Stop This Attack on
Society! Fight for the Alternative!
The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR)
is nothing but a vicious escalation of the anti-social offensive on behalf of
the rich. It is an intensification of the class struggle by the global
monopolies and the financial oligarchy against the working class and people.
Its aim is to guarantee the pay-the-rich society is protected against the
claims and demands of the working people for the public good....more
End of US Combat in Iraq and the
Necessity for Justice
On August 31, Obama announced "the
end of the combat mission" in Iraq. The withdrawal of US-led military
forces from Iraq is taking place under the auspices of a 2008 Status of Forces
Agreement (SOFA) between the US and the Iraqi government. The SOFA outlined
that US-led forces would pull back from urban areas by the end of June 2009 and
withdraw totally from the country by the end of 2011. As per the SOFA, US
forces have also been releasing or transferring all detainees in their custody
to Iraqi authorities and handing over control of prisons to them. Such prisons
include Camp Cropper, near Baghdad International Airport; Camp Taji, north of
Baghdad; and Camp Bucca, near Basra....more
October Is Black History Month
Black History Month recognises the
achievements and history of Africans, people of African descent, and the people
from the Caribbean. It is an important reflection of the necessity for the
people to know about the history of Africa and Africans, and place this history
within the context of world history. This is especially true of the place of
peoples of African and Caribbean origin in Britain and their place within the
struggles of the working class and people of Britain for their social
liberation and for their right to exist and to create the conditions for the
flourishing of that existence....more
Tens of Thousands March over Austerity
Measures
A series of co-ordinated protests hits 13
capital cities yesterday from Madrid to Brussels. Tens of thousands of people
marched through Brussels on a day of protests across Europe against government
austerity measures....more
Actions against the Cuts:
There Is An Alternative!
Today, European-wide actions are taking
place against the austerity measures of the capitalist governments in power....more
Salute the Tenth Anniversary of Second
Palestinian Intifada
This week marks the tenth anniversary of
the second Palestinian Intifada of September 2000, sometimes known as the
Al-Aqsa Intifada. In that year the Palestinian people rose up to demand their
rights to statehood and self-determination and in opposition to the occupation
of their homeland by Zionist Israel, backed by the US, Britain and the other
big powers. The Intifada of September 2000 had been precipitated by the failure
of the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, which had been brokered by the
US, and the provocative actions of the Zionist Israel, including the visit of
Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s
third holiest site. The Intifada continued for some five years, led to the loss
of thousands of lives and eventually to the withdrawal of Zionist Israel from
Gaza and some areas of the occupied West Bank. ...more
Voicing the Demand for the
Alternative
This year’s TUC Congress in
Manchester was characterised by the voicing of the demand for an alternative to
the agenda of cuts and attacks on the working class and people being pursued by
the Con-Dem government....more
The British Government and the Middle
East
Last week William Hague, the Foreign
Secretary, faced questions on September 14 regarding the government’s
stance on the current Middle East peace talks, which took place last week in
Egypt, Israel and the US brokered by the US imperialists. The talks were the
first to occur directly between the President of the Palestinian Authority,
Mahmoud Abbas, and the Prime Minister of Zionist Israel for some two years and
were designed to focus on discussions on substantive issues, including the
future borders of the proposed Palestinian and Israeli states. As always there
are efforts to present these talks as a historic opportunity for a
breakthrough...more
Tony Blair Condemned over "The
Journey"
Tony Blair’s memoirs, The
Journey, are an indictment of the former New Labour Prime Minister, whereas
the author clearly intended them as a justification. In his introduction, Blair
speaks of them as setting out what it meant to be the human being at the centre
of his ten years history as Prime Minister. This is entirely at one with the
role given to him by the political system of which he became Prime Minister, a
figure whose authority comes not from the people and being accountable to them,
but as a god astride the political machinery who could take the decision to
commit aggression against Iraq as a little god in opposition to the popular
will because he did what he thought was right....more
Cameron’s “Big
Society”: Fending for Yourself in the Name of Empowerment
David Cameron’s conception of the
“Big Society”, elaborated in his speech on July 19, is a compendium
of everything that is negative and retrogressive about the ruling elite and the
society they are trying to fashion in their image. It is nothing less than the
complete wrecking of society under the name of a “big society”. It
exposes the nature of the “freedom, fairness and responsibility”
that Nick Clegg elaborated as the three words which sum up the
government’s aims. It is summed up in saying that it envisages everyone
fending for themselves in the name of empowering the people....more
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