Articles from the Socialist, issue 475
22 February 2007
Bush & Blair: Get out of Iraq
Anti-War demonstration 19 March 2005, photo Paul Mattsson |
A group of Iraqi teachers visiting Britain have described how their normal life in Baghdad includes seeing ‘corpses and flying body parts’ as they travel to work…
Stop the War Coalition/CND demo
Troops out of Iraq.
No Trident.
Saturday 24 February. Assemble 12 noon, Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. March to Trafalgar Square, London.
Iraq ‘surge’ doomed to failure
Italy: Thousands march against US military base
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
RIDING PILLION behind Bush, Blair has embroiled Britain in disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan…
North Korea: Talks achieve new accord
Anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-capitalist? Read the socialist!
Socialist Students
THE LIES go on! Blair maintains that the introduction of top-up fees has been vindicated and that his critics have been proved wrong. As usual his claims are based on dodgy evidence.
Another profit-making racket
Living in debt – with no advice
Socialist Party Congress
Socialist Party national congress: CHRIS BAUGH, assistant general secretary of the PCS civil service union, launched the Socialist Party’s 2007 congress with a rousing speech…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Justice for the Shrewsbury pickets
WELL KNOWN actor and former industrial militant, Ricky Tomlinson, spoke at the highly successful Campaign for a New Workers’ Party meeting in Liverpool on 12 February…
Children at the sharp end of British capitalism
Drug companies squeeze profits out of health
Environment
Climate change – we have to act now
Why is climate change a problem?: The major capitalist countries (G8) are planning to meet in June in Germany to discuss climate change, among other issues…
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
CWI world congress: How will new workers’ parties be built?
CWI world congress report (3): ROGER BANNISTER Socialist Party visitor and national secretary of the Campaign for a New Workers’ Party reports….
Workplace news and analysis
Southampton: “YOU TAKE the pay cuts!” were the angry chants that greeted councillors as they arrived to set their budget in Southampton on St Valentine’s day last week…
Unique Care workers plan more protests