George Galloway, the Labour MP for Glasgow Kelvin, was yesterday
expelled from the Labour Party by the three-member National Constitutional
Committee, which is in reality a kangaroo court designed to simply rubber
stamp whatever Blair wants. George Galloway took a clear stand against the
war in Iraq. This is the reason why he was expelled. They had tried to
remove him on the basis of falsified documents “found in Iraq”. As they
were not able to remove him with these, they decided another road.

The Irish Republican movement has been struggling for a united Ireland for
decades. Today it is no nearer this objective than when it was founded. Marxists
understand that a united Ireland can only be achieved on a socialist basis. So
long as capitalism dominates Ireland there will be division and strife.
Therefore it is time to take stock of the past of the Republican movement and to
draw a balance sheet. Only by such means can we build the revolutionary movement
urgently needed to prevent a further descent into sectarian chaos and achieve
instead the historic task of overthrowing capitalism and constructing the 32
county Socialist Republic.

The 2003 Labour Party Conference meets at a critical moment. After six
years of Labour government nothing has been solved for the majority of working
people who look to Labour to tackle the problems they face.  Phil
Mitchinson analyses the situation. This article was also published in the
latest issue of the British Socialist Appeal.

The British TUC (Trades Union Congress) Congress opens up today. NUJ
General Secretary and TUC  General Council member Jeremy Dear spoke to
Socialist Appeal about the tasks and perspectives for the trade union movement

The forthcoming elections in
AMICUS to elect the 48 lay member executive for the newly formed union of
730,000 members will be the beginning of a new era for workers in a whole range
of industries. For many on the left over the years, the prospect of electing a
leftwing executive committee to the former AEEU could only be a wild dream from
which they would have expected to wake up at any minute. Yet the prospect is now
very real.

We live in an epoch of sudden and sharp turns. On Thursday night, as Tony Blair
slept aboard a Boeing 777 bound from Washington to Tokyo, he was rocked by the
news of the death of Dr David Kelly. In a single instant the whole situation was
transformed. The magnitude of these events signifies the
inevitability of resignations at the highest level, so the Prime Minister is
frantically looking around for friends prepared to fall upon their swords in
order to protect their Lord and Master.