In this week's issue:

The Socialist 10 January 2008, issue 515

Fight for socialism!

Make Socialism Our Future: ISR / CWI banner on the Anti-G8 demonstration in 2005, photo by Paul Mattsson

Last year ended to the roar of the assassin's bullet and bomb, cutting down Benazir Bhutto, the fourth such civilian leader or president to be murdered since the foundation of Pakistan 60 years ago... By Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary

Defeat the pay limit

Feature: Socialism and democracy needed to reshape the world

Socialist Party workplace news

Postal workers fight to defend the Burslem 12

The CWU postal strike 2007

No victimisation: One hundred postal workers at Burslem, Staffordshire, are now into their fourth week of strike action against the victimisation of twelve workers who have been unfairly suspended since September on trumped up charges... By Andy Bentley, Stoke Socialist Party

Scrooge employers attack shop workers

Building workers fight for real union representation

Fighting council cuts

Industrial news in brief

Socialist Party editorial

Renationalise the energy industry

Flooded with Debt, cartoon by Suz www.squashdonkey.co.uk

Editorial: With the price of oil going over $100 a barrel, the main energy suppliers are using it as an excuse to increase fuel prices and boost their already bloated profits...

Socialist Party news and analysis

Police ballot for industrial rights

GORDON BROWN is trying to enforce below-inflation pay rises on public-sector workers, from the civil service to local government workers, teachers and nurses... By Iain Dalton

Straw provokes POA

Soaring food prices hit world's poor

Big business hands off our NHS!

The privateers are taking over

International socialist news and analysis

Pakistan: Mass opposition to Musharraf regime after Benazir killing

BENAZIR BHUTTO, leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), was killed in a suicide attack after addressing a public rally in Rawalpindi on 27 December...

Kenya: Stolen election explodes into mass anger and bloodshed

Socialist Party feature

Victory! Tenants beat £1 million sell-off campaign

Socialist Party councillor Ian Page with tenant activists

COUNCIL TENANTS and local campaigners have won a significant local victory in Lewisham, south London, against the privatisation of council housing...

Obituary

Obituary: Andrew Glyn

With great sadness, we report the death of Andrew Glyn, an internationally renowned socialist economist and a former supporter of the Militant, the Socialist Party's precursor...

Socialist Party review

Review: Marx's Das Kapital: a biography, by Francis Wheen

This is a disappointing book. Francis Wheen's earlier biography is definitely worth a read and shows he has made a serious study of Marx's writings....