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By Ewan Gibbs
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Friday, 17 April 2009 |
Poor old Gordon Brown, down in the polls as his part in destroying the lives of millions of working people through his mismanagement of the economy is exposed to all. With his attempts to smear the Tories blowing up in his own face, things aren’t going so well for him. He thought a cabinet meeting in Glasgow, away from the City and Fleet Street, might do some good for his popularity. He was wrong.
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By Fred McDowell
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 |
The welfare ‘reform’ measures currently wending their way through Parliament are so right wing you might have thought they were drafted by the Tories. Funny you should mention it...David Freud, who drafted the White Paper on which the bill is based, has just defected to the Conservatives. This shows two things:
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By Terry McPartlan
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Tuesday, 18 November 2008 |
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The
LRC combines a growing part of the Labour left as well as a few groups outside
of the party who don’t stand in elections against it. Most significantly it has
affiliations from a number of national unions (including the RMT and FBU) and
branches and a good third of the 203 accredited delegates who voted in the
National Committee elections were from affiliated organisations. Total
attendance was around 270.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
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More than 200 delegates and visitors met at
the Conway Hall on Saturday November 15th for the Annual Conference
of the Labour Representation Committee, the organising hub of the left wing
within the Labour Party and among trade union activists. There was a determined
mood among those meeting. After years of right wing drift and domination of the
labour movement, LRC members rightly felt that the crisis had brought out the
urgency for socialist ideas to be heard and taken up. The Conference was opened
by a stirring speech from Tony Benn.
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By Jeremy Dear
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
By Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists
Last year, Richard Desmond, the proprietor of Express Newspapers announced he was paying himself a chairman’s
remuneration of some £52m - the equivalent of £1m a week.
It hardly raised an eyebrow.
Although hefty by historical standards, it was not by contemporary ones. Just a few months earlier Lakshmi Mittal had paid himself a record £1.1bn dividend. At the time it was the highest private dividend on record. But that record did not last for long as high street
retailer Philip Green topped it with a dividend of £1.2bn from his Arcadia
Group – the equivalent of the annual pay of 54,000 people on average earnings.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 14 October 2008 |
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Sometimes
little incidents reveal much more fundamental truths. This article from the Guardian on Tuesday
September 09 which covered some of the fringe meetings at the TUC conference
clearly demonstrates just how out of touch many of the New Labour careerists
really are:
“One telling anecdote to
emerge from the Compass gathering was when David Lammy, the schools minister,
discussed his shock at finding one of his mother's pay slips, dated 1986.
Lammy's mother, recently deceased, had worked both in the NHS and for London
Underground. Going through his mum's things after her death, Lammy learned that
her take-home pay 22 years ago was just £900 a month."
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By Steve Jones
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Friday, 10 October 2008 |
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So Peter Mandelson, the ‘Prince of
Darkness’ is incredibly back in the government after having had to quit on two
previous occasions. His is to take up the job of Secretary of State for Business,
Enterprise & Regulatory Reform - naturally.
People new to politics may wonder what all the fuss is about, not least
since Mandelson has been hiding away in euro-bureaucracy land for the last four
years as EU Trade
Commissioner.
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By Steve Jones
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
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Labour is in electoral meltdown. The
newspaper headlines are screaming ‘We’re all doomed’ on account of the world
economic crisis. But they were desperately trying not to allow the real world
to impinge on the surreal world inside Labour Party Conference.
“The weirdest conference I’ve ever attended,”
so said one experienced political commentator in reviewing this year’s Labour
Party conference in Manchester. With Labour trailing badly in the opinion polls
and having faced a series of bad to awful results in successive by elections,
local council elections and the London Mayoral election, you might have
expected the mood to be depressed and flat. And so for most it was.
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By Steve Jones
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
Union members will be more than a little alarmed at reports
that union officials have been having secret talks with someone called Richard
Balfe, who is Tory Leader Cameron’s ‘special envoy’ to the trade unions. Those
who lived through the last Tory government and remember all too well their
vicious attacks on trade union rights as part of their plan to destroy the
union movement will be amazed, to say the least, at the fact that a) the Tories
have a trade union envoy and b) that some of our leaders are prepared to talk
to him.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
As we have explained over
the past year or so, the effects of the financial crash and its political
consequences have represented a flash flood in British Politics. After many
years of apparent stability we have entered a period of sharp turns and sudden
changes as the deep underlying problems and contradictions in British society
have broken through the surface of events.
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By Steve McKenzie
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Monday, 11 August 2008 |
Labour’s National Policy Forum took
place in Coventry over the weekend of the 25th, 26th and
27th July. The policy objectives were to be known as Warwick 2
The Forum took place against the backdrop of
the disastrous by-election defeat in Glasgow East. This in turn was only the
latest in a list of electoral humiliations over the past few months. The
Henley, Crewe and Nantwich by-election defeats, the council elections and the
defeat in London’s mayoral elections, are all a reflection of the utter
frustration felt by the working class electorate after ten years of New Labour
pandering to big business.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 08 August 2008 |
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Put up or shut
up!
“They’re tearing
themselves apart, just like we used to do,” a senior Conservative MP said,
beaming in the sunshine. “God knows why he’s done it now.” This is a quote from
the Financial Times (31.07.08) about what the Tories think of David Miliband’s
‘coded leadership bid’.
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By our Industrial Correspondent
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
Last year's 2.5 % pay rise for the police, agreed by the iindependent
arbitration panel, was unilaterally slashed by Home Secretary Jacqui
Smith, to 1.9%, a real wage cut. This interference caused enormous
resentment among the police. Since the 1918 strike, it has been illegal
for the police to strike. Now they are contemplating strike action.
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By Rob Sewell
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
The New Labour government is on the rocks. The wreckage of
Blairism, under the leadership of Gordon Brown, was dealt a further crushing
blow at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. A 7,000 Labour majority was turned
into a 7,000 Tory majority in a swing of 17.6%. It was the Tories' first
by-election gain in 30 years.
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By Terry McPartlan
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
The Crewe by-election, with an 18% swing to the Tories,
confirms that they are on target for a landslide win in the next general
election. Railway workers and other working class people who have voted Labour
for generations have finally had enough. The betrayals and disappointments of
New Labour have caused these electors to break the habit of a lifetime. Make no
mistake about it. Mass working class abstentions have done for Brown and his
witless crew.
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