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58 dead in Dover
FIFTY EIGHT bodies lying dead in Dover. The innocent victims of the war on asylum seekers by New Labour and the Tories alike. The press and politicians point the finger at the gangs who profit...
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News
Persecution of the desperate
TORIES AND New Labour ministers blame gangsters who profit from moving immigrants around the world for the death of refugees in Dover. But it is their asylum laws which have created trade...
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What
we think
What we think
DID THE press, the Tories and New Labour really think nothing would come of the lies about asylum seekers they have been spreading all year? A pile of bodies in Dover. Two racist murders elsewhere...
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Inside the
system
Bowing to the mighty Dollar
THE WORLD Bank has faced plenty of opposition from people outside its ranks in recent years. But now revolt is growing inside as well. One of the bank's most senior figures has resigned...
Comment
Mugabe bid to outflank opposition
ZIMBABWE FACES its most important election this weekend since the country became independent in April 1980. To judge by the coverage of Zimbabwean politics by the British media, the central issue is the plight of a few thousand white farmers...
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Workers' reaction to jobs slaughter
OVER 10,000 job losses were announced across Britain last week. Retailer C&A is to shut all its stores. BAe and Corus steel are sacking thousands of workers... |
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Letters
Racist attack in Dublin
DAVID Richardson lies in a critical condition in hospital after a brutal racist attack. He had been visiting Dublin with his wife to see his son. He was attacked because of the colour of his family's... |
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Brian
Souter: enemy of thefamily
MILLIONAIRE BUS tycoon Brian Souter is following up his campaign to keep the anti-gay Section 28 by organising a "family day" this weekend in Scotland This is the grossest hypocrisy from a man who... |
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Immigrants are not the problem
BEHIND ALL the attacks on asylum seekers is the idea that people coming into the country are a burden and are "scrounging" off the rest of us. The Tories and New Labour are happy for ordinary people...
Treating the real problem
LAST WEEK scientists finally discovered the cause of a mystery illness which has killed or injured dozens of injecting heroin users, most of them from Scotland, over the past two months...
The pound or euro argument
THE ISSUE of abandoning the pound for the single European currency, the
euro, helped tear apart the Tory governments of Thatcher and Major. Now it is causing mayhem in the Labour cabinet...
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What a difference that year's made
MANY
SOCIALIST Worker readers will have heard, or thought, "Why isn't Britain more like France?"... |
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Winding up Frankenstein
"HAMMER THOSE Germans Tonight Because We'd Love it...We'd Really Love It." That was the Sun's headline on the day of the England-Germany football match. And that's exactly what happened on the
streets...
Irish heroine and the heroin trade
IRISH CRIME reporter Veronica Guerin was murdered in 1996 as she sat in her car at a set of traffic lights on her way into Dublin. She was shot by the drug barons she wrote about in her weekly column...
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SWP news
In Newport
Socialist Worker sellers took to the streets campaigning over the racist murder of Jan
Pasalbessi. 97 papers were sold in the town centre with £47 collected for the family... |
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'Strong action must start immediately'
The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution examined the evidence that greenhouse gases, principally carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, are changing the world's climate. The report
concludes...
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Fury at 'social cleansing'
A CHURCH hall packed with over 400 people. Another 150 outside the open door, straining to hear the vicar. Above the crying of a baby he is denouncing the "social cleansing" of thousands of people...
Council workers
CLEANSING workers in Hackney, east London, won a massive victory for 15 low paid staff last week. The victory came when workers took action after six months of talks had produced nothing...
Protests and meetings
M25 Three
THREE
BLACK men wrongly convicted of murder sat in the dock of the
High Court last week as three judges pondered whether or not
they would free them from a life sentence...
Prague, 26 September
SOME 80 activists from around 14 countries met in Prague in the Czech Republic last weekend to discuss the protests against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank planned for September...
Defend Asylum Seekers
In Middlesbrough 30 people, including three Labour
councillors, attended a meeting...
In brief
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Boom time for private health
THE DESTRUCTION of the foundation of the National Health Service. That is the reality of the plans New Labour announced last week to link the NHS with private medicine...
Foframe
Linda and Eileen, two of the 12 Foframe
workers on strike in Huntingdon over pay, last week protested
outside Boots...
Postal workers
THE POST Office is threatening to cut jobs done by its own staff and hand their work out to a private sector company. Management plans to form a partnership with the privatised Dutch post office...
Ford
WORKERS FROM Ford Dagenham were set to lobby a meeting between Ford management and union officials on Thursday of this week. Union officials were to try to convince Ford to build an alternative
car...
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Bloody price of refugee scares
TWO
RACIST murders in one week. That is the price black and Asian
people are paying as politicians and the press continue to fuel
hatred against asylum seekers...
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