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Socialist Resistance
SR41 - January 2007
Unite to fight new round of NHS cutbacks!
NHS
NHS patients are being denied basic operations, including treatments for varicose veins, wisdom teeth and bad backs, as hospitals try frantically to balance the books by the end of the financial year.
Editorial
Widespread revulsion at sectarian lynching of one-time US ally
If anything was needed, at the end of 2006, to demonstrate the depravity generated by Bush and Blair’s so-called “war on terror” the squalid sectarian lynching of Saddam Hussein in the name of victor’s justice fitted the bill.
Trade Unions
In this special extended article Greg Tucker sums up the political challenge facing the left in the unions, and outlines some suggestions for the way forward.
Trade Unions
The two committees established at the RMT and Respect led conferences have started to work.
Debate
After Ipswich murder hunt
Five women have been murdered in Ipswich. The ongoing investigation coupled with intense media interest and speculation has put Ipswich under the spotlight.
Debate
The murder of five women in Ipswich at the end of last year and the response of the media to the situation - at a time where there were few other stories for journalists to cover - raises important questions.
Eco-Socialism
On December 2, Socialist Resistance hosted a forum on Ecosocialism or Barbarism in London. A packed programme of workshops and plenary sessions brought together people from a variety of different backgrounds in a stimulating day of discussion which will hopefully have an impact on our practice in the New Year of 2007.
Eco-Socialism
The answer is undoubtedly yes, but this doesn’t mean hair-shirt austerity, as many people fear. On the contrary, the changes we need to make in order to save the planet would radically improve the quality of life for all of us.
Eco-Socialism
In the short time available in our workshop we filled a poster-sized worksheet with ideas about what we are for and against as ecosocialists. Most of us were from left backgrounds, but others had come to the forum because of recent actions against climate change.
Venezuela
Hugo Chavez had already been clear about his general intentions. As the size of his victory in the presidential elections became clear on the night of December 3, he joined his supporters from the balcony of the Miraflores palace. Under torrential rain, he sang with them the national anthem and shouted “Long live socialism!”
Sri Lanka
This is a story about a country where over 200,000 men women and children were displaced by war in a year; a country where 600,000 people from the minorities are confined and denied basic human requirements; a country where shelling and air raids are the only Christmas and New year fireworks for tens of thousands.
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