The Socialist

The Socialist 13 December 2007

Warning: NHS cuts seriously damage your health


Defend Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch's witch-hunt

Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch's vendetta

Tommy Sheridan perjury charge


Warning: NHS cuts seriously damage your health

Manchester: Karen Reissmann sacked - and cuts still loom


Fight to save post offices


Interest rate cut will bring no reprieve

Charity begins at the bank

Every fiddle helps

Government's lying statistics


Thousands march against climate change


Sefton's first citizen "cheating the system"

Unite Cardiff schools campaigns

Your new police terror chief


National Union of Students: Right wing force through undemocratic changes

Leicester students debate tuition fees


Beijing Olympics under a cloud

China: Mass protests erupt in Shenyang

Extraordinary tape destruction at CIA torture camp


DWP strike: Fighting the pay cuts

Birmingham city council: Workers boo 'lead balloon' councillors

Action can beat Cadbury closure threat

Newham council sack Unison chair

 

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The Socialist 13 December 2007, issue 514

Scotland

Defend Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch's witch-hunt

Tommy Sheridan speaking at a Campaign for a New Workers Party meeting in Liverpool, photo Harry Smith

Tommy Sheridan speaking at a Campaign for a New Workers Party meeting in Liverpool, photo Harry Smith

On Sunday 16th December Tommy Sheridan was charged by Lothian and Borders police with perjury, arising from the most expensive perjury investigation ever in Scotland...

Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch's vendetta

Tommy Sheridan's sensational defamation victory over the News of the World (NotW) in July 2006 sent shock waves through Rupert Murdoch's global media empire... By Philip Stott, International Socialists, Scotland

Tommy Sheridan perjury charge

Socialist Party NHS campaign

Warning: NHS cuts seriously damage your health

On the 3 November Save the NHS march, photo Paul Mattsson

On the 3 November Save the NHS march, photo Paul Mattsson

AS THE year ends, the grim reality of privatisation and a market-driven NHS is clear... By Lois Austin

Manchester: Karen Reissmann sacked - and cuts still loom

Post Office dispute

Fight to save post offices

The CWU postal strike 2007

The CWU postal strike 2007

No to cuts and privatisation: Not being able to draw your pension at your local post office is not something that will bother the likes of Alan Cook, managing director of Post Offices Limited... By Jon Dale, Mansfield and North Derbyshire Socialist Party

What we think

Interest rate cut will bring no reprieve

Editorial: FOLLOWING THE interest rate cut there are continued fears that the current downturn in the economy could lead to a recession. 2008 could be the toughest year for the British economy for a long time.

Charity begins at the bank

Every fiddle helps

Government's lying statistics

Global Warming

Thousands march against climate change

Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

"I SAID the other day it was system change we needed," one young person told his friend as they saw our posters on the Socialist Party stall before the 8 December climate change demo... By Sarah Sachs-Eldridge

Socialist Party news and analysis

Sefton's first citizen "cheating the system"

JUST OVER two years ago, New Labour's rulers in Sefton on Merseyside victimised six Unison activists for protesting against privatising the borough's housing stock... By Merseyside Socialist Party

Unite Cardiff schools campaigns

Your new police terror chief

Socialist Students

National Union of Students: Right wing force through undemocratic changes

THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) held an extraordinary conference in Leicester on 4 December... By Edd Mustill and Matt Dobson

Leicester students debate tuition fees

International socialist news and analysis

Beijing Olympics under a cloud

China: On a recent trip to India, said to have cost around £750,000 of public money, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone offered the Bollywood film industry a cheap deal for the use of some of the Olympic buildings in East London a... By Clare Doyle

China: Mass protests erupt in Shenyang

Extraordinary tape destruction at CIA torture camp

Workplace news and analysis

DWP strike: Fighting the pay cuts

PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) management have imposed a three-year pay 'deal' that means that 90% of Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members will have a below-inflation pay rise...

Birmingham city council: Workers boo 'lead balloon' councillors

Action can beat Cadbury closure threat

Newham council sack Unison chair