2 November 2006

Big Bucks for Starbucks - nothing for small farmers

GLOBAL COFFEE chain Starbucks is the McDonalds of the coffee world with hundreds of shops throughout Britain and the world. Its annual revenue is £3.2 billion.

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20 July 2006

What the Socialist Party says

* No to NHS job losses, cuts and closures.
* No to NHS privatisation and 'the market'.
* Rebuild the NHS as a publicly funded service free at the point of use, and with immediate cash to end the crisis of under-funding.
Unite the many campaigns already existing to defend the NHS...

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6 July 2006

The NHS: What the Socialist Party says

*No to NHS job losses, cuts and closures.

*No to health privatisation and 'the market'. Rebuild the NHS as a publicly funded service free at the point of use, and with immediate cash to end the crisis of under-funding.

*Unite the many campaigns already in existence to defend the NHS...

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29 June 2006

What the Socialist Party says:

* No to NHS job losses, cuts and closures.

* No to health privatisation and 'the market'.

* Rebuild the NHS as a publicly funded service free at the point of use, and with immediate cash to end the crisis of under-funding.

* Unite the many campaigns already in existence to defend the NHS...

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22 June 2006

Football: A high price for the beautiful game

SOCIALIST PARTY member Kevin Miles is the International Co-ordinator for the Football Supporters Federation - the fans official spokesperson. He is in Germany at the moment, with the "Fan's Embassy."...

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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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20 April 2006

Walmart: the High Cost of Low Price

This is a film about Wal-Mart, a very big, very powerful retail corporation. The opening scene is of Lee Scott, chief executive officer (CEO), on stage in front of a packed, cheering crowd. He's smug and arrogant. Reviewd by Manny Thain.

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22 February 2006

Music industry: Do we only hear his master's voice?

AN OUTLINE of how the modern popular music industry has developed provided the background to our discussion at last autumn's Socialism 2005: The music industry, do we only hear his master's voice?...

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1 December 2005

'Free market' threatens cold weather crisis

ON THE brink of a cold winter, Britain faces a real threat of gas shortages...

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24 November 2005

Venezuela: Stop the repression of trade unionists

THE FOLLOWING solidarity appeal calls for the immediate recognition of the SUPROFRAD union in the RACE pharmaceutical company plant, and for the re-admission of all those workers made redundant by management...

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17 November 2005

Selection and 'free market' threaten our schools

Education White Paper: TONY BLAIR'S first defeat in parliament over the Terrorism Bill has made many parents, school students, teachers and education workers more confident that they can defeat Labour's latest education White Paper...

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10 November 2005

Harder times ahead?

Jane James looks at the state of Britain’s economy today...

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3 November 2005

Don't let Blair wreck hospitals and schools

BLAIR'S GOVERNMENT is destroying our public services. As our reports from Yorkshire and London show our NHS and our schools are more and more...

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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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29 September 2005

Don't sell off Peabody homes!

PROTESTERS REPRESENTING thousands of tenants from Peabody Trust estates demonstrated on 21 September outside Peabody's HQ in Southwark at Peabody management's plans to sell off its housing...

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15 September 2005

Education: Fight Blair's 'market forces' solution

COMPREHENSIVE STATE education, a historic gain for working-class families, has been under attack for decades...

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2 June 2005

Why French workers voted 'no' to EU referendum

"WE'RE VOTING no. It is a constitution for the bourgeoisie, for multinationals, for bosses. It is only about the economy, competition,...

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19 May 2005

Public health not private profit

DISABLED PEOPLE will have their benefit cut while big business get a £3 billion windfall from the NHS...

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28 April 2005

End world poverty

WORLD POVERTY Day on 24 April was the opening shot of another New Labour campaign...

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21 April 2005

Market madness wrecks NHS

NHS privatised say doctors: IT'S OFFICIAL. The NHS is being privatised, and will be further ruthlessly privatised - for the benefit of the rich - under all the established capitalist...

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