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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 8 February 2007, issue 473  BLAIR MUST GO!
 Time for a new workers' party: The 'cash for peerages' scandal has again reared its head with more arrests and police now circling around Tony Blair himself, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist Party Councillor, Coventry
Sold to big business
Can the Left reclaim Labour?
Merseyside Campaign for a new workers' party
Website of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party
Civil servants' strike
Interview with Mark Serwotka: "This is just the beginning of the campaign"  HUNDREDS OF thousands of civil and public service union (PCS) members were out in force on strike on 31 January. They were fighting government plans to cut and relocate jobs, worsen working conditions and make below-inflation pay offers while the government is spending billions of pounds on private consultants.
Welsh strikers close down Assembly
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Anger at union leaders' timidity AROUND THE country, health campaigners in 'save our NHS' groups such as PUSH and KONP are furious that there will not be a national demonstration on 3 March organised by the health trade unions...
Manchester nurses strike against health cuts
Environment
Change the system not the climate!  UN report predicts climate chaos: THIS MONTH saw the publication of the fourth report from the UN's climate science programme (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC)...
Bush's bio-fuel bull
Socialist Party news and analysis
Has Manchester struck it lucky? Super-casinos: "MANCHESTER HITS the jackpot." This was how the Manchester Evening News greeted the announcement that the city had won the bid for Britain's first 'super casino'...
Socialist Party campaigns
Camden council blames cuts on 'spending gap' CAMDEN'S NEW Lib Dem/Tory coalition council have embarked on a £40 million cuts programme to jobs and services. ...
Don't privatise social housing!
Tenants pay when things go wrong
Coventry - a victory for determination
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Rising anger and discontent in Europe CWI World Congress report: IN THIS second report in the socialist from the recent ninth world congress of the Committee for a Workers' International, Paula Mitchell summarises some of the themes raised in the discussion on Europe....
International socialist news and analysis
Darfur - another failure of Western 'conflict resolution' OVER THE last three years, between 200,000 and 400,000 people died in the Darfur conflict, in western Sudan...
Sri Lanka: Keep up the protests
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
The writing on the Chinese wall Can China achieve the transition from 'communism' to capitalism? How long will its turbocharged economic growth last? Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, reviews The Writing on the Wall - China and the West in the 21st Century by Will Hutton
Workplace news
Stop the Valentine's Day pay massacre ! Southampton care workers: Workers in six Southampton care homes received huge local support last weekend during a three-day strike to stop vicious wage cuts being imposed by the city council...
Striking back at the privateers
Corus deal threatens new cost-cutting
Cabin crew angry over BA deal
May Day greetings
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