THE FUNDING disaster facing schools is far deeper than the government has so far acknowledged.
AT THE Socialist Worker office we try to make sure your paper is as good as possible and looks professional. But what we do in the office is only a small part of what makes up the paper.
SOCIALIST WORKER is obviously not owned by some millionaire or corporation. Nor do we carry corporate advertising.
IT WAS a miracle of oratory. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech 40 years ago projected the struggle for black civil rights in the US to the whole world.
KING'S STRATEGY of mass mobilisation against segregation produced a violent reaction from the white supremacists.
TONY BLAIR is in deep trouble. He has rested his hopes on Lord Hutton excusing his behaviour over the Kelly affair. But the tribunal has inadvertently uncovered mountains of evidence showing the scale of the government lies about the war.
WHEN US forces captured Baghdad many people drew the conclusion that they were all-powerful. That was certainly the view of those around George Bush, who thought their military victory in Iraq would allow them to tell any other power what to do. It was also a conclusion accepted by some on the left. Every day that passes shows how wrong that view is, and points to US weakness, not strength.
THE LABOUR Party has called the by-election in Brent East, west London, for 18 September. It will be a key test for New Labour, taking place in the middle of the Hutton inquiry.
THE HUTTON inquiry has revealed fascinating documents and testimony. Of course, the inquiry is examining only the relations between the intelligence information and the prime minister, which was a very small part of the whole question of the build-up to the war, and Dr Kelly is only a small part of this picture. But the inquiry has already shown the disquiet among senior officials about the way the case for war was presented. Dr Kelly was one of these people.
THIS DEVASTATING truth is revealed in a confidential memo, released by the Hutton inquiry into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly. It was written on 2 July this year by a former chief of defence intelligence, Air Marshal Sir John Walker, and was sent to parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee.
IN TWO weeks time representatives of the world's governments will gather in Cancun, Mexico, for a crucial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The collapse of the WTO meeting in Seattle almost four years ago, amid protests outside and rows inside, marked the emergence of the worldwide movement against corporate globalisation.
FOR FIVE days last week the Sun ran a series of articles about "the biggest crisis facing Britain today". Was it about pensions? The impact of tuition fees? The threat of unemployment? No. The Sun targeted asylum seekers.
