The Socialist issue 407

15 September 2005

“THE WORLD seems to have gone crazy.” How many people have said that over the last few weeks? …

ANOTHER DISASTER is looming. It’s not a tsunami or a hurricane or a ‘natural’ disaster. This is a disaster that will kill 4.4 million of the world’s…

The article below is an abridged version of articles written for a special supplement of Justice, the newspaper of Socialist Alternative (CWI USA)

COMPREHENSIVE STATE education, a historic gain for working-class families, has been under attack for decades…

JANICE GODRICH, president of civil service union PCS and Mark Serwotka, the general secretary, called a special press conference at TUC conference to show how far New Labour will go to smash the welfare state…

MANY OLDER workers still remember the 1945-51 Labour government in Britain – memories of its reforms help maintain a degree of support for the Labour Party. My personal experience shows why.

THE SCENES in Belfast and other Northern Ireland towns last weekend give a stark warning that the ‘peace process’ could at some point unravel and be quickly replaced by widespread sectarian conflict…

South Africa: IN THE biggest strike wave since 1996, South African workers recently went onto the offensive demanding a share of the economic boom…

IN MAY 2005, four neo-fascist European groups (NPD from Germany, Forza Nueva from Italy, Falanx from Spain and Chrisi Avgi from Greece) announced that they would organise their first European Youth Camp on 16-18 September in…

WITH 89% of the votes, Egypt’s first contested presidential election on September 7th could have been a crushing victory for Hosni Mubarak…