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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 26 April 2003, issue Wage War on Poverty & Cuts  Wage War On Poverty And Cuts
SIX YEARS of New Labour has done little to narrow the huge gap between wealth and poverty in Britain, writes Cllr Dave Nellist, leader, Socialist Group, Coventry City Council.
Unite Against The Racists Fight for a socialist alternative: THE RACIST, neo-Nazi British National Party (BNP) are standing around 200 candidates in the local elections on 1 May, writes A Manchester Socialist Party member.
Save steel jobs - nationalise Corus NEW LABOUR may be banking on a record low turnout to win the Welsh Assembly election on 1 May but if a referendum was called on their handling of the Welsh steel industry, they'd lose their deposit!, writes Rob Williams, Socialist Party Wales and candidate for the Welsh Assembly elections, Aberavon.
May Day - Protest Against Capitalism ON MAY DAY, there will be protests around the world against the US/British occupation of Iraq and the war that has been waged in the interests of big business, writes Clare James.
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Saddam's Buddies Get Contract To Rebuild Iraq US CONSTRUCTION giant Bechtel has just landed the biggest contract - £433 million - to help 'rebuild' post-war Iraq...
Northern Ireland: State Terrorism THE NEW report by Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir John Stevens shows clear long-term collusion between Britain's security forces and loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland...
Anti-Fascist Feature Stop the neo-Nazi BNP: THE NEO-NAZI British National Party (BNP) are standing over 200 candidates in May's council elections, as well as one candidate in elections to both the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly...
Ten years after the murder of Stephen Lawrence: When Mass Action And Class Unity Beat Back The Fascists TEN YEARS ago, the Black teenager Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered in a racist attack in Eltham, South-east London...
Scottish elections: Socialist Challenge To Capitalist Parties 1 MAY will see the second elections to the Scottish parliament. After four years of devolution, extreme disappointment would sum up the mood of working-class people over the inability of the political...
Nigerian presidential elections Obasanjo's Poisoned Victory AMID GROWING charges of vote rigging Olusegun Obasanjo seems to be on course to be declared winner of Nigeria's bitterly contested 19 April Presidential election...
Fire Brigades Union conference Reject Burchill's Plans THE 250 delegates to the FBU's second recall special conference voted overwhelmingly to reject the employers' final offer on pay linked to modernisation, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party Industrial Organiser and Billy Carruthers, London FBU, personal capacity.
NUT conference: "No More SATS!" DELEGATES TO the National Union of Teachers (NUT) annual conference stood up and chanted: "No More SATS, No More SATS!" when the resolution to boycott SATS was passed unanimously, writes Jane James.
USDAW conference: Fighting For Low-Paid Workers THIS YEAR'S shopworkers' union USDAW conference takes place at the end of a horrendous war for oil and influence in the Middle East, writes Robbie Segal, USDAW executive council, personal capacity.
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