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Tuesday, 28 September 2004 |
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The Blair government is facing serious difficulties. It cannot convince
the trade unions that its pro-big business policies, its continued
privatisation of public assets are in the interests of the working
class. Brown tried to make up for this by hinting that in some way he
might be “old Labour”. In reality there is no fundamental difference
between the two. |
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Tuesday, 23 March 2004 |
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The Annual Conference of the SSP (Scottish Socialist Party) meets this weekend
to discuss a draft manifesto for the European elections and debate other issues
against the background of the recent events in Spain. Despite the successes over
the past period there is a growing unrest in the party over the reformist and
nationalist drift of the leadershp. The road of nationalism and reformism offers no way forward for the working
class in Scotland or elsewhere. The struggle for socialism is international or
it is nothing. We must learn the lessons of the past so that we may prepare for
the future |
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Tuesday, 24 February 2004 |
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With the media frenzy over tuition fees and the Hutton report, you can be
forgiven for not noticing the launch in the same week of a new British political
party called simply RESPECT. The launching of RESPECT, also known as the Unity Coalition, was the brainchild
of a layer of people disillusioned with Blair who wanted to form a left
alternative to New Labour. |
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Tuesday, 24 February 2004 |
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The decision to readmit London Mayor Ken Livingstone back into the Labour Party has came as
no surprise to anybody. A third Labour victory at the next general election is no longer the certainty
many once though it was. Only through a socialist programme alongside a fighting
leadership, rather than the pro-big business bunch we have at present, can a
Labour victory be assured and the hopes of the Tories and the rest be ground to
dust. |
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Thursday, 15 January 2004 |
Once again Tony Blair
and the Labour Cabinet are prepared to take on the wider labour movement and its
own natural supporters in imposing the unpopular policy of top-up university
fees. Will they get away with it this time?
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Monday, 03 November 2003 |
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Socialist Appeal's deputy editor, Rob Sewell, interviewed Mick
Rix, the former general secretary of ASLEF and instigator of the new Labour
Representation Committee, about his views and prospects of reclaiming the Labour
Party. |
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Monday, 03 November 2003 |
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Strikes, demonstrations, political crises, Britain looks a lot different now
than it did when Blair and co came to power. For us the task of the hour is to give
active support to workers struggling to defend jobs and services and carry that
fight over into the Labour Party, into a fight for socialist policies. |
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Friday, 24 October 2003 |
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George Galloway, the Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin, was yesterday
expelled from the Labour Party by the three-member National Constitutional
Committee, which is in reality a kangaroo court designed to simply rubber
stamp whatever Blair wants. George Galloway took a clear stand against the
war in Iraq. This is the reason why he was expelled. They had tried to
remove him on the basis of falsified documents “found in Iraq”. As they
were not able to remove him with these, they decided another road. |
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Friday, 26 September 2003 |
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The 2003 Labour Party Conference meets at a critical moment. After six
years of Labour government nothing has been solved for the majority of working
people who look to Labour to tackle the problems they face. Phil
Mitchinson analyses the situation. This article was also published in the
latest issue of the British Socialist Appeal. |
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Friday, 01 August 2003 |
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Blair is having a lot of problems convincing us that he told the truth
abouth the so-called Weapons of Mass destruction (WMDs). The majority of people
in Britain no longer trust him. Mick Brooks unravels the contradictions in the
various explanations givene by Bush and Blair to justify the war. |
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Friday, 01 August 2003 |
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Each new piece of evidence presented to the Hutton inquiry raises the lid a
little more on the real truth behind the government dossier on Iraq's weapons
and the death of Dr. David Kelly. With each passing day the Blair clique is being increasingly exposed as
nothing short of a nest of vipers.
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Sunday, 20 July 2003 |
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We live in an epoch of sudden and sharp turns. On Thursday night, as Tony Blair
slept aboard a Boeing 777 bound from Washington to Tokyo, he was rocked by the
news of the death of Dr David Kelly. In a single instant the whole situation was
transformed. The magnitude of these events signifies the
inevitability of resignations at the highest level, so the Prime Minister is
frantically looking around for friends prepared to fall upon their swords in
order to protect their Lord and Master. |
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Friday, 04 July 2003 |
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This is the leaflet distributed by Socialist Appeal supporters at last
Saturday's (July 5) Socialist Campaign Group Conference in London. A full report will follow in the next few days.
You can also download
this leaflet in PDF format. |
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