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15 October 2008
Bankers bailed out: EUROPEAN LEADERS are following Brown and Darling's policy of big bank bailouts. The total bailout in Europe could total £1.5 trillion while the US government seems likely to inject another £400 billion...
2 September 2008
John Mc Donnell MP protests at Unison witch-hunt
The Socialist has carried many reports of the witch-hunt against activists within Unison. At a recent meeting to oppose this witch-hunt, John McDonnell, the Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington spoke...
31 July 2008
Voters reject Labour: Build a new workers' party
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Grodon Brown meltdown. Cartoon by Suz |
A 22% swing to the Scottish National Party (SNP) resulted in the overturn of a previous 13,500 Labour majority and the SNP won with a majority of just over 300.
9 July 2008
MP backs student fees campaign
THE GOVERNMENT is currently scheduled to 'review' the cap on university fees, with the prospect of the maximum chargeable amount being lifted from £3,000 a year to £5,000 or maybe more, writes Ben Robinson.
2 July 2008
Campaign for a New Workers' Party
On Sunday 29 June, 300 people filled the main hall in South Camden Community School in London to round off a very important weekend for the labour movement in Britain and to address the central question facing workers in Britain today: How can we fight for a working class political voice...
17 June 2008
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Protest against George W Bush visit to Britain, photo Paul Mattsson |
15 June 2008
Campaign for a new workers' party
TONY BLAIR and his coterie live in a fantasy world. Blair is now one of the most hated prime ministers in history, yet his closest advisers have drawn up a plan for him to depart after May 2007, saying that "he needs to go with the crowds wanting more." Hannah Sell writes.
3 June 2008
New Labour's failures: Don't just get angry, get active
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Grodon Brown meltdown. Cartoon on cover of Socialism Today, June 2008, by Suz |
LABOUR ARE hated - it's official! A YouGov poll last week put them at their most unpopular since opinion polling began in 1943. Then, Labour was soon to introduce the NHS and the welfare state. That Labour Party is gone forever, writes Tom Baldwin.
3 June 2008
Cosmetic measures against fuel poverty
THE GOVERNMENT'S plan, announced last week, to tackle fuel poverty doesn't amount to a hill of beans...
28 May 2008
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The fight for a new workers party is urgent - teachers strike on 24 April 2008, photo Paul Mattsson |
Labour, Tories, LibDems ...they're all the same! "Et tu, Crewe?" Gordon Brown might have muttered to himself as the knife of another electoral drubbing sank into his back, writes Greg Maughan, Campaign for a New Workers' Party.
28 May 2008
I told my union: "We need a new workers' party"
THE TRADE union, Unite, recently wrote to its members "to determine your thoughts on how you think the country is being run". Campaign for a New Workers' Party supporter Colin Trousdale returned this response...
28 May 2008
DETAILS OF MPs' expenses are finally public after three years of stonewalling by the House of Commons. The Speaker, Michel Martin, spent £200,000 of public money attempting to block such details.
28 May 2008
Over four million low-paid workers felt some relief when Gordon Brown was forced into his tax u-turn, writes Judy Beishon.
14 May 2008
Scottish National Party: One year in power - but little for workers to celebrate
On the face of it, with a series of popular measures implemented and opinion polls showing the Scottish National Party (SNP) with an extended lead over their rivals, the first anniversary of the SNP coming to power is a momen, writes Philip Stott, International Socialists, CWI Scotland.
7 May 2008
Meltdown for Brown - but he won't change course
Editorial: The barbarians are at the gate. After the London mayoral victory of the Tory Neanderthal Boris Johnson and the New Labour meltdown in the rest of the country,...
22 April 2008
Editorial: Brown's government lurching from pillar to post
Over £50 billion is being handed to fat cat bankers while five million low-paid workers are losing out from the abolition of the 10p tax band...
16 April 2008
'We're striking against low pay'
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Birmingham council workers strike on 5 February 2008. PCS and teachers will join them on 24 April. Photo S O'Neill |
On 24 April almost half a million public-sector workers will strike a blow against the government's policy of public-sector pay restraint, writes Jane Aitchison, civil service union PCS, Department for Work and Pensions group president, personal capacity.
16 April 2008
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: why all the controversy?
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill going through parliament at the moment is causing controversy...
16 April 2008
Housing crisis: Britain's house of cards
AS THE US economy moves sharply downwards, the threat of a crash in the British housing market is becoming ever more real, writes Marc Glasscoe, Socialist Party Lincoln.
8 April 2008
Perks for MPs - Bonuses for the bosses - Cutbacks for us!
LAST WEEK 'Stormin' Gordon' Brown hit the streets of Coventry, strutting around talking about crime, writes Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist Party councillor.
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