In this week's issue:

The Socialist 30 April 2008, issue 531

Public sector strike shows fightback has begun!

Teachers on strike on 24 April 2008 in Lewisham, photo Martin Powell-Davies

Last week hundreds of thousands of teachers, civil servants and college lecturers struck a blow for everyone who has had their living standards attacked in recent years, writes Steve Score, Leicester Socialist Party.

A week of strikes shakes government

Grangemouth oil refinery strike

Reports of the 24 April strikes

Socialist Party campaigns

Stop PFI pirates wrecking our NHS

Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

THE NATIONAL Health Service has its 60th birthday this July. Can working people still celebrate this vital service which they struggled for years to obtain, writes Keith White.

Saving our post offices!

Tales from the council chambers: PROTESTS CAN change things - but are even more effective when there are socialist councillors to direct public pressure onto the establishment parties, writes Clive Heemskerk.

Socialist Party election campaigns

Socialist councillors back teachers

LEWISHAM'S COUNCIL meeting was on the eve of the teachers' strike. The Socialist Party councillors proposed a motion, arguing that education was threatened...

"Why I am standing against Labour"

Socialist Students

Students stage occupation

Manchester University: At 4pm on Tuesday 22 April, around 300 University of Manchester students gathered for a campus demonstration to express their anger at the way the university is run, writes Abby Taylor, Manchester University Socialist Students.

Anti-racism

Love Music Hate Racism

Fighting the far right: ON A wet Sunday afternoon tens of thousands of people turned out for the Love Music Hate Racism Carnival (LMHR) in east London's Victoria Park...

German anti-fascist demo

International socialist news and analysis

Bolivia - right-wing coup threat

BOLIVIA IS awash with rumours about an impending right-wing coup against the elected government of president Evo Morales, writes Karl Debbaut.

Socialist Party workplace news

Lincoln rejects insulting pay offer

With bills rising, council tax hikes and petrol going through the roof it's little wonder that council workers in Lincoln feel as if they are getting poorer, writes Marc Glasscoe, branch secretary, Lincoln City Unison, personal capacity.

Defend Eddie Fleming

Unison witch-hunt

Corus Trostre, further job losses