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Reform or revolution?

THE MAY Day protest in London last week forced sections of the media briefly to treat seriously the arguments of the anti-capitalist movement.

SHOPPERS on Erdington High Street in Birmingham last Saturday got their chance to throw a wet sponge at Tony Blair. A Socialist Alliance supporter wore a Tony Blair mask and was pelted with sponges...

Big mood for strike

MEDICAL SECRETARIES in Scotland are balloting for strike action to fight for better pay. Around 100 medical secretaries, and admin and clerical staff from UNISON branches across Scotland...

Scotland's socialist challenge to Labour

THE SCOTTISH Socialist Party (SSP) will be a powerful force in the general election. Socialist Worker spoke to Tommy Sheridan, the SSP's member of the Scottish Parliament, about the potential...

Police target anti-Nazis

THE POLICE ensured that the Nazi National Front (NF) was able to defy home secretary Jack Straw's ban on its march in Oldham last Saturday. Greater Manchester police deployed 500 police...

The Telegraph's May Day blues

THE DAILY Telegraph had a full page feature last Friday on the London May Day protest. It was not quite what you might have expected in the true blue Tory paper...

Militancy in the post

ALL 700 post office workers at the Greenford office in west London walked out unofficially last week when union rep Steve Botwright was suspended for refusing to take on extra work beyond his normal duties...

Steel workers

Workers from the Heavy Foundry and the IMF Foundry are fighting against �120 a week pay cuts. They voted to escalate their one and two day strikes to all-out action from next Wednesday...

Defection in Basildon

A LABOUR candidate for the local elections in Basildon, Essex, has joined the Socialist Alliance. Charlotte Armstrong is a lone parent and student who was selected to stand as Labour candidate...

Anarchist founder

LAST WEEK we looked at some of the earliest critics of capitalism, the utopian socialists Saint-Simon, Fourier and Owen. This week our occasional series continues by looking at the ideas of Mikhail Bakunin, one of the best known founders of anarchism...

100,000 on the way to Genoa

ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS are predicting that the demonstration outside the G8 summit of world leaders in Genoa in July will be at least 100,000 strong...

South West Trains

GUARDS ON South West Trains (SWT) brought over 1,600 services to a standstill with a 24-hour strike last week. SWT runs services into London's Waterloo station from Surrey, Hampshire and Dorset...

Racism fuels the debate on asylum

TONY BLAIR led up to his announcement of the election with a major article in the Times against asylum seekers...

Sparks fly

THE DUDLEY health strikers heard that the contract to transfer their jobs out of the NHS was signed over the bank holiday weekend...

Policing the 'have nots'

NIGEL CHAMBERLAIN is the national press officer of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Karl Grossman is professor of journalism at the State University of New York and has written widely on the US government's Son of Star Wars project. Socialist Worker spoke to both about why globalisation is leading to a renewed threat of war rather than the peaceful economic expansion defenders of capitalism predicted.