The Socialist issue 346
8 May 2004
And They Call This Liberation
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FIRST BUSH and Blair said Iraq was in breach of UN resolutions for not dismantling its weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) – One year after Saddam Hussein was overthrown no WMDs have been found.
Next, Bush and Blair said Saddam’s secularist regime was harbouring Islamic terrorist groups.
Now after one year of a US-led occupation the country, according to the Pentagon, is overrun with ‘foreign Islamic terrorists’.
Socialist Party election campaign
Council elections 10 June: TONY BLAIR wants to rule Britain for a third term. He’s been looking enviously at former Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who began her decade-long reign of destruction 25 years ago…
Socialist Councillors: There Aren’t Enough Of Them!
The Socialist Party is to stand up to 12 candidates in the local elections in Coventry on 10 June…
Fighting For Decent Homes
Lewisham: : ON 10 June, Londoners are voting in European elections, choosing a new London mayor and a new Greater London Assembly (GLA). …
Socialist Party campaigns
Campaigning Against Low Pay In The Civil Service
Department for Work and Pensions: THE HIGH level of support for the second two-day strike at Easter by PCS civil service union members over the 2003 pay claim rocked Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) management…
Fighting Victimisation
KOLA SHOKUNBI, a UNISON steward at Whipps Cross hospital in east London, has been sacked by Initial Hospital Services. Initial allege that Kola shouted at a manager, which he denies…
FBU conference: Time To Break The Link With New Labour
THE FIRE Brigades Union (FBU) conference starts on 11 May. In the wake of last year’s national strikes against low pay, the two keynote conference debates will be on pay and the union’s link with New Labour…
The Winter of Discontent: When Workers Could Take No More
IT IS now a quarter of a century since Margaret Thatcher’s Tory Party won the general election on 3 May 1979. …
International socialist news and analysis
Strikes in Italy: Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
THIS YEAR’S May Day came at a time of heightened tension in Italian society and of some of the most dramatic strike struggles in Europe. CLARE DOYLE reports…
European Union Constitution – What’s It All About?
– Why has Tony Blair promised a referendum on the constitution?
‘What part of “no” don’t you understand?’ was the answer that Blair’s official spokesman, Tom Kelly, gave a month ago when asked whether there would be a national referendum on the European constitution.
