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The Socialist 11 July 2012

LOOTED! PFI empties NHS coffers

The Socialist issue 726


LOOTED! PFI empties NHS coffers

Fight Profit From Illness

Save Worcestershire A&E services


Libor scandal exposes rotten racketeering system

Lords reform - Abolish the House of privilege!

Save our server!


Fight for a future for the 99%

The politics of fighting the racist EDL

Pride should be about protest, not profits!

Them&Us


London bus workers discuss new offer: "militant strike action pays"

Build the fightback against the Con-Dems: Join the lobby of the TUC on 9 September

Single status appeal: Victory for Vine workers

Sheffield recycling workers win victory against sackings

Vote no to the local government pension offer

Workplace news in brief


Egypt: Will Mursi's presidential election victory bring real change?


TV Review: Britain on the brink - back to the '70s

The Shard: As useless as a hole in the ground

Ringing bells in the GMB

Minimum wage, minimum security


TUSC continues to build support in Liverpool

Leeds protest at prison privatisation rally

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The Socialist 11 July 2012, issue LOOTED! PFI empties NHS coffers

spotLOOTED! PFI empties NHS coffers

Fight for our NHS, photo Senan

Fight for our NHS, photo Senan

Scrap PFI privatisation - bring health services back into the NHS The richest 1% in society are the only people profiting from the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme that is ruining Britain's public services.

spotFight Profit From Illness

spotSave Worcestershire A&E services

spotLibor scandal exposes rotten racketeering system

Bankers protest by Walthamstow Socialist Party, photo The Socialist

Bankers protest by Walthamstow Socialist Party, photo The Socialist

If the appearance of Bob Diamond before the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee was intended to demonstrate some kind of public accountability of bankers before parliament then it dismally failed...

spotLords reform - Abolish the House of privilege!

spotSave our server!

spotFight for a future for the 99%

Youth fight for jobs organised the Jarrow March for Jobs 2011 which ended with a demonstration in London on 5 November , photo Sujeeth

Youth fight for jobs organised the Jarrow March for Jobs 2011 which ended with a demonstration in London on 5 November , photo Sujeeth

No jobs, no education, no future - that's the grim vision that the establishment politicians have for young people...

spotThe politics of fighting the racist EDL

spotPride should be about protest, not profits!

spotThem&Us

spotLondon bus workers discuss new offer: "militant strike action pays"

London bus workers have been fighting for payment for extra work during the Olympics with joint strike action, the first for many decades, a London bus worker writes.

spotBuild the fightback against the Con-Dems: Join the lobby of the TUC on 9 September

spotSingle status appeal: Victory for Vine workers

spotSheffield recycling workers win victory against sackings

Protesting outside Sova northern area office in Sheffield on July 4th 2012, photo by Alistair Tice

Sova recycling workers in Sheffield, members of the GMB, have won the reinstatement of six colleagues

spotVote no to the local government pension offer

spotWorkplace news in brief

spotEgypt: Will Mursi's presidential election victory bring real change?

A week after Egypt's new president - Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) - took office, a dramatic confrontation with the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) erupted, writes Working masses need independent policies and their own party.

Socialist Party reviews and comments

spotTV Review: Britain on the brink - back to the '70s

This Panorama documentary (9 July) looked at what effect the economic crisis had on ordinary people. It asked whether we would see the same response as at the end of the 1970s when falling living standards...

spotThe Shard: As useless as a hole in the ground

spotRinging bells in the GMB

spotMinimum wage, minimum security

spotTUSC continues to build support in Liverpool

After Tony Mulhearn's 'remarkable' result in the Liverpool mayoral election in May, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coaliton (TUSC) was in action again on Thursday 5 July, writes Alec Price.

spotLeeds protest at prison privatisation rally

spotHelp boost sales of the Socialist

spotSocialist Party Summer Camp