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The Socialist 4 March 2008

No pay freeze: Unite for a living wage

Unite for a living wage

Greenwich workers score victory against single status

Angry civil servants strike over pay


Thousands protest at threats to hospital

Rewarded for zeal at cuts

Derby health workers


Fight for a woman's right to choose


DEMONSTRATE

$3 trillion Iraq war

Sheffield activists fight militarism


Walthamstow 'RAPpers' against toxic incinerators


Housing association collapses

Meet Brown's new finance expert

Fans blow whistle on Game 39

Campaign to Defeat Fees

Swansea - no sign of Griffin!


Turkey's invasion destabilising region

Russian election

EU war with super-rich?


Pensions under attack

Unison witch-hunt: Members bite back

Teachers must reject real pay cuts

Greenwich workers fight attacks

Socialist Party member stands for Unite (T&G) general executive

 
 
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Russian election

IN A completely anticipated result, Vladimir Putin's hand-picked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, was elected Russia's president with a 'landslide' vote last Sunday. Medvedev won 70% of the vote with his nearest challenger Gennady Zyuganov of the 'communist' party securing 18%.

Putin's regime went to great lengths to ensure the result. Medvedev's main opponent, the former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, was ruled out of the contest. Putin's man also enjoyed a near monopoly of TV coverage and celebrity endorsements. The heads of state institutions, factory bosses, etc, 'encouraged' workers to vote for Medvedev.

Putin, having been constitutionally prevented from standing for a third term, will now become prime minister, effectively continuing to run Russia with Medvedev as a proxy.

Putin boasts that he has brought stability and prosperity and restored Russia's national pride after the president Yeltsin years - in which the restoration of capitalism spelt disaster for most people's living standards as industry collapsed, culminating in the economic meltdown of 1998.

However, while a pro-Putin billionaire oligarchy has benefitted from the country's recovery, this upswing has bypassed most Russians.

More material on Russia will appear on www.socialistworld.net


In this issue

Unite for a living wage

Greenwich workers score victory against single status

Angry civil servants strike over pay


Socialist Party NHS campaign

Thousands protest at threats to hospital

Rewarded for zeal at cuts

Derby health workers


International Women's Day

Fight for a woman's right to choose


Anti-War

DEMONSTRATE

$3 trillion Iraq war

Sheffield activists fight militarism


Environment and socialism

Walthamstow 'RAPpers' against toxic incinerators


Socialist Party news and analysis

Housing association collapses

Meet Brown's new finance expert

Fans blow whistle on Game 39

Campaign to Defeat Fees

Swansea - no sign of Griffin!


International socialist news and analysis

Turkey's invasion destabilising region

Russian election

EU war with super-rich?


Workplace news and analysis

Pensions under attack

Unison witch-hunt: Members bite back

Teachers must reject real pay cuts

Greenwich workers fight attacks

Socialist Party member stands for Unite (T&G) general executive


 

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Related links:

Russia:

triangleRussia: CWI supporters arrested during protests

triangleWidespread fraud alleged as Putin wins presidential poll

triangleWirral & Chester Socialist Party: Was Russia socialist?

triangleBristol Central Socialist Party: The 1917 February revolution in Russia

triangle"Putin is a thief", "Putin is a thief"

triangleThe World's Biggest Bomb

Election:

triangleElection results: How did TUSC do?

triangleTrade Unionist and Socialist Coalition local election reports

triangleCon-Dems battered in Scotland

triangleLegitimacy of Cameron and Clegg further shattered