In this week's issue:

The Socialist 11 January 2007, issue Exposed: Labour to savage NHS jobs

Sri Lankan government blamed for violent attack on ant-war rally organiers

Interview With Siritunga Jayasuriya.: AT: Siri, the press has carried reports of a violent attack by armed thugs against you and other organisers at a public rally in Colombo...

Labour to savage NHS jobs

Exposed: A LEAKED document from the Department of Health reveals that New Labour is considering more savage cuts to the NHS that go way beyond anything most anti-cuts campaigners anticipated...

Union action can defend the NHS

Manchester NHS: "Making it better" means making it worse

Socialist Students

Students fight for free education

SO RUTH Kelly, former education minister, sends her child to a £15,000 a year private school...

How to become a fees fighter

ISR and Socialist Students' conference - a political voice for young people

Socialist Party news and analysis

The war for oil profits

Iraq: AS WE go to press, President Bush is due to tell the US Congress his plans for Iraq...

Murderous raid on anti-war meeting

Ruthless Ruth Kelly

Violence against women

Ipswich murders lift lid on violence against women

THE brutal murders of five young women in Ipswich shocked and touched people all over the country...

Socialist Party review

Pirates of the Caribbean

Review: THERE IS great interest in Hugo Chávez's Venezuela, Evo Morales' Bolivia and Fidel Castro's Cuba, among workers and young people worldwide...

International socialist news and analysis

Ethiopia invasion throws Somalia further into crisis

THE LONG-suffering Somali people, after enjoying six months of relative stability, have once again seen their country thrown into chaos...

The Lagos oil pipeline tragedy was avoidable

Northern Ireland: New governing executive looks in doubt

Socialist Party workplace news

Time for action on pensions!

Local government pensions: WHILST EVERYONE else was preparing for Christmas, in true scrooge-like manner, the new local government pensions regulations were being laid before parliament...

Vote 'yes' in PCS ballot

Construction boom - workers organise

We want our buses back!

Public transport and private ownership don't mix