The Socialist 7 February 2004

No More Lies

War Crimes and Whitewashes

We demand a real investigation

BBC Workers Angry At Hutton Attacks

The Trade Unions And The Labour Party

Trade Union Left Convention

Civil Service Strike: Around the Picket Lines

Strike threat forces negotiations in civil service pay battle

Leicester Lecturers On Indefinite Strike

Stop These Council Cuts

Brazil - Movement For A New Workers' Party Is Launched

Venezuela: Workers Struggle Against Reaction

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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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War and occupation

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