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Issue - 1747

Dated - 12 May 2001

Your chance to kick back

CAROLYN LECKIE is a health worker in Glasgow. Berlyne Hamilton is a black worker at Ford's Dagenham car plant. Ateeq Siddique is a community activist in Bradford. These are just three of the over 160 socialist candidates challenging the main parties at the election...

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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...

12 May 2001

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Your chance to kick back

12 May 2001

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Postal workers

Over 600 people protested outside the US embassy last Saturday against George Bush's decision to condemn the planet to global warming...

12 May 2001

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Action stations

THIS ELECTION will see the biggest left wing challenge to the mainstream parties since the Second World War. The Socialist Alliance in England and Wales, and the Scottish Socialist Party...

12 May 2001

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No time to lose!

AS TONY Blair prepared to fire the starting gun for the general election campaign last week, socialist campaigners were already out of the blocks. Across Britain they are organising to ensure...

12 May 2001

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Dynamex are all out

SOME 108 TGWU union members are on all-out strike in north west Wales. Workers at the Dynamex Friction Dynamics (formerly Ferodo) plant began the official strike on 30 April...

12 May 2001

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The madman in the White House launches crazy new nuke scheme

TONY BLAIR backs US president George W Bush's plan for a "Son of Star Wars" missile system. But he won't tell you himself. Blair's official spokesman, Alastair Campbell, let the truth slip last week ...

12 May 2001

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Dudley Group of Hospitals

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

12 May 2001

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Diary – Upcoming events

RECENT BATTLES in the post have revealed new tactics by both Royal Mail and the national CWU union officials. Activists need to organise to face a new challenge...

12 May 2001

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Students

Luton University expelled 206 students who had not paid their fees last week, and UWE sent letters to 2,400 students threatening them with expulsion...

12 May 2001

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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.

12 May 2001

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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...

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Issue - 1747

Dated - 12 May 2001

Your chance to kick back

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In this issue

100,000 on the way to Genoa

Your chance to kick back

Postal workers

Action stations

No time to lose!

Dynamex are all out

The madman in the White House launches crazy new nuke scheme

Dudley Group of Hospitals

Diary – Upcoming events

Students

Policing the ‘have nots’

Sparks fly

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