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Margaret Thatcher was recently asked what she regarded as
her legacy. She replied with a smile, “Tony Blair”.
As world capitalism lurches into a deepening economic crisis
and world stock markets tumble, members of the Brown government, the continuers
of Blairism and New Labour, are more eager than ever to extol the virtues of millionaire
capitalism.
On Wednesday 19th March . 19 Labour MPs voted against the plan with the
Tory hypocrites and many more abstained. Some voted out of principle
and some to save their miserable hides at the next election. For this is
a plan that nobody (except the jackals of big business) wants. Four
million signed the petition to save the post offices. They were ignored.
The government is now recommending the county councils take over the
threatened branches. They are commemorating Easter by imitating Pontius
Pilate. The fight is still on to stop this vandalism.
Three years ago Peter Doyle the Regional Officer
for UNISON in Carlisle pulled off a huge victory in terms of Equal Pay for Work
of Equal Value worth potentially £340 million. The amount was so big partly
because the case had dragged on for years and also because the extent to which
the 1,500 women had been underpaid. Trade union struggles are often complex and
difficult. They are made even more difficult by the union bureaucracy cuddling
up to the labour leadership, instead of representing the members.
It is almost impossible to believe the rank stupidity and/or duplicity
of the people masquerading as Labour Ministers. This is a press release
from UNISON in response to the latest claptrap from Kim Howells, in
which he makes allegations that put at risk the lives of trade unionists
in Columbia. Please use this information in your own unions and demand
the retraction of Howells' allegations.
