The Socialist issue 356
17 July 2004
Strike Against Jobs Carnage
“CARNAGE!” THIS was the response of Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS, the main civil service union, to Gordon Brown’s announcement of 104,000 job losses in the civil service…
Brown’s Jobs Cull – Unions Must Strike Back
What we Think: THE CULL of civil service jobs, a key plank of Gordon Brown’s public spending review (12 July), is even more brutal than most workers expected…
An Attack On The Whole Public Sector
Civil service jobs threat: ON 12 July the government announced the latest developments in its plans to slash civil service jobs ahead of the general election…
Public spending review: Robbing Penny To Pay Paula
Public spending review: THE PUBLIC spending review was an opening shot in New Labour’s campaign for the next general election. The review tries to create the impression of a big increase in public spending, while trying to outbid the Tories’ promises to cut…
International socialist news
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THE INVASION of Iraq was based on false intelligence – on deception and lies.
Most people have known this for ages. Now it’s official.
In the United States a Senate committee has reported “a global intelligence failure”.
(Cartoon by Alan Hardman)
Saddam Hussein had no nukes, no biological or chemical weapons.
Not even stockpiled, let alone usable in 45 minutes.
Iraq War: The Guilty Men
NO SO-CALLED weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. The main justification for the war, that Saddam’s chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons posed a threat to the world, was completely fraudulent…
Why Fahrenheit 9/11 Makes Bush Fume
IT’S NOT surprising that Michael Moore’s documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 is storming the US. The film’s release coincides with Americans’ growing anger at George Bush and his right-wing regime…
Socialist Party campaigns
Fight Blair’s Privatised Academies
THE RECENT fanfare announcement on education ‘academies’ (legislation is already on the statute books) shows that Labour want to encourage private schools to empire-build in the state sector…
Tolpuddle: Fight The Anti-Trade Union Laws
In 1834, six agricultural workers from Dorset were sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia for trying to form a trade union. Today the Tolpuddle martyrs are still remembered and celebrated…
Heading For A Split
Labour and the unions: TEN YEARS of cohabiting with Tony Blair as Labour Party leader seems to have got to some trade union leaders. It appears the unions are at least in the first stages of heading for a messy divorce after a decade with an unsympathetic,…
The Socialist Party And The United Left
AT THE United Left (UL) meeting at UNISON conference, Socialist Party members in UNISON announced that they were withdrawing from the UL. They give their reasons for this decision below…
"Low Pay No Way, Council Workers Here To Stay"
FURIOUS HULL council workers halted the Lord Mayor’s parade in a protest against huge wage cuts…
International socialist news and analysis
‘Offensief Against Racism’ Success
LAST SUNDAY, 11 July, we organised the first meeting of our new anti-racist youth campaign, ‘Offensief Tegen Racisme’ (Offensief Against Racism -‘Offensief’ is the name of the Dutch section of the CWI)…
Sri Lankan Socialists’ Elections Boost
ON SATURDAY 10 July, the Provincial Council elections saw a much lower turn-out than usual. All the major parties lost votes…
