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Editorial ,
April
2008
Bullock to all that
The white working class in Britain feels \"unrepresented\", according to a recent opinion poll. It feels alienated. But what is it alienated from? From itself, if democracy means anything. The white working class has long been the biggest component of British society. The Government is elected by universal franchise. The ancient party division of Liberal and Tory gave way 90 years ago to the party division of Labour and Tory. Ever ...
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David Morrison ,
March
2008
The British Government runs scared of Israel
On 18 February 2008, the British Government was forced to release a draft dossier on Iraq’s so-called “weapons of mass destruction” under the Freedom of Information Act. But it succeeded in persuading a Freedom of Information Tribunal to allow a handwritten reference to Israel in the margin of the document to be suppressed.The Foreign Office sought this redaction because the person who wrote “Israel” in the margin of the document was ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
March
2008
I'll do it my way, you'll do it my way
Gwydion M. Williams looks at Foreign Secretary David Miliband\'s call for global imitation of the West\'s post-industrial model of parliamentary democracy.In his speech at the Aung San Suu Kyi Lecture at St Hugh\'s College at Oxford, Foreign Secretary David Miliband declared it was Britain\'s mission to tell the rest of the world how it should live. States all round the world are to be required to engage in a kind of bloodless civil war ...
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Gwydion M Williams ,
March
2008
Miliband says do it our way
Foreign Secretary David Miliband: The Democratic Imperative
FCO, London, 2/12/2008 In a speech at the Aung San Suu Kyi Lecture at St Hugh\'s College at Oxford, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said:\"The checks and balances of human rights and democratic governance are important for the security and development of any society: from established systems like ours to the new democracies of Eastern Europe and Africa to the emerging ...
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Sean McGouran ,
March
2008
FAREWELL FIDEL or Don't mention the War (in Angola)
Fidel Castro\'s retirement was greeted with a mean-minded chorus in the \'compact\' press. (The British press, that is, the American press seems generally to have been more guarded in its handling of the matter - once bitten?). Presumably the compacts had rather hoped that the survivor of hundreds of assassination attempts (few of them by actual Cubans) would eventually \'get his\'. Or go the way of other Communist tyrants, and be killed by a ...
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Editorial ,
March
2008
Why the 'work ethic' isn't working
Why has the British work ethic collapsed? That was the question put to Work & Pensions Secretary, James Purnell, on Newsnight (Feb 27) in connection with the latest Government measures to hassle the unemployed and the incapacitated. He did not seem to understand the question, or to have a prepared answer to parrot.Are the words \"work ethic\" an echo from a reactionary past that has been superseded by the \"progress\" introduced by Mrs. ...
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Editorial ,
January
2008
Benazir Bhutto: A friend of Washington
In recent years, Benazir Bhutto put a lot of effort into securing US support for her return to Pakistan, in the hope and expectation that she would become Prime Minister for the third time.Like other foreign leaders seeking to maximise their influence in Washington, she employed a public relations firm to arrange meetings for her with administration officials, members of Congress and journalists. The firm, Burson-Marsteller, was paid nearly ...
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Editorial ,
April
2008
'No, no, to the new dictatorship'
This article did not appear in the Labour and Trade Union Review. But we thought it important enough of include on the website.Sami Ramadani
March 25, 2008 5:30 PM http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sami_ramadani/2008/03/no_no_to_the_new_dic tatorship.html Thousands of people are joining the protest marches and \"sit-ins\" in Baghdad as I write these lines. They are mainly responding to a call by leading anti-occupation ... Select a Page 1
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New Pamphlet
This is the latest pamphlet from David Morrison detailing the Bliar deceit over the war in Iraq.
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