Uncategorised articles from The Communist archives.
The world’s stock markets having been hitting all-time
highs in their prices, especially the markets of India and China,
where there seems no end to the upward spiral of the burgeoning capitalists
economies and their accompanying stock markets. Only the US economy is slowing as its
housing market collapses.
Gordon Brown and senior Labour Party officials
have greeted the defection to Labour’s parliamentary ranks of Tory MP Quentin
Davies with joy. But what sort of person are they actually getting?
The fight is on. Postal workers organised by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are staging a series of national strikes
following a 77% yes vote to defend jobs and conditions – in fact the very service
itself. Post office management have spent the last few years running the post
service down and down and then complaining about lost income!
This audio file, recorded on the 11th June at the Socialist Appeal London aggregate, hears Rob Lyon talk on the National Question in relation to the current and historical situation in Quebec.
From more than 10 years the Blairites have attacked the democratic structures of the Labour party and reduced the democratic rights of party members to an absolute minimum. This was part of their campaign to shift the party to the right and turn it into a Tory party mark two. But today there is a growing backlash against Blairism but an urgent need to reestablish the accountability of the leadership.
More than 600 workers at Rosyth naval dockyard in Fife walked out in a
wildcat strike on June 21 over an attack on their pensions. The
former Royal navy base was privatised in 1987 under Thatcher’s Tories and is
now owned by Babcock International. The situation as it stands means workers
who paid into the company pension scheme can expect on average a reduction
of around £60-£70 a week on the expected return.
Monday was a red letter day for the Hands Off Venezuela
campaign. Amicus/Unity, the second biggest union in Britain, voted practically
unanimously to affiliate to the HOV campaign.
This represents a great step forward for the campaign in the trade union
field.
This document is a statement on Britain, an analysis which was agreed
unanimously at the national conference of Socialist Appeal in April.
The statement constitutes an analysis of the deepening social,
political and economic crisis of British capitalism. This perspective
applies the method of Marxism to these developments, seeking to uncover
the trends and processes within, and serves as a guide to action for
all those workers and youth who want to struggle for a socialist
transformation of society.
The lie peddled by the entire establishment, from the mass media to the universities and schools; from the Tories to Lib Dems, is New Labour's line that the left made Labour unelectable in the 1980s. Special venom is reserved for the Militant Tendency and the National Union of Mineworkers led by Arthur Scargill.
This year marks the 300th anniversary of The Act of Union between Scotland and England. This was accompanied by the merger of the parliaments into one Westminster Parliament. In January 1707, the Scottish parliament voted 110-67 to ratify The Treaty of Union, which became law four months later.