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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 4 October 2007, issue 504  Support postal workers: decisive action can win
 | Postal workers on strike in June 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
Royal Mail's unrelenting attacks on postal workers' conditions have forced the Communication Workers Union (CWU) to re-start strike action... By Jane James
"We've had the battle - now this is war!"
Protests make bosses ditch closure plan
War and terrorism
Iraq: end the occupation nightmare THE LIVING nightmare of occupation and sectarian bloodshed continues without relent for the people in Iraq... By Greg Maughan
Stop the War Coalition (STWC) national demonstrationMonday 8 October Assemble 1pm in Trafalgar SquareAlthough the demonstration route has not been agreed by the police, the STWC is planning to go ahead with it. See www.stopwar.org.uk for details. |
Editorial and comment
Tory party fears an autumn election Editorial: The Tories were beaten 10-0 on the eve of their conference in a football match with the press...
Banking turmoil continues
Corporate Labour
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Come to the NHS demo!  | Demonstration against cuts in the NHS, 1 November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
WHEN LABOUR ministers show themselves only to be concerned with glad-handing private-sector bosses and potential privatisers, it is clearly time for the trade unions to start organising against their plans to decimate our public services.
Swansea meetingSWANSEA TRADE Union Council public meeting.Stop the bed closures, Stop the job cuts, Defend the NHS.Dolphin Hotel, Swansea city centre.Wednesday 10 October, 7.30pm. |
Socialist Party news and analysis
Classroom assistants on strike  | Brown dashed from the TUC to meet the hated Margaret Thatcher |
Northern Ireland: OVER 2,000 classroom assistants took part in a solid one-day strike across Northern Ireland on 26 September against a pay cut and attacks on working conditions... By Gary Mulcahy Socialist Party Belfast
Supermarket price-fixing scandal
Success! Double whammy for nursery campaign
Socialist Party features
EU's anti-working class 'reforms' BITTER DIVISIONS over the European Union (EU) continue to gnaw at the mainstream political parties... By Manny Thain
Fighting nuclear power
Socialist Students
Students want to fight back University is becoming an absolute rip off! £3,000 a year for top-up fees. £100 a week rent in many student halls. Brighton University is charging students...
Socialist Party feature
Che Guevara - revolutionary fighter Forty years after his death, flags, banners, portraits and the slogans of Che Guevara are carried on the mass demonstrations in the new revolt that is sweeping Latin America...
Socialist Party events
Socialism 2007: Ideas for our future For young people new to the ideas of socialism, Socialism 2007 will be an indispensable opportunity for you to gather new knowledge, new ideas and new hope that a socialist world is possible.... By Richie Clesham, Somerset Socialist Students
Socialism 2007.net
International socialist news and analysis
Burma: Dictatorship under threat BURMA'S MILITARY junta, through shootings, beatings and mass arrests has, for now, managed to quell weeks of pro-democracy protests...
Socialist Party reviews and comment
QPR buy-out - Reclaim the game! AT LONG last Formula 1 moguls Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone have revealed what Queen's Park Rangers fans can expect from their takeover... By Jacqui Berry
It's a free world, a film by Ken Loach
Anno 1701 - Dawn of Discovery
Socialist Party workplace news
Local government pay offer: It's time for action Once more workers in the public sector are finding themselves being forced to take action to hold back the rising tide of New Labour attacks... By Marc Glasscoe, branch secretary, Lincoln City Unison, personal capacity
Remploy workers win partial victory
Care workers on strike
National Shop Stewards Network makes plans
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