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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 3 May 2003, issue Hands Off Our Schools!  Blair Declares War On Public Services
Hands Off Our Schools!: JARVIS, THE engineering contractor which is being investigated by the police over last year's Potters Bar rail crash, has been awarded a three-year government contract to help rescue 'failing' schools, writes Roger Shrives.
Fight Capitalism, Change The System MAY DAY is international workers' day. It began in the US in the late 19th century and is now traditionally a day when workers and young people demonstrate for our rights and against the continuing attacks...
Argentina: Elections Show Need For A Socialist Alternative THE FIRST round of Presidential elections in Argentina has left former Peronist President Carlos Menem in a run-off with the government-backed Nestor Kirchner, also a Peronist standing for the Union de Centro Democratico, writes Tony Saunois.
George Galloway: Anti-War Campaigner Smeared GEORGE GALLOWAY'S name has been added to the notable list of those who stood against the might of the British political establishment and were subsequently ferociously witch-hunted and smeared, writes Ken Smith.
Blair's Problems On The Home Front PUFFED UP from 'victory' in Iraq, Tony Blair is preparing to step up the war against our public services at home...
Israel/Palestine: 'Road Map' Will Not Bring Peace PUBLICATION OF George Bush's long-delayed 'road map' to a Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement and an independent Palestinian state by 2005, was inched forward last week, writes Dave Carr.
SARS and a sick system THE MEDIA coverage of SARS has exaggerated its threat to health (so far 300 people worldwide have died compared to 30,000 influenza deaths each year in the US) and largely ignored the mass killer (and preventable) epidemics such as TB and malaria, writes Dave Carr.
SATS - Labour's Giant Measuring Machine Delegates to the National Union of Teachers (NUT) conference voted unanimously last week to boycott SATS - the government's system of testing children at ages seven, eleven and fourteen...
Is US Imperialism Invincible? After the Iraq war...: "A WAR to remake the world" is how Michael Ledeen, a leading neo-conservative associated with the Bush government, described the war on Iraq, writes Hannah Sell.
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