The Socialist 19 April 2007

Kick big business out of the NHS

Nurses' fury at cuts and attacks on jobs

NHS London - delivering private health

Build for national action against fees

Election manifesto 2007

Leicester: A principled stand against opportunists

Young socialist standing for Save Huddersfield NHS

Wales manifesto launch

Save our NHS campaign fields five candidates in South Lakes

Nursery cuts campaign launch

Making a difference in Lincoln

Vote Socialist Alternative on 3 May

RMT victory: Union militancy pays

Wanted - a new mass party for workers

Campaign for a New Workers' Party Conference

Tube workers win big victory over Metronet

Campaigning for a £26,000 minimum wage

Young trade unionists reject New Labour

Greenwich UNISON steps up fight against pay cuts

Venezuela: Will the trade unions give up their independence?

Bush's man at the World Bank in corruption scandal

Bosses' Pension

Blockading Britain's warhead factory

Fighting for the right to walk in the countryside

Cuts reduce advice for the people who most need help

Bank that only serves the rich

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Young socialist standing for Save Huddersfield NHS

Ian Slattery

THE CAMPAIGN of Save Huddersfield NHS to elect a second fighting, socialist councillor has carried on from where it left off last year.

The 2006 election victory of Dr Jackie Grunsell, showed the willingness of people to vote for an electoral alternative to the main political parties. This year's candidate, standing in the ward where Jackie Grunsell is a councillor, is 21 year old Socialist Party member Ian Slattery. Ian spoke to the socialist about the campaign:

"Despite the cuts to Huddersfield's hospitals being at an early stage, almost everyone we've met has been disgusted by the attacks on our health facilities. Patients from St Lukes Hospital, which specialises in mental health, are being put into combined wards despite having completely different conditions. Many people are also pledging votes to us on the basis of other issues, such as the impact Jackie has made in the council, and in spite of the allegedly bad haircuts and youthful looks of the candidate!"

The campaign has canvassed over half the Crossland Moor and Netherton ward so far. In the first week of the campaign 186 copies of the socialist were sold and over £300 of donations have been received.

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