Middle East politics after the Lebanon war
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By John O’Mahony
A. For socialists in Britain, what are the most important political issues in relation to the situation in the Middle East after the Israeli-Hizbullah war?
Solidarity 3/98, 7 September 2006
Students and workers against Thai coup
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By Paul Hampton
Students and workers have taken to the streets of Bangkok in protest at the military coup on 19 September, despite universal indifference from “democratic” bourgeois governments around the world.
Solidarity with migrant workers
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By Stan Crooke
In May 2004 ten more states joined the European Union. Eight of these were the so-called “A8” states from ex-Stalinist Eastern Europe. Since then, around 470,000 workers from the A8 states have entered the UK workforce.
Iraq: US/UK occupation creates “wasteland” - Down with the “resistance”! Up with the workers!
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by Colin Foster
On 29 August, oil pipeline workers in Basra and in Nassiriyah, in southern Iraq, announced victory in their 48-hour strike of 22-23 August, which stopped oil supplies from the south to central Iraq.
Mobilise to save the NHS
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The biggest privatisation so far of any part of the NHS is now underway.
The Blair government intends to transfer £3.5 billion worth of contracts from the publicly owned NHS Logistics, which organises the provision of half a million product lines, to DHL, a privately-owned German distribution company.
Don’t mourn organise! Rebuild the SSP!
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By Elaine Jones, Dumfries and Galloway SSP
Saturday 2 September saw the launch of Tommy Sheridan’s new organisation Solidarity — Scotland’s Socialist Movement (sic). This new organisation has been set up not because of serious political differences, but because of personal differences over Tommy’s court case, in which he successfully sued the News of the World.
Pornography and free speech
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We oppose the government’s decision to make the possession of so-called “violent porn” an offence.
UN troops in Sudan?
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Fighting is intensifying in Darfur, the western province of Sudan. The conflict began in 2003. Rebel groups demanding more autonomy for the area began attacking government targets. And the the Islamist-military government launched a brutal military campaign flanked by pro-government militias, the janjaweed.
Sarkozy fosters war of the generations
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By Joan Trevor
The French media, apparently, is dumbing down, becoming more like the US and UK, an obsession with celebrity and image — the French call this “pipolisation” — is growing.
NHS Logistics: strike against “biggest ever privatisation”
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by Nick Holden
“The government will today announce completion of the NHS’s biggest ever privatisation”, (Guardian 5 September).