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The Socialist, issue 449: Middle East crisis: Stop the carnage

26 articles from the Socialist, issue 449

20 July 2006


War and occupation

spotStop the carnage

THE ISRAELI government is bombing Lebanon into rubble. Airports, roads, buildings and, not least, hundreds of human lives have been destroyed. Workers and young people around the world were already sickened by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) attacks on Gaza, but what has taken place in the last few days is a massive escalation of the nightmarish crisis in the Middle East…

spotLebanon: Israel’s air war threatens regional war

"WE WILL turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years". This threat from an Israeli general is now being implemented by a brutal bombardment of Lebanon by the Israeli army, the IDF, writes Kevin Simpson.

Socialist Party NHS campaign

spotFighting for the future of the NHS

Healthworkers and campaigners step up their struggle: ACROSS BRITAIN people are marching in their thousands to defend their NHS. From ward closures to bed cuts, to ripping off patients’ relatives for phone calls and parking charges, people have had enough of New Labour’s running…

Health workers demonstrate at Whipps Cross hospital in East London, photo Paul Mattsson

Health workers demonstrate at Whipps Cross hospital in East London, photo Paul Mattsson


spotHundreds march to stop Labour’s ‘leeches’

spotWest Mids march builds links

THEY CAME from all around the West Midlands as 150 people marched and rallied in Birmingham on 15 July. The march was organised by Staffordshire NHS SOS and the Socialist Party and 45 people came to the Socialist Party meeting…

spotNo to cuts, no to privatisation

NHS SERVICES in the Pontefract and Wakefield district face a shake-up. The council’s planning committee has given the go-ahead for the £250 million hospitals development project that proposes to replace Pontefract General Infirmary, writes Mick Griffiths, secretary and Adrian O’Malley, chair, Wakefield and Pontefract Hospital UNISON (personal capacity).

spotActivists organise for action

A UNISON health activist meeting has been called for Saturday 29 July in Birmingham, to respond to savage job cuts and ward and hospital closures throughout the NHS…

spotWhat the Socialist Party says

* No to NHS job losses, cuts and closures.
* No to NHS privatisation and ‘the market’.
* Rebuild the NHS as a publicly funded service free at the point of use, and with immediate cash to end the crisis of under-funding.
Unite the many campaigns already existing to defend the NHS…

Socialist Party campaigns

spotLow pay, no way!

PRIMARK PAYS peanuts!” “BBC are misers!” “New park nursery – charges parents a fortune, pays workers a pittance”. Young people around the country are adding managers, supervisors and well-known retail chains to ISR ‘walls of shame’ that name these Scrooge bosses, writes Ben Robinson, ISR national coordinator.

spotPolice not to face charges

spotArrested on suspicion

ON 7 July, while Britain remembered last year’s appalling 7/7 terrorist attack, the right-wing media and government were fabricating panic and prejudice, writes Rozh and Senan.

spotBury campaign SOCs it to the council

Schools victory: THE SAVE Our Schools (SOS) campaign in Bury, Greater Manchester, has scored a significant victory over the council in the fight to save Broad Oak School and Prestwich Arts College, writes Paul Gerrard Bury SOS campaign (personal capacity).

International socialist news and analysis

spotAnger in St Petersburg as the ‘Big Eight’ arrive

MORE THAN $10 billion is being spent on the ‘Big Eight’ in St Petersburg, including a massive security operation. Guests of Vladimir Putin, president of what is being dubbed the ‘energy superpower’ of the world, spent two days agreeing policies that won’t change one iota the fate of the majority of the world’s population who live in poverty and fear, writes Elizabeth Clarke, St Petersburg, Russia.

spotKazakhstan: Shanyrak shanty town in revolt

ON 14 July, police attacked shanty town dwellers in the Shanyrak area of Alma-Ata city, in Kazakhstan. Residents bravely fought back and scores were injured…

Scottish Socialist Party

spotSerious crisis for Scottish Socialist Party

Tommy Sheridan court case: THE PRESS in Scotland have dubbed it the libel trial of the decade. A case that has already resulted in saturation coverage in the Scottish media. Tommy Sheridan, Scottish Socialist Party MSP and former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party versus the News of the World. Philip Stott, International Socialists, reports.

Campaign for a New Workers Party

spotSea of sleaze rises around Blair

DESPITE HIS bravura performance at the G8, Tony Blair may not be able to deliver his promise to see all the other leaders at next year’s summit…

spotRMT rejects move back to New Labour…

THE KEY political debate at the Rail Maritime and Transport workers’ union (RMT) meeting in Dublin this month was on the crisis in working-class political representation…

spotCan the Left reclaim Labour?

John McDonnell leadership challenge: THE WEAKNESS of the Left in the Labour Party, and the changed character of the Labour Party has been graphically revealed by the fact that Left MP John McDonnell could not get the support of one-fifth of Labour MPs (about 71) to mount a ‘stalking horse’ challenge against Blair…

spotGordon Brown steps up attacks on the public sector

Gordon Brown announced last week that he was going to step up the attacks on public-sector workers, no matter who runs the Labour government, writes Bill Mullins.

spotNew Labour’s attack on the sick and disabled

THERE IS no doubt that Britain’s welfare benefits system is complex, unwieldy and hard to understand for those who claim it and those who administer it, writes Carol Williams.

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