Respect-The Unity Coalition supporters speak about the urgent steps needed for an effective challenge to New Labour in the June elections
THERE COULD hardly be a better time for Socialist Worker to be available in universities, and soon many more students will see the paper. Over 40 WH Smith's and Menzies campus shops in England and Wales will be stocking the paper from next week, plus almost all Scottish universities.
GREG DYKE issued a statement last Wednesday accepting the Hutton report. It was not enough for Blair, who smelled blood. The government went on the offensive even after the chairman of the BBC's board of governors, Gavyn Davies, stood down. The two governors who effectively forced BBC Director General Dyke out were Lord Ryder and Lady Hogg.
BARON HUTTON of Bresagh was appointed to head the inquiry into the death of David Kelly by Lord Falconer, a close friend of Tony Blair. Another of Blair's friends may have influenced their choice. As Lord Chief Justice in Northern Ireland, Hutton would have worked closely with disgraced spin doctor and former Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson.
I'M CONSIGNING the Hutton report to my stock of dodgy dossiers. I want to go over the lies the government told to show that this wasn't just about one report by the BBC. The whole government case for the war on Iraq was flawed. After 11 September 2001, to get support for the war in Afghanistan, Tony Blair said in Oman, "There will be no war on Iraq unless we show there is conclusive evidence that links it with 11 September."
The vote for student top-up fees and the scandal of the Hutton report sent waves of anger around Britain. Much of the mainstream media has ignored this grassroots revolt. Here we print some of the many e-mails readers sent to Socialist Worker and comments from high-profile anti-war campaigners
IMAGINE TONY Blair and Gordon Brown, clown-like smiles glued to their eroded faces, spending week after week pressing flesh and chatting up the locals in the pubs and chippies of Barrow-in-Furness. And imagine an electoral system that gives more strategic clout over the selection of the Labour leader to Cornwall and Essex than to Liverpool and Glasgow.
THERE WERE no weapons of mass destruction. That much should be clear to everyone, despite the fact that the Hutton inquiry did not consider that issue.
NOT ONLY the political fallout, but the war itself in Iraq is continuing.
'A ABOUT 4AM we got a phone call from my brother in law in Birmingham. My husband told me that Mikey was dead. I refused to believe it. Later I called back myself. So we got up, with my two year old daughter Kiara, and me being seven and a half months pregnant, to drive from Hertfordshire to Birmingham.
HUNDREDS OF people got to their feet and cheered when the founding of Respect-The Unity Coalition was announced in London last Sunday.
BRITAIN IS poised to become one of the most successful 21st century nations, brags Tony Blair. But for millions of British workers life feels like it is going backwards to Victorian days, not forwards to a better future.
