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We are right to take strike action
Rail workers reply to bosses' lies - see
pages 4 & 5
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Millionaire out to kick the low paid
BRIAN
SOUTER-multimillionaire boss of South West Trains and union buster. He is the enemy of everyone who wants a decent public transport system...
Rewarded for failing exams
NOTHING succeeds like failure, especially if you are a boss at
Edexcel. Edexcel is the exam board that set an unsolvable maths
question...
Anger at TUC smears
REVELATIONS THAT an official in the Trades Union Congress has been trying to stop the election of left wing candidates in union elections are fuelling anger among trade unionists...
Rich are greediest
SHOCKING NEW figures highlight just who is greedy in Britain...
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What we
think
Who pulls Labour's strings?
THE SCANDAL surrounding the collapse of giant US corporation Enron is coming closer to the heart of New
Labour. The party received £36,000 from Enron after coming to office in 1997...
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Inside the
system
Right goes up in smoke
ROGER
SCRUTON, one of the right wing's favourite philosophers asked
for £5,500 a month from a tobacco company. He said he would use
his contacts to get pro-smoking articles in the world's press...
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Back these strikers and make rail bosses squirm
A CRUCIAL battle is now underway at South West Trains
(SWT) and Arriva Northern. On the one side stand rail workers fighting for decent pay and dignity at
work...
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Letters
Sacked workers deserve better
THE 87 members of the TGWU 4/550 branch at Friction Dynamics,
Caenarfon, Gwynedd, were sacked after eight weeks locked out by their employer for going on strike...
Obituary
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Real cure is cash
"THERE IS no longer a case of a winter beds crisis-there is a total beds crisis all the time." That was the reaction of a worker at the Whittington Hospital in north London...
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New Labour gets union cash but treats us with contempt
"MY
UNION has supported Labour candidates in every election since it was
founded more than 100 years ago. But no longer can the party take
the support of our members for granted."...
Can we become the majority?
"I AM a socialist, but the people I work with aren't interested. How do I convince them?" Every socialist has had to grapple with a question like this...
Colombian occupation
"THE
Colombian city of Santiago de Cali ground to a halt. Traffic jams
could be seen in every direction. Workers, the local communities and
supporters filled the city's streets to rally in support of the
occupation"...
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Bloody Sunday - The aftermath
BRITISH Paratroopers deliberately murdering unarmed civilians as they desperately try to run away or crawl to safety...
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Remembering John McGrath
EVERYONE WHO ever saw it remembers The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, the 1973 play by John McGrath, who died last week...
Reviews
Foot soldiers kicking back
FIRST IT was the film Behind Enemy Lines, and then the studios hit us with with Black Hawk Down. If, like me, you are sick of the jingoistic, racist and chauvinistic films coming out of Hollywood...
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Contact socialists near you
Marxist forums
A great response on the picket lines
SOCIALIST Worker went down a storm with striking Arriva rail workers...
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Challenge to bosses' World Economic Forum
TWO FORUMS, two visions of the world. That's what is taking place at opposite ends of the American continent this weekend...
Argentina
THE DEBATES in Porto Alegre have been given added urgency by the unfolding crisis in nearby Argentina. Friday of last week saw a new eruption of mass
protest...
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Postal workers
AROUND
150,000 post workers are voting on strikes over pay. The ballot closes on Thursday of next week...
Shorts
Councils
OVER 85,000 Unison union members working in local councils across London are moving towards action over
pay...
Caterpillar
OVER 500 WORKERS at the Caterpillar plant in Peterlee vote unanimously to ballot for an all-out indefinite strike against a pay freeze and attacks on working conditions...
Health workers
MEDICAL secretaries in hospitals across the north east of England are gearing up for a fight over pay. The move follows the victory won by medical secretaries in Glasgow last
year...
Diary - Upcoming events
In brief
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Civil servants
A NATIONAL strike by tens of thousands of civil servants in the PCS union on Monday and Tuesday of this week defied New Labour and bullying management...
ANL
THE ANTI Nazi League will be holding its conference in early March as the fight to stop Britain's Nazis moves into a crucial phase...
Council housing
THE SCOTTISH Executive last week proposed that the ballot for the privatisation of 80,000 council homes in Glasgow will start on 4 March...
Welsh Socialist Alliance
THE WELSH Socialist Alliance
(WSA) is campaigning hard in the Ogmore by-election in South Wales...
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Bush backs the Israeli murderers
GEORGE W Bush has given Israel the signal to unleash all-out war on the Palestinians...
Afghans still suffer
MURDER, mutilation, robbery and starvation-that is the reality of life for those Afghans who survived George W Bush's war on terrorism...
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