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30 March 2006
GORDON BROWN, the trade union leaders' 'radical' alternative to Blair, has announced that a new panel will advise the Treasury on globalisation...
10 November 2005
Blair staggers on... but 'PFI' Brown is no alternative
The following article was printed before Blair's humiliating defeat in the vote to detain terrorist suspects for 90 days...
29 September 2005
BLAIR IS going - and should go - but his replacement as prime minister by Gordon Brown, whether in the immediate or medium future, will bring no relief to working-class people in this country...
28 April 2005
Britain's so-called 'booming economy'
NEW LABOUR have made the economy the centre-piece of their election campaign. But, JIM HORTON asks, what's the reality of Brown's 'booming' economy, will it last, and just who has got their hands on all that new wealth created by millions of working people over the last eight years?
11 December 2004
Saving pensions: united action needed
WHEN CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown announced 104,000 civil service job cuts in his last budget, Socialist Party trade unionists called for a one-day public-sector strike in response to New Labour's public-sector onslaught...
31 January 2004
WOULD CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown be an improvement on Tory Blair as Prime Minister? As Blair tries to dodge the banana skins, some people hope so...
18 October 2003
Apparently it's all my fault...
Comment: DAVE NELLIST, leader of the Socialist Group of councillors on Coventry City Council and former Labour MP for Coventry South East from 1983 to 1992 comments on this year's Labour Party conference and the Channel 4 programme The Deal about the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown...
19 April 2003
Brown's 'Optimistic' Budget Ignores Reality
IN HIS budget Chancellor Gordon Brown looked at the poor performance of the capitalist economy in Britain and the rest of the world and cut his forecast for growth for 2003-04 down to 2%-2.5%...
12 April 2003
Low growth and high deficits end Chancellor's surplus: JUST AFTER we go to press, on 9 April, chancellor Gordon Brown presents his budget. The financial media's 'experts' think it will be a 'dull' budget - but then it's not the experts who'll be paying...
7 December 2001
Brown's Budget Won't End NHS Underfunding
GORDON BROWN'S budget promise of £1 billion more for the NHS next year seems at first glance to be a positive move in improving a desperately under-funded health service, writes Jackie Grunsell.
16 March 2001
Poverty Grows Under New Labour: NEW LABOUR faces a political crisis over foot-and-mouth. They can see the global turmoil in share prices. They obviously hope to hold an election soon, before things get even worse...
16 March 2001
Budget: After the drought, a few drops of rain
GORDON BROWN'S budget was framed to guarantee a New Labour victory without scaring the big business horses says KEVIN PARSLOW...
2 March 2001
GORDON BROWN'S election war chest is overflowing. He's got a budget surplus of at least £18.9 billion to add to the £22.5 billion from the auction of mobile phone licences...
20 October 2000
Can Brown's "cunning plan" buy off fuel protests?
THE PROSPECT of pickets resuming protests outside fuel depots may have receded following a secret meeting between the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, and the Road Haulage Association, writes Dave Reid and Mariam Kamish.
21 July 2000
GORDON BROWN'S Comprehensive Spending Review for the years 2001-2004 made heftier spending promises than this 'prudent' New Labour chancellor has done before...
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