Articles from the Socialist, issue 604
2 December 2009
Climate change ‘gigantic market failure’
Copenhagen climate change talks
Socialist Party NHS campaign
National Health Service: Patient safety not private profit
THE LATEST report on safety standards in our hospitals lays bare some shocking examples of safety failures in some NHS hospital trusts, writes Jane James.
Youth fight for jobs
Youth march for jobs: “A fantastic experience”
Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) will doubtless earn a reputation for putting on the most lively, vibrant and colourful demonstrations in Britain, writes Sean Figg, YFJ national organiser.
Credit crunch
Dubai’s house of sand crumbles
STOCK MARKETS and the world financial system have been rocked by the request by investment corporation ‘Dubai World’, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Gulf state of Dubai, for a six month moratorium on the repayment of $3.5 billion of loans, writes Kevin Parslow.
War and occupation
Chilcot inquiry: Put the warmongers on trial!
PUBLIC ANGER at the blatant spin and lies used to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq by those with blood on their hands – messrs Blair and Brown – has resulted in the Chilcot Inquiry, writes Matt Dobson.
Socialist Party news and analysis
Unauthorised greed: THE SUPREME Court ruled last week that the UK’s high street banks can continue to apply excessive charges on customers’ unauthorised overdrafts…
Yorkshire strikes – the lessons
Fighting council cuts in Greenwich
Anti-racism
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE STOP the BNP (NSBNP) has organised a Unity Rally in Nottingham on 5 December against a planned ‘protest’ in the city by the nationalist, racist English Defence League (EDL), writes Nottingham, Socialist Party members.
How mass campaigning closed BNP HQ
International socialist news and analysis
Irish Republic: Huge public sector workers’ strike against cutbacks
ON 24 NOVEMBER over 250,000 public service workers in the Irish Republic took part in a one-day strike, writes Michael O’Brien, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland).
Indonesia: Eyewitness report from Tamil refugee boat
Socialist Party election campaign
Politics ‘illegal’ in Lewisham council
THE GLOVES are off for next year’s Lewisham council elections. The Socialist Party, the only party prepared to fight against cuts, faces all the other parties including the Greens prepared to implement…
Help give a socialist answer to cuts and privatisation
Marxist analysis: history
Liverpool council’s budget ‘black hole’: Establishment parties only offer swingeing cuts
ON 3 August 2009, the Liverpool Echo reported that Liverpool city council faces a budget ‘black hole’ of over £90 million in the next five years, writes Tony Aitman, Tony Mulhearn and Dave Walsh.
