective of Prostitutes said there had been a great outpouring of sympathy over the murders and that more people were understanding how women were made 'criminals' through vulnerability.

Both speakers insisted that money had to be found to provide vulnerable women with a safe environment and proper drug rehabilitation for those in need. This must not be at the expense of other services. Money was always available when a country goes to war but now money had to be made available for all women to live safely.

A full article on the Ipswich murders can be found on www.socialistparty.org.uk and will be published in next week's issue of the socialist.


In this issue

Super-rich pocket £18 billion


Transport deregulation rip-off

We want our busses back!


Socialist Party NHS campaign

Build for a March demo

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


War and terrorism

Saddam Hussein: Barbaric hanging deepens divisions

Frankenstein kills out of control monster

Arise, Sir Dodgy Dossier


Violence against women

Ipswich murders lifts lid on violent world

Vigil remembers the victims


Socialist Party workplace news

Workers prepare for action over jobs, pay and services

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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Related links:

Violence against women:

triangleCombating violence against women: A socialist perspective on fighting women's oppression

triangleStop violence against women

triangleShafilia Ahmed murder: A question of women's rights

triangleBradford murders and prostitution

triangleDomestic Violence Is A Trade Union Issue

Ipswich:

triangleObituary: Roger MacKay, a tireless fighter for socialist ideas

triangleSuffolk Tories in retreat?

triangleFight against cuts continues to grow

triangleStop wholesale sell-off in Suffolk

Women:

triangleSick Of Your Boss: young people in work - your stories

triangleLack of enthusiasm for Labour

triangleSold-out non-sexist comedy night