NOT EVEN 10 Downing Street can pretend that democracy is working in Britain. Just 59 percent of those eligible to vote did so at the last general election—the second lowest figure in Europe.
WHO IS right? Trade union leaders emerged from last weekend’s Labour Policy Forum with broad smiles. They claimed to have achieved a "significant shift" in Labour’s stand over pensions, employment rights and jobs.
AS NEW Labour’s lies and betrayals mount up around him, Tony Blair has responded by lurching even further to the right.
SOCIALIST WORKER’S online presence has been relaunched. Our new website, www.socialistworker.co.uk, has been redesigned and upgraded.
TWO FACES of New Labour were laid bare this week—and both are utterly repellent.
THE IMAGES of Saddam Hussein on trial filled our TV screens and newspapers last week. This week it was the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic that made the headlines.
THE TOUGH talk from some union leaders last week against New Labour reveals the pressure they are under from their members.
Every Socialist Worker reader should get involved in the campaigns in Leicester South and Birmingham Hodge Hill. Activists can join the campaign at any time but Respect is organising for supporters to come together in large numbers from around the country.
THE OFFICIAL US commission into the 9/11 attacks has delivered a devastating blow to the lies that launched the war on Iraq. Last week the commission ruled out any link between Iraq and Al Qaida. The commission is a mainstream body made up of establishment US politicians. But it found there was \"no credible evidence that Iraq and Al Qaida cooperated on attacks against the United States\".
TONY BLAIR has always sought his "place in history" and now he has achieved it-by steering Labour to one of its worst ever electoral perfomances. In last week's council elections Labour came third with just 24 percent. The European elections were, it is true, different. They were even worse. Here Labour polled only 23 percent.
PUT AN X wherever you see the name Respect, the Unity Coalition (George Galloway) on the ballot paper. Make sure you fill in all the ballot papers. For the European elections (except in all postal vote areas) local polling stations will be open on Thursday from 7am to 10pm. You do not have to have a polling card to vote. If you are registered, just go along and give your name and address.
THE ELECTIONS next week are set to be a defining political moment. People will be voting across Britain for the last time before the general election, expected next year. The results on 10 June will shape the political landscape, the forces on that landscape and the direction those forces take.
