25 articles from the Socialist, issue 445
22 June 2006
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS cuts… closures… privatisation… We’re fighting back!
ALL OVER greater Manchester, NHS managers are using dishonest slogans like “Making health better,” “healthy futures” and “best for health” to ram through a savage cuts programme.
Fight the cuts in community services
HUNDREDS OF health visitors, district nurses and school nurses lobbied the health scrutiny committee of Waltham Forest Council in east London on 12 July…
Socialist Party youth and students
SUMMER HOLIDAYS at last… but you’re broke… So the first task when you recover from exams is spending days traipsing around, facing rejection, looking for a boring job where you get paid peanuts.
Socialist Students receive standing ovation
Leicester UCU dispute: At Leicester University, Socialist Students members were involved in the setting up of the Campaign for Students’ Information, because the Students’ Union (SU) executive were campaigning against the lecturers’ marking boycott (despite their declared support for the lecturers)…
Socialist Party feature
George Bush, cartoon by Alan Hardman |
Feature: THE US is the world’s only superpower yet, despite its overwhelming military might, in relation to Iraq, Afghanistan and now Somalia it has become embroiled in situations that it cannot control. Peter Taaffe writes.
Socialist Party campaigns
Community protests at trigger-happy policing
Forest Gate raid: TWO THOUSAND protesters marched through east London last Sunday to demand an apology from the Metropolitan police over the Forest Gate ‘anti-terrorism’ raid – in which Abdul Kahar was shot and arrested along with his brother, Abul Koyair…
BEING KNIGHTED in the honours list isn’t quite such a big thing as becoming a Lord but it’s obviously got some attractions for billionaire businessmen…
Labour defeated over schools and pool…
Lewisham council: LEWISHAM SOCIALIST Party councillors Ian Page and Chris Flood are leading the way in two long-running campaigns; the fight for a new school in the north of the borough and the battle to save Ladywell swimming pool…
North Tyneside: IN A draconian measure to ‘improve services’ (read ‘cut costs’) North Tyneside’s New Labour council wants to hire private companies to, potentially, run all of its services…
Football: A high price for the beautiful game
SOCIALIST PARTY member Kevin Miles is the International Co-ordinator for the Football Supporters Federation – the fans official spokesperson. He is in Germany at the moment, with the “Fan’s Embassy.”…
Socialist Party review
1926 General Strike: workers taste power
TONY MULHEARN, one of the leaders of the Liverpool 47 councillors who fought the Tories in the 1980s reviews Peter Taaffe’s new book…
One of the most controversial films in Venezuela in many years, Secuestro Express was made by a director who is rumoured to support reactionary opposition parties in the country…
Socialist Party LGBT
Putting the politics into Pride
Europride 2006 – 1 July: The Lesbian and Gay rights movement started in 1969 with the Stonewall riots in New York when drag queens physically fought the police who were raiding gay bars…
International socialist news and analysis
Socialists oppose the war in Sri Lanka
ON 15 June, two claymore mines exploded in Sri Lanka destroying a bus packed with farmers, workers and children. Over 60 were killed and another 40 injured…
Soweto uprising 1976: The powder keg ignites
THIRTY YEARS ago, South Africa’s vicious apartheid regime was shaken by an heroic uprising started by thousands of school students in the black ‘township’ of Soweto near Johannesburg…
Socialist Party workplace news
Brown attacks public sector workers
GORDON BROWN has declared war on public-sector workers’ pay. In a recent speech to the bosses’ organisation the CBI, he called for a three-year pay freeze. Brown is clearly setting out the programme he wants to implement whenever…
Anger at inept handling of pensions dispute
UNISON local government conference: UNISON’S LOCAL government conference, held prior to the main UNISON conference, exploded into anger at the blatant manoeuvrings of the platform…