Solidarity 101, 2 November 2006

Labour caves in to the churches

By Pat Murphy, Leeds NUT The government is all over the place on the issue of faith schools. On the one hand, a set of prominent Blairite Ministers have been given license to stoke up a debate about the dangers of segregation and the need for “community cohesion”. On the other hand, the government seems to lack the will or the capacity to introduce even the most limited measures to ensure ethnic and religious integration. There is no clearer example of this than the recent debacle over faith schools. Secretary of State for Education, Alan Johnson, chose the school half-term to announce that he...

Soldiers’ rights or generals’ rights? A reply to Weekly Worker

By Sacha Ismail In “Military coups and soldiers’ rights’ (Weekly Worker, 26 October), a response to our editorial “Keep the army out of politics” (Solidarity 3/100), the knives were out. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective, they were not very sharp. Perphaps the CPGB have decided that their orientation to Respect and the SWP requires them to up the ante of their attacks on the AWL. Thus their article not only denounces our “pro-imperialist” (yawn) politics, but has us “joining with Tory grandees and woolly liberals in defending the United Kingdom constitution” — which...

John McDonnell campaign: Hackney, Amicus, model motion

Packed meeting in Hackney The Hackney Empire’s Marie Lloyd room was packed to capacity on Wednesday 18 October with over 100 people turning up to hear John McDonnell make his case to be leader of the Labour party. The left-wing backbencher was joined on the platform by a host of trade union leaders. Former Hackney firefighter Matt Wrack, general secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, pledged his union’s support for McDonnell’s campaign for a real Labour government and condemned the neo-liberal consensus in British politics. Maria Exall of the Communication Workers Union executive described a...

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