The US war drive goes on regardless. Whatever the diplomatic niceties surrounding George Bush’s visit to Europe, it is business as usual in Washington.
Former miner Eric O’Brien is entitled to all the comforts to help him in his advancing years. But he admits he is frightened for the future as his care home is one of four earmarked for closure in the South Yorkshire town of Barnsley. Campaigners fear Barnsley could be left without a single council old people’s home following an attack by the Labour-run district council and the town’s NHS primary care trust (PCT).
Dr Salam Ismael’s report of US atrocities in Fallujah, Iraq, which Socialist Worker printed as our front page last week, has sent ripples around the world.
The government is to hand £1 billion of NHS money to private companies to provide scans and medical tests to the health service. Health secretary John Reid announced the privatisation of diagnostic tests, including the MRI scans that are important in diagnosing serious conditions, as part of measures to reduce NHS waiting lists last week.
The Left Bloc has just won its best election results ever. We won 6.4 percent of the national ballot and elected eight MPs. That compares with 3 percent of the votes and three MPs at the previous general election of 2002. In fact this time we were only 65 votes away from electing our ninth MP — we hope we can still do it in the recount!
RESPECT MP George Galloway and councillor Oliur Rahman spoke to around 40 local residents at a meeting on the Collingwood estate in east London’s Bethnal Green & Bow constituency last Saturday.
THE GMB is the latest major union to consider strikes against New Labour’s public sector pensions robbery.
Civil rights activists campaigning against New Labour’s latest round of "anti-terrorism" legislation joined forces with the families of those who have died in police custody last weekend at a meeting in Tooting, south London.
Last week the Daily Mail splashed the headline "Our NHS, Not the World Health Service" across its front page. It was the latest attempt by the Tories and the right wing press to whip up a panic over refugees.
"Small pox and scarlet fever have unquestionably been introduced by aliens within the past few months on a large scale." You could easily think I’m quoting Tory leader Michael Howard.
So what should we make of the Ken Livingstone saga? Just so we all know how the conversation went, here it is:
