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George W Bush
Tony Blair
These two men bombed Iraqi children just to keep control of oil
The blood brothers
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No wonder some
people won't vote
TONY BLAIR used his speech to Labour's spring conference last weekend to warn against
cynicism...
Business watches over scientists
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH is being hijacked by big business. University departments are increasingly taking funding from the companies whose products they are supposed to be "investigating"...
Honourable men
HOW
COULD anyone be cynical about New Labour? The party came to
power promising to end the stink of sleaze and corruption that
enveloped the Tories. Now we see...
Guess who came to a dinner?
TONY BLAIR held a pre-election lunch for 23 of the top "captains of industry" last week. Its theme was "competitiveness"...
And guess who made a profit
SIR RICHARD Sykes, the chairman of
GlaxoSmithKline, enjoyed New Labour's lunch for business last week...
Steel jobs melt away
THE ISTC steel union last week dismissed as a "cruel fantasy" the scheme by telecom firm EXI to find jobs for 4,000 redundant steel workers...
Why is my gas bill up?
BG GROUP, the integrated gas business, more than doubled its profits last year. Its profits rose by 153 percent to £425 million-and came after the record profits announced by BP, Shell and Exxon...
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The links between McDonald's and McDonnell Douglas
TWO MURDERERS were due to meet this week to discuss their plans for keeping the world in poverty and at war...
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'It's right to strike'
WORKERS AT Vauxhall motors were to strike on Thursday of this week. They planned to hit back at General Motors, one of the world's biggest corporations...
Pensioners protest
London tube privatisation
THE GOVERNMENT was in a deepening hole over its plans for privatising London's tube network at the beginning of this week-and more strikes could be on the way...
Air traffic control
NEW LABOUR faces still more problems with its plan to privatise the national air traffic control service before the general election...
Meeting sends out clear signal
A MEETING called by the Fire Brigades Union in north London to oppose privatisation and support tube workers showed the potential for solidarity with the fight to stop the tube sell-off...
Sparks fly
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Their friend has nuclear weapons
THE BOMBING of Iraq last weekend was soaked in hypocrisy. Bush and Blair talk of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and his evil rule...
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Comment
Shivers down the backbone
LABOUR'S SPRING conference in Glasgow last weekend was a chance to see what is going on at the heart of the Labour Party. It brought together 3,000 Labour members from all over Britain...
Inside the
system
Clinton's rule aids the Rich
GEORGE
W Bush taking over in the White House has made some people
nostalgic for Bill Clinton...
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Fight the sell-off of our services
A SWATHE of privatisation proposals across the West Midlands have united anti-privatisation campaigners in a determined battle...
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Blair's education betrayal
THE RIGHT wing press heaped praise on Tony Blair last week for his plans to attack comprehensive education...
Can you afford to save money?
NEW LABOUR wants us to save money. It wants us to save for our children's university education (for the 30 percent who go into higher education) and save for our retirement...
Is it propaganda? Or do we want socialists elected?
"I AM somewhat confused about the SWP's attitude to elections and the Socialist Alliance," wrote a reader in last week's paper. "Is this really about trying to get elected or is just about
propaganda?"...
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The 'natural disasters' that aren't 'natural' at all
WE ARE told that the lives of many of the poorest people across the world are often at the mercy of "natural disasters"...
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Police in a spin over race crime
A TRIAL judge at Newport Crown Court recently claimed there was no racial motive in the
horrific murder of Jan Marthin Passalbessy on 20 June
2000...
What is Eminem standing up for?
THE MEDIA recently turned its attention upon
Eminem, the US rap singer, during his British tour. Eminem's sexist and anti-gay lyrics led
Sheffield University Student Union to ban his songs and image...
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SWP news
Manchester to Montpellier
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Letters
Calling for some struggle
THE PRUDENTIAL insurance firm has just announced it is axing some 2,000 staff-nearly 20 percent of its entire British workforce...
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Preparing election challenge
AROUND 120 Socialist Alliance candidates, election agents and supporters met in Birmingham last Saturday to plan the general election challenge...
Students
"IS THIS the return of student radicalism?" was how BBC Look North described Leeds University student union's annual general meeting
(AGM) on Thursday 8 February...
In brief
PLANS TO run down Rosyth naval dockyard and sack 1,200 workers over the next five years have been leaked to the TGWU union...
Dudley strikers
DUDLEY hospitals strikers confronted their UNISON union leader Dave Prentis when they lobbied Labour's spring conference in Glasgow last weekend...
Civil servants
FIFTY WORKERS at the Museum of London struck on Friday of last week. The official half-day action was in protest at a below inflation pay deal...
Refugees are not to blame
Public meeting Monday 19
March...
Construction workers
CONSTRUCTION HAS the worst safety record of any industry....
Diary-Upcoming
events
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Councils
ALL UNISON members at Kirklees council elderly people's homes went on strike on Monday of this week. The strikers are cooks, cleaners and care workers in 15 residential care homes for elderly people....
Post
POST OFFICE bosses are threatening to privatise 3,500 jobs unless unofficial strikes stop. This blackmailing ultimatum comes in a letter from Post Office managing director David
Morphey...
Stop bombing Iraq!
PROTESTERS disrupted a lecture by George Robertson, the general secretary of NATO, at Dundee University last Saturday. They were protesting against his warmongering in the Balkans two years ago...
Bristol schools
OVER 100 people demonstrated at the "Save our Schools" event in Bristol last Saturday. The protest was a spontaneous response to the council's sham referendum over the council tax...
ADT
UP TO 16,000 engineers working for
ADT, Britain's largest fire and security company, have this week voted to suspend their strike action...
Glasgow airport
WORKERS IN the GMB union at Glasgow airport are to be balloted over strike action in protest over the sacking of a union representative...
Peugeot
PEUGEOT management have struck again, this time on our pay claim. They stated in a recent communication that the percentages they offer are the biggest in the industry...
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15,000 march against globalisation
A TWO-day carnival-like event took place in Montpellier, southern France, last week. It was a 15,000-strong protest against globalisation...
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