Solidarity 3/84 is online
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Articles from Solidarity 3/84 are now online. Read them here.
Solidarity 3/84, 17 November 2005
Why you should be a socialist
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In Britain today, one child in three grows up in poverty, in a household with less than half the average income; in 1968, the figure was one in ten.
Use union link to force change
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Alan Johnson, the Blairites’ favourite ex union leader, has made a call for the unions’ influence in the Labour Party to be curtailed.
The Iraqi labour movement comes first!
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Sean Matgamna replies to Barry Finger’s On anti-war slogans: lessons from two wars (Solidarity 3-81)
Civil partnership brings benefit cuts
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By David Broder
The Civil Partnership Act coming in to force on 5 December comes with the pretensions of offering gay couples the same rights as married heterosexual couples.
Class politics in Israel
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Eric Lee comments on the election of Amir Peretz to leader of the Israeli Labour Party
Writing on the wall
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Things can only get
wetter
Greenpeace protesters dumped sacks of coal outside Downing Street on Monday morning to protest against the British government’s lack of action against climate change.
Slaughter on the Somme
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Rosalind Robson reviews The Last Tommy (BBC1), and The Somme, (Channel Four)
The Day Lady Died
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It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine
Funny but empty
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Michael Wood reviews The Brothers Grimm
Terry Gilliam’s latest fantastical extravaganza has all the usual exemplary production values and quirky characters. But is there anything more to it?