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

Previous issues, etc

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Bush's man at the World Bank in corruption scandal

WORLD BANK president Paul Wolfowitz is under fire, mired in a corruption scandal. He is under pressure from a number of countries to resign but he continues to enjoy the support of his patron, George Bush.

The former US deputy defence secretary and architect of regime change in Iraq stands accused of promoting and financially rewarding Shaha Riza, a 'close female friend' employed at the bank.

Ms Riza was seconded to the US state department shortly after Wolfowitz was appointed president of the World Bank in March 2005. She has since received some hefty pay cheques. These include an estimated $193,000 annual salary in 'compensation' for her move - some $60,000 more than she was earning when employed at the bank and $10,000 more than US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice receives!

Unfortunately for Wolfowitz this hasn't gone down well with World Bank staff, who heckled the neo-conservative hawk when he attempted to apologise for his actions.

But while 'helping out' those close to him, Wolfowitz has been demanding that low income countries accept a neo-liberal agenda before receiving any loans. While countries that wouldn't sign up to the US-led 'war on terror' suddenly found that loans had dried up.

And, with rank hypocrisy, he has insisted that any loans are dependent upon tackling corruption and showing 'good governance'.

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