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The Socialist, issue 485: Time for a new workers' party

Articles from the Socialist, issue 485

3 May 2007


spot2007 election analysis: Time for a new workers’ party

Belligerent to the end, Blair described Labour’s election results as a “perfectly good springboard to win the next election”…


spotScottish Elections: Labour rocked as SNP wins

Socialist Party election campaign

spotNHS cuts… privatisation… widening wealth gap


Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS campaign councillor, photo Alison Hill

Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS campaign councillor, photo Alison Hill

THE GOVERNMENT’S relentless attacks on the NHS show that health workers and NHS users need a new political party, as well as fighting trade unions…


spotCampaign for a New Workers’ Party conference

CNWP conference

Campaign for a New Workers’ Party conference

Saturday 12 May 12 – 5 pm

University College London, Gower Street.

To register or find out more visit www.cnwp.org.uk

Speakers include:

Ricky Tomlinson – actor and Shrewsbury Two Campaign
Chris Baugh – PCS assistant general secretary
Dave Nellist – Socialist Party councillor
Mel Mills – Huddersfield parent – campaigning against the closure of local nurseries and standing in the 3 May elections against cuts and privatisation.
Tony Mulhearn – Liverpool 47

Socialist Party NHS campaign

spotNHS: A matter of life and death in Swansea


Marching through Swansea to save NHS services, photo M Kamish

Marching through Swansea to save NHS services, photo M Kamish

NHS: AROUND 600 health campaigners and health workers held a march and rally in Swansea on 28 April to protest at the threat to services in the area…


spotFat cats eye the cream

Socialist Party workplace news

spotPCS: Fighting for jobs, pay and services


PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson

May Day Strike: OVER 200,000 civil servants in the PCS took strike action on May Day, in defence of jobs, pay and services…


spotPicketing the Tate Modern

Socialist Party editorial

spotWidening wealth gap needs working-class response

Editorial: What is Tony Blair’s legacy? The Sunday Times has no doubts. Its latest ‘Rich List’ revealed that the wealth of the richest 1,000 people in Britain.

Analysis of the local election results will be posted from Friday onwards


Socialist Party election campaign

spotPacked election rally for Scotland’s Solidarity

OVER 500 people crowded into Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall for a Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement election rally on 25 April…


spotIrish election – Socialist Party takes on the establishment

spotNew Labour panics and resorts to lies

spotYorkshire ISR and Socialist Students day of action

Global Warming

spotAlternative energy: Winds of change?

MOST SCIENTISTS agree that climate change caused by centuries of burning fossil fuel is a serious threat to the future of the planet…


Education

spotStop these education cuts

ESOL: ON 28 April, Hackney Socialist Party members joined a union-organised east London demonstration against cuts to ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) courses in further and adult education…


Socialist Students

spotCampaign to Defeat Fees

THE CAMPAIGN to Defeat Fees (CDF) day of action on 27 April involved students in schools, colleges and universities nationwide…


spotSeattle students walkout against the Iraq war

spotPressure mounts for troops withdrawal

Socialist Party Marxist analysis

spotRussia April 1917: Lenin returns from exile

Comment

spotWomen must have the right to choose!

Abortion rights under threat: It has been revealed by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists that a woman’s right to choose to terminate a pregnancy is under threat, due to a lack of medical staff willing to be involved in the procedure…


Socialist Party news and analysis

spotWhat ‘public-private partnerships really mean

Tales from the council chamber: SOCIALIST PARTY councillors, Ian Page and Chris Flood have won another victory on Lewisham council…


spotCampaigning for LGBT rights

spotOppose legal aid contracts tooth and nail

Socialist Party workplace news

spotSupport the Sunvic strikers

STRIKING WORKERS from the Sunvic Controls factory in Uddingston, Scotland attended a Solidarity election rally in the Glasgow Concert Hall on 25 April….


spotGreenwich workers fight on

spotRemember the dead but fight for the living

spotThe scandal of HSE cuts

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