The Socialist

The Socialist 22 March 2007

Labour's NHS plans: not what the doctors ordered!

Labour's NHS plans: not what the doctors ordered!

Divisive forgery shocks health campaign


End Iraq hell

Blair (and Tories) get their Trident vote

Will Bush bomb Iran?


Public anger sees off BNP

May Day greetings - support the socialist

Keep the market out of education!


Young people get organised


Passenger protests force some improvements

Budget: Who are the real scroungers?

Water charges to be delayed?

Socialist Party women's day school a success


Private equity deals - fight free-market vultures


How was the slave trade abolished?


Rifondazione Comunista - its future?

A tale of two tours

"Bush out of Iraq and Lula out of Haiti"

Greece: The struggle to defend free education


Burslem postal workers continue the fight

Defend UNISON health activist

Greenwich single status scandal

TUC try to cut conference childcare provision

Amicus and TGWU to merge

Fight university job cuts

Lobby for migrant workers' rights

 

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The Socialist 22 March 2007, issue 479

Labour's NHS plans: not what the doctors ordered!

Doctors demonstrate March 2007, photo Naomi Byron

Doctors demonstrate March 2007, photo Naomi Byron

DO YOU want to be referred for an operation by Tesco or Sainsbury's? Would you trust Asda to prescribe the medication that is best for you? New Labour...

Divisive forgery shocks health campaign

Kirklees: THE SAVE Huddersfield NHS campaign won a famous victory in last year's council elections in Kirklees council when local GP and Socialist Party member Jackie Grunsell was elected as a councillor for the Crosland Moor and Neth...

War and terrorism

End Iraq hell

Bush and Poodle Blair: Get out of Iraq, photo Alan Hardman

Bush and Poodle Blair: Get out of Iraq, photo Alan Hardman

Four years of occupation: FOUR YEARS on from the invasion of Iraq, and what have the Iraqi people got...

Blair (and Tories) get their Trident vote

Will Bush bomb Iran?

Socialist Party campaigns

Public anger sees off BNP

"THE FAR-right BNP were there on the High Street, then this crowd gathered shouting 'racist pigs'...

May Day greetings - support the socialist

Keep the market out of education!

International Socialist Resistance

Young people get organised

ISR conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

ISR conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

ISR/Socialist Students conference: STUDENTS, YOUNG people and young workers gathered in London on 18 March for the Socialist Students and International Socialist Resistance (ISR) annual conference...

Socialist Party news and analysis

Passenger protests force some improvements

Rail investment: THE GOVERNMENT ann-ouncement that 1,000 new rail carriages are to be provided to ease overcrowding is welcome news for rail travellers and rail workers who are frustrated that the service we provide fails our customers...

Budget: Who are the real scroungers?

Water charges to be delayed?

Socialist Party women's day school a success

What we think

Private equity deals - fight free-market vultures

Editorial: THERE IS a frenzy of takeovers by private equity firms, part of a world-wide surge of company mergers and takeovers by banks, hedge funds and big corporations...

Marxist analysis: history

How was the slave trade abolished?

 Toussaint L'Ouverture led a successful uprising of black slaves

Toussaint L'Ouverture led a successful uprising of black slaves

Reform or revolt?: TWO HUNDRED years after the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in Britain's Parliament, Hugo Pierre asks:...

International socialist news and analysis

Rifondazione Comunista - its future?

Italy: On A recent visit to Italy, Peter Taaffe, together with other CWI members, discussed perspectives with workers and activists in the Italian labour movement for the future of Rifondazione Comunista (Prc)....

A tale of two tours

Latin America: YOU WOULD rarely have a bigger contrast between Presidents George Bush and Hugo Chavez on their recent tours around Latin America...

"Bush out of Iraq and Lula out of Haiti"

Greece: The struggle to defend free education

Workplace news and analysis

Burslem postal workers continue the fight

Reinstate Dave Condliffe: POSTAL WORKERS in Burslem continue the fight to get Dave Condliffe reinstated...

Defend UNISON health activist

Greenwich single status scandal

TUC try to cut conference childcare provision

Amicus and TGWU to merge

Fight university job cuts

Lobby for migrant workers' rights