National
Lone parents hammered by New Labour
The middle class radicals and devolution:
Scottish Militant Labour sow national divisions
Myrna Simpson seeks compensation
for the death of Joy Gardner
The end of deep coal mining in Britain?
TUC profits from privatised energy
Scargill, Stalin and the SLP
Workers Revolutionary Party to the
right of Scargill
Editorial
The real threat in the Persian Gulf
International
The meaning of the Asian crisis:
World capitalism faces deflation and slump
French truckers challenge Jospin
regime
Jospin's first trial of strength
The unions: a world-wide collapse
Obituaries
Jean Brust:
60 years of struggle for socialism
In Memory of Avner Zis, philosopher
and Marxist
BSE/CJD
Beef on bone ban blows BSE cover-up
wide open
Panorama warns significant numbers
incubating nvCJD
Review
Why the 'People's Century' expunged
Leon Trotsky
Correspondence
Timewatch mounts scurrilous attack
on Lenin
From the IWB
An
exchange with a reader
Oscoar Wilde and "art for art's sake
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Issue No. 242: December/January, 1997
By the Editorial Board
The financial crisis which first erupted in southeast
Asia has now spread to South Korea and Japan, shaking governments as well
as banks and stock exchanges and threatening tens of millions of workers
with layoffs, wage cuts, the loss of their savings and drastic cuts in
social benefits.
By Fred Mazelis
Jean Brust, a founding member of the Socialist Equality
Party and its predecessor the Workers League, died on Monday, November
24, after 60 years of fighting for socialism. Comrade Brust, a member of
the party's central committee since the Workers League's founding in 1966,
succumbed to a massive stroke she had suffered on November 21. She was
76 years old.
In the second month of the latest confrontation between
the US and Iraq, two aircraft carriers and warships armed with cruise missiles,
together with B-52 and stealth bombers, remain poised for an air assault
which US officials warn would be the most intense since the 1991 Persian
Gulf War.
By Chris Marsden
Labour's decision to cut up to £11 in benefits for
lone parents affects what Social Security Minister Harriet Harman admitted
are "the poorest families in Britain". They were originally unveiled
in the Tories' final budget and were passed on December 10 with Tory support.
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