The Socialist issue 376
15 January 2005
Tsunami disaster: cancel the debt
THE TERRIBLE effects of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean have forced the world’s richest nations, the G8, to agree to suspend debt repayments from the worst hit countries…
Tsunami disaster: It’s business as usual for the politicians
IN SPITE of tens of thousands of people losing their lives in one of the biggest disasters the modern world has ever seen, it’s business as usual for the politicians…
Tsunami disaster: Will the West’s aid ever arrive?
THE GENEROUS response of people worldwide to the plight of the tsunami victims is a graphic example of human solidarity and internationalism…
Action needed on global warming
THE TSUNAMI disaster highlighted the dangers of coastal communities being inundated due to cyclones, floods and extreme weather events…
Sri Lanka after the tsunami – opportunities and tensions
FOLLOWING THE tsunami in Sri Lanka, more than 40,000 people have lost their lives and there are about 800,000 refugees…
End the occupation of Iraq
THE LOOMING ‘elections’ in Iraq are being daily exposed as a sham – designed to get the right result for the US paymasters and the Iraqi interim government…
Protest against the occupation of Iraq
29-30 January -: Elections are scheduled to take place in Iraq on 30 January. Bush and Blair are desperate for these elections to take place to try to convince the world they are giving Iraqi people some control over their lives.
Racist police beat up Palestinian student
MUHAMMAD MANSUR is an Israeli Palestinian medical student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem…
A workers’ leader on a worker’s wage
SOCIALIST PARTY member Roger Bannister will be challenging public sector union UNISON’s link with the Labour Party in the forthcoming general secretary election…
An eventful year for a Socialist councillor
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Chris Flood, Socialist Party Councillor: JUST OVER a year ago, CHRIS FLOOD was elected as the second Socialist
Party councillor in Telegraph Hill ward in Lewisham, south London…
Blunkett: a study in opportunism
TONY MULHEARN, member of the group of Liverpool 47 councillors who fought the Thatcher government between 1983 and 1987, reviews David Blunkett by Stephen Pollard…
Coventry single status ‘deal’ – but same rip-off
AFTER THE massive rejection of Coventry council’s single status proposals last year by the workforce, council managers have come up with a new ‘deal’.…
Dirty profits hit hospitals
THE GOVERNMENT has launched another ‘initiative’ aimed at improving standards of hospital cleanliness…
Vera Drake
AFTER SEEING a Mike Leigh production you generally feel like putting your head in the oven. But this film makes you feel angry as well…
