Issues for Month of 2/2000

Stuff Blair's stitch up Stand for a socialist alternative...

THE NUMBER of empty homes in Britain has leapt to 772,300 in the last year, according to a survey by the Empty Homes Agency released this week.

"THREE IN four Austrians voted against Haider. He is a fascist. We don't want to go back to the 1930s." That is what Vienna housewife Beatrix Vasegak told Socialist Worker last Saturday...

Cliff McGowan, whose brother Errol and nephew Jason were found hanged in Telford after receiving racist death threats, has spoken out against the police. Cliff told Socialist Worker, "The police made us feel that Errol's life didn't matter. As far as they were concerned he'd taken his own life, and that was it. "I asked, 'What will it take to change your mind?' They said, 'Bring us some evidence.' I thought that was their job."