Articles from the Socialist, issue 531

30 April 2008

A week of strikes shakes government

Grangemouth oil refinery strike

Reports of the 24 April strikes

Stop PFI pirates wrecking our NHS

Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson

THE NATIONAL Health Service has its 60th birthday this July. Can working people still celebrate this vital service which they struggled for years to obtain, writes Keith White.

Tales from the council chambers: PROTESTS CAN change things – but are even more effective when there are socialist councillors to direct public pressure onto the establishment parties, writes Clive Heemskerk.

Socialist councillors back teachers

“Why I am standing against Labour”

Students stage occupation

Manchester University: At 4pm on Tuesday 22 April, around 300 University of Manchester students gathered for a campus demonstration to express their anger at the way the university is run, writes Abby Taylor, Manchester University Socialist Students.

Love Music Hate Racism

Fighting the far right: ON A wet Sunday afternoon tens of thousands of people turned out for the Love Music Hate Racism Carnival (LMHR) in east London’s Victoria Park…

Bolivia – right-wing coup threat

BOLIVIA IS awash with rumours about an impending right-wing coup against the elected government of president Evo Morales, writes Karl Debbaut.

Lincoln rejects insulting pay offer

With bills rising, council tax hikes and petrol going through the roof it’s little wonder that council workers in Lincoln feel as if they are getting poorer, writes Marc Glasscoe, branch secretary, Lincoln City Unison, personal capacity.

Unison witch-hunt

Corus Trostre, further job losses