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Issue - 1695
Dated - 06 May 2000
Time for socialist politics

Time for socialist politics

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Hague tries to play race card

TORY LEADER William Hague has driven his party even further to the right in a desperate attempt to win votes in this week's elections...
06 May 2000
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Time for socialist politics

Time for socialist politics
06 May 2000
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Brown stashes mobile billions

CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown now has another 22 billion to add to the billions he already has in his "war chest"...
06 May 2000
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Faked food

HOW DO we know whether genetically modified (GM) food is safe? That's a tough question to answer, especially given what the Observer newspaper revealed recently...
06 May 2000
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Rise to the challenge

THIS WEEK marks a shift in British politics. As the front page says, we face big job losses, the collapse of support for Labour plus humiliation for Blair in London, and Hague's attempt to whip up racism against asylum seekers. Socialist Worker readers need to respond...
06 May 2000
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An unhappy anniversary for Blair

THREE YEARS in government and Labour is deep in crisis. Tony Blair was set to wake up on Friday morning to the news that his handpicked candidate for London mayor received a humiliating vote...
06 May 2000
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Old forced into low pay

NEW LABOUR last week announced that men over 60 would have to look for work or face having their benefits axed...
06 May 2000
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Our air is for sale

"THIS 'RAILTRACK in the sky' has no justification in economic, financial or operational terms." That is how Peter Reed, a former manager at the Civil Aviation Authority, describes the government's...
06 May 2000
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Postal Points

IN WYCOMBE the local Labour Party has turned against the Tory council's plans to transfer 7,000 council homes to a new housing company...
06 May 2000
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Can we stop this economic madness?

WHY ARE jobs in industry under threat? A QUARTER of a million manufacturing jobs have gone in Britain since New Labour...
06 May 2000
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Police trashed this magnificent protest

TONY BLAIR, politicians of all parties and every section of the media lined up to denounce Monday's May Day protest in London. They completely ignored the real story of the day...
06 May 2000
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Vietnam haunts the Pentagon

TWENTY FIVE years ago the North Vietnamese army marched into Saigon, ending the Vietnam War in which nearly three million people died. But the war still isn't over for many Americans...
06 May 2000