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The Socialist, issue 535: Build a new workers' party

Articles from the Socialist, issue 535

28 May 2008


spotBuild A New Workers’ Party

spotCrewe and Nantwich ‘no-win’ by-election: Why New Labour lost

spotI told my union: “We need a new workers’ party”

spotWestminster parties are remote from life

spotCampaign for a new workers’ party: conference 2008

Campaign for a new workers’ party: conference 2008

Sunday 29 June 10am – 5pm.

South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1.
(nearest Rail/Tube stations – Kings Cross/St Pancras, Euston, Mornington Crescent)
Speakers include Bob Crow, RMT general secretary

spotMPs’ expensive expenses

Socialist Party campaigns

spotTax the rich not the poor!

Over four million low-paid workers felt some relief when Gordon Brown was forced into his tax u-turn, writes Judy Beishon.


spotExeter bomb explosion: Workers’ unity needed against terrorism, war and deprivation

spotJohnson’s Prince of Darkness

spotThem & Us

spotGreenwich – save our centres

Socialist Party women

spotWomen welcome abortion rights victory: Now fight to extend rights

1,000 people joined a lively Abortion Rights Campaign protest opposite Parliament , photo Leah Jones and Anna Engelhardt

1,000 people joined a lively Abortion Rights Campaign protest opposite Parliament , photo Leah Jones and Anna Engelhardt

THE VARIOUS attempts to restrict rights to abortion, via amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill, ended in defeat on 20 May as MPs voted to keep the status quo, writes Eleanor Donne.


Youth and crime

spotHome secretary: “Tough on crime”…but not the causes

Home secretary Jacqui Smith has urged police forces to harass ‘badly behaved’ young people, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Students national organiser.


spot‘Youth justice’: repressive measures do not work

Socialist Party feature

spot‘Counter-terrorism’ legislation threatens our democratic rights

Postal workers trampled on the anti-trade union laws

Postal workers trampled on the anti-trade union laws

Feature: The government’s proposal to extend the period the police can hold suspects without charge to 42 days, will be presented to parliament in the next few weeks. ANNA LUCAS explains that, far from being a step in the right direction, these new laws, and other ‘anti-crime’ measures over recent years, amount to a major and unjustified attack on our democratic rights.


International socialist analysis

spotSouth Africa: Attacks on refugees and migrants reveal capitalism’s barbaric underbelly

THE WAVE of xenophobic pogroms which have swept through the squatter camps adjoining black townships around Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, has so far claimed more than 50 lives and has left over 80,000 homeless. Weizmann Hamilton, of the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI, South Africa) reports on the current crisis and the issues underlying it.


Socialist Party review

spotThe Wire – Reviewed by Michael Wrack

When The Wire first started it could easily have been mistaken for just another ‘cop show’, and a particularly slow, dialogue-driven one at that…


Socialist Party workplace news

spotPCS conference: More battles ahead on pay and jobs

PCS workers on strike, photo Paul Mattsson

PCS workers on strike, photo Paul Mattsson

This year’s conference of the civil service union PCS was a resounding success, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party industrial organiser.


spotUsdaw general secretary election: Members want democratic debate

spotIndustrial news in brief

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