The Socialist issue 410
6 October 2005
Hands off our hospitals!
BIG BUSINESS is queuing up to try and make big money out of the NHS. But every week, in many different areas, there are new protests at policies that…
Why this year’s Labour Party conference poses the need for a new workers’ partyTime to take the ‘German’ road: IT IS twenty years since Neil Kinnock, then Labour leader, talked about ‘grotesque chaos’ in his infamous witch-hunting attack at Labour Party conference on Liverpool City Council and the Militant Tendency (predecessor to th…
Come to Socialism 2005 – the forum for real debate
New Labour is so terrified of debate that they did not allow discussion on Iraq at their party conference. Eighty-two year old delegate Walter Wolfgang’s one word of criticism ‘nonsense’ was enough to have him physically thrown out the conference and detained under the terrorism act.
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Tory Party fights for its survival
EXTOLLED FOR decades as the most successful capitalist party in Europe, caretaker leader Michael Howard this week presides over a squabbling bunch of would-be successors in the Tory party…
Global warming: Profit system guilty!
CAPITALISM IS screwing up the world! Scientists say that because of global warming, land and sea species are dying out faster than previously predicted,…
Scottish by-elections: Workers reject political establishment
THE SCOTTISH Socialist Party (SSP) contested two by-elections last week. In the Glasgow Cathcart Scottish parliament election CWI member Ronnie Stevenson…
China – new ‘great power’ or new revolution?
UNTIL RECENTLY China was seen as the main economic lifeline for world capitalism…
French unions unite to protest and strike
A UNITED front of French trade union confederations (the first time since 1976) is organising a national day of action and strikes on Tuesday 4 October…
Why the IRA campaign failed to defeat the British state
Lessons of Northern Ireland: AFTER THE recent report confirming that the IRA has ‘decommissioned’ its arms, NIALL MULHOLLAND looks at the approach taken by socialists to the IRA’s campaign after the ‘Troubles’ re-emerged in the late 1960s…
Grudging acceptance of Gate Gourmet deal
THE GRUDGING acceptance by Gate Gourmet workers of the deal cobbled together between the TGWU leadership and Gate Gourmet management looks likely to bring an end to this dispute…
New attack on council workers’ pensions
IT’S CLEAR that the truce over pensions between local government workers and New Labour is now over…
Ten years ago – Liverpool dockers’ strike
THE ALMOST three-year long struggle by Liverpool dockers began at the end of September ten years ago…
