24 articles from the Socialist, issue 461
2 November 2006
Thousands march to save NHS
Now build for further action THOUSANDS OF people descended on parliament on 1 November to demonstrate their anger at the devastating cuts and closures to the National Health Service…
West Midlands says ‘Save our hospitals’
Bring the NHS into public ownership and rebuild it as a publicly funded service free at the point of use, with immediate cash to end the crisis of under-funding…
Global Warming
Capitalism is killing the planet: Fight for socialism!
FROM NOVEMBER 6-17 countries will meet in Nairobi (Kenya) in UN sponsored talks on climate change… By Dave Nellist Coventry Socialist Party councillor
Can global warming be stopped?
A radical environmentalist perhaps? The outline for a Hollywood film? No, this was part of an appraisal of global warming’s possible impact for the US…
Socialist Students
Thousands join fees demonstration
Student protests: ON 29 October, thousands of students showed their opposition to government attacks on higher education by demonstrating against top-up fees… By Michael Pooler Manchester University Socialist Students
International socialist news and analysis
Mexico: Police and army attack Oaxaca rebellion
AFTER FIVE months of struggle and open rebellion in Oaxaca, the outgoing Mexican president Vicente Fox has taken a gamble by sending in the police and the army to retake control of state institutions and the city… By Karl Debbaut, CWI
Lula’s win is no victory for Brazil’s poor
Cyprus: Fight for Kurdish asylum rights
Big Bucks for Starbucks – nothing for small farmers
GLOBAL COFFEE chain Starbucks is the McDonalds of the coffee world with hundreds of shops throughout Britain and the world. Its annual revenue is £3.2 billion.
Marxist analysis: history
Hungary 1956: When workers rose in their millions
Clare Doyle explains the background to these inspiring events and the reasons why the Hungarian revolution was brutally crushed by a new ‘Soviet’ invasion….
The Socialist Interview
Crime and punishment – the prison officers’ view
the socialist interview: BRIAN CATON, the general secretary of the Prison Officers’ Association (POA) recently spoke to the socialist about this and other important issues facing his trade union….
Workplace analysis
Building a national shop stewards’ network
OVER 200 trade union shop stewards and workplace reps attended the railworkers’ RMT union conference held on 28 October to discuss the setting up of a national shop stewards’ network…. By Ken Smith
