Britain
McDonnell pushes PM to make Chavez choice Print E-mail
By Hands off Venezuela   
Monday, 26 November 2007
hov-conference-wide-thumb.jpgLABOUR MP John McDonnell demanded that the Brown government make "a choice between democracy or oligarchy" at the weekend. At Saturday's Hands Off Venezuela national conference in London, he condemned new Labour's ongoing hostility towards Venezuela and pledged to make solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution an issue that "no MP would be allowed to dodge."
 
SNP - Tartan Tories are back with avengance Print E-mail
By Kenny McGuigan in Glasgow   
Thursday, 22 November 2007
flag-of-scotland.jpgIn last May's Scottish Parliament elections the Scottish National Party (SNP) emerged victorious as voters wilted under increasing attacks and cuts in public services - already threadbare after the Thatcher Tory years - by the New Labour-Liberal coalition. Socialist Appeal carried in-depth Marxist analysis at the time when we predicted an SNP victory and the factors that had made it possible. 
 
Multiculturalism – what is it and will it survive? Print E-mail
By Barbara Humphries   
Wednesday, 21 November 2007
veil.jpgMulticulturalism is again under attack. And it's not just from the BNP, but members of New Labour. Following the bombings on London in 2005 Ruth Kelly and David Blunkett called for a ‘British identity'. Jack Straw asked women Muslims in his constituency to remove their veils (the niqab), as he feels uncomfortable with them. The  chair of the Commission for  Equalities and Human Rights has urged for integration as a way forward, "to stop us from sleep walking into segregation".
 
Hospital super-bugs - Privatisation kills Print E-mail
By Barbara Humphries   
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
hospitalbed1.jpgThe Health Care Commission accused the Kent and Sussex NHS Trust of "significant failings in infection control" after 90 patients were known to have died of the super-bug "Clostridium difficile" in three of its hospitals last year. Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive are considering the unprecedented action of pressing manslaughter charges against the Trust.
 
Hands off Venezuela Conference 2007 Print E-mail
By www.handsoffvenezuela.org   
Monday, 19 November 2007
pro-chavez-woman.jpgThis weekend supporters of the Venezuelan revolution will gather at the University of London Union for the Hands off Venezuela National conference. Speakers from Venezuela will include  Guadalupe Rodriguez from the Coordinadora Simon Bolivar and Nelson Rodriguez from the Factory Committee at Inveval. Show your solidarity with the revolutionary events taking place in Venezuela and throughout Latin America - book your place today!
 
Phil Mitchinson: “We will finish what he began” Print E-mail
By Rob Sewell   
Friday, 16 November 2007
phil_mitch_obit.jpg One year ago today comrade Phil Mitchinson died tragically of a heart attack. He was without doubt a very talented comrade who devoted his time to editing the Socialist Appeal and helping to build our tendency in Britain and internationally. Here Rob Sewell remembers Phil and the role he played.
 
PFI - stop them killing off the NHS! Print E-mail
By Eric Hollies   
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
patientnurserex_228x208.jpgWe have now had more than a decade of Private Finance Initiative involvement in the health service. Despite Labour pouring money into hospitals and health care, more and more health trusts are reporting deficits. PFI is sucking the NHS dry!
 
Edinburgh - schools under threat Print E-mail
By Ewan Gibbs   
Friday, 09 November 2007

westerhailseducationcampusbl.gifAs winter creeps, in students and staff at Edinburgh schools and nurseries have learned of the chilling news that their places of learning and work places may be under threat once again. The Edinburgh Evening News reported on the thirtieth of October that Edinburgh Council intended to reopen a consultation process that would look into the future of schools. It also listed seventeen schools and nurseries that it expected to be earmarked for the process.

 
PFI - Robbery in Coventry Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Sunday, 04 November 2007
In the Guardian on September 4th George Monbiot gave a classic example of PFI madness. In Coventry officials wanted to refurbish its two hospitals.This would have cost £30m. They didn't have £30m, so they had to go for PFI.
 
Editorial: Brown bounces into choppy water Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Friday, 02 November 2007
gordon-brown_small.jpgAfter weeks of media speculation the Brown bounce election became the general election that never happened. Marx explained that the state and politics are like a superstructure that sits on top of society and maintains the appearance of having a certain independence. But in the final analysis, politics, the state and even bouncing Prime Ministers are organically connected to the real world. The prospect of a general election was just too risky.
 
Saudi state visit to Britain underlines double standards of ruling classes of the world Print E-mail
By Maarten Vanheuverswyn   
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
saudi-state-visit.jpg King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is occupying the headlines of many newspapers with his comments that Britain failed to act on intelligence that could have prevented the 7/7 London bombings. Beyond the response of the bourgeois media, what is the real relationship between the West and Saudi Arabia?
 
The myth of a classless Britain Print E-mail
By Nathan Morrison   
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
class-divide-small.jpgThe UK Social Atlas states that British society is becoming more and more segregated into classes, and British people are becoming more and more conscious of the class society in which we live. The report 'finds' that Britain is becoming increasingly segregated along the lines of class, education, income, occupation, health status and family type.
 
Punch workers take it on the chin Print E-mail
By Mick Brooks   
Friday, 26 October 2007
punch-taverns-small.jpgYou've probably never heard of Punch Taverns. But you may well have had a drink in one of their 9,000 pubs. Chief executive Giles Thorley awarded himself £11.3 million last. Punch Taverns has the biggest gap between executive and workers' pay in Britain.
 
In memory of Phil Lloyd (1934-2007) Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Friday, 19 October 2007
phil_lloyd_aw_tg-thumb.jpg Comrade Phil Lloyd has died in Swansea at the age of 74. He joined the tendency led by Ted Grant back in the 1950s. He was a pioneer of the Marxist tendency and played a key role in its development. Alan Woods was one of the youth that that Phil Lloyd helped to recruit and educate. Here Alan remembers the man and fighter.
 
Still no justice for Jean Charles De Menezes Print E-mail
By Kenny McGuigan   
Monday, 08 October 2007
jean-charles-de-menzes1.jpgTwo years after the brutal shooting by police in London of Jean Charles de Menezes, his family are no nearer seeing anyone brought to justice. Jean was shot at least 8 times from point blank range as he boarded a tube train at Stockwell station in south London. We now know the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes is considered by the British establishment as justified despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
 
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