Welcome to the March '97 issue of the Labour Left Briefing, the Labour Parties unofficial voice of the left!
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Editorial | Reality calling | |
| Who tips the scales of justice? | |||
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News and views | Eurocarnival for social justice! | Chris Knight (London Support Group for the Liverpool Dockers) |
| The unwarranted Police Bill | With the help of Labour’s front-bench the obnoxious Police Bill received its second reading in the House of Commons. Harry Cohen MP reports. | ||
| Making mincemeat of McDonald’s | The McLibel Campaign presents an update on the McLibel Trial and profiles Helen Steel, one of the two campaigners involved in this mammoth legal battle with McDonald’s. | ||
| Could do better! | Examining Labour’s education policy, Bob Spooner decides there is room for improvement. | ||
| Going beyond equality | Peter Tatchell argues that Labour should be working for gay emancipation, not just gay civil rights and equality. | ||
| Education for the elite | Raj Jethwa, LSE Labour Club, reports on a dangerous precedent for all of higher education. | ||
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Labour Party | Sawyer suspends whistle-blowers | Leeds North East CLP has been suspended. Four leading CLP members - Malcolm Christie, Mike Davies, Celia Foote and Lorraine Hardy - are now threatened with disciplinary action. Mike Marqusee reports. |
| Stop the demented octopus! | Ken Livingstone MP argues that the months following the general election could be the "most decisive in the history of the labour movement for a generation". | ||
| Model resolution for trade union conferences | Download this resolution on labour party democracy and pass it in your trade union branch! | ||
| Debate: labour and the general election | Take the leap - don't wait to drown | Paul Field and Dave Palmer argue that it's time for LLB to abandon its support for the Labour Party. | |
| No time for self-indulgence | Dorothy Macedo calls on socialists to campaign for a Labour victory, and prepare for battles ahead. | ||
| Stay and fight | Liz Davies argues that as Labour prepare for government thoughts of leaving the Party are, at the least, mistimed. | ||
| Warning to future pensioners | The Alan Simpson column | ||
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Trade union news | Our lavish NHS pay rise | Staff nurse Helen Weatherley listens hard for champagne corks |
| What do we want? | Manchester UNISON Branch Executive member Tony Dale considers the role of trade unions under a Labour Government | ||
| Hillingdon: UNISON sell-out challenged | The strikers need your support more than ever. Jacqui Brown, UNISON Housing Associations Branch Women's Officer, reports. | ||
| Equality in the air | International Women’s Day | ||
| International solidarity rocks the bosses | Chris Knight (London Support Group for the Liverpool Dockers) reports on the Dockers’ International Week of Action. | ||
| Striking on the dock of the bay | Doreen McNally of Women of the Waterfront describes the political journey from the kitchen to the world stage travelled by the women of Liverpool docks. | ||
| Southwark axes Trade Union Support Unit | Denyse Whillier, President of Southwark Trades Council and Chair of the Southwark Trade Union Support Unit Management Committee, lifts the lid on the manoeuvres that threaten the future of a valued trade union resource. | ||
| Trade Union Notebook | |||
| Leading with the left | The Geoff Martin Column | ||
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International Women's Day | Equality: still at the top of women's agenda | Councillor Liz Davies, chair of Islington's Women's Committee, rebuts notions that we live in a "post-feminist" world. |
| Pay gap yawns into the future | Dave Statham, Brent East CLP, examines the gap between women's and men's earnings. | ||
| No imagination | Liz Davies reviews Labour’s policy document Strategy For Women. | ||
| South Africa leads the world in choice for women | While pro-life groups prepare for the UK General Election, a new abortion law in South Africa offers women one of the best legal situations in the world. Leonora Lloyd, Ealing Acton CLP, reports. | ||
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International | Ecuador: women in the frontline | Sue Lukes interviewes Patricia Palacios of the Women and Society Foundation |
| Mass strike at the heart of the 'Korean Miracle' | Paul Field reports from Korea, where workers' actions have transformed the political agenda. | ||
| Celebration and solidarity | Rachel Sieder, lecturer in politics at London University's Institute of Latin American Studies | ||
| Pakistan's hamstrung democracy | Mike Marqusee reports from Pakistan, where the military and the IMF seem set to rule, whatever the voters' choice. | ||
| Non-alignment - the way out of deadlock | The Michael Hindley Column | ||
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Fighting Racism | Ask an ethnic question... | A recent IPPR publication led to headlines like "Asians hate blacks" and "Asians more racist than whites". Mike Marqusee examines the methodology and implications of this report from Blair's think tank. |
| Tories tell asylum seekers to rot in jail | John Stewart of the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns reports how hunger strikers at Rochester prison put asylum rights centre stage. | ||
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Reviews | Urban futures, global problems | Mike Phipps reviews The Urbanisation of Injustice, edited by Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw, and Globalisation and its Discontents, by Roger Burbach, Orlando Nunez and Boris Kagarlitsky |
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Correspondance | ||
| AOB | Any Other Business |
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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 (Co-Chair), Sue Lukes, Dorothy Macedo (Co-Chair), Mike Marqusee (Political Correspondent), Fiona Monkman, Dave Palmer, Mike Phipps, David Pope, Jon Rogers, Steve Smith, Alistair Ward (Editor). Production Team: Graham Bash, Dr. Des, Gary Drostle, Paul Field, Jenny Fisher, Louise Kawakami, Simon Kennedy, Dave Lewney, Leonora Lloyd, Dorothy Macedo, Mike Marqusee, Dave Palmer, Paula Smith, Alistair Ward. Contact LLB at PO Box 2378,London, E5 9QU. Telephone: 0181-985 6597; Email: llb@atomism.demon.co.uk; Fax: 0181-985 6785. |
