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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 2 April 2008, issue 527  End Labour's 'them and us' society
 | The feats is over but the pigs are still at the trough. Cartoon by Suz, from Socialism Today, May 2007 |
You could not make it up. Disgraced former Northern Rock chief executive Adam Applegarth will get a payout of £760,000!
Capitalism gambles with our lives
Editorial: For a 35-hour week with no loss of pay WITH 2,000 job losses projected out of a total workforce of 6,000 at Northern Rock, together with one third of all jobs in the financial sector going, the shadow of unemployment returns once more to haunt working-class areas...
Socialist Party campaigns
Victory shows campaigning can save out NHS! YEARS OF battling by health campaigners at Horton Hospital, Banbury, to save maternity and children's services threatened with downgrading, have won the hospital a reprieve...
"Halve your expenses and save our post offices"
Environment
The devastating effects of biofuels Heavily promoted by Bush and Blair as a carbon neutral alternative to fossil fuels, biofuels are now being questioned over their environmental impact on rain forests and on food supplies...
Airports: Expanding profits at our expense
Socialist Students
ID cards: No to students being used as guinea pigs! Home Secretary Jacqui Smith recently announced plans for ID cards to be introduced on a 'voluntary' basis for certain groups, including students, writes Steve Sweeney, Cambridge Socialist Students.
National Union of Students rejects constitutional changes
Workplace news and analysis
Fight back against the Unison witch-hunt! Four members of Unison who are also Socialist Party members are to face a Unison disciplinary hearing following the distribution of a leaflet at last year's Unison conference, writes Jane James.
Jaguar/Land Rover: Uncertain future for workers
Tube workers strike to defend network safety
Shelter staff ask for support
NUJ Members fight attacks on jobs and conditions
Teachers vote to strike
National Shop Stewards Network second conference
Marxist analysis: history
1848: year of revolution  | 1848 Revolution in Berlin |
...and publication of Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win." This ringing battle cry was issued 160 years ago by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their Communist Manifesto.
International socialist news and analysis
USA elections: Break with the two parties of big business! ON 24 February, Ralph Nader declared he was running for President to challenge the corporate stranglehold over US politics, writes Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative, USA.
Kazakhstan socialist jailed for protesting
Socialist Party review
From Russia: French and Russian master paintings 1870-1925 from Moscow and St Petersburg Review: Henri Matisse's painting The Dance, 1910 adorns tube stations and advertising billboards across London...
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