The Socialist issue 474

15 February 2007

Build the Campaign to Defeat Fees: Students are angry – fees are an unbearable burden and massive debts are a shadow over their futures…

Students must link up with workers

‘Saintly’ Tesco

A great step forward in Liverpool

Campaign for a New Workers’ Party: Two hundred and fifty people, of all ages, crowded into the Casa (Dockers’) Club in Liverpool to hear the case for a new mass party of the working class…

Stop the War Coalition/CND demo

Troops out of Iraq.

No Trident.

Saturday 24 February.

Assemble 12 noon, Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. March to Trafalgar Square, London.

£100 billion Trident?

Angry refugees protest

Ten years of the socialist: 1997-2007

THE SOCIALIST was launched ten years ago, in February 1997. Like its predecessor, Militant, launched in 1964, the socialist entered the scene just as a long period of Tory government was about to end with the election of a Labour government.

And, as Ken Smith, the first editor of the socialist explains, like its predecessor, the paper had to cover and respond to massive world-changing events in the immediate years after its launch.

Bird flu outbreak: Profits put before health

THE BIRD flu outbreak at Bernard Matthews’ Holton plant in Suffolk has again exposed the government’s compliance with big business to put the profits of the food processing industry before people’s health….

Workers’ health jeopardised

Fighting back against NHS cuts

WILTSHIRE PRIMARY Care Trust (PCT) recently announced they would close three local community hospitals and two maternity units…

Police raids dividing community

Birmingham ‘terrorism’ arrests: THE RECENT arrest of nine ‘terrorist’ suspects in Birmingham is another high profile police swoop to have taken place in recent months…

£84 million penthouse

Workers’ strike declared illegal

Kashmir: TENS OF thousands of public-sector workers have been involved in a bitter struggle since November 2006 to force the government in Pakistani administered Kashmir to implement promises of compensation for losses suffered during…

PCS action continues

THE ONE-DAY PCS strike on 31 January has been followed up by a two-week overtime ban…

EDS forced into ‘U’ turn on pay

Greenwich workers prepare to fight

Hackney UNISON