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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 27 September 2007, issue 503  Support the postal workers
 | Postal workers on strike in June 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
Royal Mail bosses force further strikes:
THE BATTLE lines have been drawn between Royal Mail and the postal workers. Without doubt we are heading for a showdown, where the very future of our industry...
By Gary Clark, sub area rep, Scotland No. 2 branch Communication Workers Union (CWU)
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Scrap PFI!  | Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006. Photo Paul Mattsson |
Save Coventry hospitals: THE PRIVATE Finance Initiative (PFI) hospital at Walsgrave in Coventry has threatened to cut over 300 jobs, and has announced a massive rise in car parking charges for the disabled... By Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist Party councillor
Local health services under private control
Swansea NHS trust - balancing books at patients' expense
Socialist Party news and analysis
Brown's blue bluster in Bournemouth  | Unite trade union demonstration outside Labour Party conference 2007, photo Bob Severn |
BEFORE THIS year's Labour Party conference, the unrelenting process of removing democracy inside the Labour Party had already helped to transform the party into the capitalist party that it is today...
Union protest at Labour's sterile conference
Liberal Democrats - Struggling in third place
Salmond's first hundred days
Stoke's 'unpopular front' council coalition
Socialist Students
University freshers fairs Northumbria University: IF YOU were a student at Northumbria University's freshers fair, and were interested in socialist ideas, our Socialist Student stall was the only stall for you!...
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
British banking crisis: Toxic system exposed THE NEAR collapse of Northern Rock bank, accompanied by the most astonishing scenes of panic for generations outside its branches, has serious political implications for Britain and the government of Gordon Brown...
International socialist news and analysis
Greek elections: Support slashed for New Democracy and PASOK THE RESULTS of the Greek elections, on 16 September, represent the biggest blow for many years against the governing right wing New Democracy and the opposition social democratic, pro-capitalist PASOK party... By Andros Payiatsos, Xekinima (CWI, Greece)
Socialist Party workplace news
PCS prepares for more strikes PCS's national executive committee (NEC) has unanimously voted to hold a consultative ballot of PCS members for national industrial action to stop compulsory redundancies and defend pay and conditions... By John McInally, PCS NEC, personal capacity
Belfast Airport workers continue their battle
Bus workers win victory
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