Articles from the Socialist, issue 508
1 November 2007
NHS: Kick big business out!
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The PUSH NHS demonstration in 2006 called for a national demonstration, photo Sarah Sachs-Eldridge |
A dizzying array of cuts and privatisation, in the name of modernisation and reform, has been thrust upon the NHS since New Labour came to power in 1997… By Dr Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS councillor
Targets take their toll on cleaners
Feature: NHS – Time to fight for a national strike
Editorial: NHS campaigning – national strategy needed
Environment and socialism
System change to stop climate change
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Demonstration against climate change in 2005, photo Paul Mattsson |
HARDLY A day passes without a new report on global warming and environmental destruction publicised in the media. … By Dave Carr
Workplace news and analysis
CWU executive member calls for a ‘no’ vote
Royal Mail deal: Jane James interviewed Dave Warren, a member of the CWU’s postal executive. Dave is the only member of the executive to speak out against the deal.
Unison local government ballot result ignored
Socialism 2007
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17–18 November 2007: Socialism 2007 is only two weeks away now so make sure you have got your tickets booked up so you do not miss out… By Greg Maughan
Socialism 2007 web pages
Socialist Party news and analysis
Countering the race to the bottom
Comment: Having been born (1958) and brought up in one of the most cosmopolitan areas of Britain, Crumpsall/Cheetham in Manchester, I have known from an early age never to judge a person by the colour of their skin, religion, spelling… By Colin Trousdale
Respect in crisis – what lessons for socialists?
The transformation of Labour into a thoroughgoing party of big-business has left the working class effectively disenfranchised…
Asylum
Neil Cafferky spoke to Sadiq Abakar, an asylum seeker from Darfur, after a Save Sadiq protest against his deportation outside the UK Home Office.
International socialist news and analysis
Nigeria: Day of action protest march in Osogbo
AS PART of the ongoing international campaign to free the detained student leaders from Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and Education Rights Campaign (ERC) organised a protes… By a correspondent in Nigeria
Switzerland: Racism dominates election campaign
Poland: Right-wing populist government defeated
National Shop Stewards Network
Wales shop stewards’ network conference
About 50 shop stewards and union reps from all over Wales gathered in Cardiff for the founding conference of the Wales Shop Stewards’ Network… By Dave Reid
London and South East regional conference
Workplace news and analysis
Bolton care workers’ dispute: Workers’ determination yields first signs of success
Since the beginning of October care workers in Bolton have been involved in industrial action to defend terms and conditions of employment which had supposedly been agreed on a national level…. By Robert Mitchell
Vote Martin Powell-Davies for NUT vice president
