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In November trade unionists marched through Manchester in support of
Karen Reissman, but national UNISON speakers
and national publicity were conspicuous by their absence. Is Karen being hung
out to dry by the UNISON bureaucracy? This is becoming a common tale up and down the country. All UNISON members need to ask some hard
questions of the full-time apparatus. If management can get rid of militants
with the tacit support of the Union, where does that leave me? Whose side is
the union on?
In a speech on 'liberty' at the University of Westminster, Gordon Brown
outlined his vision for 'Britishness'. Brown is, of course, a Scot.
Listing the achievements of so-called 'British liberty' from Magna
Carta to the Reform Act of 1832, he announced a debate on what it means
to be British. Brown's vision, however, amounts to nothing more than
reactionary politics dressed in liberal-radical language.
New Labour
should hang their heads in shame in their ongoing programme of cuts, closures and job losses
in the public sector. Margaret Thatcher’s band of robbers would be proud of their accomplishments and
their policies sit so easily within a Tory ideology that it is no wonder the Tories don’t look
like an opposition. They don’t need to. They have been in power in the guise of New Labour for over 11
years.
The coming to power of the Nazi party in Germany 75 years ago marks the begining of one of the darkest periods of human history. What is Fascism and how did it emerge in a country with the strongest labour movement in the world? Mick Brooks of Socialist Appeal talks on the story of the rise of the Nazis.
This is a letter submitted to the US section of the 