In this week's issue:

The Socialist 4 April 2007, issue Children suffer in low pay Britain

Children suffer in low pay Britain

'Shock - child poverty increases' shouted the headlines last week. The figures are shocking; last year there were 200,000 more children living in poverty...

Socialist Party editorial

Iran - Sailors fall victim to imperialist policies

Editorial: CLAIM AND counter-claim from the Iranian and British governments has followed the Iranian government's capture and release of fifteen British marines and sailors, allegedly for trespassing into Iranian waters...

Socialist Party news and analysis

Brown's pension robbery

THE TIMES has revealed that one of Gordon Brown's first acts as chancellor in 1997 was to give big business the green light to cut workers' occupational pension schemes....

Blair: No solutions to crime or crowded prisons

Waltham Forest protest - more memorable than Prince Charles!

Commemorating the abolition of the slave trade

Socialist Party reviews

One Life: Ricky Tomlinson

Ricky Tomlinson

Review: Based on the events of the jailing of Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren by the Heath government in 1972, this programme gripped you by the throat from the outset, writes Tony Mulhearn ...

In The Line of Fire

Book review: PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, Pakistan's military dictator in presidential clothing, is unlikely to survive in his post much longer...

Days of Glory

Education

Take national action to defend education

Teachers face heavy workloads, stress, performance pay: AT THE National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference this year, teachers are discussing how to resist government attacks on our pay and conditions and on comprehensive education...

Labour's market policies damage education

Privilege and privation in our schools

NUS leadership abandon fees fight

PCS takes industrial action

London strikers close passport office

Civil service pay: STRIKING PCS members shut down the head office of the Identity and Passport Service on 30 March in London...

PCS members take industrial action

Anger on Newport picket line

Upbeat London rally

Campaign for a New Workers Party

How to stop the BNP: Build a political alternative

How to stop the BNP: ON 29 March 100 trade unionists and anti-racist activists gathered for a midday demonstration in Liverpool city centre...

Socialist Party NHS campaign

Ammanford home care workers march

ABOUT 200 protesters attended a GMB, T&G and UNISON-organised march in the ex-mining town of Ammanford on 30 March against Carmarthenshire county council's plans to privatise the in-house home carers service....

Frustration at demo delay

We shall not be moved!

Asylum

Save Sadiq Abakar

Darfur: Deported asylum seekers tortured and murdered: AN INVESTIGATION by the United Nations (UN) in 2005 accused the Sudan-backed Janjaweed militias of carrying out the mass murder of civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan...

Leicester protesters challenge Home Office

Workplace news and analysis

Trade union leaders heckled over inaction

Building workers' lobby: OVER 3,000 construction workers descended on London on 28 March for a trade union rally and lobby of parliament against appalling conditions in the building industry...

Action needed as Ford bosses close Leamington plant

Celebs fail to save Burberry

Greenwich: "We've got to strike"

Burslem postal workers strike again

Northern Ireland

British government and local parties retreat on water charges

Northern Ireland: IN A major climb down by both the British government and local parties the proposed introduction of water charges in Northern Ireland has been postponed for 12 months...

We Won't Pay Campaign