The Socialist issue 389
21 April 2005
Market madness wrecks NHS
NHS privatised say doctors: IT’S OFFICIAL. The NHS is being privatised, and will be further ruthlessly privatised – for the benefit of the rich – under all the established capitalist…
Big business plunges NHS into crisis
LABOUR’S ELECTION manifesto declares that "Whenever NHS patients need new capacity for their health care, we will ensure that it is provided from whatever source."…
Drive poverty pay out of the NHS
UNISON Health Conference: THIS IS the first time since the Agenda for Change (AfC) special conference last October that delegates from UNISON health branches will have the opportunity to discuss the problems that the pay and regrading reorganisa…
The Socialist Alternative
"I voted Labour last time but I won’t be voting for them again."…
Save Rover
THE SOCIALIST Party is standing a candidate in the general election to highlight the scandal of Rover’s collapse and to call for the renationalisation of the company…
Renationalise Rover – change the system!
MG Rover crisis: THOUSANDS OF Rover workers have now got their redundancy notices. Thousands more jobs are going in component suppliers all over the country. And now…
Renationalise London’s tube
METRONET IS a consortium of big private companies that controls two-thirds of London Underground’s (LU’s) infrastructure…
Private hands off public services!
"NOTHING IS off limits now and the potential for the private sector is massive," one businessman gloated to the Financial Times…
Profits soar, wages fall in the globalised economy
IN A recent national opinion poll 73% of respondents were in favour of increasing the top rate of income tax on incomes of greater than £100,000 from 40p in the pound to 50p…
A socialist world is necessary
One hundred and eighty million young people aged under 18 are involved in dangerous work, slavery, forced labour, the armed forces, commercial sexual exploitation and criminal activities…
Nancy ‘woos’ voters with socialism
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NANCY TAAFFE, Socialist Party candidate for Walthamstow, did some "speed dating" with a difference for the BBC Newsnight programme this week…
Socialist Party complains about imbalance in Newsnight
MOST VOTERS who are fed up with the blandness of the media’s election coverage will be equally fed up with media commentators complaining how boring the election is…
How red are the Greens?
LAST WEEK the Green Party launched their election manifesto. They put forward many policies that socialists also support – on the environment, against…
When Blair ditched socialism from the Labour Party
ANYONE WHO is getting interested in socialist ideas for the first time must find it incredible that the Labour Party ever had the aim of replacing capitalism with a publicly owned and democratically run economy, i.e…
