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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 28 June 2007, issue 493  Support postal workers
 | Postal workers on strike in 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
Fight low pay and job losses! Stop Post Office closures!
THE FIRST national postal strike for over eleven years is taking place on Friday 29 June...
'We're fighting back'
Rail union backs postal strikers
Public anger at post office closure
Heanor postal workers seven day strike
National Shop Stewards Network
National Shop Stewards network: Rank and file getting organised
 | Bob Crow, General Secretary RMT |
National Shop Stewards network: HUNDREDS OF trade union shop stewards and workplace reps will be attending the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) conference in London on Saturday 7 July...
Come to the National shop stewards' network Founding conference
Outside Manchester's Gordonville 'bubble'
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Save our NHS
 | NHS demonstration March 3rd 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
Private equity firms, the vulture venture capitalists buying up large parts of the economy and paying virtually no tax, now control 70% of private hospitals, after their acquisition of BUPA's health services last week...
Socialist Party news and analysis
"Pottsamoney" put on the spot Private equity: SOCIALIST PARTY deputy general secretary HANNAH SELL was on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC radio last week, debating the infamous 'private equity' schemes with Hank Potts, equity strategist at Barclays Private Clients...
Harman's promotion
No to mergers, no to cuts
Save Ryeish Green school
Socialism 2007
Come to Socialism 2007 Sick of low pay and long hours? Angry at cuts, closures and privatisation?
Had enough of war and poverty across the globe?
Then come to Socialism 2007!
Socialist Party events
Socialist Party summer camp Contact Jane James for details: 020 8988 8762 or janejames@socialistparty.org.uk...
What we think
It's business as usual as European summit ignores public opposition French and Dutch voters defeated the 2004 draft European Union (EU) constitution when they voted No to it in 2005...
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
World economy grows but workers lose out IN 2006 the world economy grew by 5.4%. That annual rate is comparable with growth in the years of the post-war economic upswing of the 1960s. The ability...
Socialist Party workplace news
Unison leadership launches a witch-hunt UNISON conference: AS UNISON conference began, delegates were stunned to hear the chair of the black members' group claim that a leaflet that had been given out that morning was "racist and offensive"...
Missed opportunity at NUT executive
Socialist Party LGBT
Pride not profit The annual Pride event should be about the assertion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) demands for equality...
London Pride 2007 Homophobia - it's so not over!
Socialist Party review
Rehabilitating Stalin? Review by Peter Taaffe of Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore: "Lenin shot by Trotsky in drunken brawl". This was a headline, not from the gutter press but from a so-called 'quality' US capitalist newspaper in...
International socialist news and analysis
Nigeria: Four-day general strike ends THE LATEST general strike in Nigeria ended on 23 June when the trade union leaders accepted a government offer that granted most, but not all, of their demands....
USA: Protesters demand military recruiters out of schools
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