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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 20 September 2007, issue 502  Nationalise the banks
Make the bankers pay: As panic spread that the building society Northern Rock was about to collapse, thousands of people queued overnight outside its branches to withdraw their hard-earned savings... By Hannah Sell, Socialist Party deputy General Secretary
Economy hits a rock
Crisis will hit north east jobs
Time for a new party
Socialist Students
Fight for a living grant  | Students protest against fees |
Scrap student fees: "I have no incentive for going to university. I can get an alright job without a degree and there's no debt to deal with..." By Holly Robbins, Somerset Socialist Students
What do youth think?
Student Socialist: Issue 5 out now!
Studying on a low wage
Flexible hours? Suits you sir!
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS: Our message to Labour NHS: A REPORT has been published for the right-wing think tank, the Kings Fund, by Sir Derek Wanless, former adviser to Gordon Brown... By Lois Austin
Swansea - no more cuts for cash  | Marching through Swansea to save NHS services, photo M Kamish |
SWANSEA NHS Trust has announced the closure of 86 beds and plans to shed 742 jobs, almost half of them nursing posts... By Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party
Socialist Party news
Victory! Campaign saves nursery  | Huddersfield Examiner reports on the saving of Tiddlywinks nursery. |
Huddersfield: LOCAL PARENTS, their children and staff at Tiddlywinks Nursery in Huddersfield are celebrating a victory in reversing Kirklees council's decision to close it down... By Mike Forster
Medway schools
Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq  | Save Sadiq: Lobby demands asylum for Sadiq, photo Jack Royston |
ABOUT 30 people lobbied Keith Hill MP's surgery in Lambeth on 15 September calling for asylum for Sadiq Abakar, a refugee from the Darfur war zone. ...
Socialism 2007
Socialism 2007  | Socialism 2007 |
BRITAIN IS a divided country, with life for the super-rich seeming like another world all together. While thousands of workers queued for hours outside Northern Rock, fearful they could lose their life savings, the Bank of England bailed out company chiefs, just as they did with Barclays Bank a few weeks ago to the tune of £312 million.
Make Socialism 2007 an unforgettable weekend
TUC Conference
TUC conference: Workers defy Brown  | Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher |
TUC conference - public-sector pay: At last week's TUC conference, Gordon Brown used his speech to kick public-sector trade unionists in the teeth by repeating his demands for pay "discipline"...
Linking the struggles together
International socialist news and analysis
Egypt: Worker militancy shows pressing need for political voice THE EGYPTIAN working class over the last year has jumped into action, coming out in mass strikes, blockading their work-places and more importantly, establishing independent workers' organisations, set apart from the corrupt... By Jim Thomson
Socialist Party review
Consumed: How markets corrupt children, infantilise adults and swallow citizens whole Readers of the socialist could readily agree with the title of this book. The destructive nature of the capitalist system, based upon production for profit... By Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party General Secretary
Workplace news and analysis
Remploy workers fight for jobs  | Remploy workers rally against closure threat, photo Chris Moore |
"If need be, we will take this attitude to the battlefield and with this attitude, we will win"
Defend the Burslem 12
CWU: Further national action discussed
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