Leaked memo shows Blair's true face
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He even thinks like a Tory

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News
Handouts for cops and generals
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown was forced to announce new money for public services in his spending review on Tuesday. But this follows three years of slavishly following Tory spending limits...
Courtroom Shocked by video of death
PEOPLE WERE moved to tears in a Hull courtroom last week. They had watched video evidence at the inquest into the death of black ex-soldier Christopher Alder. The film shows Christopher dying...
A damning dam report
CAMPAIGNERS have long fought against British government support for the Ilisu dam project in Turkey. Virtually every one of the criticisms they have made of the project was backed...

Inside the system
Danger buried for 75 years
THREE OF the world's largest corporations were accused last week of deliberately introducing lead into petrol in the 1920s knowing it would poison millions of people...
Comment
Finkelstein and the Holocaust
A STORM has burst out over The Holocaust Industry, the provocative new book by the left wing New York historian Norman Finkelstein...

The class divide is growing
"WE ARE delivering on the fundamentals." That was Tony Blair's upbeat message last week, backed by the spin around chancellor Gordon Brown's spending review on Tuesday...

Letters
Asylum seekers: Why did you back down, Bill?
IN APRIL the general secretary of the TGWU union, Bill Morris, attacked the Labour government's immigration policy and its humiliating voucher system for refugees...

Kidderminster
THE TOWN of Kidderminster, about 15 miles south west of Birmingham, is up in arms about the government's private finance plan for the local hospital...

Snob, Racist & Bigot
YOU WON'T be seeing the above words to describe the Queen Mother in the media coverage of her 100th birthday...
US base of shame
LEADERS OF the world's richest countries-the G8-are gathering for a summit in Okinawa, Japan. The G8 summit has to tackle their failure to deliver the promised debt cancellation...
The danger of Nazi BNP vote
THE VOTE the Nazi British National Party (BNP) candidate received in the recent council by-election in Bexley, south London, should sound alarm bells...

Anger at poverty in a world of plenty
A GROWING body of anti-capitalist activists and thinkers today attack the injustice of the system and debate how to win a different society...

Why they hate The Patriot
THE NEW Mel Gibson blockbuster, The Patriot, has caused a storm in the British press...
Books for the summer hols

SWP news
REFLECTING THE sense of excitement at Marxism 2000, 248 people joined the Socialist Workers Party during the week. While Marxism was going on, Hackney SWP branches leafleted every school...

Heading for Prague!
SOME 20,000 of the world's bankers will arrive in Prague in the Czech Republic between 26 and 28 September. They are gathering for the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund...

Scrap Section 28
ABOUT 1,200 people marched through Manchester on Saturday of last week to demand that the government scraps the anti-gay Section 28 law in England and Wales...
Councils
THOUSANDS OF council workers across Scotland began voting this week on possible strikes over pay. The ballot, by members of the UNISON union, follows a near two thirds majority vote to reject...
MSF
ROGER LYONS, leader of the MSF union, is facing growing pressure over allegations of corruption. The union has already been forced to pay out £750,000 to silence three senior union members...
Peugeot
UNION OFFICIALS at Peugeot motors in Coventry seem determined to ballot the workforce to death. Workers were to vote this week on a revised offer on hours from management...
Legalise cannabis march
In Brief
LOCAL TRADE unionists and anti-racists joined Anti Nazi League members last week to petition in response to the murder of Mohammed Asghar, a local takeaway owner who was killed on Saturday 8 July...

A battle that should have been won
POST OFFICE union reps right across London were waiting for a call to bring their members out on strike on Friday of last week. Half a dozen phone messages would have sparked a walkout by over 15,000...

M25 Three Released At Last
"PROFOUNDLY disturbing." That is how the appeal court described Surrey police's conspiracy to jail the M25 Three. The three black men-Raphael Rowe, Michael Davis and Randolph Johnson-walked free on Monday...