The Socialist issue 409
29 September 2005
NHS in danger
Protest and strike back now: IN SPITE of New Labour’s propaganda, the NHS is in danger. In their headlong rush to privatise and cut costs, the government are threatening…
Labour’s great NHS sell-off
SPENDING ON the health service has doubled since Labour was elected in 1997…
Waiting for Gordon
BLAIR IS going – and should go – but his replacement as prime minister by Gordon Brown, whether in the immediate or medium future, will bring no relief to working-class people in this country…
Where are the Lib Dems going?
THE LIBERAL Democrat identity crisis was exposed at their conference. Leader Charles Kennedy tried to deflect criticism that the party was…
Anger at occupation of Iraq
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24 September anti-Iraq war demos: TENS OF thousands took to the streets of London on Saturday 24 September to protest against the occupation of Iraq…
Fight for free education
PROTESTERS REPRESENTING thousands of tenants from Peabody Trust estates demonstrated on 21 September outside Peabody’s HQ in Southwark at Peabody management’s plans to sell off its housing…
Anger grows amongst industrial workers
THE GATE Gourmet struggle in Heathrow Airport has been a massive issue for thousands of trade unionists this summer…
Morrison’s join the ‘race to the bottom’
Witch-hunt in Amicus as merger nears
THREE AMICUS members of staff – Des Heemskerk, Jimmy Warne and Cathie Willis – have been suspended from their jobs in Amicus…
Poland: Right-wing parties win election
A COALITION of two right-wing parties has won Poland’s first general election since the country joined the European Union (EU) in May 2004…
