Tax the rich!
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According to a report in the Guardian of 11 July, profiteers will grab maybe £10 billion this year in VAT fraud in Britain.
Solidarity 3/96, 13 July 2006
“The wind that shakes the barley”
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Among the stories of the Anglo-Irish War of Independence (1919-21) and the Irish Civil War (1922-3) which I grew up listening to my mother tell was the story of the shooting of the last three of 77 Republican prisoners of war killed by the Free State government, in the last days of the civil war, in our town, Ennis. One of the three was her cousin.
Mayor Livingstone, anti-semitism, and the "anti-Zionist" left
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Images accompanying this story: Newsline of 9 April 1983, page 8 and page 9; Labour Herald caricature of Begin. And click here for the text of the Newsline editorial of 9 April 1983 and Ken Livingstone's accompanying comment.
A drunken Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, leaving a party, accused an Evening Standard journalist of being the equivalent of a Nazi concentration camp guard.
No water? Say: "We won’t pay!"
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BY Gerry Bates
Dick Turpin, the highwayman, rules — OK! Or is it The Joker from the Batman comics, the playful larceny-obsessed lunatic who delights in having his armed gang inflict his fantasy-addled, power-mad pranks on those he robs?
Stop the assault on Gaza!
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Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people in the territories it occupied four decades ago has long been an international obscenity.
Once more a senseless small-scale Palestinian guerrilla action against Israel — this time not an attack on innocent Israeli civilians, but on Israeli soldiers — has triggered enormously disproportionate Israeli action against Palestinians; the deliberate destruction from the air of bridges and other parts of the infrastructure on which any hope of a Palestinian return to anything like normal everyday life depends.
Save the NHS!
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By Nick Holden
When the government placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union offering contracts for private companies to run and manage Primary Care Trusts throughout England, they didn’t expect that there would such a speedy outcry.
The campaign we need
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The leadership of the health membership in Unison (the Health service group executive — SGE) will next meet on 19-20 July. Unison activists and branches need to pressurise them to get on with carrying out the policies agreed at Unison health conference back in April. Let us remind them that it is their responsibility to:
Incapacity benefit cut - Defend the welfare state!
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By Ruben Lomas
Foundation Hospitals, handing over schools to businesses, giving employers control of curricula in Further Education — no corner of the public sector or welfare state is safe from the Blairite project of subordinating every aspect of public life to the needs and drives of the market.
Six things you can do
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1. Join Keep Our NHS Public. There may be a local group near you, but if not, why not find out if there are other members locally and talk with them about starting a local group? Contact the campaign at www.keepournhspublic.com
Iraqi oil workers plan strike against sectarian war
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By Martin Thomas
According to the Iraq Freedom Congress, a grouping initiated by the Worker-communist Party of Iraq, oil workers in southern Iraq are planning a strike which “aims to bring security and build a free and democratic society in Iraq”.