The Socialist issue 414
3 November 2005
Don’t let Blair wreck hospitals and schools
BLAIR’S GOVERNMENT is destroying our public services. As our reports from Yorkshire and London show our NHS and our schools are more and more…
NHS – fighting cuts and sell-offs
Charing Cross hospital: PRESS REPORTS this summer said that services at Charing Cross hospital were being sold off to private health care provider BUPA…
No to two-tier schooling
NEW LABOUR’S proposals for education academies argue that poorer families and deprived areas will benefit…
Sacked for defending union rights
London bus driver: ANDY BEADLE, the TGWU shop steward for the Peckham bus garage in south London and a long-standing member of the Socialist Party was "summarily dismissed" on 28 October…
USDAW presidential election
Broad Left candidate speaks to the socialist: USDAW, BRITAIN’S fifth largest union, is currently seeking nominations for the positions of President and Executive Council (EC)…
How the Labour Party was formed
IN THE second article of a short series on the fight for a new mass workers’ party, PETER TAAFFE, general secretary of the Socialist Party, looks at the lessons workers can learn from how the Labour Party firs…
17th Century terrorism
400 years ago, on 5 November, Parliament met briefly where it was recorded that:…
Bush presidency goes into freefall
IF YOU enter Google on the internet and type in the word ‘failure’, and then click on ‘I feel lucky’, the search engine comes up with the biography of George Bush…
Constitution will not prevent Iraq decay
IN THE eyes of the occupying powers, the new Iraqi constitution was meant to be an important step in the direction of a "sovereign and free" Iraq…
Belgium: massive resistance to pension cuts
THE BELGIAN establishment was shaken by the second trade union-organised national day of action in the course of three weeks…
