GEORGE BUSH'S visit to Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency in the north east of England last Friday went as badly for the warmonger as the rest of his visit. Around 1,000 people from across the north east protested against Bush and Blair. They gathered just 200 yards up the road from the Dun Cow pub where Bush met a few hand-picked residents.
THEY SAID it would be a showcase for the whole business of letting companies run schools." Pam, a parent in Bradford, sums up what people across Britain were told as New Labour pushed for private companies to move into our schools. The government's big idea was that the private sector would transform education and bring us "schools for the 21st century".
BLAIR HAD to scramble desperately to succeed in forcing legislation for foundation hospitals through parliament last week. This was despite the vote at Labour's conference last month against the scheme. It shows how hollow the idea of the left "reclaiming Labour" really is. Trade unions, Labour members and many ordinary people hate the foundation hospitals plan.
SO FAR our readers have helped to raise £107,403 towards our appeal target of £150,000.
US FORCES have been occupying Baghdad for just eight months. But already the US faces a situation as serious as that which confronted it after the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968.
THE WAR against Iraq was always about achieving the goals of the "neo-conservative" thugs behind the Project for the New American Century. They believed that conquering Iraq would help US capitalism dominate the world for the foreseeable future. This domination was to be guaranteed by a massive display of destructive power aimed at giving them control of a vital source of oil. Blair went along with this so as to get a small place in the US sun for British big business. But it all depended on being able to triumph quickly with the minimal number of troops, leaving the US free to throw its weight around in other places. A central part of US strategy is to be able to fight two or m
SO FAR Britain has been the only country to provide troops in any numbers to aid the US occupation.
Over 290,000 civil servants will start a crucial pay ballot on Monday. Contrary to the stereotypical image, they are low paid workers suffering rotten conditions.
THE EARLY 1970s were years of mass social and political upheavals round the world. Great movements were on the march everywhere, or almost everywhere.
PEOPLE WERE keen to read Socialist Worker's coverage of the post workers' victory.
A US group, Bring Them Home Now, is made up of military families, veterans, those on active service, and reservists.
