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The cutting edge of the anti-imperialist democratic revolution of the Arab peoplesA veritable people’s warAt the end of September, the Al-Aqsa Intifada will be one year old. This latest Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, brutality, torture and daily humiliation of the occupying regime, is of a qualitatively different kind from the first Intifada. No longer … [Read more…]

The Society for Friendship with Korea held a public meeting to mark the 48th anniversary of the ending of the war of aggression waged by US-led imperialism against the DPRK. Harpal Brar, the chairman of the SFK, Ella Rule its secretary, Dermot Hudson its Vice-Chair, Keith Bennett and Carlos Rule in their speeches exposed the … [Read more…]

VodafoneMannesmann$203 billionAOLTime Warner$182 billionMCISprint$115 billionPfizerWarner-Lambert$ 85 billionExxonMobil$ 77 billionBPAmoco$ 94 billionTable 2: Global M&A top ten deals (Jan 1 to Jun 19 2000TargetAcquirerValue of deal ($m)Time Warner (US)American Online (US)181,940.5SmithKline Beecham (UK)Glaxo Wellcome (UK)78,384.5Nortel Networks (Canada)Shareholders (Canada)61,658.7Orange (Mannesmann) (UK)France Telecom (France)45,967.1Seagram (Canada)Vivendi (France)42,782.6Cable & Wireless HKT (Hong Kong)Pacific Century Cyberworks (Hong Kong)35,495.1Bestfoods (US)Unilever (UK)23,699.2Network Solutions … [Read more…]

Following the general election held on 7 June, the Labour Party has been returned to office with a big majority of 167 seats – only slightly smaller than last time. The Conservatives won 167 seats, while the Liberal Democrats increased their representation in parliament from 41 to 52. Labour secured 413 seats (6 fewer than … [Read more…]

We are very pleased to reproduce this important and though-provoking article sent to us by Teddy-John Frank, International Secretary of the KPML(r). Comrade Frank rightly points out that rioting for the sake of rioting is not an appropriate tactic for the revolutionary working class. Much of the anti-capitalist rioting that has been seen lately is … [Read more…]

According to Chinese legend there was a man dying of thirst. The only drink he had to hand was a goblet filled with poison. He was bound to die if he drank it, and equally bound to die if he did not. Israeli Zionism finds itself in the same predicament. It loses if it does … [Read more…]

Background and Conclusions for Socialists“center”>On Saturday 26 May, the racial tension that has been steadily growing in Oldham erupted into street battles the like of which have not been seen since the early 80s at Brixton, Toxteth and Broadwater Farm. The build-up to the fighting saw an increase in racially motivated attacks in Oldham’s most … [Read more…]

Socialist Labour Party report on the General Election7 June 2001,by Arthur Scargill, SLP General Secretary[This is a summarised version of the original report]The General Election of 7 June 2001 took place after four years of a New Labour Government. It was held against a background of reductions in public services expenditure and in the knowledge … [Read more…]

In 1999, at the height of Nato’s criminal war against Yugoslavia, a war which was waged in complete violation of international law and the customs of war, and during which NATO committed horrendous crimes – crimes which can aptly be described as crimes against humanity – NATO, turning facts on their head, got its kangaroo … [Read more…]

The bourgeois press has, for the past couple of weeks, been eagerly reporting the various controversies that have arisen regarding the anti-racism pledge drawn up by the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), which calls on politicians not to use the issue of race during the general election.Firstly we must state that the pledge in itself … [Read more…]