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Britain: Plundering of public sector at heart of ‘loans-for-peerages’ scandal
By Marcus Morgan, July 4, 2006
At the heart of the allegations that the Labour government in Britain granted peerages in return for cash is a bigger scandal—how the public sector is being plundered by the government and big b...
A letter and reply on Britain’s “New Labour” Party
May 19, 2006
The following is an exchange of letters concerning the article “Britain’s Compass group: Former Blair acolytes seek to rescue New Labour,” by Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, posted M...
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
Part Two
By Julie Hyland, March 17, 2006
Published below is the conclusion of a two-part report on Britain delivered by Julie Hyland to an expanded meeting of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board (IEB) held in Sydney fr...
WSWS International Editorial Board meeting
New Labour and the decay of democracy in Britain
Part One
By Julie Hyland, March 16, 2006
Published below is the first of a two-part report on Britain delivered by Julie Hyland to an expanded meeting of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board (IEB) held in Sydney from Ja...
Britain: Blair lurches right, dismissing calls for resignation
By Chris Marsden, May 14, 2005
Immediately following the May 5 re-election of the Labour government, Prime Minister Tony Blair adopted a posture of humility, claiming, “I have listened and I have learned.” But Blair is ...
Britain: The May 5 general election and the failure of Labourism
By Chris Marsden, May 5, 2005
The following is the report delivered by Chris Marsden, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain, to a May Day meeting in London last Sunday.
Respect-Unity coalition in Britain: a marriage of Labourism and Islamism
Part one
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, April 18, 2005
This is the first of a two-part series.
Britain: opposition to Iraq war led to Labour vote-rigging in 2004 elections
By Robert Stevens, April 11, 2005
On April 4, Richard Mawrey QC, acting as an election commissioner, issued a judgement in a civil hearing quashing the result of two local authority elections in Birmingham held June 10 last year.
Britain: Labour Party membership plummets
By Julie Hyland, April 19, 2004
The Labour Party’s official membership has fallen to less than a quarter of a million—its lowest level for 70 years.
Britain: 25,000-plus protesters march to rally in Trafalgar Square
By our reporting team, March 22, 2004
As demonstrators assembled at Hyde Park in London on Saturday, a representative of the Guantanamo Bay detainees appealed for support for Moazamm Begg, the Birmingham man still held in the US military ...
Britain: 20 years since the year-long miners’ strike
Part One
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, March 5, 2004
Below we are publishing the first of a two-part series on the 1984-85 British miners strike. The concluding part will be published tomorrow.
Britain: The Respect-Unity coalition and the politics of opportunism
Part Two
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, February 19, 2004
Respect has been founded on a perspective that is a step backwards even when compared to the founding of the Labour Party. And despite its pretensions to being a “broad church”, Respect is...
