In this week's issue:

The Socialist 7 June 2007, issue 490

Labour cheats NHS

NHS demonstration March 3rd 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Stop cuts and closures: NHS WORKERS were outraged when they heard that there had been a £500 million under-spend in the NHS in England...

PFI - a licence to print money

Petition on NHS: Stop cuts and privatisations (word)

War and terrorism

Fight Brown's agenda of war, cuts & privatisation

Gordon Brown, on the cover of Socialism Today, cartoon by Suz

Join the 24 June demo : GORDON BROWN is visiting Manchester for a special Labour conference as part of his "coronation" as prime minister. His cheerleaders claim: "Brown won't be like Blair". One such apologist recently said: "What shade of Brown we get depends on us".

We say any shade of New Labour's wars, cuts and privatisations is unacceptable!

Socialist Party workplace news

Postal workers fight closure

As postal workers nationally voted overwhelmingly for national strike action, The Socialist received this report of strike action in Derbyshire.

Coventry says 'keep our Post Office open'

CWU delegates attack link with Labour

Come to the Shop Stewards' Network conference

THE FOUNDING conference of the Shop Stewards Network (NSSN), to be held in London on 7 July, is gathering widespread support wherever it is raised....

Ritzy - low-paid workers strike again

G8 Summit protests

80,000 demonstrate against the G8 summit

G8 demonstration in Rostock, Germany, photo SAV

Rostock, Germany: For people watching the television news, the coverage of the anti-G8 protests has been dominated by reports of violent clashes between police and some protesters...

Activists with ideas

What we think

Drowning in an ocean of debt

IT IS a telling sign of the scale of debt-related stress, when some people who have 'opted' for bankruptcy say they are relieved...

Socialist Party feature

Young people: a bright future... or different shades of grey

What's facing young people today?: YOUNG PEOPLE today are more likely to be regarded by the government and the bosses' press as a threat and a nuisance, rather than the next generation that needs encouragement and development...

International socialist news and analysis

Bolivia: Release Adam Ziemkowski

Still from video of UK protest outside the Bolivian embassy

FOLLOWING ATTACKS on left-wing activists by right-wing thugs, working in collaboration with the right-wing Prefectura in Cochabamba, Bolivia, CWI member Adam Ziemkowski has been arrested. He will appear in court on 6 June charged with 'sedition and incitement to violence'.

South Africa: Public sector workers in mass fightback

IN WHAT independent television channel, ETv, described as the biggest strike since 1994 (the year the ANC government came to power), the overwhelming majority of South Africa's one million public sector workers started an in...

The Arab-Israel 1967 war: repression and bloodshed continues

Socialist Party news and analysis

Don't trust the Trust schools - organise!

Durham: LAST YEAR, New Labour forced through legislation that would allow 'high-achieving' schools to go from being a community school, under democratic control from the local education authority, to becoming a Trust School which w...

Tony Blair "brings church into school"

Weekly bin collections AND recycling schemes

Black and Asian group: Socialist ideas to unite all workers

Take part in the 22-28 June Fighting Fund week of action

The fat cat and the 'cleaning lady'

Workplace news and analysis

Remploy management squander opportunities

REMPLOY HAVE announced the closure of 43 factories. If this goes ahead, around 2,500 disabled people will lose their jobs. The danger will be that many...

Tesco strikes show new mood