The Socialist issue 384
12 March 2005
Pensions: ‘We’re fighting back’
Fight back is being organised. PUBLIC SECTOR workers are faced with a huge attack on their pension rights, writes ‘We’re fighting back’.
NHS: ‘Over performing’ but under-funded
THE NATIONAL Health Service will be one of the big issues in this year’s general election…
Oppose Clarke’s terror bill
AS WE predicted in last week’s editorial of the socialist, New Labour’s draconian anti-terror bill got a rough ride in the House of Lords…
Review: Detention undercover
Ten police officers have been disciplined as a result of the BBC documentary The secret policeman which exposed racist views and practice by trainee police officers last year…
When is a cut not a cut?
THE LABOUR-controlled fire service in London is proposing to cut ten fire engines from central London and close the Manchester Square fire station, near Oxford Street…
The real cost of war and occupation
GEORGE BUSH and Tony Blair say the cost of war in Iraq is a price worth paying. But who is paying it?…
Crisis for republicans in Northern Ireland – political alternative needed
THE NORTHERN Bank robbery in Belfast, Robert McCartney’s killing and the attempt to cover it up, and then the allegations about the multi-million pound criminal empire run by the IRA have put the leadership of the repub…
Germany: Challenges, dangers and opportunities
OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT has reached over 5 million, a new all-time high in post-war German history…
Lebanon: A new crisis in the Middle East?
ONCE AGAIN the Middle East is in turmoil. As ROBERT BECHERT explains, the 14 February assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri…
Bush threatens women’s rights
THE RELIGIOUS right in the US has declared war on women and our reproductive rights…
Brazil: A bloody week in the countryside
SIX PEOPLE were killed during a bloody week in the countryside in Brazil. It started with the killing of the American missionary Dorothy Stang on 12…
