The Socialist 17 September 2008

It's time to fight back

It's time to fight back!

Capitalist crisis - Karl Marx was right

No to racism: Yes to decent jobs, homes & services!

Socialist candidate gains 40% of vote, stuns Usdaw leaders

Conflict in Georgia - independent position needed

Brown's feeble fuel package

Protest at war and occupation

Welcome to the real Manchester

Fighting city needs a fighting party

Panicky MPs turn on Labour

No to post office closures

Protesters tackle Metro privatisation

Middle East: End imperialist aggression!

London bus strike: "Showing them our power"

Pickets cheer in West London

Ford workers meet to defend jobs

Journalists win union recognition victory

2008 Trades Union Congress: Pressure from below begins to show

Swansea rail workers fighting for a living wage

fastnews

Interview with Cindy Sheehan: "Some kind of populist uprising needs to happen"

Scotland: Tactical questions for local government pay battle

'Bob Marley' reviewed by Jason Toynbee

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Panicky MPs turn on Labour

CRISIS STORMS in the world economy, price inflation roars in the British economy; now rebellion bellows in the Labour Party. Well, 'bellows' is a bit of an exaggeration.

Worried by opinion polls showing Labour trailing the Tories by 19%, some previously comatose junior Labour ministers have been demanding that Gordon Brown faces a challenge to his leadership at Labour Party conference.

But the problem is not just Brown but the fact that New Labour is now an openly capitalist party. John McDonnell, one of the few genuine left-wing Labour MPs, quite correctly dismisses the latest in-fighting as "mere faction fighting without a single policy difference between the two sides."

He said the MPs and junior ministers' demand for an election was meaningless without a commitment to change the government's direction.

The Socialist Party agrees. We will keep fighting for a new mass workers' party, for an independent voice for the working class.

We need a party that fights as hard for workers as New Labour fights for capitalism.

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