The Socialist 4 October 2007

Support postal workers: decisive action can win

"We've had the battle - now this is war!"

Protests make bosses ditch closure plan

Iraq: end the occupation nightmare

Stop the War Coalition (STWC) national demonstration

Tory party fears an autumn election

Banking turmoil continues

Corporate Labour

Come to the NHS demo!

Swansea meeting

Classroom assistants on strike

Supermarket price-fixing scandal

Success! Double whammy for nursery campaign

EU's anti-working class 'reforms'

Fighting nuclear power

Students want to fight back

Che Guevara - revolutionary fighter

Socialism 2007: Ideas for our future

Socialism 2007.net

Burma: Dictatorship under threat

QPR buy-out - Reclaim the game!

It's a free world, a film by Ken Loach

Anno 1701 - Dawn of Discovery

Local government pay offer: It's time for action

Remploy workers win partial victory

Care workers on strike

National Shop Stewards Network makes plans

Previous issues, etc

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Corporate Labour

LORD GOLDSMITH, Blair's former attorney-general, has a new job at a US law firm on a salary of about £1 million a year. The government's former chief legal adviser 'advised' Blair that Britain should join Bush's imperialist war in Iraq in 2003.

Other ex-Blair cabinet members to be doing well from 'advice' include former health secretary Alan Milburn. He gets £25,000 a year as an adviser to Pepsi-Cola and £30,000 a year for his role on Lloyds pharmacy's health advisory panel and £35,000 as an adviser to the European board of Bridgepoint Capital Ltd, a finance company with an interest in health care.

Corporate Labour 2

WHO WAS in charge at New Labour's recent party conference? The big corporations dominated the fringe meetings. Coca-Cola sponsored and spoke at a meeting on "corporate social responsibility." What is it about New Labour? All bubbles but no substance.

Health minister Dawn Primarola was speaking on the obesity crisis in a meeting organised by Nestlé, the chocolate and food multinational that has vending machines in schools for its fattening produce!

Boots sponsored a Fabian meeting aimed at getting high street chemists (like Boots) to deliver NHS services. Private health firm BUPA paid for another Fabian meeting where health minister Lord Darzi spoke on: "Beyond hospitals, transforming the NHS." Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Merck, Sharp and Dohme were amongst sponsors/ speakers at a meeting addressed by Lord Warner, former health minister.

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