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The Socialist 25 August 2005

Defend workers rights

Gate Gourmet - solidarity action is vital

No more police cover-ups

Iraq: Bogged down in an unwinnable war

Gaza withdrawal: Will Sharon's pull-out lead to 'peace'?

Lewisham Socialist Party councillors support suspended MSPs

Campaign stops health closure plan

Build Socialist Students and fight education cuts

Rolls Royce workers vote for strike

First bus company raises fares and cuts services

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The Socialist 25 August 2005, Defend Workers' Rights

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Gate Gourmet bosses sack 800 workers - on the picket line
Gate Gourmet bosses sack 800: "I WAS treated like a slave." These words from one of the sacked Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow Airport sum up the brutal way these bosses treat their workers.

spot Gate Gourmet - solidarity action is vital

Gate Gourmet workers on the picket line - solidarity action is vital
THE BATTLE for the re-instatement of the 800 sacked Gate Gourmet workers is proving to be a defining moment in the class struggle in Britain...

spot No more police cover-ups

Jean Charles de Menezes: THE RECENT leaked report on the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes clearly shows what many local activists already suspected, that this was the murder of an innocent Brazilian man...

spot Iraq: Bogged down in an unwinnable war

"WE ARE locked into a bogged down problem not dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam," lamented Republican Senator Chuck Hagel after US general Peter Schoomaker admitted that 100,000 troops would be...

spot Gaza withdrawal: Will Sharon's pull-out lead to 'peace'?

The Israeli government has now demolished all the Jewish settlements in the Gaza strip, with four more in the West Bank to follow...

spot Lewisham Socialist Party councillors support suspended MSPs

Socialist Party councillors Ian Page and Chris Flood have written to protest at the suspension without pay of four Scottish Socialist Party MSPs...

spot Campaign stops health closure plan

Manchester: LAUREATE HOUSE Mental Health Unit in Manchester has been saved! Campaigning pressure by patient groups - helped by the Socialist Party's...

spot Build Socialist Students and fight education cuts

The picture New Labour is painting for today's FE college students is bleak...

spot Rolls Royce workers vote for strike

A clear majority of workers have voted to defend their Amicus convenor Jerry Hicks who was sacked by Rolls-Royce, Bristol, for defending two of his members...

spot First bus company raises fares and cuts services

South Yorkshire: This time last year, Sheffield Socialist Party members were on picket lines supporting South Yorkshire First bus drivers striking for better pay...