Archive for January 2000

14 January 2000

Into the new millennium

By Socialist Party general secretary, Peter Taaffe: ONLY INGRAINED cynics and those with hearts of stone could fail to be moved by the spectacular New Year celebrations. A new decade and a new century...

21 January 2000

Pinochet

SOCIALIST PARTY member JOHN REID - a regular attender on the 16-month long anti-Pinochet picket - reports on the anger, dismay and sense of betrayal as news was received that Home Secretary Jack Straw was letting the brutal dictator off the hook and allowing him to return to Chile...

21 January 2000

Vote Roger Bannister

AFTER THE government's NHS pay announcement, Socialist Party member and Campaign for a Fighting and Democratic UNISON (CFDU) candidate for UNISON general secretary has called on the union to reject the insulting offer and reinstate the ballot for strike action amongst UNISON's NHS ancillary staff...

21 January 2000

NHS cash is not enough!

TONY BLAIR panicked in the face of public anger over the NHS last week. He conceded that NHS spending is too low, that health workers are underpaid and billions extra needs to be given to begin to revitalise...

28 January 2000

When Workers Showed their Discontent

THE 1970s was a decade of capitalist crisis. Heath's Tory government was brought down in the 1974 miners' strike, sending shock waves through the capitalist class...

28 January 2000

BLAIR'S "stop Ken" bandwagon

BLAIR'S "STOP Ken' bandwagon went into top gear after polls revealed Livingstone's massive lead over Frank Dobson in the race to be Labour's candidate for mayor, writes Jim Horton.

28 January 2000

Labour's troubles are only just beginning

EVEN THE New Labour government's most loyal supporters in the media were forced to admit last week that the Blair "magic has started to fade"...