20 articles from the Socialist, issue 462

9 November 2006

Private operating theatres in supermarket car-parks! Cancer treatment for pets! This is the madness that the ‘internal market’ and privatisation is bringing… By Alistair Tice

Doctor attacks Labour-backing Prentis

AN ANGRY east London GP has written the open letter below to Dave Prentis, General Secretary of the largest trade union in the NHS, UNISON.

Health minister’s ‘scary’ performance

The public-sector fat cats

Out of the horse’s mouth

“I’M NOT in business to make cars. I’m in business to make money,” said Donald Stokes, chairman of British Leyland when it was the biggest British car company in the 1970s. Now, another chief executive said the same, this time about medicines.

Students can defeat fees

WE WERE promised “education, education, education”. We got lies, lies, lies. “Students benefit because upfront fees disappear” is the line the government… By Sarah Sachs-Eldridge

Campaign to defeat top-up fees

Build a real alternative to BNP

Hanging Saddam won’t end crisis in Iraq

THE DEATH sentence passed on former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, for ‘crimes against humanity’, will do little to end sectarian violence in Iraq… By Dave Carr

Solidarity – Scotland’s socialist movement

Conference agrees to build a socialist party: TWO HUNDRED and fifty members of Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement attended the first national conference of the new party on Saturday…

Reactionary Jewish and Arab groups in homophobic campaign

National action needed against performance pay

School teachers: TOO MANY teachers are being ground down under the pressures of a divisive system of performance monitoring, imposed targets, league tables and inspections… By Martin Powell-Davies

Devon teachers get organised

Education protests

LAST YEAR Lambeth College made £2.3 million cuts; another 5% in funding cuts were announced this year. If cuts like these continue for the next two or three years, adult education provision will be decimated.

When British imperialism hit the rocks

Suez 1956: : ON 5 November 1956 British and French paratroops occupied Egypt’s Port Said at the entrance to the Suez Canal….