National Defend free university education: Mobilise against Labour's attacks Diana's death brings constitutional crisis to a head SEP celebrates 40 year struggle for Trotskyism by Barbara Slaughter Labour announces longest NHS waiting lists ever Labour announces longest NHS waiting lists ever Editorial Asian Tiger economies crash The real truth about MI5 Devolution SEP gives voice to workers and youth in devolution debate Devolution opposed in Wales Blair's "business friendly parliament" for Scotland International Sri Lankan Trotskyist thanks those who campaigned for his release from concentration camp Employment creation in France The bitter truth about the American UPS strike Workers inquiry held in Australian steel town BSE/CJD "A step closer to an inquiry" Coroner confirms BSE link as five more CJD cases recorded BSE and the risk to the environment "Labour's role over the last decade clearly establishes their culpability in the BSE disaster" Review Oscar Wilde's lasting significance

Issue No. 239 September 13, 1997 Defend free university education Mobilise against Labour's attacks By the Editorial Board The Socialist Equality Party calls on all working people, youth and students to mobilise against Labour's plans to impose university tuition fees of up to £1,000 from 1998. In ending the democratic right to free, universal education, Labour is demonstrating once again that it is the party of class privilege and inequality. Asian Tiger economies crash The huge growth rates over the last three decades in the South East Asian countries were routinely used to prove the viability of capitalism and to provide lessons for the ailing economies of Britain and Western Europe. The argument was used that whilst criticisms could be made of the repressive regimes in the so-called Asian Tigers, their huge growth rates over the last three decades was an economic miracle in which the population as a whole would benefit. In his book, The State We're In, Will Hutton advocated the Asian model of "co-operation as well as competition" as an alternative to "Anglo-American free market capitalism": "these corporate structures interact with high savings rates and huge investment in education, and have produced the most dynamic period of capitalist growth in history." (The State We're In, Jonathan Cape, 1995, p 275) The real truth about MI5 The revelations by former MI5 intelligence officer, David Shayler provide an opportunity for a look behind the facade of parliamentary rule at the real mechanisms of state power. Diana's death brings constitutional crisis to a head By the Editorial Board The death of Princess Diana has brought to a head a constitutional crisis that has been raging around the royal family for almost two decades. Its repercussions will have a profound impact on the lives of millions of working people in Britain, long after the hysteria surrounding her violent death has abated. Mass grieving a disturbing phenomenon Not a passive victim

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