June 2006 issue of The Socialist (#17) now online

national | miscellaneous | other press Wednesday June 14, 2006 20:41 by SP Online - Socialist Party

The June 2006 issue of The Socialist (#17) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents...

The Socialist #17 - June 2006

Contents

Ireland - South
Stop the cuts! Emergency action to end the health crisis
Donegal Action For Cancer Care rally
Editorial: End the criminalisation of young people (Sexual Offences Act)
Joe Higgins Column: Young people's rights trampled by new sex offences legislation
Limerick water campaigners face imprisonment
Housing crisis: Declare a national emergency!
Tallaght town centre: A gift for property speculators
Anti-refugee government exposed by Afghan asylum seekers' hunger strike
Industrial News: Reject partnership fiasco / Psychiatric nurses - Abused and underpaid / Exploitation on the Irish sea / Irish Rail wWorkers take wildcat strike action for safety / Bank of Ireland pension threat

Ireland - North
Stop the education cutbacks
Pickets force SEELB to postpone cuts
Where the axe will fall - on special needs pupils
Government's "tribute" to George Best: They're closing his old school!
Water Charges: No retreat from non-payment
Water Charges: Their Lordships say... "cut them off"
After Michael McIlveen's murder: United action to stop all sectarian attacks!
How the Assembly could save £50,000: Let the MLA's arrange the flowers!
Industrial News: College lecturers strike over pay / Fighting to save jobs in Lisnaskea / NIPSA conference - Time to build a united left / Visteon workers boycott talks / Dungannon Meats workers demand union rights

Socialist Youth News
Come to the 2006 socialist youth summer festival in Wicklow
South: Young workers are ripped off by exploitation agencies
South: Statutory rape crisis - SY members speak out
South: School students take a stand against deportations
North: No torture flights here! Protest at Aldergrove June 17th!
North: Ballymena - Young people get organised against sectarianism
North: McDonalds - would you like a career with that?

International News
Chile: One million protest as youth struggle for decent education
Workers’ Rights Campaign Venezuela launched
Sectarian violence grips Sri Lanka
Cyprus: Kurdish refugee victory
Hunger Strikers at Guantanamo Bay
Pakistan: Dictatorship attacks workers protests

Read the paper at: http://www.socialistparty.net/pub/pages/thesocialist017...6.htm