The writing on the wall
Filthy lucre No (frills) workers' rights RESPECT your cleaner Defending secularism?Filthy lucreThe tabloid obsession with celebrity/family values/soccer took a turn for the worse recently when the News...
View ArticleSSP: no retreat from nationalism
Around 500 people attended the conference of the Scottish Socialist Party on 27-28 March - a healthy increase in numbers on last year, but only a few people have been brought into the party from the...
View ArticleMAB leader to stand for RESPECT
The former MAB (Muslim Association of Britain) president Anas Altikriti will top the list of candidates for the George Galloway/SWP coalition Respect in the June Euro-election Yorkshire and...
View ArticleGermany: Back to Keynes?
The coalition government in Berlin between the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, led by Gerhard Schröder, is in crisis. Nothing new there. The SPD is on around 25% in opinion polls, and Schröder...
View ArticleInside Israel-Palestine
Israeli army kills Hamas leaderHamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, assassinated by the Israeli air force on 22 March, bore political responsibility for many suicide bomb attacks on Israeli civilians. Yet...
View ArticleThe miners' strike 1984-5
We continue our look at the miners' strike with a look at the events of 11-20 April 1984.The events11 April 1984: Pit Deputies vote to join the strike12 April NUM Executive faces down right-wing calls...
View ArticleESF set for October
Tony JeffriesOn Saturday 27 March around 70 people met in Birmingham for the Organising Committee of the third European Social Forum (a gathering of campaigners opposed to neo-liberalism, capitalism,...
View ArticleThe fruit of order 39
By Mick DuncanBetween 26-28 April, a business conference entitled "Iraq Procurement 2004: Meet the Buyers" - sponsored by Shell, ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco and Raytheon - will be taking place in central...
View ArticleSupport for No Sweat grows
Support for No Sweat continues to grow around the country...LecturersThe university lecturers' union, the AUT, passed policy on sweatshops and in support of the No Sweat campaign at its recent...
View ArticleAnti-semitism, real and false
Zvi Shtauber, the outgoing Israeli ambassador to Britain, has denounced the "anti-semitism" of the British left and its alliance with Islamists in Britain (Observer, 4 April).The Sharon government has...
View ArticleSolidarity and secularism
This is the seventeenth year Ideas for Freedom has taken place. The event is a forum for free and open socialist debate and discussion. Ideas for Freedom is an opportunity for socialists and activists...
View ArticleAnti-Muslim edge in police raids
The recent arrest of eight men for allegedly planning a bombing campaign has been one of comes after a massive increase in arrests and searches in the last year. The press made a big deal of the young...
View ArticleThe Tories turn to the pink vote: what now?
By Maria ExallThe Government's proposed Bill on Civil Partnerships for same sex couples will be a further improvement in rights for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. On 1 December 2003 equal rights at...
View ArticleMigrant and British workers unite Against the Labour-Tory racists
By Rosalind RobsonNo one at Solidarity will mourn the loss of Immigration Minister Beverly Hughes, who resigned this month after a row over so-called "scam" applications of East Europeans migrants for...
View ArticleThe Man Who Would Be Napoleon
The Rise and Fall of Citizen Black, BBC 2Caligula, Nero, Commodus, the mad, bad Roman emperors, arouse in us pity for the people who could not find a better system of government - and, at a certain...
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