The Socialist issue 411
13 October 2005
Asian earthquake disaster: Poor abandoned again
THE RECENT disasters of Hurricane Katrina, the Asian Tsunami, and now the earthquake affecting Pakistan, Kashmir and India have one thing in common…
Socialists killed in Kalam
Rising anger at Musharraf’s regime: On Monday 10 October the socialist spoke to Khalid Bhatti from the Socialist Movement Pakistan (SMP, the counterpart of the Socialist Party), in Lahore, before he set off to visit the earthquake-affected…
Appeal from the Trade Union Rights Campaign
MANY AID agencies will be collecting funds over the next weeks. Unfortunately this will be distributed by the same corrupt government whose…
Kick the fat cats out of the NHS
DIRECTORS OF the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, some already on as much as £140,000, have been awarded an 8% pay rise…
Socialism 2005: Our big weekend of discussion and debate!
EACH WEEK in the socialist we will be highlighting different sessions and courses from the agenda of Socialism 2005 – a weekend of discussion and debate taking place on 12/13 November, 2005…
United action needed to defend pensions
BLAIR’S NEW Labour government is once again preparing to attack public-sector workers’ pensions…
Kinnock repeats bitter attack
Liverpool council 20 years on: TWENTY YEARS ago, at the 1985 Labour party conference, the then Labour leader Neil Kinnock (now Baron Kinnock) made an infamous attack on Liverpool city council’s left-wing leaders…
Clear Oliver Campbell’s name
"I HAVE spent 12 years in prison for for a crime I didn’t commit…
Venezuela: Socialism back on the agenda
LESS THAN 15 years ago leading philosophers, capitalist commentators and politicians hurried to the burial ground of the bureaucratic Stalinist states of Russia and Eastern Europe and declared socialism…
Sri Lanka: USP launches election campaign
THE PRESIDENTIAL election campaign in Sri Lanka got into full swing last Friday and so did the campaign of the United Socialist Party (CWI, Sri Lanka)…
Peace in Algeria?
THE ALGERIAN regime claimed an overwhelming (and totally unbelievable) 97% ‘yes’ vote and 80% turnout in its referendum on a ‘peace and reconciliation charter’, held on 29 September…
Germany: Grand coalition against workers
GERMANY’S GENERAL election on 18 September saw a defeat for both of the so-called big peoples’ parties (the social democratic SPD and the conservative CDU/CSU)…
