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Justice for Palestinians
CHILDREN RIPPED apart by tank shells as they play. Women shot dead by army snipers in their own homes. Houses smashed to rubble by F-16 fighter jets...
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Pay insult to the rest of us
NEW LABOUR ministers, MPs, judges and civil service chiefs are stuffing their already bulging pockets while low paid workers are told they can't have a decent pay rise...
Refugees: now most desperate to be targeted
NEW LABOUR immigration minister Lord Rooker congratulated the government last week for driving away refugees fleeing poverty and persecution...
Nine to one vote for London schools strike
TEACHERS in London have voted overwhelmingly to strike on Thursday of next week over pay. Over 40,000 members of the National Union of Teachers..
Banks after homes...
BIRMINGHAM council tenants are being asked to hand control of their homes to the Royal Bank of Scotland. The
Labour-run city council was meeting on Tuesday of this week to give the final go-ahead...
Wages down, cancer soars
THOUSANDS OF people are dying unnecessarily because waiting times for NHS cancer treatment are getting longer...
Lib Dems for privatisation
THE LIBERAL Democrats are turning to the right. A policy review pushed by leader Charles Kennedy is set to recommend more use of PFI schemes and private firms to run schools and hospitals...
Tsar rips off the homeless
A GOVERNMENT hotline set up to try and stop people giving to beggars is to be closed after it flopped...
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What we
think
After protest build bigger movement
SOME 20,000 people joined an anti-war march through London last Saturday. How right they were to protest has been underlined by events in the last week...
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Comment
Fury with warmakers
ANYONE WHO was on last Saturday's 20,000-strong demonstration will have been delighted at the size of it. It showed that there is an impressive movement ready to oppose the warmongers and their threat...
Inside the
system
New deal or old unemployment?
TONY BLAIR'S flagship New Deal scheme has managed to find real jobs for less than 3 percent of the young people forced to take part in it...
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Row deepens trade unions' discontent with Labour
TONY BLAIR has gone too far even for the leaders of the Trades Union Congress. They have been reluctant to criticise Tony Blair...
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Letters
We can tip the balance
I'VE BEEN out with the Anti Nazi League
(ANL) canvassing against the British National Party (BNP) in Oldham. We campaign in so called "white areas" such as Hollingwood...
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Zimbabwe - What's at stake in the election?
ZIMBABWEANS WILL vote for a president on Saturday and Sunday.
They face a choice between Robert Mugabe's brutal regime and the
Movement for Democratic Change's Morgan Tsvangirai...
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Pensions crisis
"BE AFRAID, Be Very Afraid," was the Guardian's headline. "Britain is hurtling towards a pensions crisis," said the Sunday Telegraph...
What
socialists say
Can opticians see the way forward?
Middle class is a term that
is used a lot, but it has a multitude of meanings...
Traffic chaos- are charges the solution?
THE TRAFFIC chaos in London is getting worse by the month. The rush hour used to be an hour, but today it stretches for most of the day...
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Celebrate uprisings of women workers
'THE WORKING women's day of militancy." That was how the Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai described the first ever celebration of International Women's Day in March 1911...
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In my view
Tests, tales and failure
IMAGINE SOME New Labour minister, press puppet or government geek steps up at a press conference and makes a statement: "Our job in education has always been seen as raising standards..."
Reviews
Angry voice of US 1930s Depression
THIS YEAR marks the centenary of the birth of John
Steinbeck. He is one of the US's most passionate, poetic and socially conscious writers...
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Contact socialists near you
Marxist forums
Young and militant
Saturday's
protest to stop the war was big, loud, young and militant. A
brilliant 20,000 marched through London streets. Banners and
placards called for peace, and branded George Bush a war
criminal...
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500,000 call Italy's leader a lying thief
HALF A million Italians demonstrated in Rome last Saturday against the right wing government of millionaire businessman Silvio
Berlusconi...
Around the world
A
MAJOR battle against privatisation in South Korea was continuing
this week after rail workers won major concessions and the
government threatened a crackdown on striking power workers...
Colombia - Rebels' resistance is strong
A TOP Colombian general resigned last week, along with several other senior military officers. It was the clearest sign yet that the war launched by the US-backed regime against rebel forces...
India - Blair's friends aid massacres
THE INDIAN government, which Tony Blair praised recently, has stood by while a section of its supporters carry out horrific massacres...
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Council workers
THOUSANDS of council workers in Tower Hamlets, east London, struck on Thursday of last week against attacks on their employment conditions...
In brief
Civil servants
THE NATIONAL strike involving tens of thousands of members of the PCS civil servants' union in job centres and benefits offices is hanging in the balance...
Students
WARWICK University students organised a lively protest last week against the university's Centre for Education and Industry...
British Telecom
HUNDREDS OF BT workers have voted to strike against a plan to transfer them out of the company to a contractor and to attack their conditions, pay and pension rights...
Diary - Upcoming events
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Rail and tube workers
OVER 2,000 rail workers brought services across the north of England and Scotland to a halt last week as they struck over pay...
Scottish Socialist Party conference
"SOCIALISM IS alive and kicking in every corner of Scotland." That was how Tommy Sheridan, national convenor of the Scottish Socialist Party
(SSP), opened the party's fourth annual conference...
Journalists
VOTES FOR strike action over pay will set the mood for this year's annual delegate conference of the NUJ journalists' union in
Eastbourne...
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National march to save Post Office
POSTAL WORKERS will hold a national demonstration in a week's time. Thousands will march through London protesting at plans to hand over the mail to private firms...
Medical Secretaries
"WE'RE NOT militant, but now it's come to the crunch. We've finally had enough, and we're fighting."...
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