SUBSCRIBE to resistance Civils servants are top of the hit list for a renewed and even more fanatical marketising Blairite government committed themselves to supporting a third term regardless of the policies Blair has to offer: Blair knows this, and has taken full advantage.
For campaigners, the labour movement and the left the challenge is to raise awareness of the dangers of a third term, and to build the strongest possible political challenge.
In our view this means joining and building Respect, but also linking up on the widest political level with Labour Party supporters and many people who are not members of any party to build the anti-war protests and other campaigns challenging privatisation, service cuts and reactionary "law and order"
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We must also ensure that the fight on all these issues is taken consistently into the trade unions, which have the most to lose from the next Blair onslaught, and which can also be the most powerful opponents on the modernising madness that will be the mainstay of the new manifesto.
Karl Marx argued that those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to relive their experiences twice: once as tragedy, the second time as farce.
Only the most urgent, sustained and serious action in 2005 can prevent us suffering a third re-run of the Blair project, this time as fiasco. --- -1