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By Phil Mitchinson
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Wednesday, 09 March 2005 |
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Twenty years ago this month, the heroic twelve-month long struggle of
the British miners to defend their jobs and their communities came to
an end. The BBC drama Faith
broadcast on February 28 on these events was like a breath of fresh
air, an antidote to that earlier filth masquerading as ‘impartial
documentaries’. For the first time in the national media the role of
the state – its specially created national police force, its media, its
secret services, and all the weapons employed by the ruling class to
fight the miners – was vividly exposed.
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Friday, 04 March 2005 |
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Way back in 1959, the then Tory prime minister, Harold Macmillan, went
into an election with the slogan that Britain has “never had it so
good.” Now, according to Gordon Brown, the UK has enjoyed, under his
stewardship, the longest period of sustained economic growth since
1701! However, it does not say much for capitalism and the British
variety of it that the longest period of economic growth in its history
is just seven years. |
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Friday, 04 March 2005 |
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Tony Blair has called the general election for May 5. He did this as
opinion polls show a sharp fall in Labour support, down to 37% of the
electorate, with the Tories close behind at 34% and the Liberal
Democrats at 21%. This would indicate another Blair victory but with a
much reduced majority and with significant layers of the working class
voting for nobody. There will be no street parties this time.
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Friday, 04 March 2005 |
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Jamie Oliver’s television programme has highlighted the scandal of junk
food school meals being served up to British children by private firms.
In some cases a pathetic 37p is being spent per child. This is the
inevitable consequence of allowing profit hungry privateers anywhere
near our children’s health and education. |
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Thursday, 03 March 2005 |
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In Southern Ireland the
economic miracle is well and truly over. As we have predicted and explained for
some time now, the Celtic Tiger phenomenon did not mean that capitalism had
solved any of its contradictions. Now in the context of a declining world market
the only road open to the bosses to protect their profits will be an assault on
workers living standards. |
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Thursday, 24 February 2005 |
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The cornerstone of a freedom established almost 800 years ago is now
under threat from a Labour government. The latest reactionary piece of
legislation hands power to the Home Secretary of the day to hold those
he claims to be suspected terrorists under house arrest indefinitely. |
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