The Socialist 7 May 2008

Socialist election success shows the way forward

Coventry: Socialist election success shows the way forward

Meltdown for Brown - but he won't change course

Elections round-up and results

Election victories for class fighters

Racist BNP have no solutions!

Grangemouth refinery: Oil strike wins concessions

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

France 1968: Capitalism brought to its knees

How workers and youth are building a Left alternative in France

Sri Lanka: 25 years of war and conflict

May Day Greetings 2008 in The Socialist (p4)

May Day Greetings 2008, The Socialist (p6)

May Day Greetings 2008, The Socialist (p7)

May Day Greetings 2008, The Socialist (p9)

May Day Greetings 2008, The Socialist (p10)

May Day Greetings 2008, The Socialist (p11)

May Day Greetings 2008, The Socialist (p15)

Unison witch-hunt: Defend the four, come to the lobby!

Mark Thomas condemns witch-hunt

'Raising the roof' at Usdaw conference

Support Shelter workers

National Shop Stewards Network second conference

Come to the 2008 Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference

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Election victories for class fighters

NEWS IS coming in of encouraging election results of anti-cuts campaigners around the country. The firefighter Phil Jordan, interviewed in The Socialist last week, came second in Tuffley ward in Gloucester City. With 594 votes (33.4%), he beat both Labour and the Liberals.

In Barrow, Michael Stephenson, standing for a campaign against academies, sensationally ousted Tory council leader Bill Joughin in the local elections.

Joughin's deputy, Jack Richardson, only managed to hold on to his seat after a challenge by Chloe Lancaster, by one vote after three recounts.

The Tories had come out in favour of plans to replace three local schools with an academy. It shows that those who stand up and fight the parties of privatisation and cuts can win.