21 articles from the Socialist, issue 463
16 November 2006
Millions reject war and occupation
Bush & Blair’s Iraq disaster: GEORGE BUSH’S Iraq policy received a massive thumbs down from disgruntled US voters in last week’s elections….
Iraq, corruption and wealth gap send Republicans into a tail-spin
Palestine: “No excuse can justify this atrocity”
ISRAELI PM Ehud Olmert enraged Palestinians by describing the deaths of 18 civilians, killed by Israel tank shells in Gaza last Wednesday, as a “technical mistake”…
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Join the fightback – save the NHS
THE NHS is facing a ‘winter of discontent’, media reports claim. More than 200 trusts, 40% of the total have ‘overspent’ half-way through the year…
What we think
NICK GRIFFIN, leader of the far-right, racist British National Party (BNP) has been acquitted of charges of behaviour intended to stir up racial hatred at Leeds Crown Court on 9 November…
Special feature
Is capitalism killing football?
Peter Taaffe reviews My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach, published by ELO Jersey Press (£7.99)….
Socialist Party news and analysis
Farepack: THE MILLIONAIRES are falling out. Sir Clive Thompson, director of Farepak Christmas savings club accuses Halifax Bank of Scotland of pulling the plug…
Socialist Students
NEW LABOUR ministers tell students that there’s no other way to fund higher education than to make us pay fees…
Fighting start for the Campaign to Defeat Fees
Socialist Student members have been campaigning against fees since the lie came out of Tony Blair’s mouth – “Education, education, education”…
Socialist Party workplace news
Respect Organising Fighting Unions Conference
Lack of debate exposes limitations: THE RESPECT-initiated Organising Fighting Unions Conference held in London on 11 November attracted about 600-700 trade unionists and socialists….
