I HAD some sleepless nights in the build-up to the Butler report. One thing about the whole Iraq story was nagging at me—would Butler get to the bottom of it?
THE BIGGEST and most established Labour party in Europe is going through its most serious crisis since the First World War.
THE US brewer Anheuser-Busch (A-B) makes the world’s biggest beer brand, Budweiser. It accounts for 50 percent of total beer sales in the United States, while Anheuser-Busch brews more beer than the entire British brewing industry put together.
IT’S HARD to find the words to express my contempt for London mayor Ken Livingstone’s call for tube workers to scab on last week’s RMT strike.
We can only achieve socialism by means of a revolution, in which millions of working people collectively take control of society, with new democratic institutions. Most of the time, that key revolutionary socialist idea is the property of a minority. It contradicts everyday experience. The predominant form of oppositional ideas is reformist.
AS MARX once said, \"One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I don't know.\" As you have probably guessed I'm talking about Groucho, not Karl, who along with Chico, Harpo and Zeppo made up the Marx Brothers. Their slapstick comedy routines and films are sheer genius.
Trade unionism is among the earliest and longest lasting forms of working class organisation. It arises from workers' need for mutual solidarity to deal with the twin pressures of a competitive "labour market" and employers' power in the workplace.
WHY SHOULD right wing commentators froth at the mouth over one decade? They certainly did so last Saturday night, during the second of BBC4's series of weekends devoted to the 1960s.
TONY BLAIR is trying to explain away Labour's humiliation in the 10 June elections by portraying it as a passing "protest vote" against the war in Iraq. He had been trying endlessly to "move on" from Iraq. Now New Labour is prepared to talk about the war-but only to dismiss the views of its opponents. Nevertheless, the government is now admitting that the Iraq war is a major reason for its unpopularity.
NO ONE should have any illusions about the fact that the occupation of Iraq is in deep trouble. To see why you have only to look at the chaotic formation of the new "provisional government" in Baghdad last week. As sold by George W Bush and Tony Blair, this was meant to be a decisive step towards Iraq regaining its sovereignty.
A SERIES of hysterical articles attacking Respect appeared in the liberal press last week. These come from journalists who pose as left wing humanitarians. Yet they strongly support Bush's war on terror and hate the anti-war movement.
IF YOU live in the same place for more than 20 years, you start noticing things. You find yourself thinking things like-Didn't that used to be a school? Wasn't that a park? I've lived in the London borough of Hackney for nearly 30 years so I have a sense of things changing.
