Welcome to the December '96 issue of the Labour Left Briefing, the Labour Party's unofficial voice of the left!

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Editorial | Bed time story | ||
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News and views | Sentencing in a panic | Lock 'em up? Flog 'em? Alex Taylor examines the vexed questions of crime and punishment. | |
| 'Judge not, lest ye be judged' | Bill Dixon, Ealing Acton and Shepherds Bush CLP | |||
| One parent bad, two parents good? | Mike Marqusee | |||
| De Gruchy's travelling circus | A personal view on the dispute at the Ridings school in Halifax, by Ian Murch, NUT executive member for West Yorkshire. | |||
| Reclaim the Future | Chris Knight, London support group for the Liverpool dockers, reports. | |||
| Successful Green Left Conference | John Norris of The Way Ahead group within the Green Party reports. | |||
| A Christmas story | Keith Veness, Islington North CLP, dispels the myths of Christmas. | |||
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Labour Party | People's Europe vs. single currency | Geoff Martin, UNISON London Convenor | |
| Network conference success | Dorothy Macedo | |||
| Paying the piper | ||||
| Tax and spend: the bi-partisan Big Lie | Mike Marqusee | |||
| Bob Crossman remembered | Liz Davies | |||
| Their morals and ours | The Alan Simpson column | |||
| Michael Collins | An Irish tragedy | Terrorist, traitor or Irish national hero? Tony Dale, Manchester Central CLP, looks back at the real Michael Collins. | ||
| High body count, low audience involvement | Sue Lukes reviews Neil Jordan's film, Michael Collins | |||
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Trade union news | God's a Tory after all... | As Siberian blizzards lashed the country, universities held a one-day strike on Tuesday 19th November. Activists report on what went on. | |
| End lower earning in higher learning! | Christine Lennie, Branch Secretary, Queen Mary & Westfield College UNISON branch, explains the dispute in Higher Education. | |||
| Students defend free education | Students have begun to organise independently in defence of free education, despite the supine role of the NUS leadership. Joshua Peck of Queen Mary's and Westfield Student Union and Labour Club reports. | |||
| Trade Union Notebook | ||||
| Leading with the left | The Geoff Martin Column | |||
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International | Ireland: remove the hurdles | Mitchel McLaughlin, Chair of Sinn Fein, calls on the Labour leadership to take a lead in the search for peace in Ireland. | |
| Sandinistas lose again | While there was large-scale fraud, the right wing decisively won last month's elections in Nicaragua. Mike Phipps, a former executive member of the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign, examines why. | |||
| 'New Labor' and the Amercian Elections | Ernie Haberkern is the director of the Center for Socialist History in Berkeley, California. He was also for some twenty five years a trade union activist while working for the University of California. | |||
| Alliance With Clinton Puts US Labor On The Defensive | Steve Zeltzer, a member of the newly-formed US Labor Party and an active shop steward, argues that it's time for the unions to break from the Democrats. | |||
| What George Stephanopolos won't tell Tony Blair about the US Presidential elections | ||||
| Death dealers exposed | Did British companies arm the Hutu militias in Zaire? Eric Fergusson investigates. | |||
| Ceaucescu's heirs finally go | Dave Palmer, Hornsey and Wood Green CLP, examines a watershed election in Romania. | |||
| South Korea: Amnesty highlights student repression | Amnesty International is urging the UN to take up the abuse and ill treatment of the 5,715 Korean students detained in the mass repression at Yonsei University in August. Paul Field, Dartford CLP, reports. | |||
| Salazar free at last | Jeremy Corbyn | |||
| Milwaukee Tendency machinations | The Michael Hindley Column | |||
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Fighting Racism | Why should I die here in prison when I came here for rescue?' | Sue Jones | |
| Beyond the boundary | ||||
| Jacko embraces Hitler fan | ||||
| 1000 days in sanctuary | John Stewart from the Ogunwobi Family Campaign reports on the long struggle against an unjust deportation. | |||
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Reviews | War Minus The Shooting | David Pope reviews War Minus The Shooting: A journey through South Asia during Cricket's World Cup by Mike Marqusee | |
| Labour's double dealers | Mike Phipps reviews Forces of Labour, by Andy McSmith | |||
| Travellers' rights | Rights For Travellers from the London Womens' Irish Centre | |||
| The price of a cigar | Ted Johns reviews The Price of a Cigar, by Peter Wood | |||
| Isolating apartheid | Mike Phipps reviews Sing the Beloved Country by Peter Hain | |||
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Science | The world's first picket line? | Our science correspondent Dr. Chris Knight discusses the role of women in establishing sexual morality. | |
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Correspondance | |||
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Periscope | Accident in the making?, EU trades fraudulently' and Blood Ties | ||
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Editorial Board: Graham Bash, Pat Byrne, Tony Dale, Liz Davies, Steve Faulkner, Paul Field, Jenny Fisher, Bryn Griffiths, Colin Hall, Chris Knight, Francis Koch-Krause, Leonora Lloyd, Sue Lukes and Dorothy Macedo (Co-Chairs), Mike Marqusee (Political Correspondent), Fiona Monkman, Dave Palmer, Mike Phipps, David Pope, Mike Rahman, Jon Rogers, Steve Smith, Alistair Ward (Editor). Production Team: Graham Bash, Gary Drostle, Jenny Fisher, Megan Hiatt, Louise Kawakami, Dave Lewney, Leonora Lloyd, Dorothy Macedo, Mike Marqusee, Dave Palmer, David Pope, Paula Smith, Alistair Ward. Contact
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