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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…]

Referring in the nomination of their respective candidates for the post of London mayor, theFinancial Timeseditorial of 29 February 2000 correctly observed that“the process of selecting both the Labour and Conservative candidates was a farce.”In Labour’s case, this process, accompanied as it was by the skulduggery and back stabbing which is characteristic of bourgeois parties … [Read more…]

Victoria Brittain’s contribution to the fringe meeting at the SLP Congress, November 6th 1999. In the previous issue of the paper, the Congress report was included but due to shortage of space we were unable to include this article. It is reproduced below as we promised last time.I’ve chosen these two countries – both today … [Read more…]

by Zane CarpenterEveryone is now aware that the Labour Home Secretary, Jack Straw, ‘has a mind to release’ the mass murderer, General Augusto Pinochet. But what has led Mr Straw to be so ‘minded’?The official reason is medical advice, intended to have been kept secret, which, supposedly, casts doubt on the ability of Pinochet to … [Read more…]

US stock marketMichael Mussa, chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is reported in theFinancial Timesof 25 February 2000 that current overvaluation of the US stock market“may be greater[than at the time of the 1987 Wall Street Crash]and a larger and more prolonged correction may be appropriate”.