Socialist election success shows the way forward

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The Socialist 7 May 2008, issue 532

Coventry: Socialist election success shows the way forward

Dave Nellist, Coventry Socialist Pary councillor, photo Paul Mattsson
ESTABLISHMENT POLITICIANS are so unpopular that in last week's council elections every party tried to pose as the opposition whether they ran the council or not, writes Dave Griffiths, Coventry.

Meltdown for Brown - but he won't change course

Editorial: The barbarians are at the gate. After the London mayoral victory of the Tory Neanderthal Boris Johnson and the New Labour meltdown in the rest of the country,...

Elections round-up and results

Election victories for class fighters

Racist BNP have no solutions!

Socialist Party news and analysis

Grangemouth refinery: Oil strike wins concessions

ON TUESDAY 29 April, following a short meeting at Grangemouth oil refinery's gates, the early shift returned to work, ending the 48-hour stoppage that had brought the flow of oil from the North Sea to a halt, writes Ian Leech, Glasgow.

May Day marches

Defend abortion rights

TUC attacks Labour on working poverty

Bangor Socialist Students fight tuition fees

Obituary: Ray Apps

Album review: The Bright Lights of America

Socialist Party Marxist analysis

France 1968: Capitalism brought to its knees

FORTY YEARS ago this month, France was gripped by a revolutionary fever. Within days of a one-day general strike being called in solidarity with protesting students, ten million workers were on strike.

How workers and youth are building a Left alternative in France

Sri Lanka: 25 years of war and conflict

May Day Greetings

May Day Greetings from London Socialist Party branches to The Socialist, picture by Suz
The following May Day Greetings appeared in the previous issue of The Socialist 2008