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WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Britain
 
2001 General Election
 

15 June 2001
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8 June 2001
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7 June 2001
On Britain's general election day: workers confront the task of building their own party

The British election: ruling circles remain divided over Europe

6 June 2001
Britain's general election: Business press and "top people's" paper call for a Labour vote

5 June 2001
Britain's general election: Labour plans to eliminate public housing

Scottish and Welsh nationalism: self-enrichment masquerading as social reformism

4 June 2001
Britain: Labour promises further privatisation in state education

Britain: Study finds Labour government spent less than the Conservatives

2 June 2001
Britain: Union lefts neuter opposition to privatisation of London Underground

29 May 2001
Britain's general election: The Socialist Alliance and Socialist Labour Party--No alternative to Blair's New Labour

Britain: Oldham riots sparked by deliberate cultivation of racism

23 May 2001
Britain's general election: Labour pressures media to censor election coverage

22 May 2001
Britain's general election: Labour and Conservatives vie over which has toughest asylum policy

21 May 2001
Britain's general election: Big business backs New Labour

19 May 2001
Britain's general election: Labour Manifesto sets out privatisation of health and education

18 May 2001
Britain: Deputy Prime Minister Prescott punches protester

17 May 2001
Britain's general election: The disenfranchisement of the working class and the need for a new socialist party

British Conservatives' proposed tax cut backfires

15 May 2001
Tory defector imposed as Labour candidate in British general election

9 May 2001
Britain: General election set for June 7

Background Articles

4 May 2001
Racism row continues to embroil Britain's Conservatives

3 May 2001
Britain: Labour government announces small rise in minimum wage

26 April 2001
Britain: Racism row continues in run up to general election

24 April 2001
Britain: Gap widens between incomes of rich and poor

23 April 2001
Hypocrisy over racism in run up to British general election

16 April 2001
Britain's Labour Party cuddle up to US right

31 March 2001
Britain: Calls mount for Blair to delay general election due to foot and mouth crisis

9 March 2001
Britain: Labour delivers a pre-election budget

29 December 2000
Britain: Labour Home Secretary supports reinstatement of racist policeman

21 December 2000
Britain's Conservatives spout racist law and order rhetoric

8 December 2000
Britain: Labour government outlines law-and-order election platform

29 September 2000
Britain: Labour Party conference pleases big business

15 July 2000
Britain: Labour's employment initiatives cut welfare rolls and depress wage rates

5 July 2000
Growing disaffection with Blair government in Britain

6 May 2000
Britain: Labour suffers heavy losses in local elections and London mayoral race

12 April 2000
Britain: Labour government and Conservative opposition reported for stoking up anti-immigrant prejudices

10 April 2000
Blair's musings on patriotism: old wine in new bottles

3 March 2000
Britain's Labour Party celebrates hundredth anniversary amidst gathering storm clouds

25 February 2000
Labour Party rigs candidate selection process for London mayor

8 February 2000
Britain: government reports, leaks to media promote military build-up

5 February 2000
Britain: Government resignation highlights gulf between New Labour and working people

8 September 1999
A critical look at Britain under New Labour
Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous, by Nick Cohen

20 March 1999
Britain: Labour's budget sets stage for further attacks on welfare

24 February 1999
In row over genetically modified food
Blair defends billionaire cabinet member

18 February 1999
Britain's welfare reform and pensions bill
Blair government targets unemployed, disabled and lone parents

16 January 1999
Faction fight breaks out in Britain's Labour government
The crisis facing Blair's Third Way

3 October 1998
Blair tells British Labour Party conference, "The honeymoon is over"

 

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