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David Morrison ,
December
2008
Israel broke ceasefire by killing six
Irish Times Tuesday, December 30, 2008
OPINION:IN JUNE, Israel agreed a six-month ceasefire with Hamas. Until December 27th, no Israeli, civilian or military, was killed as a result of rocket or mortar fire from Gaza.None. Not one. And there was very little rocket or mortar fire out of Gaza until Israel broke the ceasefire in early November.Those key facts have been missing from most of the reporting of Israel\\\'s slaughter of ...
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Editorial ,
October
2008
NEW LABOUR – OLD LIBERALS
After becoming leader of the Labour Party in 1994, Tony Blair immediately began courting the Liberal Democrats, then led by Paddy Ashdown. There was an electoral imperative for this at the time – no one could have predicted the landslide of 1997. Blair feared that a Lib Dem Party, not under his control, could hold the balance of power in Parliament. He managed to subvert any such ambition by subverting Ashdown. Ashdown is well known for his ...
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Sean McGouran ,
October
2008
Hearing Voices
Socialist Resistance held a conference in ULU (the University of London Union, Malet Street), on Saturday 28.06.08, Voices for the working class in the 21st century. Alan Thornett’s International Socialism Group (ISG) produced SR. (It’s been made-over into Repect). Thornett was a trade union activist in the car industry in Oxford. When there was such a thing. His group broke away from Gerry Healy’s Workers’ Revolutionary Party some year’s ...
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David Morrison ,
September
2008
Humphries drags the awful truth out of Miliband
Had Georgia been a member of NATO on 7 August 2008, would NATO now be at war with a nuclear-armed Russia? That is a very relevant question at the moment, given that, at a summit in Bucharest in April 2008, NATO decided in principle to allow Georgia (and Ukraine) to become full members. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty leaves no room for doubt that, if an armed attack occurs on one NATO member, it is the duty of other members to come to ...
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David Morrison ,
September
2008
Exporting Democracy
There has to be democracy in Zimbabwe, says Brown but not in Saudi Arabia (or Palestine) “I hope that the African Union and its leaders will make it absolutely clear to Mr Mugabe that there has to be democracy, that there has to be change and a new government has got to be brought in. … The so-called elections will not be recognised.” (Daily Telegraph, 30 June 2008 [1]
Those are the words of Prime Minister Brown, after Robert Mugabe was sworn ...
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Editorial ,
September
2008
Black Bush
On July 24th between 50,000 and 200,000 (depending on what paper you read) mostly young Germans gathered in Berlin to absorb the cult that is Barak Obama. The occasion was pure stadium rock. Except that this was not Bruce Springstein or Bono, but the man most likely to be the next President of the United States. Obama has specialised in Blair-like meaningless demagoguery in the past. But that was not what happened this time. He was full of ...
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Editorial ,
September
2008
Browned Off
The loss of a safe Labour seat in the Glasgow by-election will of course be blamed on Gordon Brown. In reality it has little to do with Brown. He is an unfortunate politician, and his great misfortune is to be Blair’s successor at a moment when Blair had virtually ensured that Labour would lose the next election.One of the Millibands has let it be known immediately that he is ready to shoulder the burden of governing the country. He ...
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Sean McGouran ,
September
2008
UNITE to fight
Jerry Hicks is a former convenor at Rolls Royce. He represented Aerospace industry workers on the Unite Executive Council. Unite is the union of the T&GWU (Transport and General Workers’ Union - Ernie Bevin’s union) and Amicus. The latter was itself a union of MSF, Unifi, and the GPMU — all of these groups being unions of unions themselves. Jerry Hicks has challenged the right of Derek Simpson to remain in office as joint general secretary ...
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Tom Doherty ,
September
2008
Strange Days in Zimbabwe
“They are just wasting time. They should just go public and say that the talks have collapsed.” ‘ (Madhuku is not an MDC spokesman, but closely associated with them as a “human rights” opponent of ZANU-PF).
On the other hand: ‘the MDC remains “cautiously optimistic” that the talks could yield an agreement, keenly awaited by millions of Zimbabweans hard hit by an unprecedented economic recession characterised by the world’s highest rate of ...
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Editorial ,
June
2008
Honour Among Blairites?
The die-hard working class vote for the Labour Party held out during eleven years of New Labour Government, but finally at the Local Government elections there were signs that it is finally deserting the Party that deserted it long ago. Labour was pushed into third place. And in Crewe the Party is fighting a dirty campaign in order to hold on to Gwyneth Dunwoody\'’s seat.The British party system became, in ideological form, a system of ...
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