Archive for December 2006
1 December 2006
Malaysia: Appeal for urgent protests to Malaysian embassies and government over attacks on homes
Armed police and bulldozers demolished a Muslim prayer house and makeshift shelters that were built by people after the first state demolitions.
7 December 2006
THE NATIONWIDE campaign against health service cuts, which was described in the guardian as "the most widespread and prolonged unrest since the poll tax revolt in 1990" has got Blair and New Labour worried....
7 December 2006
Chertsey: "NOT EITHER but Neither" is the slogan of the NHS Together campaign to save NHS services at St Peters (Chertsey) and Royal Surrey County Hospital (Guildford)...
7 December 2006
Building the national day of action
Waltham Forest: THE CAMPAIGN to stop cuts in the NHS in Waltham Forest, east London is developing daily...
7 December 2006
BLAIR'S GOVERNMENT believes in the market but the failure of some of its big initiatives in the health must be testing his faith...
7 December 2006
Department of Health, Whitehall, London SW1. Starting at 5.30pm. The 'ghost of NHS past', accompanied by health protesters will be haunting Patricia...
7 December 2006
GLASGOW'S NEW Labour council has been forced to retreat in the face of a massive strike over their plans to cut the pay of 4,500 council workers. ...
7 December 2006
Durham students say: : ON 1 December, 250 angry Durham University students demonstrated against a proposed 7% increase in the cost of living in university halls of residence...
7 December 2006
Campaign to Defeat Fees is building across London
London Socialist Students started to build the Campaign to Defeat Fees (CDF) this week with our 'Debt line' stunt...
7 December 2006
Socialist Students has received a fantastic response from the Campaign to Defeat Fees online petition...
7 December 2006
Fight Blair's divisive academy programme
IN A speech last week Blair announced that his pet academy schools programme would double from the 200 schools planned by 2010 to 400...
7 December 2006
200 march against Lincoln's far right
ON SATURDAY 2 December, over 200 people marched through Lincoln against the increased presence of the British National Party (BNP) on our streets....
7 December 2006
Bush and Blair still in denial
Iraq meltdown: AS IRAQ descends further into sectarian violence, ethnic cleansing, corruption and poverty, Western leaders Tony Blair and George Bush continue to be in a state of denial over the country's impending collapse...
7 December 2006
"The greatest strategic disaster in American history"
Review: FOR READERS who are familiar with Patrick Cockburn's incisive reports from Iraq in the Independent, they will appreciate his new book, The Occupation...
7 December 2006
Chávez re-election - a set-back for the right
Venezuela: : IN CONTRAST to any other President or head of state in the world today, Hugo Chávez , has been re-elected for a third term by a landslide...
7 December 2006
Balance sheet of WASG national conference
Germany: THE RECENT national conference of the WASG (Electoral Alternative for Work and Social Justice) in Germany, held on 18-19 November paved the way for a merger of this new left-wing party with the ex-Stalinist L.PDS (Left Party/...
7 December 2006
Political tensions rage in Bolivia
ON 27 NOVEMBER, several hundred protesters surrounded the entrance to Cochabamba's municipal building in what turned out to be a sharp clash with right-wing thugs and provocateurs and the Cochabamba police...
7 December 2006
How can the consequences of globalisation be combated?: Socialism 2006 featured discussions and debates which focused on the key issues facing socialists today...
7 December 2006
Britain's Muslims under siege - which way forward?
The debate between Seyyed Ferjani of the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB) and Jim Hensman from Coventry Socialist Party was one of the highlights of Socialism 2006...
7 December 2006
Do you have to be red to be green?
The science on global warming is unanswerable now - the danger is that it could develop much more rapidly...
7 December 2006
Trident - a waste of our money
TONY BLAIR is trying to bulldoze through parliament the replacement of Britain's nuclear weapons system Trident...
7 December 2006
Privatised rail bosses hike up fares
FROM JANUARY, the privatised rail companies are putting up their passengers' rail fares by well over the inflation level...
7 December 2006
OUR MPS want parity with GPs so they've put in a 66% pay claim that would take their salaries to £100,000 a year...
7 December 2006
UP TO 1,000 members of UNISON, from social services, schools, libraries and offices across Surrey, took strike action on 30 November as part of their fight for a 4% pay increase....
7 December 2006
Blood service staff prepared to fight job losses
LAST WEEK the National Health Service Blood and Transplant authority (NHSBT) announced their new service strategy which will affect mainly the National Blood Service (NBS)...
7 December 2006
THE FOUNDING conference of the UCU Left - the broad left of the new university and college lecturers' union - has marked a key step forward by overwhelmingly endorsing Roger Kline for the forthcoming general secretary electi...
7 December 2006
300,000 workers in PCS strike Ballot
THE DECISON by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union to ballot its 300,000 members in the civil service and Non Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) for industrial action as part of its campaign against job cuts, low p...
7 December 2006
ONLY WEEKS after JJB workers scored a massive victory over anti-union boss Dave Whelan (see the socialist issue 464), their union (GMB) is under serious attack. One steward has been sacked and the convenor is facing disciplinary action.
7 December 2006
THE BATTLE to defend the NHS took another step forward when 23 NHS campaign groups from around the country met in Nuneaton on 2 December...
7 December 2006
The Socialist Party has a long and proud record of struggling to defend working-class people. We are involved in hundreds of campaigns....
15 December 2006
QEH Hospital - a victim of privatisation
THE DIRE financial crisis facing Woolwich's Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) hit the national press headlines this week...
15 December 2006
Whitehaven: AROUND 4,000 people marched through the Cumbrian town of Whitehaven on 9 December to warn the local health trust - hands off west Cumbria's hospital services...
15 December 2006
PCS: Vote 'Yes' against job cuts and low pay
300,000 PCS members vote in national ballot: THE PUBLIC and Commercial Services union (PCS) is balloting its 300,000 members for strike action against job cuts, low pay and deteriorating working conditions. The ballot starts on 2 January for action starting with a one-day national strike on 31 January. A two-week overtime ban will start on 1 February....
15 December 2006
Privatisation, but not as we know it
The 'Third Sector': Fran Heathcote, a group organiser for the civil service union PCS in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), pulls apart the spin...
15 December 2006
The unleashing of free-market, capitalist forces has deepened the chasm of inequality between rich and poor, capitalist and worker, both across the globe and within all countries...
15 December 2006
Good riddance to the 'butcher of Chile'
ON SUNDAY 10 December the biggest killer and robber Chile has ever seen, ex dictator Augusto Pinochet, died. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans went out onto the streets to celebrate.
15 December 2006
Private companies rule - and ruin
LAST YEAR, all Exeter's secondary schools were rebuilt using private finance initiatives...
15 December 2006
BNP fiasco but vigilance essential
Barking and Dagenham: AS RICHARD Barnbrook, leader of Barking and Dagenham council's far-right BNP group, started ranting down his megaphone, over 300 anti-fascists ran to the park perimeter to drown him out...
15 December 2006
TWGU merger: Build a fighting union
TGWU merger conference: TWO MILLION TGWU and Amicus members are likely to be balloted in early 2007 on creating Britain's largest trade union...
15 December 2006
Mass meeting prepares for action
JJB Sports: JJB SPORTS warehouse workers in Wigan held a well-attended mass meeting last week to organise the fight against bullying management...
15 December 2006
Protesting against fare increases
SOUTH YORKSHIRE First have announced more bus fare increases from 6 January...
15 December 2006
Leeds workers on strike to defend pensions
MONDAY 11 December. Chaos in Leeds. Traffic jams all over the place. A 24-hour strike by 1,000 First bus drivers brought the city to a halt....
15 December 2006
OUR CHRISTMAS Quiz this year has 36 quiz questions, six quotes and six picture questions on famous people (or horses) for you to identify - they all died in 2006...
15 December 2006
NHS Crisis: Turn anger into action
Reporting on the NHS crisis: NEW LABOUR Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has not only pledged to 'balance' the National Health Service's books this year...
18 December 2006
JOHN HAMILTON – Blairites re-write history
The sad death of John Hamilton, leader of the Liverpool City Council in its titanic struggle to defend Liverpool from the ravagers of Thatcherism, has produced statements extraordinary in their inaccuracy and sanctimoniousnes...
18 December 2006
Heroic struggle scores victory for Visteon workers
WORKERS AT Ford's parts organisation, Visteon, are voting on the pay deals for the three 'tiers' of contracts in the workforce...
19 December 2006
Teachers support day of action against health cuts
Despite the enormous demands on teachers at this time of the year both teachers and support staff at South Grove Primary made sure that they joined in the Whipps Cross protest against health cuts...
23 December 2006
Ipswich murders lifts lid on violent world
THE DISCOVERY of the bodies of five young women in Ipswich, all brutally murdered, shocked and touched people all over the country...
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