The Socialist issue 316
27 September 2003
Iraq: Imperialism’s Quagmire
THIS WEEKEND will see, in many countries, hundreds of thousands of people taking part in mass protests against the continuing military occupation of Iraq by the US and Britain…
Fighting The BNP In Stoke
In the Abbey Green council by-election in Stoke-on-Trent on 18 September New Labour regained a seat from the Independents. They beat the BNP into second place but only by 60 votes on a 26% turnout, writes Andy Bentley, Stoke Socialist Party.
Solidarity With The Day X Protesters
No Disciplinary Action, No Jailings: ON THE day the war on Iraq began (Day X) tens, or maybe even hundreds, of thousands of school and college students left their classrooms and took to the streets…
Anti-bin tax protesters Jailed for defending the poor
SOCIALIST PARTY TD (MP) Joe Higgins and councillor Clare Daly have been sent to Mountjoy Prison, Dublin for one month. Their ‘crime’ is defending the poor in the fight against the bin tax…
Blair Hit By Anger And Disillusionment
THE LOSS of the Brent East by-election is more than a mid-term blip for New Labour. The Labour majority of 13,047 in the general election was wiped out in its first parliamentary by-election defeat in…
Why The Anti-War Movement Needs A New Party
THIS SATURDAY tens of thousands will march through the streets of London against the occupation of Iraq, writes Hannah Sell.
Renewed Bloodshed As Palestinian State Becomes Distant Prospect
THE DEMISE of the US-promoted ‘road map’ for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has brought with it the return of daily bloodshed, writes Judy Beishon.
