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Nationalise the top food and fuel companies: Each week the cost of getting to the supermarket, buying the basic groceries for a family and cooking a meal is going up. Shoppers and shop workers talk about soaring prices on the checkout and wonder how we're going to manage and where it will end, writes Vicky Perrin, Huddersfield Socialist Party.
SEVEN YEARS after they began in Doha, Qatar, the latest round of negotiations over a new global trading agreement has collapsed again in Geneva, writes Dave Reid.
The Socialist Diary
Details of: * Socialist Students national meeting; * Socialist Party youth meeting; * London socialist women readers' group; * Burston Strike School rally; * Socialist Party black & Asian group meeting; * Socialist Party lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group meeting; * Socialism 2008 Anti-racism
International socialist news and analysis
AS THE Olympic Games in China opened, attracting the attention of the world's mass media, the conflict over the recognition of the republic of South Ossetia in Georgia exploded into open military conflict... Special feature
Tony Saunois, secretary of the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI), opened the CWI international summer school by firmly underlining the changes being brought in by the new economic crisis of capitalism and the importance of workers' struggles which will emerge, writes Alison Hill. Socialist Party workplace news
WITHIN 48 hours of Post Office Ltd announcing 16 branch closures in the city, Sheffield Communities Against Post Office Closures (SCAPOC) contacted all the sub-postmasters and held a 30-strong campaign meeting including reps from the National Federation of Subpostmasters, Communication Workers Unio, writes Alistair Tice.
The Socialist 6 August 2008 Socialist Party campaigns
Olympics
THE 2008 Beijing Olympic Games have been billed as the 'Green Olympics' by the Chinese regime, with its ambitious commitments to improve air and water quality in the Chinese capital, writes Vincent Kolo and Chen Lizhi, chinaworker.info. Socialist Party campaigns
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Andrew Lynch's radio adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists could be labelled as a reflection on how conditions for working-class people in Britain are better a century after the book was written by Robert Tressell, writes Bob Severn. Socialist Party workplace news
The Socialist 24 July 2008 Socialist Party campaigns Household bills set to soar: MANY PEOPLE'S minds were recently jerked away from planning their summer holidays, into a cold and wintry future. The privatised gas and energy supplier Centrica predicted that average gas bills could rise from £600 to over £1,000 in 2010...
Local government strike
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Socialist Party news and analysis
Work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, has announced a major attack on benefits claimants in his new welfare green paper. His claim that the changes will "transform lives" will be borne out, but disgracefully it will be in a transformation for for the worse... International socialist news and analysis
GORDON BROWN'S recent bellicose, anti-Iran speech in the Israeli Knesset is part of a ratcheting up of pressure which could lead to the nightmare scenario of an attack on Iran, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge.
The Socialist 15 July 2008 Socialist Party campaigns
Global Warming
THE WORLD faces the horrifying prospect of major climate change with its potential for catastrophic impact on food production and living conditions across the world, writes Ken Douglas. International socialist news and analysis
The Sri Lankan government, continuing to bombard the north of the country in the civil war, faced a warning general strike demanding increased wages to cover massive price rises, writes Siritunga Jayasuriya, Secretary, United Socialist Party, CWI Sri Lanka
SPECULATION IS once again rife on whether Israel or the US will launch air strikes on Iran. The Middle East could be on the brink of horrifying events in the next period triggered by such action, writes Judy Beishon. Socialist Party NHS campaign
IN SOME towns celebrations for the NHS' 60th birthday were official events, but the day organised by the Keep our NHS Public group in Leicester was a much more grassroots affair, writes Sally Ruane, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Keep our NHS Public.
Socialist Party campaigns
THE GLASGOW East byelection on 24 July could have political effects well beyond which big business party candidate gets sent down to Westminster. The byelection follows the resignation, for family and health reasons, of Labour MP David Marshall...
Workplace news and analysis
The sale of the Visteon car components plant in Swansea to Canadian company Linamar on 8 July marks the end of a chapter of heroic struggle by the workforce in defence of their jobs, terms and conditions and pensions, writes Alec Thraves, Swansea.
Anti-racism
Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP campaign was set up about a year ago, after the election of a BNP councillor (subsequently expelled from the BNP) onto Broxtowe Borough Council in May 2007, writes Ben Robinson.
The Socialist Comment
The socialist comment: The government's new welfare legislation is demanding that, by the year 2010, single parents who are claiming benefits will have to return to the workplace once their youngest child reaches seven years of age, writes Jane Harris, Winchester Socialist Party. Socialist Party review
The recent revelation that child labour has been used in the production of clothes bound for high street chain Primark proves that Paul Mason's book, published last year, is an important work that will only become more relevant as globalisation causes more acute class conflict... The Socialist 10 July 2008 Socialist Party campaigns
Campaign for a New Workers Party
Editorial: THIS MONTH talks will be taking place between union leaders and the New Labour government. Most of the national trade union leaders are hoping that the talks will lead to a 'Warwick Two' agreement, which they hope will result in a few scraps being thrown...
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