13 articles from the Socialist, issue 423
19 January 2006
Unite to save our NHS
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST chain of private hospitals, BMI Healthcare, is said to be ‘discussing’ with the Department of Health about taking over the management of NHS hospitals that are currently struggling with mounting deficits…
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FOR THE second time in four weeks, the people of Huddersfield gathered on 14 January to oppose the Calderdale and Huddersfield Health Trust’s plans to transfer hospital services out of the town…
Education: SOME GOVERNMENT ministers fear that the new Education Bill to create a system of trust schools across the country could be defeated in the House of Commons…
Crime and anti-social behaviour
New Labour’s policies can’t end …: TONY BLAIR’S well-publicised ideas on "respect" in the community have pushed his views on crime and anti-social behaviour onto the political agenda again…
Build a political alternative to New Labour
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RMT conference on workers’ representation: THE CONFERENCE on the crisis in working-class representation called by the RMT rail union this weekend is potentially an important step forward in the struggle for a new mass party of the working class…
Time for a new mass workers’ party
Today’s conference is potentially an important step forward in the struggle for a new mass party of the working class. This is the first time that a national trade union has called a conference to discuss the question of working-class…
Time for a political alternative
AROUND CHRISTMAS, 3,000 City investment bankers were awarded at least £1 million each in bonuses, making a very tiny slice of British society as much as £5-6 billion better off, writes Time for a new workers’ party.
Are ‘super unions’ the solution?
DURING THE course of 2005, talks took place between the TGWU, Amicus and the GMB trade unions on the proposal to create a new merged ‘super union’…
TALKS BETWEEN the Group Officers of the civil service union PCS and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) management have failed to avert the strike called for 26 and 27 January, in defence of jobs, services and conditions…
Visteon workers braced for attacks
WORKERS AT Visteon, Ford’s component supplier, are bracing themselves for the next stage in the company’s attacks on their jobs, pay, conditions and pensions…
THE TRAIN driver’s union ASLEF are to ballot their 2,200 drivers on London Underground for a series of one-day strikes. The socialist spoke to workers on the Northern Line:…
Iran: Nuclear row raises fears internationally
THE WESTERN governments’ hue and cry over Iran’s decision to restart nuclear research has produced mixed responses around the world. Amongst the millions who oppose, and have campaigned against, nuclear weapons there is growing…
One year on… where is the relief?
Sri Lanka: The tsunami legacy: WORKING PEOPLE around the world gave generously in order to support the victims of the 2004 tsunami – well before their respective governments began to release their statements of sympathy…
