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Jeremy Dear speaks at LRC Conference Print E-mail
By Jeremy Dear   
Monday, 17 November 2008

jd.jpgBy 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.

 
David Lammy bumps into real world Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Tuesday, 14 October 2008

lammy.jpgSometimes 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." 

 
Mandelson back - Dracula has risen from the grave Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Friday, 10 October 2008

mandy.jpgSo 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.

 
Labour Party Conference – fiddling while Rome burns Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Friday, 26 September 2008

lp-conf.jpgLabour 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.

 
Look Who's Talking Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
balfe300.jpgUnion 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.
 
Labour's crisis – time to act Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Thursday, 28 August 2008
harriet-harman.jpgAs 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.
 
LABOUR’S NATIONAL POLICY FORUM – THE WARWICK 2 FIASCO Print E-mail
By Steve McKenzie   
Monday, 11 August 2008
steve-mck.jpgLabour’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.

 
Labour leadership: tearing themselves apart Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Friday, 08 August 2008

Put up or shut up!

miliband.jpg“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’.

 
Police get angry with New Labour Print E-mail
By our Industrial Correspondent   
Friday, 30 May 2008
police-fed.jpgLast 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.
 
Crewe and Nantwich by-election: Brown government facing electoral wipe-out Print E-mail
By Rob Sewell   
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
new-labour-crisis-deepens.jpgThe 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.
 
Catastrophe at Crewe Print E-mail
By Terry McPartlan   
Friday, 23 May 2008
crewea.jpg 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.
 
Jacqui the Child Catcher Print E-mail
By Anthony Healy   
Monday, 12 May 2008
jsmith-childcatcher.jpgThe latest attempt to criminalise young people by "framing and shaming" them and "filming and repeatedly stopping identified persistent offenders on problem estates" owes more to the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang than it does to evidence based practice. But what are the real reasons that "Youth Disorder" takes place and what works?
 
Local election results: New Labour trounced and the Sects go down the pan Print E-mail
By Rob Sewell   
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
peoples-front-of-judea.jpgFollowing on from the disastrous election results of New Labour last Thursday, those left groupings who were hoping to capitalise on Labour's difficulties also found themselves in a mess. As Ted Grant explained, the working class always ignore the sects and in times of struggle always turn towards their traditional organisations.
 
New Labour meltdown Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
raiders.jpgThe Tory victories in the local elections on May 1st mean that the Conservatives will almost certainly go on to win the next general election and form the next government. Theoretically the Labour leadership could turn the situation round, but they seem incapable of changing their disastrous course. New Labour is in meltdown.
 
John4leader – 2008? Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Friday, 25 April 2008
labour80slogo.jpgEvery time you think things cannot get any worse for Gordon Brown, something else comes along. With Labour trailing badly in the polls and facing what may be yet another round of bad election results come May, even some normally ‘loyal’ Labour MPs have started to raise the question of getting rid of Brown as leader. Labour MPs are rebelling, not because they have suddenly discovered a long-lost socialist conscience, but because they are staring at the strong possibility that Labour will lose the next election and they will lose their seats.
 
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