WW archive > Issue 157 - 05 September 1996
No slave labour
From this October the Tories’ Jobseekers Allowance will become law. This will mean a massive assault on welfare benefits and the living standards of the working class in general - it must be fought by the entire labour movement
Letters
Lost opportunity; Our opportunity; Gobbledegook; One state, three parties
Attack on all workers
Chris Ford, secretary of the West London CPSA union branch and organiser of this Saturday’s London march, spoke to the Weekly Worker
Impressive Achievement
Party notes
Fighting the Labour bosses
In tune with the members
The RMT transport union is currently in dispute with 20 train-operating companies. It has called further one-day strikes and an overtime ban at seven, while members at 13 others are being balloted for action. Alan Pottage is on the 12-strong national executive committee of the RMT, where he sits alongside six other members of the Socialist Labour Party. Peter Manson asked him about the role of the SLP in the disputes
Labour blasts postworkers
US calls the tune
Profound commitment
No discrimination, No controls
Socialism as therapy
Around the left
Anti-propaganda propaganda
Helen Ellis reviews the new Labour exhibition (Riverside Artists Group, Riverside Studios Gallery)
Counterrevolution in the revolution
The Spanish revolution and subsequent civil war, which erupted for real 60 years ago in July 1936, is the source of endless controversy. The defeat of the revolution generates an equal amount of anger and sadness. Everyone supported the Spanish revolution and hated Franco. Eddie Ford examines what went wrong
Dark moment in history
review of Jesus Hernandez's How the NKVD framed the POUM (1996, pp27, £1)
Raising our sights
Minimum wage: the fight for what we need