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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 31 January 2008, issue 518  End this market madness
THE RECENT white-knuckle ride on world stock markets threatens a world recession. And it will be working-class people who will pay the price for this crazy speculation, when the full effects are eventually felt in the 'real economy'...By Manny Thain
No more school closures!  | Cardiff parents beat council cuts in 2006, photo Socialist Party Wales |
EDUCATION IS under attack. 30,000 children could lose their rural schools in the first stage of the government's new closure plans. Socialist Party members Jim Reekie and Jake Moore report on the angry response in Shropshire to these threats....
Education
Teachers' union calls strike ballot on pay The National Union of Teachers (NUT) national executive has announced a decision to ballot all its members for the first national teachers' strike for 21 years... By Linda Taaffe, NUT
Anti-war protests save teachers
Labour councillors anger parents and tenants
Socialist Party news and analysis
New Labour attacking our vital benefits  | Flooded with Debt, photo Suz www.squashdonkey.co.uk |
Gordon Brown's government is weaker than ever before. The smog of sleaze that pervaded Blair's government has now settled over Brown's with the resignation...
Incapacity benefit cuts hit the sick
Hain resigns but stink of sleaze remains
International socialist news and analysis
Jail break from Gaza Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Gazans streamed across the bulldozed Gaza-Egypt border during just a few days, desperate to buy basic goods that are no longer available in Gaza, and in some cases to see family they had not seen for decades... By Judy Beishon
Suharto: "One of the 20th century's biggest killers and greatest thieves"
US elections: The Barak Obama mirage
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS in crisis  | On the 3 November Save the NHS march, photo Paul Mattsson |
Plans 'unfit for purpose'?: 'FIT FOR the future,' the government's plan for NHS services in North-east London, would be better entitled 'Unfit for purpose'... By Dave Carr, east London
Debt and Housing Feature
Debt and housing slowdown threaten Britain's time bomb economy  | Debt and housing time bomb, photo The Socialist |
THE EXTREME volatility in the world's stock markets has not yet led to London city slickers jumping off skyscrapers. But growing fears about the underlying health of the economy prompted one commentator to claim that a forthcoming US recession will be deeper than any since before 1945, while another screamed about a global 'pandemic'... By Robin Clapp
Socialist Students
Student elections: Not just a 'beauty contest'! Students can't go anywhere in February and March without being bombarded by people handing out leaflets, with 'Vote for Robbo' or 'Sharon for Pres' on their t-shirts, not to mention the odd person dressed as a furry anim...
College students seek socialist ideas
Reality of London students' debt trap
More foo than fight as rockers agree to cross picket line
Marxist analysis: history
How Hitler came to power Rise of evil?: Towards the end of World War One Germany was a country in ruin. Over one and a half million Germans had died. An economic blockade meant conditions for workers in the cities were deteriorating...
Global Warming
Global warming, climate change and human activities - Part 2 Debate: THE SCIENTIFIC ideas under-pinning the issues of global warming and climate change were recently debated in The Socialist (Issue 516) between reader Tony Simmons and the author of the Socialist Party's pamphlet Planning Green Growth, Pete Dickenson.
Socialist Party workplace news
Burslem postal workers march back to work At 6.15am on 24 January, Burslem postal workers marched proudly behind their banner back into work more united than when they walked out on strike six weeks before... By Andy Bentley
Giving the real facts on Burslem strike
National Shop Stewards Network meetings
Police march for pay
PCS suspends strikes
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