Articles from the Socialist, issue 478
15 March 2007
£billions for rich… Pennies for us!
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Blair’s Britain: BRITAIN IS now more unequal than at any time in living memory. If you are a low-paid worker on the minimum wage you’re offered a pay rise way below the real inflation rate. It’s the same ‘offer’ for many public-sector workers. If you are an out-of-work single parent, you’re harassed by the government to get any job, no matter how low-paid. If you are one of the super-rich, however, this government will fawn on you.
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Tony Blair – Bosses’ puppet |
Minimum wage insult
Socialist Party NHS campaign
UNISON Health group votes for summer demo
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NHS demonstration March 3rd 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE CONTINUING protests against the savage attacks on the NHS show that there is still massive anger about what New Labour are doing to the national health service…
Hewitt’s ‘day of exchange’
Socialist Party news and analysis
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Camden protest against cuts, photo A Cohen |
CAMDEN SOCIALIST Party has held a public meeting just a week after the storming of the town hall (see the socialist 477)…
Lambeth council attacks services for vulnerable people
Barking BNP don’t oppose council cuts
Lewisham council’s outrageous attack
Kurdish asylum seekers living in fear
Northern Ireland and Scotland
Northern Ireland Assembly elections: Another sectarian headcount…
THE RESULT of the Northern Ireland Assembly election was yet another sectarian headcount…
We Won’t Pay Campaign conference success
Solidarity builds party profile ahead of elections
Marxist analysis: history
February revolution 1917 – what lessons for today?
23 FEBRUARY 1917 (8 March in the new style Gregorian calendar) marked the beginning of the socialist revolution in Russia that sparked a revolutionary wave that would travel around the world. PETER TAAFFE analyses the lessons of February for the working class today.
International socialist news and analysis
US continues threats over Iran’s nuclear ambitions
TENSIONS BETWEEN the US and Iran became feverish as the United Nations (UN) security council resolution (insisted upon by the US) instructing Iran to suspend its nuclear programme, passed its 21 February deadline…
Iraq war: Convicted Bush official is ‘fall guy’ over WMD scandal
International Women’s Day
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Pictures of women in struggle and socialist demands from women comrades in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Sweden were on display at the Socialist Party all-London public meeting to celebrate International Women’s Day…
Housing
Tenants vote no to council housing sell-off
COUNCIL TENANTS in Brighton and Hove have dealt a blow to New Labour’s privatisation agenda…
Market-driven ‘social housing’ threatens tenants
Environment and socialism
Will government plans stop climate change?
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) summit last week set targets on renewable energy use, energy efficiency and reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions…
Socialist Students
Build the campaign to defeat fees
LONDON SOCIALIST Students members lobbied the National Union of Students (NUS) headquarters on 9 March to hand over the Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF) declaration to NUS president Gemma Tumelty and other NEC members….
International Socialist Resistance (ISR) and Socialist Students conference
Campaign for a New Workers Party
Trade Unions and the Labour Party: CWU branch asks some awkward questions
JUDY GRIFFITHS, the secretary of the Coventry branch of the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) recently wrote to CWU general secretary Billy Hayes on behalf of her branch.
Campaign for a New Workers’ Party conference
Workplace news and analysis
UNISON leaders lead members into dead end
Local government pensions: ABOUT 900 UNISON members in local government met on 6 March to discuss the way forward on pensions…
SOUTHAMPTON council strike
