The Socialist 2 October 2008 Market Meltdown! Profit system failing Bradford & Bingley: We need real nationalisation The bishop and the 'bank robbers' What is short-selling and will the ban have any effect? Another nail in New Labour's coffin Lots of new recruits for Socialist Students Climate change calamities: Socialist planning needed Cuts and privatisation threaten new floods Local government pay dispute in Scotland: solid support for strike Unison goes to arbitration - a strategy or surrender? Union calls ballot over health pay Unions must fight to defend Ford jobs Lincoln - fight council cuts plan Liberty by Glyn Maxwell at Shakespeare's Globe |
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Home | The Socialist 2 October 2008 | Join the Socialist Party Another nail in New Labour's coffinWHILE BANKS are collapsing, the politicians are busy boasting and back-stabbing at party conferences. New Labour's conference achieved a lot - a lot of hot air, a lot of money wasted (£6 million), and a lot of chatter as another minister resigned. It achieved absolutely nothing for young and working-class people. Hugh CaffreyThe media talked about prime minister Gordon Brown making the "speech of his life". On Manchester's streets many words are used for Gordon Brown, and few of them are compliments. No wonder, when on top of New Labour's right-wing policies, our council tax is footing part of the bill for their event! The 20 September anti-war demonstration, reported in the last issue of The Socialist, was the first of several protests. Mental health workers protested outside the conference against the sacking of their union rep Karen Reissmann. The next day, several hundred council workers in the Unite union protested against the real-terms pay cuts New Labour are forcing on them. On Monday, hundreds of workers from post offices and postal services demonstrated against the closure of post offices and mail centres, the loss of jobs, and the selling off of our services to cowboy private companies. Addressing the demonstrations, union leaders called for "a change of policy, not a change of leader". It's time for a change of policy all right - we need socialist policies like ones in The Socialist! We do need a change of leader; but even more we need a change from the three all-the-same parties! What we need is a new party, one that stands up for the millions who are completely ignored by conferences like this. This last week will come to be seen as another nail in New Labour's coffin, and another day closer to the founding of a new mass working-class party. In this issue Socialist Party editorial Credit crunch
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