The Socialist issue 468
4 January 2007
Super-rich pocket £18 billion
FAMILIES who lost their savings due to the collapse of the company Farepak struggled to have a good Christmas.
At the same time London’s top financiers were living it up with bonuses totalling £9,000,000,000 (£9 billion). Across Britain as a whole, the bonuses received by directors were estimated to be double that figure, a staggering £18 billion.
Transport deregulation rip-off
Bus fares rise again: We Want Our Buses Back (WWOBB) campaigners will be on the march again in Sheffield, on Saturday 6 January, protesting against bus fare rises…
Socialist Party NHS campaign
NHS: THE BATTLE to save the National Health Service must be stepped up in 2007 to stop cuts, closures and privatisation…
Video National Save Our NHS Whitehall campaign Protest (340Kbits) (4 min video)
Merthyr fights Labour’s ‘designs’
Socialist Party Marxist analysis
Fighting the bosses’ offensive
2007 – a new year of struggle worldwide: As the new year begins, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe looks at the challenges lying ahead for socialists in 2007
War and terrorism
Saddam Hussein: Barbaric hanging deepens divisions
Frankenstein kills out of control monster
Violence against women
Ipswich murders lifts lid on violent world
Socialist Party workplace news
Workers prepare for action over jobs, pay and services
NEARLY 300,000 members of the PCS civil service union are balloting for national strike action over jobs, pay and privatisation…
Strike action brings victory
Victory for Surrey social workers