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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 29 November 2007, issue 512  Northern Rock scandal: Nationalise the banks!
NORTHERN ROCK, the UK's fifth biggest mortgage lender, went into financial meltdown when it was forced to call on emergency funding from the Bank of England in September... By Elaine Brunskill, Newcastle Socialist Party
Environment and socialism
Stop the ruin of our planet  | Climate change demo 2005, photo Paul Mattsson |
WAITING FOR government action to end climate change is like waiting for the punch line in Eastenders... By Ben Robinson
What we think
Mass scrutiny needed to protect our rights and privacy What we think: "A MASS movement is needed to tackle the state's snoopers" read a headline in the Observer newspaper...
Data loss - no surprise to HMRC staff
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS - new 'surplus' but problems continue  | On the 3 November Save the NHS march, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE NHS's chief executive David Nicholson has admitted that overall, the service will have underspent by £1.8 billion by the end of this financial year... By Keith Carter
Demo shows support for victimised nurse
Socialist Party news and analysis
QinetiQ sell-off QinetiQ sell-off: THE TEN most senior managers of QinetiQ, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) research firm, made an almost 20,000 per cent return at the taxpayer's expense out of the firm's part-privatisation... By Roger Shrives
In brief: Who safeguards safety?
Socialist Students
Fight to save the NUS!  | Students demonstrating in 2006, photo Dave Carr |
The National Union of Students (NUS) leadership has, over the last few months, launched two major attacks on the idea of NUS as a union that represents and fights for students...
Students protest at Griffin and Irving
Exeter students gain anti-fascist victory
Kick the BNP out of Northumbria
Nigerian students detained
Defend students from victimisation
Che Guevara meetings
International socialist news and analysis
Brazil: An explosive brew in land of contrasts DURING OCTOBER PETER TAAFFE visited Brazil for discussions with Marxists and socialists, along with LINDA TAAFFE, who visited schools and also discussed with teacher union activists in the struggle...
Australia: Howard disappears under a Labor party landslide
France: Transport strikes suspended
Scotland: Solidarity conference
Marxist analysis: history
Preparing a revolution and its party  | the St petersburg 'League of struggle for the emancipation of the working class'. Seated centre is VI Lenin |
NINETY YEARS ago the Russian workers removed capitalism and began building the world's first workers' government... By Hugh Caffrey
Workplace news and analysis
Communication Workers Union ballot STOP PRESS: The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has announced the result of the ballot on the Royal Mail pay and modernisation agreement 2007-8, which the CWU leadership recommended to end the postal workers' strikes...
Teachers need a fighting union leadership
Construction bosses found guilty
In brief
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