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From The Socialist newspaper, 7 February 2004
We demand a real investigation – not a Hutton Mark 2
Extract From a Socialist Party Leaflet
We want an inquiry that actually looks at the real reasons why more than 10,000 Iraqi civilians have been slaughtered; why more than £5 billion of our money has been spent on a bloody war and occupation rather than the services we need.
We want a real inquiry, carried out by elected representatives of ordinary people, including trade union and community groups.
We have had enough of Blair’s lies and deception. He lied about WMD, he lied about introducing top-up fees and he lied about public services.
A war for oil and power
Blair and Bush and their cronies unleashed a war not for ‘liberation’ in Iraq, but for the imperialist plunder of Iraqi resources, particularly oil.
They have created devastation and terrible suffering. They should be driven from office.
For a new mass party
But the alternative is not Blair’s capitalist critics, whose concern is not for the British or Iraqi people but defending their own system and preventing more Bush-style adventures in the future that could endanger capitalism’s stability.
The real alternative is a new mass party of the working class, pledged to oppose militarism by establishing a new democratic socialist society.
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Finance appeal
The coronavirus crisis has laid bare the class character of society in numerous ways. It is making clear to many that it is the working class that keeps society running, not the CEOs of major corporations.
The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
The government has now ripped up its 'austerity' mantra and turned to policies that not long ago were denounced as socialist. But after the corona crisis, it will try to make the working class pay for it, by trying to claw back what has been given.
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- When the health crisis subsides, we must be ready for the stormy events ahead and the need to arm workers' movements with a socialist programme - one which puts the health and needs of humanity before the profits of a few.
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In The Socialist 7 February 2004:
War and occupation
We demand a real investigation
BBC Workers Angry At Hutton Attacks
Socialist Party workplace news and analysis
The Trade Unions And The Labour Party
Civil Service Strike: Around the Picket Lines
Strike threat forces negotiations in civil service pay battle
Leicester Lecturers On Indefinite Strike
International socialist news and analysis
Brazil - Movement For A New Workers' Party Is Launched
Venezuela: Workers Struggle Against Reaction
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