The Socialist issue 398
23 June 2005

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ON 2 July this year tens of thousands of people will march through the streets of Edinburgh to protest at the G8 summit.…

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We have booked a 4-star campsite in Strathclyde National Park with toilets, hot showers and cooking facilities…

They came to the G8 in-Justice Ministers meeting in Sheffield on 15-17 June from all over the country…

THE FAILURE of the EU summit marked a deepening of the crises of the European ruling classes…

Crisis in Africa: THE RUN-UP to the G8 summit in Gleneagles has seen repeated attempts by Blair, and his would-be successor Brown, to jump onto the various "make poverty history" campaigns…

No to Blair’s academies: NEW LABOUR’S ‘flagship’ City Academies, schools run by millionaires and private institutions but paid for overwhelmingly by us, are in disarray…

UNISON’S ANNUAL conference, taking place in Glasgow so soon after Labour has returned to power, is as you would expect, full of self-congratulation by the union leadership…

PROBLEMS FACED by GMB members in Asda/Wal-Mart distribution depots in the north-west seem to be coming to a head at the Ince, Wigan depot…

THIS IS the Socialist Party Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) group message at this year’s Pride…

FOLLOWING ALMOST three weeks of struggle against privatisation most Pakistan Telecommunication (PTCL) workers have returned to work…

THE MASS protest movements against neo-liberal policies that swept Bolivia with strikes and demos have ousted president Carlos Mesa…