Issue No. 237
July 12, 1997
BSE/CJD
Workers Inquiry into BSE/CJD releases its findings
"The drive for profit must be taken out of food production"
Findings of the Workers Inquiry
Editorial
Capitalism and
world poverty
International
Outrage over cancer in Australian
steel town
"The fight against the destruction of people's
health is at
the cross-roads"
Cambodian coalition collapses amid
armed clashes
Workers protest in China
Industrial
BA cabin crews face an employer
backed by Labour
National
Labour delivers a
Tory budget
What is behind the
Aitken scandal?
Oppose the closure of Badsley Moor Lane
Hospital
"We need a hospital
for the old"
The hype and hypocrisy surrounding
Mike Tyson
"Brit" Nationalism's
latest conquest
Feature
Art and Freedom
André Breton and
problems of twentieth
century culture
Workers Inquiry into BSE/CJD releases its findings
The Commissioners of the Workers Inquiry into BSE/CJD presented their findings to a public meeting on July 5 in Sheffield. The meeting was attended by scientists, relatives of new variant CJD victims as well as representatives of campaigns against incinerators being sited near their homes.
Labour delivers a Tory budget
Gordon Brown's first outing as Chancellor confirmed that the New Labour government is set to continue the massive redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich begun by the Tories.
Capitalism and world poverty
Facts and figures in the latest annual UN Human Development Report lay to rest the myth that growing global poverty is caused by over-population or a lack of resources. The report shows that the social wealth exists to completely eradicate the grinding poverty and hunger suffered by more than a quarter of the world's people.
The hype and hypocrisy surrounding Mike Tyson
Comment
The world's press howled in bogus moral outrage when boxer Mike Tyson bit a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear during the world heavyweight championship bout in the MGM Grand Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Had Tyson only pounded Holyfield into a semi-conscious pulp and increased Holyfield's chances of dementia in middle age, or had Holyfield done the same to Tyson, all would be well.
BA cabin crews face an employer backed by Labour
By Chris Marsden
Scenes at Heathrow and Gatwick airport were reminiscent of the strike breaking actions levelled against the National Union of Mineworkers in 1984 and the printers at Wapping in 1986. As Transport and General Workers Union cabin crew began a three day strike against British Airways (BA), work entrances were surrounded by eight-foot high screens as scabs drawn from management and the breakaway Cabin Crew 89 union arrived in coaches with blacked-out windows. Mini-buses full of police were roaming the roads around Heathrow airport and there was heavy security at the main staff entrances.
