After The election: Government Of Austerity
The 2010 general election has produced the result that the ruling class were dreading: a hung parliament. With one seat to declare, no party has a working majority. So the dirty dealing begins…
May 6th: Election Day!
Thursday 6th May. Election Day. After weeks of campaigning the opinion
polls suggest that the result is still too close to call. Of course,
the polls could be wrong as they were in 1970 and more recently in
1992. But one thing is clear – no one is looking forward to whoever
forms the next government with much optimism.
The myth of the “lazy Greek workers”
Since the crisis in Greece has hit
the headlines there have appeared in the bourgeois media many stories
about how Greece has too many civil servants, how the working week is
very short, how people retire early on fat pensions, and so on, as if
this were the cause of the crisis. Facts and figures, however, can be
very stubborn things and they tell a completely different story.
Blair Peach Report: The truth confirmed at last
Who killed Blair Peach? This is a question
which has been asked many times over the last 31
years, not only by the family and friends of Blair Peach, but the by the
thousands who joined a demonstration to protest against a so-called public
meeting held by the far right National Front as a provocation in predominantly
Asian Southall, on April 23rd,
during the election campaign of 1979.
HOV National Conference 22 May
Come to the 2010 national conference of Hands Off Venezuela, taking place in London on May 22nd. Hear speakers from Venezeula updating you on what is happening and how you can support the revolution.
A Whole New World
Leaving the home you grew up in, the people you will love forever and
experiences to look upon from afar, being an international student is no
easy task, perhaps, even more so, when you come from a small island..
Ireland: Brian Cowen and the “Foghorns of Negativity”
The next few weeks will be very
important for the trade union movement in Ireland; either the Public
Service Agreement will be rejected and the trade union leaders will be
forced into organising action, or the government will get away with yet
another attack on living standards and working conditions.
Greece: a radical turn in the situation is being prepared
The downgrading of Greece’s credit
ratings by Standard & Poor’s
has sent shockwaves around the world’s financial markets, with stock
exchanges seeing significant falls over the last few days. The fear is
that Greece
could default and drag the rest of the eurozone into a severe crisis,
putting immense pressure on the euro. The problem the bourgeois face is
the Greek working class, which is not taking this lying down.
Militant Student Editorial: Generation Lost
The General Election on May 6th is undoubtedly the most significant
election since New Labour came to power in 1997. For many of today’s
youth, this election will be the first in which they can vote.
Significantly, this generation of young people will also be the first
voters who were born after the reign of Margaret Thatcher. The upcoming
General Election, therefore, will be partially decided by “Thatcher’s
children”.
Who are the Lib Dems?
The Liberal Democrats are riding high
in recent opinion polls. They are presenting themselves as something
“new” and “clean”. A closer look reveals a very old party that has
always carried out the policies dictated by the capitalist class of
Britain.
General election: Result thrown into the air
Given the colossal volatility within the electorate in the
recent period, the outcome of the general election has become impossible
to
predict. With under 10 days to go, opinion polls point to some kind
of hung
Parliament with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power.
Statement of Militant Student Editorial Board
The Militant Student is a new paper written by students, for students.
The intention of government and big business to cut education, training
and jobs to service the bankers debts, means that we are left with
little option but to organise and fight. The situation that looms
before us shows that capitalism today is at a dead-end and offers no
future for workers and youth. This is the Statement of the Miltant
Student Editorial Board in its founding edition.