The Socialist issue 386
2 April 2005
Liar Blair must go!
Fight for a socialist alternative: THE general election is now just a few weeks away. Many people will regard this prospect with complete indifference. The contest will be…
No PFI or hospital closures in Bristol!
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THE SOCIALIST PARTY in Bristol will be standing a candidate in the forthcoming general election…
General election – main parties offer no solutions
BLAIR IS preparing to declare the general election. But a phoney election war has been raging for weeks. And if the campaign so far is…
Stop these deportations
SATURDAY 2 April will see a massive demonstration in Manchester opposing the deportation of refugees facing persecution…
Asylum and immigration – what we’re thinking
THE CURRENT ‘debate’ on asylum and immigration makes it hard to separate fact from fiction…
Judge backs false imprisonment of May Day protesters
THE JUDGEMENT in the May Day case, delivered on 23 May, made it a sad day for democratic rights…
Can we save the planet?
THERE IS new evidence that the threat from global warming is increasing…
Peter Taaffe’s Asian tour
SOCIALIST PARTY general secretary Peter Taaffe has been on a successful tour of South Asia, speaking at public meetings, discussing with socialist activists, and with fellow members of the Committee for a…
Kyrgyzstan and the ‘Tulip revolution’
OPPOSITION LEADER Kurmanbek Bakiev has taken over as ‘acting president’ of the former central Asian Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan after president Askar Akayev fled into exile…
Delegates vote to keep up pressure over pensions
DELEGATES TO the National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference were determined to press home the retreat that had been inflicted on the government over public-sector pensions…
Coventry: Save Peugeot jobs
COVENTRY SOCIALIST Party’s new "Save Peugeot Jobs" petition has already attracted well over 500 people’s signatures…
Pensions: postal workers must show solidarity
MANY ROYAL Mail employees have a final salary pension scheme, the Royal Mail Pension Plan, similar to that of civil service…
Fighting cuts at the Housing Corporation
NEW LABOUR wants government services to be more efficient. To most of us this would imply projects completed on time and on budget, phones…
College lecturers fight for pay deal
ON 15 and 16 March, college lecturers and members of the NATFHE union, took strike action…
UNISON National Executive Council elections
THE ELECTIONS for UNISON’s National Executive Council give members the opportunity to elect leaders who will fight for ordinary members, putting their interests first, defending jobs, pay and conditions of…
