The Socialist 26 November 2008

Spend, spend, spend on the banks but cuts, cuts, cuts for the NHS

Darling's prescription... It's spend, spend, spend on the banks... but cuts, cuts, cuts for the NHS

Top-up payments for private health care another step towards two-tier National Health

Socialist 'deal' for environment needed

Campaign Against Climate Change march

Alistair Darling's pre Budget Report: Pain now, pay later

Activists discuss how to reclaim Unison

Meeting pledges to fight witch-hunt

Unison leadership takeover Newham branch

Manchester: No redundancies at IMI!

Strike saves jobs at Fiddlers Ferry

Organise to save jobs

BNP membership list: A weak divided party exposed

New Labour hypocrisy on racism

Youth Against Racism gig

Campaigning to save post offices

Rover's ex-workers wage cut scandal

China's food contamination crisis deepens

Defend abortion rights

Art and revolution

Somalia piracy - a consequence of western powers' intervention

France: Education strikes on the agenda

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New Labour hypocrisy

Hazel Blears, New Labour Secretary of State for Communities, said over the weekend that "where the BNP wins votes, it is often the result of local political failure. Estates that have been ignored for decades; voters taken for granted; local services that have failed; white skilled working-class voters who feel politicians are on a different planet." This is utter hypocrisy from a Blairite New Labour minister.

New Labour have not just "ignored" working-class people across the country, but have slashed and privatised public services, allowed hundreds of thousands of jobs to disappear and pandered to big business. Blears voted for foundation hospitals, the Iraq war and university top-up fees and many of the other New Labour policies that led working-class people to abandon the Labour Party. The publication of this list underlines the urgent need for a genuine working-class political alternative. The trade unions, with their millions of members and clear anti-racist policies, have the potential to build this.

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Socialist Party NHS campaign

Darling's prescription... It's spend, spend, spend on the banks... but cuts, cuts, cuts for the NHS