Articles from the Socialist, issue 482

12 April 2007

3 May elections: ‘He’s just the same as Blair, he says there’s a tax cut, but it’s only for the rich’…

‘Climate change will hit poorest of poor hardest’

International socialist action needed: In February a UN-sponsored international committee of scientists, the IPCC, issued Part One of a report that concluded that climate change had started, was a result of human activity (principally the burning of fossil fuels.

Is the Green Party heading left or right?

Battling over the world’s oil reserves

Join the International Youth Camp

G8 Summit June 2007: HUNDREDS OF thousands of people were on Edinburgh’s streets in 2005 for the Make Poverty History demonstration organised around the G8 summit in Gleneagles…

France: Workers need to build a Left alternative

French presidential elections: THE LONG build-up to the French presidential election is nearly over, with the four main candidates now battling it out in the media in the final stage of the campaign…

Workers’ lives get tougher under New Labour

THE LEAD story in The Observer on 8 April “Exclusive poll: public says PM has failed to improve country” did not surprise most working-class people, they know life has worsened under Blair’s government….

Campaign for a New Workers’ Party

Conference

Saturday 12 May 12noon to 5pm

Speakers include: Ricky Tomlinson, Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets

University College London, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1

(nearest tubes: Goodge Street, Euston Square, Euston)

To register and for more info visit www.cnwp.org.uk

Blair silent on Guantanamo

Union leaders out of touch with teachers’ discontent

NUT conference: THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers (NUT) conference demonstrated just how many different attacks teachers and education face under New Labour…

Fury at jobs massacre

UNISON and PCS: Vote for fighting, democratic unions

PCS: All out on 1 May

Zimbabwe: State thugs crackdown on protests

Economic meltdown pushes masses to the edge: AN ACUTE political, economic and social crisis is gripping Zimbabwe. With mass unemployment, hyper-inflation and crumbling services, Zimbabwe’s trade…