Front page
Get the French spirit
THE PRESS and politicians went into hysterics last week over the French fishermen's successful blockade of major ports. The Daily Telegraph was terrified that British trade unionists...
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News
Thousands of doctors not used by the NHS
EVERYONE KNOWS the NHS is crying out for doctors. So why the hell is the government stopping 2,000 fully trained doctors in Britain from working?...
Toll of the dole
OVER 180,000 manufacturing jobs were lost in Labour's first three years of office, according to research presented on Monday by Tony Blair's favourite think tank...
More victims of press hysteria
The News of the World's naming and shaming campaign over paedophiles last month is continuing to bring vigilante attacks against innocent people...
Bosses grab 20 percent
Company directors' salaries rose by a staggering 21.2 percent last year...
Firms defy the law on holidays
A Citizens Advice Bureaux report has found that thousands of workers across Britain are being denied their legal right to at least four weeks annual paid holiday...
Care betrayal
CHRISTINE Hancock, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, has attacked New Labour's plan to charge elderly people for care in residential homes...
Bloody Polluter
BP, The multinational oil company, which is attempting to redefine its image to that of an eco-friendly firm, is bankrolling the US senators with the worst voting records on environmental issues...
Costed out of college
UNIVERSITY tuition fees are driving people away from education. Applications for full time university places have fallen by 2 percent since fees were imposed. Mature students are hit hardest...
Slurs cause staff crisis
PUPILS RETURNED to school in England and Wales this week to find the worst shortage of teachers for a decade...
Dying from the filth in the air
AIR POLLUTION kills twice as many people in Europe as traffic accidents. This was the conclusion of research carried out by the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Monkey business in Lyons case
DESPERATE TALKS took place in Downing Street in June to bail out Roger Lyons, the general secretary of the MSF union, who is under increasing pressure to quit...
Straw loses in court
HOME SECRETARY Jack Straw has lost a second case at the High Court over his treatment of Ghanaian asylum seeker John Quaquah...
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What we think
No room if your face doesn't fit
"MOST POPULAR minister quits-driven out by a bunch of jealous, selfish, paranoid, less able and far less popular colleagues."...
The IMF, globalisation resistance
£1.50 from your Socialist Worker seller, or to order your copy send a £2 cheque/PO (payable to Socialist Review) to Socialist Review, PO Box 82, London E3 3LH. Phone 020 7538 3308 for credit card orde...
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Inside the system
Inside the system
CRIMEWATCH, the anti-crime TV programme, will not be showing CCTV footage of police officers breaking the law...
Comment
Can the UN be reformed?
THE MILLENNIUM summit of the United Nations (UN) was to take place in New York this week against a backdrop of protests and counter-conferences...

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Colombia - US plan to start new war
TRADE UNION and student protests greeted US president Bill Clinton when he flew into the South American country of Colombia last week. He was there to push his Plan Colombia....
Ready to shake up Melbourne
THOUSANDS OF protesters are gearing up for the "S11" demonstrations in Melbourne, Australia. On 11-13 September government ministers, bankers, the multinationals and the super-rich are due to gather...
Union backs Nader
Nader is standing as the Green Party's candidate in November's election, and speaking out against corporate greed, long working hours, lack of healthcare, and anti-union laws...
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Letters
Hit Ford while they are down
RARELY HAS Ford looked as vulnerable as it does now. A debacle which began in the US in early August is still unfolding over the recall of some 6.5 million defective tyres...
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Sack the man who failed us all
CHAOS OVER school exam results in Scotland has grown into the biggest political crisis since the Scottish Parliament was formed over a year ago...
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10 reasons to protest against IMF
1. THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) squeezes billions from the poor...
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The strikers were complete masters
So wrote the editor of Milan's most important newspaper on 31 August 1920. He was describing the takeover of the city's Alfa Romeo plant...
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Gangster Krayze?
PROBABLY THE most interesting movies produced by Hollywood over the last 70 years have been gangster films...
When resistance becomes fertile
ROB NEWMAN, the left wing comedian and writer, is speaking at the globalisation and resistance counter-conference in Brighton on 24 September...
Welsh songs
The Welsh Trilogy by the socialist novelist Alexander Cordell is back in print. It tells the story of the early years of working class struggle in Wales...

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Get Galbraith!
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Police hate carnival
THE POLICE and right wing press have launched an offensive against the Notting Hill Carnival in an attempt to end it...

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Mount Pleasant brought to a halt
AROUND 3,500 postal workers walked out on unofficial, illegal strike on Thursday of last week as part of the battle to save London's huge Mount Pleasant sorting office...
Peugeot
THE RESULT of the ballot at Peugeot over management's new offer on changes to the shift system was to be announced this week, after Socialist Worker went to press...
93% kick out a new offer
BUS DRIVERS working for First Group in north Manchester continued their industrial action with two one-day strikes on Friday of last week and Monday of this week...
Success in the north west region
Up to 100 people attended the conference of the Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance last Saturday...
Is this good new year?
LOCAL EDUCATION authorities could be looking to radically change the school year following a report for the Local Government Association...
Injustice
SATPAL RAM, victim of one of the longest running miscarriages of justice, is once again being victimised by the prison authorities...
Simon Jones
MORE THAN 70 protesters gathered outside St Paul's Cathedral on Friday of last week to mark what would have been Simon Jones's 27th birthday...
Protest against Balfour Beatty
Protest against Balfour Beatty

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'3 percent is not enough'
"THIS IS a great day for us. I'm proud to be part of this." That was the reaction of the union works convenor...
Angry lecturers set for all out
LECTURERS at Sheffield College are set to start an all-out strike on Monday 18 September-less than two weeks time...
Floplast
WORKERS AT Floplast printers in Kent are to ballot for strike action in defence of six sacked workers...
Asylum seekers
Demonstrate and rally in support of asylum seekers Saturday 30 September...
Councils
THE UNISON union was set to call further strikes across councils in Scotland in its fight for a pay increase of 5 percent or £500, whichever is greater...
Anti-racism
Hospital cuts
UP TO 300 people packed a public meeting held in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, last Friday...
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'There is a lot of fight left in us'
THE STRIKE by health workers in Dudley in the West Midlands is hotting up. The 600 mainly women workers know they are locked in a serious battle after their third round of strike action...

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