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Who are these men?What are they to me,These dead men From a land across the sea?They dared against the British RajTo raise their hand.If my own countrymen decreed their deathWhy should I take a stand?ButThe British ruling classThat these men defiedPlundered with sword and gun and sly intrigue.Their modern spawnSmile with imperialist prideAnd, guns behind … [Read more…]

TheMorning Starof 24 April 2000 carries the headline ‘Skychefs win long struggle’, and the text of the article goes on to say, inter alia: “Skychef workers won their 17-month old battle yesterday for the right to return to work … The settlement agreed yesterday includes the right for the workers to return to their former … [Read more…]

As part of a series of meetings organised by the London Region of the Socialist Labour Party in the run-up to the London local elections on 4 May, Cde Arthur Scargill, the General Secretary of that Party, addressed one such meeting at the Shalom Centre in Newham, East London on 25 April.During his speech, Cde … [Read more…]

The World Trade Organisation – an imperialist carve-up threatening to disintegrate – Part IThe World Trade Organisation was set up at the conclusion of the Uruguay Round, on 15 December 1993, by a world trade treaty aimed at opening international markets, signed by the 115 countries, who had been struggling since 1986 to reach consensus … [Read more…]

–Once more on NATO’s lies“For globalisation to work, America can’t be afraid to act like the almighty super power that it is. The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonald-Douglas, the designer of the F-15, and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for … [Read more…]

Lately Zimbabwe has been much in the news. The bourgeois media and the British government have portrayed a picture of lawless black mobs, egged on by the Zimbabwean government, attacking the farms of poor, innocent, law-abiding white farmers. The truth is that a hundred years ago, Cecil Rhodes’ colonialist marauders stole, at gun point, the … [Read more…]

100 years of faithful service to imperialismThere are people in the left movement, including some calling themselves communists, who make the assertion that the Labour Party is a party of the British working class, which can be an instrument of socialism in Britain. They are wrong. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that … [Read more…]

­ a moribund system wreaking havoc on working peopleBMW pulls out of LongbridgeOn 16 March this year the news broke, after first having been leaked in a Bavarian newspaper, that BMW is finally to pull the plug on Longbridge, the giant Birmingham car production plant where BMW has been producing Rover Cars since purchasing the … [Read more…]

Who are these men?What are they to me,These dead men From a land across the sea?They dared against the British RajTo raise their hand.If my own countrymen decreed their deathWhy should I take a stand?ButThe British ruling classThat these men defiedPlundered with sword and gun and sly intrigue.Their modern spawnSmile with imperialist prideAnd, guns behind … [Read more…]

TheMorning Starof 24 April 2000 carries the headline ‘Skychefs win long struggle’, and the text of the article goes on to say, inter alia: “Skychef workers won their 17-month old battle yesterday for the right to return to work … The settlement agreed yesterday includes the right for the workers to return to their former … [Read more…]