In this week's issue:

The Socialist 17 May 2007, issue 487

Good riddance to Blair!

What we really think "Tony Blair's legacy is Iraq which was implemented on a lie. He's still lying and he doesn't regret anything that he's done which is quite sad...

Gillingham greets Gordon

Editorial: Blair's departure: Curtain falls on disastrous reign

Socialist Party NHS campaign

Partial climbdown encourages Maudsley fight back

Save our NHS: EXECUTIVES AT Maudsley Mental Health Hospital Trust have been forced into a partial climb-down over their plans to close the hospital's emergency clinic (EC)

Picture: Lois Austin, secretary Southwark and Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public, speaking at the Campaign for a new workers' party conference 2007. Photo Paul Mattsson

International Socialist Resistance

Protest against the G8 Rostock 2007

ISR demonstrating at the G8 in Edinburgh 2005

One hypocrite will now replace another! Blair has been recounting his so-called achievements and includes among them his so-called triumph at the July...

Join ISR in a summer of protest!

Campaign for a New Workers Party

Conference for a working class political alternative

Campaign for a New Workers Party (CNWP) conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Campaign for a New Workers' Party: A highly successful second conference of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP) took place on Saturday 12 May...

Global Warming

Who pays to stop climate change?

GLOBAL WARMING and consequent climate change 'can be solved' according to the third part of the major 2007 study from the UN-sponsored committee of scientists (IPCC), issued in Bangkok early in May...

Ireland

The 'politics of smiles'

Northern Ireland Executive: IT WAS all photo opportunities at Stormont on 8 May when the new Northern Ireland Executive was set up, with Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Ian Paisley installed as First Minister and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness as...

Irish election: An above average Joe

Joe Higgins and the victorious Gama workers

SOUTHERN IRELAND'S general election for the Dail, Ireland's Parliament, on 24 May gives working-class people a chance to say what they think of the 'Celtic Tiger' economic boom that has made huge profits for big business ...

International socialist news

Israel: Students battle against fees and cutbacks

ISRAELI STUDENTS have taken to the streets in a battle against the government over rises in tuition fees, education cuts of up to NIS 1.2 billion (Û215 million), and the privatisation of education...

Socialist Party election campaign

No gains for the BNP in Lincoln

Boasting they could double their representation on local councils, the far-right British National Party (BNP) made a net gain of only two nationally in the 3 May council elections...

Socialists take on the hospital crisis in Bristol

Baguley: Socialists are left opposition to New Labour

Socialist Party workplace news

Left victory in PCS elections

THE ELECTIONS for the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) demonstrate the support of the membership for our strategy to defend jobs and pay...

Postal workers: Vote 'yes' for strike action

FBU conference: Preparing for future battles