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£500 million for rail fat cats,
40,000 postal jobs cut
IT WAS New Labour's
day of shame this week. The government gave in to pressure and handed £500 million to some of the greediest and richest people in Britain...
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Slash, burn
and privatise
POST
OFFICE bosses, backed by New Labour, have launched a ferocious
attack on Post Office jobs. The 15,000 job cuts announced on
Monday are the first round of a plan...
Zimbabwe - Support gets results
THE ZIMBABWEAN regime is trying to crack down even harder on workers' opposition. Socialists and trade unionists must redouble their efforts to give solidarity to workers fighting back.The Zimbabwe Co...
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What we
think
Three key steps after Blair's black Monday
"A GROWING revolt among MPs and activists", with "anger reaching unprecedented levels". That's how key Labour daily the Mirror describes the political storm that has broken over the New Labour governm...
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Comment
Bush's few dollars more
LEADERS OF the world's richest countries staged a piece of grand political theatre in the Mexican city of Monterrey last week. They won press headlines hailing a new commitment to tackling the global...
Inside the
system
Lies to help prepare for war
THE US defence department announced last week that a satellite positioning device had been found in an Afghan cave. They said the equipment was lost in Somalia in 1993. The discovery, they proclaime...
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Tide of revolt sweeps Rome
THREE MILLION Italian trade unionists, students, immigrant workers, unemployed people and pensioners defied Tony Blair's key European ally last Saturday. Six huge feeder protests marched to the centre...
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Letters
Liberals show their true face
THREE YEARS ago the Lib Dems won control of Sheffield council following a backlash against New Labour's plans to privatise housing benefit. The Lib Dems went ahead with privatising housing benefit an...
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Royal parasite Philip attacks 'affordable homes'
PRINCE PHILIP thinks councils should not provide housing. The very idea of social housing stumps him. "Social housing? I don't know what you mean by that," he told the Inside Housing
magazine...
Street robberies hysteria
THE TORIES think they can rebuild their fortunes by playing on people's fear of crime. Those fears have been fanned by the wave of crime stories in the tabloid papers...
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Blair's gang wants this regime for all workers
TONY BLAIR has formed an unholy alliance with the two most right wing leaders in Europe to drive through an assault on workers' rights across Europe...
What
socialists say
An alliance with the countryside?
THE peasantry is a major social class in large parts of the world. Peasants are not simply farmers. Farming in Britain and other advanced capitalist countries is a capitalist enterprise...
No statistics can convey the terror
THE KIDS in Jenin camp look like kids in any deprived area in the world. They have that knowing look in their eyes, a look that says, "I know something you don't know"-a look of pride, anger and
defiance...
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Twenty years
since the Falklands war
TWENTY YEARS ago this week the Falklands War began. During 74 days of conflict 255 British servicemen and around 800 Argentinians were killed. Most of the Argentinian dead were young conscripts...
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In my view
Is it cos I is raking it in?
SACHA BARON Cohen has always walked a razor's edge between satire and reaction. In his new film he has come down on the side of reaction...
Reviews
Mark out to hit the mark again
COMEDIAN
and activist MARK THOMAS's new TV series started on Channel 4
this week. Socialist Worker spoke to him...
Globalisation from below
ANTI-CAPITALIST activist Kevin Danaher is as powerful and persuasive a writer as he is a speaker. His new pamphlet, Ten Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World
Bank...
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Marxist Forums
Signing up to stop the war
In central London sellers were out petitioning and leafleting for the 30 March CND demo. Almost 400 papers were sold on street stalls in just three days...
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Bring movement to streets on May Day
THIS YEAR'S May Day looks set to offer anti-war and
anti-privatisation activists across Britain a chance to take to the streets...
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Rail workers
RAIL WORKERS are taking strides forward in the battle for decent pay. But some companies are trying to tough out union action...
Defending refugees
A 350-STRONG conference in support of refugees took place in Manchester last Saturday...
Sertuc
SOME 180 trade unionists attended a conference on Saturday called by the South East Region of the TUC
(Sertuc) in London in defence of public services...
ANL
OVER 260 people attended an Anti Nazi League
(ANL) meeting in Leeds University on Wednesday of last week. Many people were eager to campaign against the
Nazis...
In brief
Diary - Upcoming events
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Airport
SECURITY STAFF in the TGWU union at Manchester airport continued their industrial action with a 36-hour strike beginning at 4am on Friday of last week...
Medical secretaries
ALL OUT and determined to win. That was the message from medical secretaries on the picket line in Sunderland in the north east of England on Monday of this
week...
NUJ
JOURNALISTS AT the Express and Star newspapers accepted an increased pay offer last week as management caved in just before a series of stoppages were due to begin...
Post
WHY HAVE Post Office managers felt confident enough to move towards 40,000 job losses and the destruction of
Parcelforce?...
Civil servants
THE MANAGEMENT of the government's new Jobcentre Plus scheme have made a new offer to civil servants in the PCS union working in job centres and benefits offices. Ballot papers were sent out this week...
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Resistance grows to war on Iraq
TONY BLAIR is pushing for a new war on Iraq. His government does not care about what the public or other countries think...
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