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Issue - 2399
Dated - 15 Apr 2014
Strike to save the NHS - workers' walkout could turn the tide against Tories

Health workers in the Unison union have voted overwhelmingly for a ballot to strike over pay as Socialist Worker went to press.

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Teachers’ conference votes to strike
News

Teachers’ conference votes to strike

Teachers have voted overwhelmingly for a one-day national strike in June. The NUT union members, meeting for their national conference in Brighton, are fighting Tory education secretary Michael Gove's attacks on their pay, pensions and conditions.
21 April 2014
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1927-2014
Obituaries

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1927-2014

Mike Gonzalez looks at the significance of the anti-imperialist giant of Latin American literature who died last week
21 April 2014
News

Tube workers to strike against cuts for five days

London Underground (LU) workers are set to strike for five days over cuts to jobs, services and safety. The RMT union announced a 48-hour strike from Monday 28 April followed by a 72-hour walkout from Monday 5 May.
17 April 2014
Victory for striking cleaners at Soas
News

Victory for striking cleaners at Soas

Migrant cleaners at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) have won improved holidays, sick pay and pensions from outsourcing giant ISS.
17 April 2014
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News

News round-up

News shorts: One Housing workers vote for industrial action to defend union rep; Freedom Riders protest against four South Yorkshire Labour councils’ axing of their free train travel; Scottish Trade Union Congress takes place in Dundee this week; Deaths in police custody a theme of TUC Black Workers Conference last weekend; Strikes on the Clyde force bosses to offer better pay rise.
15 April 2014
Socialist candidates in London stand for something worth voting for
News

Socialist candidates in London stand for something worth voting for

Labour fails to provide a real alternative to the Tories, so candidates in the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition aim to do better. Annette Mackin reports
15 April 2014
Tiananmen Square: Another China is possible
Features

Tiananmen Square: Another China is possible

The protests in Tiananmen Square that began 25 years ago this week showed the possibility of real socialism emerging in China, writes Dave Sewell
15 April 2014
Hillsborough: Never forgotten
Features

Hillsborough: Never forgotten

Twenty five years after the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, Sheila Coleman spoke to Sadie Robinson about the campaign that refused to let the establishment wash its hands of the victims—and why it’s right to fight back
15 April 2014
Roma people are standing up to racism in France
International

Roma people are standing up to racism in France

The economic crisis has seen politicians whip up old bigotry to new heights, says Umberto Guerra of campaign Rromeurope
15 April 2014
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The Troublemaker

All-in-one cop service: kidnap, investigate and shred evidence

A team of the Sweeney— police flying squad officers —came up with a novel way of keeping crime under control in the 1990s. They decided to carry out their own kidnappings. 
15 April 2014
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Who Says?

The Things They Say

Things that they say
15 April 2014
Nicky Jacobs trial: 'It was a matter of any black man will do' says Winston Silcott
News

Nicky Jacobs trial: ‘It was a matter of any black man will do’ says Winston Silcott

Nicky Jacobs was found not guilty of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock last week. One of the Tottenham Three, Winston Silcott, spoke to Annette Mackin about the system’s racism
15 April 2014