Archive for May 2005
6 May 2005
MORE THAN 120 people packed into a meeting in Hackney, east London, on 26 April to put their demands to election candidates...
6 May 2005
TRADE UNIONS at the BBC are balloting for strike action after Director General Mark Thompson refused to guarantee there will be no compulsory redundancies following the corporation's recent announcement...
6 May 2005
The Vietnam war still casts a long shadow over US today
30 years since the fall of Saigon: THIRTY YEARS ago, North Vietnamese tanks rolled into the US embassy in Saigon marking a humiliating defeat for US imperialism...
6 May 2005
THIS JULY, the G8 - the bosses' club - will meet in Scotland, under the presidency of the British government...
6 May 2005
New Labour celebrations after its election win were muted and short-lived...
6 May 2005
ONE OF the most worrying aspects of this election has been the high votes in some areas for far-right parties like the British National Party (BNP)...
6 May 2005
Stormclouds gather over Labour's 3rd term
IT WOULDN'T have come as much of a surprise to most people when they woke up on Friday 6 May and found that New Labour had been elected for a third time...
6 May 2005
Socialist ideas adopted by a new generation
The ‘most boring election’ in history ended with a far-from boring election night...
6 May 2005
Galloway election victory shocks Blair
The high-profile victory of George Galloway, standing for Respect in Bethnal Green and Bow, will be welcomed by many around the country – as an antidote to an election campaign which, at national level, has...
6 May 2005
THE ELECTION result clearly shows that growing numbers have had enough of Tony Blair and this New Labour government....
12 May 2005
UNISON health conference: Fight low pay and privatisation, defend pensions
IN THE final two days of UNISON health conference, the implementation of the Agenda for Change (AfC) agreement was discussed...
12 May 2005
Amicus conference: Size isn't everything
ONE OF the most important issues to be discussed at the forthcoming Amicus conference is the recent proposal for a merger between the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), Amicus and the GMB...
12 May 2005
Workers demand justice on pensions
"NEW LABOUR elected on Thursday, workers on the march on Saturday"...
12 May 2005
Left victory in firefighters' union
THE DECISIVE victory of Matt Wrack in the ballot for the general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) represents a big step forward for the union and the trade union movement in general...
12 May 2005
Big vote for socialism in Bolsover
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE candidate Jon Dale received nearly 26% of the vote standing in the Bolsover SW and Scarcliffe division of Derbyshire county council...
12 May 2005
'I ALWAYS vote for Ian Page and the socialists in local elections but, because you can't win this time, I'm going to vote for one of the main parties', was a constant response met by Socialist Party canvassers in the...
12 May 2005
Coventry - the best campaign ever
SOME PEOPLE called this the 'no choice' election but it's more like the 'little change' election - at least on the surface...
12 May 2005
Polarisation widens in Northern Ireland
NORTHERN IRELAND'S general election results confirmed what the Socialist Party expected - that two main sectarian blocks would dominate...
12 May 2005
Discontent with the 'Blair project'
THE POLITICAL map of Wales remains overwhelmingly Labour, despite the fact that it lost five seats and saw its share of the vote drop by almost 6%...
12 May 2005
Rebuilding SSP support under a third Labour term
Scotland - general election 2005: IN SCOTLAND, the opposition to New Labour policies was underlined by a 4.5% fall in their vote to 39.5% compared to the election of 2001...
12 May 2005
Blair battered but what's the alternative?
"UNBURIED CORPSE" "Dead Man walking" - the champagne glasses had hardly been washed at Labour Party HQ and the knives were out for Tony Blair...
12 May 2005
1945 - Victory in Europe: When 'liberation' meant socialism
COMMEMORATIONS MARKING the 60th anniversary 'victory in Europe' (VE) day have concentrated on the sacrifices made by the service men and women in liberating Europe from the clutches of fascism...
12 May 2005
EVERY FIVE seconds a child dies from hunger and disease, yet global food aid has actually fallen by 50% over the last five years...
12 May 2005
Everyone has a right to education
Being a student and a parent: COMING TO university for the first time can be daunting as it often means uprooting yourself from your home, friends and family for extended periods...
12 May 2005
New Labour wastes billions on consultants: A SHOCKING report has just been published which reveals that the government spent nearly £2 billion on management consultants last year...
12 May 2005
NHS - Stop the profit vultures
DURING THE election, Blair and other New Labour politicians said they were pumping money into the NHS to save vital services...
19 May 2005
Calls for an end to trade union passivity at Amicus conference
THE FIRST, and possibly last, conference of manufacturing and general services union Amicus took place this week...
19 May 2005
Week-long strike at London Met
College lecturers fight back: LECTURERS AT London Met University are on strike for a week against management's attempts to force almost 400 of them into a contract they don't want...
19 May 2005
Firefighters urge union to face up to challenges
DELEGATES AT the annual conference of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) called on the union to face up to the challenge of a whole raft of assaults on Fire Service conditions and prepare for industrial action if...
19 May 2005
Royal Mail privatisation threat after workers deliver record profits
ROYAL MAIL bosses are planning to borrow £2 billion from the government so that they can partly privatise the company by giving shares to the workforce...
19 May 2005
The curse of long working hours
THE HYPOCRISY of the government and the bosses reached new depths last week...
19 May 2005
USA: Time to mobilise and fight back
LAST NOVEMBER, George Bush won re-election by distracting a section of voters with the ‘war on terrorism’ and appeals to "traditional values"...
19 May 2005
Revolt and repression in Uzbekistan
AT LEAST 700 people were brutally massacred by government troops in Uzbekistan over the weekend...
19 May 2005
E=mc2 - how Einstein changed our understanding of the
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19 May 2005
Desperate smears on George Galloway
GEORGE GALLOWAY, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow has only been back in the Commons for a few weeks...
19 May 2005
Football: Fans protest at billionaire’s takeover
ABOUT 2,000 men, women and young people came out on 12 May - some still in their work clothes or school uniforms...
19 May 2005
Standing for socialism at Blackheath High
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19 May 2005
THE QUEEN’S speech on 17 May shows what Blair intends to do in the first part of his third term...
19 May 2005
FOR BLAIR and Brown this was the 'just-in-time' election. "If the election had been delayed a few months, the party might have found...
19 May 2005
Public health not private profit
DISABLED PEOPLE will have their benefit cut while big business get a £3 billion windfall from the NHS...
26 May 2005
Defend NATFHE members, safeguard union democracy
THIS YEAR'S conference of the lecturers' union NATFHE takes place at the same time as the continuing employers' offensive in both further and higher education (FE and HE)...
26 May 2005
THE CIVIL service union PCS national executive committee (NEC) elections have resulted in a resounding victory for the left in the union...
26 May 2005
Telecom workers' strike against privatisation
THE MUSHARRAF government has launched a massive new privatisation campaign worth $1.7 billion...
26 May 2005
Northern Ireland - fighting for socialism
THE SOCIALIST Party in Northern Ireland has been fighting now for decades to end the problems of sectarian divisions through a working-class, socialist and internationalist solution...
26 May 2005
Germany - workers punish Schröder
FOLLOWING THE catastrophic, though not unexpected, election result in the region of North Rhine Westphalia, the German social democrat (SDP) Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, announced an early general election fo...
26 May 2005
G8 Protest - Demonstrate at the G8 - Make capitalism history
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26 May 2005
Kick the fat cats out of football
OVER 500 Manchester United fans crowded into a public meeting in Manchester on 19 May...
26 May 2005
BBC workers striking back at job cuts
MEMBERS OF the three main unions at the BBC - BECTU, NUJ and Amicus - were out on strike in force on 23 May...
26 May 2005
LABOUR'S REDUCED majority in their third term seems to have done nothing to curb their zeal for introducing anti-working-class, anti-democratic legislation...
26 May 2005
LABOUR'S CONTEMPT for low-paid workers was revealed again last week as Gordon Brown called for "wage discipline" in the public sector...
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