The Socialist issue 472

1 February 2007

THIS WEEK, the Association of Directors of Public Health floated the idea of the NHS charging for ‘non-essential’ surgery…

AT LONG last, the London NHS Together campaign has announced its event for the national day of action to defend the NHS on 3 March…

Striking for jobs and services

AS WE go to press, hundreds of thousands of civil servants are preparing to strike…

Mass action can defeat fees

NUS backs Campaign to Defeat Fees: The National Union of Students (NUS), representing five million members, has published a message of support for the Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF), and is backing the protests on 22 February…

Gay adoption: Christian hierarchy attacks equal rights

WHILE SOCIALISTS were out last week campaigning against cuts in the NHS, the leaders of Britain’s main Christian de-nominations were involved in a different kind of battle.

Picture: LGBT protest. Photo Marc Vallee.

They want to be given an exemption from laws due to be implemented this spring that will ban discrimination against Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered people (LGBT) in the provision of services.

HOME SECRETARY John Reid is under great pressure from the media and MPs after several well-publicised crises and humiliations about his department’s work in law enforcement…

Sinn Fein’s major U-turn

Northern Ireland: DELEGATES AT the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis in Dublin on 28 January voted by an overwhelming majority to back a leadership motion to support the police and judicial system in Northern Ireland….

Iraq – build for 24 February demo

HUNDREDS OF thousands of people protested in cities across the USA last Saturday, 27 January against Bush’s escalation of the war in Iraq and to demand that the troops be brought home now…

CWI rally: An inspiring international meeting

THE COMMITTEE for a Workers’ International (CWI) “Rally to unite the globe” on 27 January was an inspiration…

Sri Lanka: Defend socialists under attack

Bolivia: Mass protests demand right-wing Prefect’s resignation

Power industry: Fight this victimisation

E.ON UK, of which Central Networks is just a part, has around 15,000 employees, Chub is European Works Council delegate for the UK and a lead negotiator…

BP condemned over safety standards

Support the Unique Care workers

Southampton care workers on strike

National meeting on Single Status