6 October 2010

News in brief

ILO predict a riot: RECESSION IN the world capitalist economy, leading to high unemployment, will trigger growing social unrest according to the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO)...

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1 April 2009

Free market system killing our planet

Most scientists now agree that climate change is a very real and immediate danger -temperatures are rising, ice caps are melting and precipitation levels are changing, writes Sarah Wrack.

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29 January 2008

End this market madness

THE RECENT white-knuckle ride on world stock markets threatens a world recession. And it will be working-class people who will pay the price, writes Manny Thain

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13 December 2007

Every fiddle helps

Have you seen the Activist? The e-bulletin of Socialist Party members working in retail and distribution trades. If you know anyone who would like a copy,...

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22 March 2007

Keep the market out of education!

Lincolnshire: LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY council proposes to spend up to £50 million transforming three local schools into 'city academies'...

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15 March 2007

Market-driven 'social housing' threatens tenants

THE GOVERNMENT recently launched a new report into the future of social housing...

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9 November 2006

NHS: stop this market madness

Private operating theatres in supermarket car-parks! Cancer treatment for pets! This is the madness that the 'internal market' and privatisation is bringing... By Alistair Tice

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18 May 2006

Blair's market madness wrecking the NHS

BECAUSE OF New Labour's attacks on the NHS, hospital Trusts are threatening to sack health workers, cut beds and close down wards. Around 13,000 jobs have already been placed at risk, including 1,000 at the NHS Direct helpline. Jon Dale, Bolsover Socialist Party writes.

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27 October 2005

Keep 'the market' out of schools

SO BLAIR wants to make his mark on history in his last term of office with "pivotal change" in education...

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27 April 2001

Drug companies: so much for the free market

DRUG COMPANIES, making medicines that could save millions of lives, recently brought a court action against the South African government, writes Jon Dale.

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21 April 2000

Protests grow Against Market Mayhem

IT'S BEEN a particularly rough week for the capitalist bosses. Firstly, 10,000 protested in Washington against the World Bank and IMF's exploitation of the Third World...

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7 April 2000

Bosses profit - while workers suffer

THE MASSIVE demonstration in Birmingham directly resulted from the world car industry's crisis of overcapacity, writes Bill Mullins.

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