BETWEEN THE lines of the Butler report lies a damning indictment of the Blair government—proof positive that parliament and the people were lied to about Iraq’s "weapons of mass destruction".
MILLIONS OF public sector workers are facing a massive threat. Gordon Brown plans to axe 104,000 civil servants and clamp down on paid sick leave. This represents an attack on every worker.
HUNDREDS OF workers in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) lobbied parliament on Wednesday of last week.
MANY longstanding Socialist Worker supporters are finding that Socialist Worker fits the political mood in their workplace more than ever before.
THE MAINSTREAM parties were all desperately scrambling for every vote as campaigning drew to a close in the Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill by-elections this week.
NEW LABOUR is terrified of losing the Leicester South by-election.
"EVERYONE IS here to get involved." That was the comment of Jody McAviney, one of several thousand who attended the opening weekend of the Marxism 2004 festival of ideas in London.
REVOLUTIONS DO not break out just because of the efforts of groups of socialists, I pointed out last week. They occur because great social crises create situations in which, as the Russian revolutionary Lenin put it, "the lower classes do not want to live in the old way" and "the upper classes" are "unable to live in the old way" any longer.
THE EUROPEAN Social Forum (ESF) is coming to London between Thursday 14 and Sunday 17 October. The ESF is a festival of resistance to capitalism and war—part of the movement that has come out of the great demonstrations at Seattle and Genoa.
LONDON IS a capital of international finance. One of the things the ESF is about is looking for alternatives to, and looking at the impact of, a world of corporate globalisation.
"Fanatic", "terrorist", "fundamentalist", "extremist", "suicide bomber" or just plain "evil". Those are some of the terms placed next to the word Muslim in the media in the last few days alone.
THE ROAD to Baghdad airport used to be lined with date palm trees stretching for miles. "The date palm is a national symbol of Iraq," Haifa Zangana explains. "It’s something that takes farmers 20 to 30 years to grow."
