Articles from the Socialist, issue 479
22 March 2007
Labour’s NHS plans: not what the doctors ordered!
Divisive forgery shocks health campaign
Kirklees: THE SAVE Huddersfield NHS campaign won a famous victory in last year’s council elections in Kirklees council when local GP and Socialist Party member Jackie Grunsell was elected as a councillor for the Crosland Moor and Neth…
War and terrorism
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Bush and Poodle Blair: Get out of Iraq, photo Alan Hardman |
Four years of occupation: FOUR YEARS on from the invasion of Iraq, and what have the Iraqi people got…
Blair (and Tories) get their Trident vote
Socialist Party campaigns
“THE FAR-right BNP were there on the High Street, then this crowd gathered shouting ‘racist pigs’…
May Day greetings – support the socialist
Keep the market out of education!
International Socialist Resistance
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ISR conference 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
ISR/Socialist Students conference: STUDENTS, YOUNG people and young workers gathered in London on 18 March for the Socialist Students and International Socialist Resistance (ISR) annual conference…
Socialist Party news and analysis
Passenger protests force some improvements
Rail investment: THE GOVERNMENT ann-ouncement that 1,000 new rail carriages are to be provided to ease overcrowding is welcome news for rail travellers and rail workers who are frustrated that the service we provide fails our customers…
Budget: Who are the real scroungers?
Socialist Party women’s day school a success
What we think
Private equity deals – fight free-market vultures
Editorial: THERE IS a frenzy of takeovers by private equity firms, part of a world-wide surge of company mergers and takeovers by banks, hedge funds and big corporations…
Marxist analysis: history
How was the slave trade abolished?
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Toussaint L’Ouverture led a successful uprising of black slaves |
Reform or revolt?: TWO HUNDRED years after the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act was passed in Britain’s Parliament, Hugo Pierre asks:…
International socialist news and analysis
Rifondazione Comunista – its future?
Latin America: YOU WOULD rarely have a bigger contrast between Presidents George Bush and Hugo Chavez on their recent tours around Latin America…
“Bush out of Iraq and Lula out of Haiti”
Greece: The struggle to defend free education
Workplace news and analysis
Burslem postal workers continue the fight
Reinstate Dave Condliffe: POSTAL WORKERS in Burslem continue the fight to get Dave Condliffe reinstated…
Defend UNISON health activist
Greenwich single status scandal
