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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 21 May 2008, issue Step Up Fight Against Low Pay!  Step Up Fight Against Low Pay!
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After Brown's tax u-turn... The abolition of the 10p tax rate (the hiking of income tax for those earning less than £18,500 a year) has become a powerful symbol of the contempt this government has for working people...
Force more u-turns out of this weak government
Housing crisis
Build Affordable Homes Now! Housing crisis worsens: In the same week that Tony Blair buys his sixth house for £4 million, the Local Government Association announced that another million people could join housing waiting lists in the next two years, writes Lois Austin.
Socialist Party workplace news
Unison members say 'no' to witch hunt  | Lobby of Unison disciplinary hearings against the four Socialist Party members, here joined by the Hackney Unison branch secretary, photo Alison Hill |
Around 70 angry protesters lobbied the Unison 'disciplinary hearing' which started on 14 May, writes Jane James.
Reasons to be cheerful about the trade unions
Public-sector workers say pay up!
National Shop Stewards Network second conferenceSaturday 28 June, 11.30am-4.30pmSouth Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1.Speakers include Bob Crow, RMT, Mark Serwotka, PCS and Brian Caton, POA, plus shop stewards from disputes around the country. £5 per delegate. Send to: NSSN, PO Box 58262, London N1 1ET. Email davechapple@btinternet.com. Or see: www.shopstewards.net Please note that the next meeting of the North West region committee of the National Shop Stewards Network will be held on Saturday 19 July, not 19 June.
Socialist Party campaigns
Give us back our Post Office!  | Postman Pat joins the CWU picket line in East London during a CWU strike, photo Naomi Byron |
ON 14 May, the postal workers' branch of the CWU union in Coventry organised a wreath-laying ceremony at Coventry's crown post office at Hertford Street which, like 70 others, has been privatised in a deal with WH Smith...
Fightback saves Cardiff school
Southampton students: 'Don't gag us'
D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Glasgow: BNP not welcome here
100% rise for health bosses
Global food crisis
Them and Us: The great divide
Environment: Nuclear power
Nuclear industry's 'green' camouflage NEW SHOCK figures on climate change show that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is at its highest level in 650,000 years...
London Olympics
London Olympics 2012: A great sporting occasion and a great profit-making opportunity We are now just four years away from London hosting one of the biggest sporting events in the world for the third time...
France 1968 - month of revolution
France 1968: Be realistic - demand the impossible!  | France 1968: Month of revolution, by Clare Doyle |
Book review: In times when the idea of a socialist revolution is treated as laughable, socialists are commonly asked: is a revolution possible in a rich country like Britain?
International discussion on the way forward for socialists London, Wales, Sheffield, Merseyside reports: IN AN inspiring rally, 120 people from across London were treated to a first hand account of the political movement in France in 1968 from Marie-José Douet.
Video: 'France 1968, month of revolution' London meeting
Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP) conference 2008Sunday 29 June, 10am-5pmSouth Camdem Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1. (nearest rail/tube stations - Kings Cross/St Pancras, Euston, Mornington Crescent)
International socialist news and analysis
China: Earthquake disaster exposes regime's failings AN ESTIMATED 50,000 people or more were killed when a powerful earthquake struck central China last week. Some five million survivors are homeless. Chen Lizhi and Vincent Kolo expose the shortcomings of the regime in the light of this disaster.
Lebanon: Hezbollah routs pro-US Siniora government forces
Ireland: Vote no to Lisbon Treaty and EU militarisation!
France: Workers and youth resist Sarkozy's attacks
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