The Socialist issue 345

1 May 2004

Bring the troops home now: PRESIDENT BUSH and the US Pentagon want to sanitise their war and occupation of Iraq. …

GEORGE BUSH has appointed John Negroponte, his former man at the United Nations, as governor-in-chief in Iraq. Negroponte is an expert in bloody repression, stretching back four decades…

Socialism 2004

Socialism 2004 is a weekend of socialist discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party.…

APRIL 2004 marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) – the socialist international organisation to which the Socialist Party is affiliated.

Some of the greetings we have received:…

ID Cards – Working Class People Will Pay The Price

David Blunkett has declared that the population of Britain isn’t ‘allowed’ to know how much his ID card scheme will cost, for reasons of ‘commercial secrecy’! …

Nursery Nurses: : AFTER EIGHT weeks of strike action, nursery nurses were left feeling outraged and betrayed by the decision of the national UNISON leadership to abandon the fight for a national pay and conditions deal for nursery nurses and thereby attempt to end the strike…

Shell – Profiting From Misery

BRITISH-BASED multinationals Shell and BP were amongst the many oil companies queuing up to profit out of the death and destruction of last year’s war in Iraq…

TEN YEARS ago saw the first election in post-Apartheid South Africa where the entire adult population, black, white and coloured, was entitled to vote. …