The Socialist issue 333
7 February 2004
War and occupation
ONCE AGAIN lapdog Tony is following behind his master Bush. Having said last week that there was no need for an inquiry into weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Tony Blair is now setting one up…
War Crimes and Whitewashes
AS ANY inept DIY bodger could tell you, whitewash, applied carefully and thinly will last years. Too thick and it will flake off in no time." (Letter to the Guardian, 29 January)…
We demand a real investigation
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…
BBC Workers Angry At Hutton Attacks
IT TAKES a perverse talent to achieve what Hutton, Blair and Campbell et al did within the BBC last week. At a stroke they united tens of thousands of BBC workers in support of their multimillionaire former bosses who were initially seen as ‘Tony’s…
Socialist Party workplace news and analysis
The Trade Unions And The Labour Party
TRADE UNION links with the Labour Party will be under intense scrutiny this week…
Trade Union Left Convention
THE ISSUES being debated by the RMT are likely to surface at the Convention of the Trade Union Left, which takes place the day after the RMT special conference…
Civil Service Strike: Around the Picket Lines
High Court, London: DEPARTMENT FOR Constitutional Affairs (DCA) staff outside the Royal Courts of Justice, picketed all the main entrances…
Strike threat forces negotiations in civil service pay battle
OVER 5,000 members have been recruited to civil service union PCS since our pay campaign started. It has inspired a new layer of members and activists. Members see their willingness to take action has forced management to make concessions, writes Rob Williams, PCS National Executive (NEC), personal capacity…
Leicester Lecturers On Indefinite Strike
LECTURERS AT Leicester College are out on indefinite strike. The FE College is imposing new contracts that cut holidays, push through Saturday working and worsen conditions of service…
Stop These Council Cuts
Southampton: "I USE the centre because it’s convenient for me and my family and friends. We’re not rich, we can’t afford to join posh health clubs where the fees are very high. Soon there’ll be nowhere to go and the young will be back on the streets getting…
International socialist news and analysis
Brazil – Movement For A New Workers’ Party Is Launched
ONLY ONE year after the Presidential election victory of "Lula" (Luiz Inacio da Silva) of the Workers’ Party (PT) a new movement has been launched by former PT activists, trade unionists and socialists…
Venezuela: Workers Struggle Against Reaction
ON A recent Miami television programme, a group of Venezuelan ex-military officers openly called for a US invasion to overthrow the twice-elected radical, nationalist government of President Hugo Chávez…
