GORDON BROWN launched an incredible assault on public sector workers in his spending review on Monday. He wants to sack one in five civil servants, axing 104,000 jobs.
MARXISM 2004, which begins this week, is a chance to meet and discuss Socialist Worker with the people who produce it.
"CHOICE IS the political buzzword this week, but up until Respect was formed voters had no real choice.
PEOPLE OFTEN talk as if revolutions are made by existing groups of socialists getting a bit bigger and suddenly changing things.
A CLUTCH of business people in Britain meet over drinks at various social occasions. One is planning a takeover bid of Marks & Spencer—a company that Tony Blair has described as one of the best examples of British capitalism.
Nick Berg, an American contract worker, was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq earlier this year. MICHAEL BERG, his father, came to Britain last week to attend demonstrations against the fake handover of power in Iraq. He spoke at a press conference organised by the Stop the War Coalition.
‘CHOICE" was the buzzword on the politicians’ lips last week. It is rapidly becoming the ideological linchpin of Blair’s vision of a "radical" third term.
WHEN PATIENTS come to me, the one thing they want is to get better.
MOST PARENTS and pupils know choice is a complete and utter fraud.
SHOCK AND anger spread through job centres and pension centres last week when the government announced it was going to axe 550 benefit offices and ten pension centres—and do it all with a smile.
THERE IS a full spectrum assault on the PCS union and jobs in the DWP.
IRAQ IS "sovereign and free", declared the BBC’s Matt Frei on 28 July. The staged "handover" was dubbed an "enormously significant day for Iraq".
