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By Rob Sewell
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Tuesday, 27 February 2007 |
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As Blair prepares to hand over the leadership of the Labour
Party to Brown, opinion polls reveal how low support for Labour has fallen. We
face the real prospect of a return of the Tories at the next general election.
Blairism has failed abysmally and it is time to change course and adopt genuine
socialist policies.
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By Michael Roberts
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Friday, 16 February 2007 |
 All the figures on the British economy reveal the underlying sickness of the whole system. The indebtedness of the population has reached record levels. Now all the signs are there of a coming serious slowdown. This is what Gordon Brown will inherit as he prepares to become the next Labour Prime Minister.
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By Ben Peck
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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 |
 On the 6th of February the HOV delegation that went to Venezuela during the December elections, showed video-clips and slides from their visit and spoke about their experience. John McDonnell MP and Alan Woods, founder of the HOV campaign, were among the main speakers, as was the Venezuelan Ambassador, Alfredo Toro Hardy.
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By Rob Sewell
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Wednesday, 07 February 2007 |
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 The stench of sleaze emanating from Number 10 Downing Street marks the end of the Blair era. Brown is no alternative. Both men will lead the Labour Party to defeat in the future. What is needed is a genuine left alternative. That is why it is so important that John McDonnell gets the required number of nominations to be able to stand for the party leadership.
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By Rick Grogan, RMT
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Tuesday, 06 February 2007 |
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We live in a world never so technologically advanced, and yet never so unbalanced and chaotic. What we need is a society driven by the edict, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs". This article exposes the contradictions of a society driven by private profit.
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By Terry McPartlan
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Friday, 02 February 2007 |
 It is widely agreed that the main security threat facing Britain today is terrorism. Yet the British Bourgeois insist on maintaining nuclear weapons in an attempt to represent itself as a great economic and political power.
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By Kenny McGuigan
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 |
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Hospital closures in North Lanarkshire have caused outrage among local residents already suffering from a woefully inadequate health service. Here we see how dangerous PFI policy in our NHS really is.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 19 January 2007 |
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As George Bush commits a further 20,000 troops to Iraq in a desperate gamble to hold the situation, the realities on the ground are pointing to a defeat for the super power. We take a look at the implications and prospects of this new 'surge'.
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By Jim Brookshaw, Cardiff
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
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Family, friends and comrades of Phil Mitchinson gathered in Cardiff on Saturday 13th January for a memorial meeting. We came together to celebrate his life that ended so tragically.
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By Ben Peck
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Friday, 01 December 2006 |
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The capitalist system that flourished in the time of Dickens is still upon us, as are all of its ills and evils. Reminiscent of the popular festive tale A Christmas Carol, in 2006, over 150 years after Charles Dickens wrote the story reflecting the callousness of a society divided by class, we still find that ordinary working peoples everyday lives are subject to the whims of a minority of parasitic individuals. This has found expression most recently in the Farepak fiasco.
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By Terry McPartlan, Tyneside
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Friday, 01 December 2006 |
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The minimum wage went up by 30p an hour on the 1st October. It now stands at £5.35 for anyone 22 and over. But it's as little as £3.30 if you are 16 or 17 and only rises to £4.45 when you hit 18, unless you are an apprentice of course (which means you can paid as little as £80 per week!). The TUC was holding out for £6 an hour. £6 is a bit better, but it goes nowhere near far enough to solve the problems of low paid workers.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 21 November 2006 |
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We have received more messages from all over the world. Phil was a
highly respected comrade and the messages reveal the warmth that many
comrades felt towards him.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 17 November 2006 |
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It will come as a great shock to all comrades to
hear the tragic news of the premature death of comrade Phil Mitchinson, the
deputy editor of the Marxist journal Socialist
Appeal and leading member of the International Marxist Tendency.
Regrettably Phil suffered a severe heart attack late last night, was rushed to
hospital, but staff were unable to save him. He was 38 years of age.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Thursday, 02 November 2006 |
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Police in London
brutally break up a protest picket outside the Mexican embassy. The picket had
been called to protest at the army clampdown in Oaxaca over the weekend. Read the report here
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A recent Unicef report has condemned Britain as the worst industrialised nation for children to grow up in. For all the noise the government has made over the years about investing in our children, the realities of privatisation have produced the opposite effect.
