Articles from the Socialist, issue 483
19 April 2007
Kick big business out of the NHS
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NHS demonstration, 1 November 2006, photo Alison Hill |
HEALTH WORKERS are having to fight hard for their jobs and services. What happened to the NHS’s founding principles, of quality health care ‘free at the point of delivery’ in a publicly owned and run health service?
Nurses’ fury at cuts and attacks on jobs
NHS London – delivering private health
Socialist Students
Build for national action against fees
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Cardiff Socialist Students campaign, photo Dave Reid |
Join the Campaign to Defeat Fees 27 April day of action: Students live in a world of soaring debt, unaffordable or condemned housing, low-paid jobs with poor quality working conditions, course cuts and department closures…
Socialist Party election campaign
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Socialist party election manifesto 2007 |
THE SOCIALIST Party is contesting a number of seats in the 3 May local elections in England and is fielding a list of candidates for the Wales Assembly…
Leicester: A principled stand against opportunists
Young socialist standing for Save Huddersfield NHS
Save our NHS campaign fields five candidates in South Lakes
Making a difference in Lincoln
Vote Socialist Alternative on 3 May
Socialist Party editorial
RMT victory: Union militancy pays
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Editorial: THE LONDON underground system almost closed down for three days last week as Metronet tube maintenance workers, members of the RMT union, prepared to strike, determined their jobs would not be outsourced …
Campaign for a New Workers Party
Wanted – a new mass party for workers
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Ricky Tomlinson, photo Harry Smith |
CNWP conference 12 May: THE CAMPAIGN for a New Workers’ Party (CNWP) conference will bring together trade unionists and community and environmental campaigners who want to see the building of a new mass workers’ party in England and Wales.
Speakers include Ricky Tomlinson, Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets
Ricky Tomlinson explained the case for the CNWP to the Liverpool Echo.
Campaign for a New Workers’ Party Conference
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
Socialist Party workplace news
Tube workers win big victory over Metronet
Campaigning for a £26,000 minimum wage
Young trade unionists reject New Labour
Greenwich UNISON steps up fight against pay cuts
International socialist news and analysis
Venezuela: Will the trade unions give up their independence?
THE VENEZUELAN president has announced the need to create a united socialist party, capable of transforming Venezuela and setting out on the road to socialism…
Bush’s man at the World Bank in corruption scandal
Socialist Party news and analysis
LORD BROWNE, retiring chief executive of Britain’s biggest oil company BP, has faced complaints from shareholders over his remuneration package…
Blockading Britain’s warhead factory
Fighting for the right to walk in the countryside
