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Socialist Resistance
SR43 - March 2007
Blair, Brown: Time to go!
Editorial
Ten years of New Labour brings party to new low as polls loom
AS WE come towards New Labour’s tenth anniversary in government, the latest opinion polls show David Cameron’s Tories 11 percent ahead - and Blair looking like yesterday’s man.
Migrant rights
Over the last eighteen months a debate has been taking place amongst asylum seekers, other migrants, and migrant support groups, about the need for a campaign to regularise the status of migrants with irregular status. Sarah Parker looks at the arguments and the campaigns.
Migrant rights
There will be pilots in three NHS trusts using data from the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) to ensure that migrants who do not have the “right” to free care have to pay before receiving it. Workers in the NHS will be required to act as an arm of the immigration service.
Migrant rights
Alphonsus Uche Okafor-Mefor
For the first time an alliance of General Secretaries of trade unions have come together in support of a refugee in detention and under threat of deportation. This is unprecedented. The refugee is Alphonsus Uche Okafor- Mefor.
Middle East
Interview
The U.S. occupation of Iraq has obviously been a disaster, even from the point of view of U.S. elite interests. There is a lot of second-guessing going on now trying to explain how this catastrophe came about.
Middle East
Resolution adopted by the International Committee of the Fourth International, 28th February 2007
The bipartisan consensus with which the US ruling class had approved of the military campaign of the Bush administration after September 11, 2001, including the invasion of Iraq, has crumbled in the face of the setbacks suffered during the occupation of that country.
Middle East
Interview
Last year Hezbollah were the heroes of the hour throughout the Middle East after withstanding the Israeli aggression. Have things shifted back again toward greater division?
Women
International Women’s Day 2006 saw the launching of the “Why Women” campaign by the Women’s Resource Centre to defend services for women as an essential part of social provision.
Women
Forty years ago, the 1967 Abortion Act was passed by the British parliament. In its day it was one of the most progressive laws governing women’s fertility - and most of the energy of prochoice activists in the last four decades has been spent preventing reactionary amendments that sought to weaken the bills provision.
Women
Near sixty organizations the trade union CUT, the landless organisation MST, the World March of women and the political parties of the PT, PSOL and the PSTU came together to organise a demonstration against Bush’s visit to Brazil, timed to take place around the time of International Women’s Day.
Women
On this March 8, we issue a special call for solidarity with the women of Haiti who are suffering a situation of extreme physical, psychic and economic violence as a result of the military occupation and financial plunder of their country.
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