14 articles from the Socialist, issue 422
12 January 2006
Defend the NHS
PROTESTERS ARE taking to the streets of Huddersfield again on 14 January, to oppose plans to centralise hospital services to a neighbouring town and the closure of a smaller local hospital…
PROTESTERS ARE organising for a mass demonstration against the far-right British National Party (BNP) on Monday, 16 January outside Leeds Crown Court where BNP ‘fŸhrer’ Nick Griffin and his sidekick Mark Collett face charges of ‘inciting racial hatred’…
Stop the privatisation of council housing
THE CRISIS in housing has been called a time bomb under working-class people’s living standards…
Tuition fees repel poor students
THE CAMPAIGNING group Socialist Students has consistently argued that tuition fees would deter people from studying. Now, a new study, following a number of polls, shows that the £3,000 a year top-up fees put off working-class…
Striking for jobs, services and rights
PCS MEMBERS at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) have voted to take industrial action as part of their jobs, services and rights campaign…
Successful tube strike must be escalated
STRIKE ACTION by station members of RMT (Rail Maritime and Transport Workers’ Union) closed 47 stations and led to severe disruption on the Northern Line, where train drivers refused to cross picket lines and also took unofficial action over the sacking of a driver on a separate issue…
Make your mind up time for Lib Dems?
IT SEEMS that all wings of the Liberal Democrats parliamentary party became involved in the brutal campaign to force their leader, Charles Kennedy, to step down because of his alcohol addiction…
For an alternative to New Labour
The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) has called a conference on 21 January, on working-class representation. This is an important event for all those looking towards establishing an alternative to New Labour…
Democratic discussion, debate and decision-making
The Socialist Party’s national congress is taking place in Skegness over the three days Saturday 11 February to Monday 13 February 2006. Socialist Party branches throughout England and Wales are electing delegates this month…
Priorities and opportunities in 2006
The national committee meeting of the Socialist Party on 7-8 January was held in preparation for our national congress on 11-13 February (see page 8). CHRIS NEWBY reports…
Fighting for socialist ideas world wide
International Executive Committee report: The Socialist Party is affiliated to the Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) which organises in 36 countries on every continent…
£109,315 – a record year for the
fighting fund!
Last Friday (6th Jan) was the last day that money was accepted for the October to December 2005 Fighting Fund quarter…
Solidarity with Tehran bus workers
FOURTEEN LEADERS of Tehran’s transport workers’ union were arrested on 22 December, after staging a ‘no-ticket’ action against Sherkate Vahed, a state owned bus company in Iran, to demand higher wages…
ISRAELI PRIME Minister Ariel Sharon’s massive stroke on 4 January has brought widespread political instability to Israel, changing the nature of the general election there due on 28 March…
