The Socialist 15 February 2007

Scrap student fees now

Cardiff students build for 22 February

Students must link up with workers

'Saintly' Tesco

A great step forward in Liverpool

Bush threatens Iran over Iraq insurgency

£100 billion Trident?

Angry refugees protest

Ten years of the socialist: 1997-2007

Bird flu outbreak: Profits put before health

Job losses fear on turkey farms

Workers' health jeopardised

Fighting back against NHS cuts

Police raids dividing community

Save our school buses

£84 million penthouse

Workers' strike declared illegal

HSBC imposes charges on aid to Palestinians

PCS action continues

Simclar workers fight sackings

EDS forced into 'U' turn on pay

Greenwich workers prepare to fight

Hackney UNISON

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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.

Leicester

Angry refugees protest

EVEN BUSH'S government now admits that Iraq is in a civil war, but Britain's Home Office considers Iraq a safe place for refugees fleeing the bloodshed to be forcibly returned to. It has arranged charter flights of refugees. To prepare for this, many Iraqis and Kurds have been detained in the past two weeks, which has led to angry protests in London, Manchester and Leicester on 8 February.

In Leicester, a Federation of Iraqi Refugees demonstration attracted 200 people. Several Kurdish speakers told us about the chaos in Iraq and Kurdistan and the repression there, and how much refugees can contribute to British society and the economy.

Steve Score from Leicester Socialist Party chaired the demonstration. He spoke about the crisis in the NHS, the huge levels of poverty existing across Britain, and how capitalism, the system of big business, fosters the false idea that asylum seekers are to blame.