31 July 2008
Feature: End the pay gap now
Based on their hourly rate in the UK in 2008, women who work full time earn 17% less than men on average. Jane James investigates.
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16 July 2008
Government attacks single parents
The socialist comment: The government's new welfare legislation is demanding that, by the year 2010, single parents who are claiming benefits will have to return to the workplace once their youngest child reaches seven years of age, writes Jane Harris, Winchester Socialist Party.
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9 July 2008
Cancer vaccines: who decides?
THIS AUTUMN, the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine campaign is being rolled out. It is estimated this will save the lives of over 400 women a year in Britain. The government awarded the contract to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for their vaccine Cervarix...
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28 May 2008
Women welcome abortion rights victory: Now fight to extend rights
THE VARIOUS attempts to restrict rights to abortion, via amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill, ended in defeat on 20 May as MPs voted to keep the status quo, writes Eleanor Donne.
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14 May 2008
Defend and extend abortion rights
No reduction in the time limit, End the two-doctor rule: On 20 May Tory MP Nadine Dorries intends to move an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to cut the current upper limit for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks, writes Eleanor Donne, Basildon Socialist Party.
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14 May 2008
Ladyfest: culture, politics and women
From 9-11 May Camden in London saw visitors from all over Britain, but also from other parts of the world...
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7 May 2008
'Raising the roof' at Usdaw conference
Shopworkers' union Usdaw's annual conference took place against the background of the credit crunch crises and just before Labour's election debacle, writes Robbie Segal, delegate, personal capacity.
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7 May 2008
Defend abortion rights
TORY MP Nadine Dorries has launched a campaign to reduce the upper limit on the time of abortions from the current 24-week limit to 20 weeks, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
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30 April 2008
Defend Eddie Fleming
At the Child Support Agency site in Hastings, managers have given staff member Frank Swaine (aka Swayne) permission to stand for the BNP in the local elections, writes A CSA worker.
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19 March 2008
Building a campaigning, fighting socialist party
Informed by discussions on likely political developments, worldwide and in Britain, the Socialist Party congress also examined what these mean for us organisationally in the session on 'building the Socialist party', writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party secretary
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