In this week's issue:

The Socialist 17 June 2008, issue No! to racism: Yes! to decent jobs, homes & public services

No! to racism: Yes! to decent jobs, homes and public services

Love Music Hate Racism 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

• Unite and fight against low pay and cuts in jobs and services.
• No to the far-right, racist BNP.
• End cheap labour. For a minimum wage of £8 an hour. No exemptions.
• A massive public spending programme to create more houses, schools, hospitals and all the facilities we need. End privatisation.
• Campaign to form a new mass party of the working class.

Unite and fight against racism

Love Music Hate Racism 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

Feature: It was only a little over forty years ago that black people in the US, the most powerful capitalist country in the world, won equal rights in law - and only then as a result of a magnificent mass movement that shook the country to its foundations...

Protest at BNP 'hate festival'

Let AmDani stay!

International socialist news and analysis

Lisbon Treaty 'No' vote delivers major shock for political and big business Establishment

Socialist Party leaflet gets attention in the campaign for a No vote in the referendum of the Lisbon Treaty, photo Paul Mattsson

IN A higher than normal turnout for a referendum, 53.1%, the Lisbon Treaty (the renamed EU Constitution) was clearly rejected in Ireland on Thursday 12 June, by 53.4% to 46.6%, writes Kevin McLoughlin, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland), Dublin.

Socialist Party campaigns

Shell drivers strike

According to press reports, the strike by tanker drivers at multinational giant Shell's depots has concluded with a deal. It was 100% solid at the Shell Haven site in Coryton, Essex. Drivers were angry about their treatment from Shell and the contractor Hoyer. A driver on the picket line, Gary, spoke to The Socialist.

David Davis - sanity or carving a position?

Greater Manchester - save your post office

London protest over Rajapaksa's dismal human rights record

Stop big business polluting our environment

Education

Stop New Labour's divisive school academy plans

Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

LABOUR'S 'IMPROVE or close' ultimatum to 638 English schools is a thinly disguised plan to accelerate the privatisation of secondary education. Under their "National Challenge Strategy", schools that have failed to meet the imposed minimum target...

Socialist Party NHS campaign

NHS: Polyclinics - Stop this backdoor privatisation

Feature: IN MANY parts of the country, new 'polyclinics' are opening up, replacing established GPs' surgeries. JO SECHER warns that the government's new polyclinics are not "community based health care", and they are certainly not "GP-led surgeries".

PFI - a very bad deal for the NHS

Reopen the battle on NHS pay

Socialist Party campaigns

End the occupations

Protest against George W Bush visit to Britain, photo Paul Mattsson

SEVERAL THOUSAND anti-war demonstrators gathered in Parliament Square, London, last Sunday evening to protest against the two-day visit to Britain of US president George Bush...

Unison conference: Angry delegates attack leaders

Post office closures

Leeds: Stop Beeston post office closures

Leeds protest to stop Beeston post office closures, photo Nigel Poustie

The Leeds Socialist Party branch has been campaigning against the closure of three post offices in Beeston. We have done several stalls in the area and had a good response...

Socialist Party workplace news

National Shop Stewards Network Conference

Teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson

Standing up for our rights!: The prospects facing the majority of young workers today can only be described as dire. Many young people can only dream of earning a decent wage and carving out a secure future for themselves, writes Tracy Edwards, Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), young members' organiser.

CWU's link with Labour hotly debated

Victory against bosses at Keele

Workplace news in brief