The Socialist issue 397
16 June 2005
G8 debt deal won’t end poverty
MOST PEOPLE would have cheered the news that 18 of the world’s poorest countries are to have their World Bank and International Monetary Fund debts cancelled…
Come and join 150 young socialists from all over Europe
The campaign to bring young people from England and Wales to our ISR camp in July is steaming ahead…
Capitalism unbound: the oil industry
The oil industry was born out of modern capitalism and its thirst for “black gold”…
Is nuclear power the solution?
The G8 Summit has been billed as being around the twin global issues of climate change and world poverty…
Hands off our education!
CAMPAIGNERS IN Nottingham and London have organised protests this weekend against local attacks on education…
New Labour’s sham democracy exposed
ON SATURDAY 18 June, workers and users from the Walthamstow Learning Centre, local residents and the Walthamstow Socialist Party will be protesting against the proposed closure of the adult education centre…
On the public sector front line
Civil service union PCS conference: THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services union (PCS) conference meeting last week in Brighton was notable in many ways…
We won’t see you in Courts!
IN A growing international trend, workers’ pensions are being subject to cuts and ever-diminishing conditions while executives are receiving astronomical retirement packages…
Striking against the two-tier workforce
Liverpool hospital workers: OVER 600 caterers, porters and domestics at Aintree Hospital NHS Trust were on strike on 13 June…
Saving Royal Mail from the vultures
CWU conference: THE THREATENED privatisation of Royal Mail has dominated this year’s Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) conference…
Pakistan: Government clamps down on telecom protesters
LAST WEEKEND, the Pakistani government started a crackdown against telecommunications workers, following the refusal of the nine union-strong Action Committee to be bullied into privatisation…
Mugabe tightens his grip on Zimbabwe
FOLLOWING ZIMBABWE’S 31 March general election in which the ruling Zanu-PF party won a "landslide victory," President Robert Mugabe has unleashed armed police against street traders and shanty town…
