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New Labour spent less than Tories
"DON'T GO back" to the terrible Tory years will be the theme of New Labour's election campaign. Those years were certainly terrible-schools and hospitals were starved of cash, pensioners...
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Conflicting interests in air
NEW LABOUR announced this Tuesday that it was to sell off 49 percent of the National Air Traffic System
(NATS) to the Airlines Group consortium, which includes companies like...
Bonanza at the top
SENIOR executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland are to more than double their pay in return for an average performance...
Doctors want out
FOUR OUT of five GPs
would leave the profession if they had the chance because they
are so demoralised...
Corus - Thrown on the scrapheap
STEEL workers could soon be voting on strikes against job losses. Around 6,000 steel workers, the bulk of them in South Wales and on
Teesside, were due to hear their fate this week...
Chhokar family fighter dropped
A NEW Labour supporter has forced a campaigner fighting for justice for the Chhokar family to officially drop the case. Aamer
Anwar, a trainee solicitor, has been representing the family...
did things get better?
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More is at stake than election date
THE DATE of the general election has dominated political discussion this week. The Tories were looking for an excuse for the election to be put off...
Hypocrisy in Balkans
IN THE Balkans we have once again seen people burned out of their homes and forced to flee for their lives. Two years ago Tony Blair and Western governments launched their bombing of Kosovo and Serbia...
Standing up for refugees
SOME 1,000 people united in central London last Saturday in protest at the Tory and New Labour witch-hunting of refugees...
Socialist Alliance rallies
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Team Valley
THE 120 factory workers at Team Valley Brush in Gateshead have launched a support group with the help of the Socialist Alliance on Tyneside after three weeks on indefinite strike...
Strike to stop sexist abuse
A POSTAL workers' strike spread across a large part of Scotland at the start of this week...
Sparks fly
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The big business grip on Labour
THE RECENT scandals involving Peter
Mandelson, Keith Vaz, Geoffrey Robinson and the Hinduja brothers show the degree to which New Labour ministers are connected with the rich and powerful...
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Comment
The IMF vice on Argentina
A FEW weeks ago Turkey was being broken on the wheel of the neo-liberal Washington consensus. Now it is Argentina...
Inside the
system
Ethics behind crowd control
THE NEXT big meeting of the World Trade Organisation
(WTO) is to be held in the repressive Middle East state of Qatar...
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German protesters block atom waste
ANTI-NUCLEAR protesters clashed with police in Germany this week as they tried to block the transport of nuclear waste...
Is trident even legal?
THREE law lords in Scotland were to rule on Friday of this week whether the Trident nuclear weapons system is legal or not...
International round-up
THE ONGOING movement against the far right in Austria has inflicted significant losses on the Freedom Party in elections in the capital, Vienna...
Get to Genoa
THE GREEK TUC has just voted to back the anti-capitalist protests against the leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in
Genoa...
Zapatistas - a challenge to the new world order
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Liz Davies backs socialist election challenge
LIZ DAVIES was until last year a member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC). This is its highest elected body. She announced on Friday of last week that she is leaving the Labour Party...
Don't pity rural rich
FARMERS ARE screaming that the foot and mouth outbreak has caused a crisis in agriculture. This view is backed up by the Daily Mail and Daily
Telegraph...
Why they're afraid of Tommy Sheridan and the drugs debate
POLITICIANS from the mainstream parties in Scotland are collaborating in a hypocritical and cynical campaign which they claim is about drug use...
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Stocks, shares, boom or bust
"MAYHEM
IN the market." "Bloodbath."That was how the Daily Mail and Mirror described recent falls in the stock markets that started in the
US...
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In my view
Going Manic in Havana
MANIC Street Preachers launched their new album, Know Your Enemy, at the Karl Marx Stadium in Havana, Cuba, before starting their current tour...
Reviews
Brecht's prime reasons to oppose war machine
DON'T LET anyone tell you great art
cannot be political or popular. Bertolt Brecht was a German
socialist playwright and poet whose work was popular and
challenging...
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Socialist
Worker news
Paper knits the strands together
"I HAVE copies of
Socialist Worker on me all the time," says Peter Leech, Socialist Alliance prospective parliamentary candidate for Ipswich...
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Letters
Stop police's challenge to Alder verdict
CHRISTOPHER Alder was unlawfully killed three years ago, on 1 April 1998, in Queens Gardens police station, Hull...
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Sheffield gets the message
ONE OF the best meetings in the city for years gave a real boost to the Socialist Alliance election campaign in Sheffield last week...
Plymouth on march again
SOME 300 people braved icy wind and rain to mount a noisy demonstration against council cuts and privatisation in Plymouth last Saturday...
Housing
UNIONS AND tenants organisations are working to make sure the future of council housing is at the centre of the general election...
Civil servants
WORKERS IN the Employment Service could soon be taking action. Management are pushing savage staffing cuts in offices around the
country...
Refugees
MIKE TAYLOR, branch treasurer of Bristol National Union of Journalists, faces a possible prison sentence for fighting the deportation of Amanj
Gafor...
Diary - upcoming events
Anti-Nazi
IN OLDHAM the Nazi National Front plans a "Rights for whites" march on Saturday, the same day that a march to defend asylum seekers was planned in Manchester...
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Health workers
SOME 60 striking health workers from Dudley Group of Hospitals lobbied the health sector conference of the UNISON public sector union, which began in Cardiff on Monday of this week...
500 strikers hit the streets
PICKETS WERE out in force again this week at all five gates of the Willerby Holiday Homes caravan factory in Hull...
Teachers
TEACHERS WERE waiting to see if their union leaders were about to call a halt to industrial action, as
Socialist Worker went to press...
NATFHE
THE STRIKE ballot over pay in further education colleges has been delayed. A key committee of the lecturers' NATFHE union has deferred the start of the ballot until 25 April...
Haverstock school
CAMDEN
COUNCIL officers called a meeting of parents last week to debate
the proposal to use the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to
rebuild Haverstock School...
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Stop the tube sell off
TUBE WORKERS in London were preparing for a 24-hour strike on Thursday as
Socialist Worker went to press. They faced frantic efforts by deputy prime minister John Prescott to force through...
What is going on at top of ASLEF?
"I'M OUTRAGED. This is no time to call off a strike, with the government and management on the defensive." That is how one tube driver in the ASLEF union reacted to the news that his union leaders...
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