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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 15 February 2007, issue Scrap student fees now Scrap student fees now
Build the Campaign to Defeat Fees: Students are angry - fees are an unbearable burden and massive debts are a shadow over their futures...
Cardiff students build for 22 February
Students must link up with workers
'Saintly' Tesco
Campaign for a New Workers Party
A great step forward in Liverpool
Campaign for a New Workers' Party: Two hundred and fifty people, of all ages, crowded into the Casa (Dockers') Club in Liverpool to hear the case for a new mass party of the working class...
War and terrorism
Stop the War Coalition/CND demo
Troops out of Iraq.
No Trident.
Saturday 24 February.
Assemble 12 noon, Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. March to Trafalgar Square, London. |
Bush threatens Iran over Iraq insurgency
£100 billion Trident?
Angry refugees protest
Socialist Party feature
Ten years of the socialist: 1997-2007
THE SOCIALIST was launched ten years ago, in February 1997. Like its predecessor, Militant, launched in 1964, the socialist entered the scene just as a long period of Tory government was about to end with the election of a Labour government.
And, as Ken Smith, the first editor of the socialist explains, like its predecessor, the paper had to cover and respond to massive world-changing events in the immediate years after its launch.
Bird flu outbreak
Bird flu outbreak: Profits put before health
THE BIRD flu outbreak at Bernard Matthews' Holton plant in Suffolk has again exposed the government's compliance with big business to put the profits of the food processing industry before people's health....
Job losses fear on turkey farms
Workers' health jeopardised
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Fighting back against NHS cuts
WILTSHIRE PRIMARY Care Trust (PCT) recently announced they would close three local community hospitals and two maternity units...
Socialist Party news and analysis
Police raids dividing community
Birmingham 'terrorism' arrests: THE RECENT arrest of nine 'terrorist' suspects in Birmingham is another high profile police swoop to have taken place in recent months...
Save our school buses
£84 million penthouse
International socialist news
Workers' strike declared illegal
Kashmir: TENS OF thousands of public-sector workers have been involved in a bitter struggle since November 2006 to force the government in Pakistani administered Kashmir to implement promises of compensation for losses suffered during...
HSBC imposes charges on aid to Palestinians
Workplace news and analysis
PCS action continues
THE ONE-DAY PCS strike on 31 January has been followed up by a two-week overtime ban...
Simclar workers fight sackings
EDS forced into 'U' turn on pay
Greenwich workers prepare to fight
Hackney UNISON
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