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In this week's issue:
The Socialist 17 June 2009, issue Tories or New Labour - its cuts, cuts, cuts!  Tories or New Labour - it's cuts, cuts, cuts!
 | The Socialist Party's 'Grim Reaper' joins the Keep Our NHS Public 'Defend our health service' protest outside the Department of Health on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the health service, photo Paul Mattsson |
NHS faces financial meltdown: WHETHER IT'S the Tories or New Labour who form the next government, one thing is clear, the National Health Service (NHS) faces its biggest crisis since it was founded in 1948, writes Roger Davey - Chair, Swindon and Wiltshire Unison Health Care branch, (personal capacity).
A rat on Labour's sinking ship
Prepare for class war!
News in brief
Iran - mass protests erupt Mass demonstrations have erupted in Iran in protest at the apparent rigging of the presidential elections by the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad regime, writes Tony Saunois, CWI.
Only working class action can end war threat in Korean peninsula Clare Doyle considers the motives of North Korea's ossified Stalinist regime
Recent industrial disputes bring important lessons for the future  | Linamar workers support sacked covneor Rob Williams, photo Sarah Mayo |
Editorial: THE VICTORY of Rob Williams, in getting his job back and being reinstated into his position as convenor of the Swansea Linamar car parts plant has tremendous lessons for the future...
Standing up to bullying mail bosses  | Sack Peter Mandelson: Keep Royal Mail Public - Post Office privatisation cartoon by Mike John |
London postal strike: London postal workers are taking strike action for 24 hours, starting with the early shift on Friday 19 June...
CWU conference: Fighting for jobs and working conditions
Lindsey workers fight the bosses' redundancy scam  | Lindsey refinery: workers show their strength, photo Keith Gibson |
ON TUESDAY 9 June, Shaw UK issued 'at risk of redundancy' notices to 81 construction workers on the Lindsey oil refinery expansion project, writes Keith Gibson, GMB, Shaws.
Victory at Linamar! Rob Williams reinstated  | Rob Williams addresses Linamar workers at a rally in support of him, photo Sarah Mayo |
ROB WILLIAMS, the Unite trade union convenor at the Linamar car components factory in Swansea, Wales, has won a stunning victory in his fight for reinstatement...
National Shop Stewards Network conference
Tube workers on strike
Glasgow cleaners score success
Defeat the BNP: Build a socialist alternative THE FAR-right, racist BNP's success in narrowly getting two members elected to the European parliament has horrified millions, writes Hannah Sell.
Protests at BNP
Billy Bragg's Miners' Strike Tour UNDER THE South Wales area National Union of Mineworkers' banner with the words "Forward to a Socialist Britain and World Peace", singer Billy Bragg treated us to a great concert in Caernarfon on 11 June, writes Jan Underwood, Bangor Socialist Party.
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