The race-hate election: Why don't unions answer Tory racists?
Unison, one of the UK's biggest unions recently sent a broadsheet to its members, "Labour Link News", reminding them of the bad things the Tories did when power. One of the bad things it chose to...
View ArticleA case for workers' control
By Colin FosterTories are saying that pay-outs to top bosses should be curbed, and New Labour is saying no such action is necessary. That's a measure of where Blair and Brown have taken the Labour...
View ArticleFighting for a workers' government
One thing is certain about the General Election. The new government after 5 May will be one that most working-class people regard as arrogant, unresponsive, accountable, and one that is attuned more to...
View ArticleHealth worker's challenge to Labour
A UNISON health steward is standing against Blair loyalist Stephen Hepburn in the Jarrow constituency. Roger Nettleship's platform is "Save the National Health Service!", opposing NHS cuts and...
View ArticleStop victimising travellers!
The Tories have used the election campaign to pour scorn and hatred on gypsies and travellers. This has spurred the Sun newspaper into an explicitly racist "Stamp on the Camps" campaign against...
View ArticleHow to fight anti-Muslim prejudice
By Mike RowleyThe racist rhetoric of the 2005 election is already leading to violent attacks. Devon and Cornwall police have made a public statement about "election-related racism" inspired by...
View ArticleWe need class politics against the far right
By Dan NicholsIssues and Campaigns: Anti-FascismPublications: Solidarity 072, 28 April 2005The AWL, Labour and the Left: General Election 2005Tweet
View ArticleGalloway reaps what he sows
By John BloxamGeorge Galloway, the loud cheerleader for the fundamentalists and others of the Iraqi "resistance", noticeably changed tack last week when some fundamentalists turned up on his own...
View ArticleNot alternatives to Labour
Many socialists, trade unionists and campaigners who would usually vote Labour are thinking of supporting Respect, the Green Party or the Lib Dems as an alternative to Labour in the coming general...
View ArticleWhy George Galloway should not be reckoned as “the left in Parliament”
By John BloxamHowever weak the opposition, Galloway clearly got a big boost from his performance in front of the two US senators on 17 May.Publications: Solidarity 074, 2 June 2005The AWL, Labour and...
View ArticleTubeworker 1/5/05: Shorter working week / General Election
The new issue of Tubeworker outlines how management are using the shorter working week agreements for stations and signalling staff as cover to push through attacks on the workforce, and calls for...
View ArticleLeft and Respect results, General Election 2005
All the left and Respect candidates' results in the 5 May 2005 General Election can be found on the Socialist Unity Network website.The AWL, Labour and the Left: Socialist Green Unity...
View ArticleBad results for the left
All comment on new possibilities after the election is mere wistfulness unless we also register just how bad the election was, and just how badly the left did.Publications: Solidarity 073, 12 May...
View ArticleCynics through and through
By Bruce Robinson In Manchester Withington, the Liberal Democrats overturned an 11,524 Labour majority with a 20% swing to win the seat by 667 votes. Early in the campaign, I was called by a Lib Dem...
View ArticleWhy did the LibDems get the anti-war vote?
Pete Radcliff, an AWL member, stood in Nottingham East under the banner of Socialist Unity. He got 373 votes, or 1.2% of the poll, about a third of his score in 2001. He writes about the lessons of the...
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