Articles from the Socialist, issue 514
13 December 2007
Scotland
Defend Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch’s witch-hunt
Tommy Sheridan: End Murdoch’s vendetta
Tommy Sheridan’s sensational defamation victory over the News of the World (NotW) in July 2006 sent shock waves through Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire… By Philip Stott, International Socialists, Scotland
Tommy Sheridan perjury charge
Socialist Party NHS campaign
Warning: NHS cuts seriously damage your health
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On the 3 November Save the NHS march, photo Paul Mattsson |
AS THE year ends, the grim reality of privatisation and a market-driven NHS is clear… By Lois Austin
Manchester: Karen Reissmann sacked – and cuts still loom
Post Office dispute
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The CWU postal strike 2007 |
No to cuts and privatisation: Not being able to draw your pension at your local post office is not something that will bother the likes of Alan Cook, managing director of Post Offices Limited… By Jon Dale, Mansfield and North Derbyshire Socialist Party
What we think
Interest rate cut will bring no reprieve
Editorial: FOLLOWING THE interest rate cut there are continued fears that the current downturn in the economy could lead to a recession. 2008 could be the toughest year for the British economy for a long time.
Charity begins at the bank
Global Warming
Thousands march against climate change
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Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
“I SAID the other day it was system change we needed,” one young person told his friend as they saw our posters on the Socialist Party stall before the 8 December climate change demo… By Sarah Sachs-Eldridge
Socialist Party news and analysis
Sefton’s first citizen “cheating the system”
JUST OVER two years ago, New Labour’s rulers in Sefton on Merseyside victimised six Unison activists for protesting against privatising the borough’s housing stock… By Merseyside Socialist Party
Unite Cardiff schools campaigns
Socialist Students
National Union of Students: Right wing force through undemocratic changes
THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) held an extraordinary conference in Leicester on 4 December… By Edd Mustill and Matt Dobson
Leicester students debate tuition fees
International socialist news and analysis
Beijing Olympics under a cloud
China: On a recent trip to India, said to have cost around £750,000 of public money, the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone offered the Bollywood film industry a cheap deal for the use of some of the Olympic buildings in East London a… By Clare Doyle
China: Mass protests erupt in Shenyang
Extraordinary tape destruction at CIA torture camp
Workplace news and analysis
DWP strike: Fighting the pay cuts
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PCS on strike 1 May 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) management have imposed a three-year pay ‘deal’ that means that 90% of Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) members will have a below-inflation pay rise…
Birmingham city council: Workers boo ‘lead balloon’ councillors
