Mr Davies (and other Tory rats), you are not wanted!
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?
No Military Recruitment in Schools!
The ruling class is clearly
finding the state of it’s forces in Iraq in a dire situation. The army relies on young working class
people signing up; unsurprisingly they have not been coming forth in large
numbers after seeing so many others killed. In light of this desperation, efforts at military
recruitment have hit new heights.
The June days
In his article (The significance of Lenin’s April Theses
1917 ) Darrall Cozens explained how Lenin rearmed the Bolshevik Party
in 1917. Continuing our series on the Russian Revolution, he tells how the
revolutionaries developed from being a small group when the
February Revolution broke
out, to become the main alternative to the new
establishment by June of that year.
The smoking ban – more state interference or good for our health?
Yesterday the smoking ban came into effect in England. But as socialists, should we be applauding such
state interference in our lives? Smoking kills thousands of people each year, but by supporting a smoking ban are we no better than the New Labour leadership who constantly patronise and blame working class people for the ills of capitalist society?
Defending Postal services – Strike action the only way
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!
Audio: The National Question and Quebec
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.
Media Alert: Who should bomb Iran first?
The media has always distorted the truth to justify the actions of its big business backers. This article from medialens exposes the myths behind so-called press freedom so prevalent in today’s media.
How to profit from children? Or Where Blair left off…
In the education
field Brown is continuing where Blair left off. In his endorsement of city
academies, Brown has called on Britain’s big business to form partnerships with
every primary and secondary school in order to get the kind of education
capitalism needs.
Dismantling Party Democracy – Labour’s Last 10 Years
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.
Where is Britain Going? A Marxist Analysis of Britain Today – Part 4
This is the final part of the British Perspectives document approved by the national conference of the Socialist Appeal. The issues which it covers are the trade unions and the Labour party, and the Marxist’s orientation towards the mass organisation. Also covered is the importance of the youth, emphasing the importance of theory and the training of Marxist cadres for the enormous events that impend in Britain and elsewhere.
More than 600 walk-out at Rosyth dockyard
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.