BANKRUPT PAY UP FOR PENSIONS • Tuch
Bosses bid to defer our deferred wages -page 11-13 BREAK NOW FROM BLAIR!
DOES NOT KE MISTAKES hard fight for LGBT rights Feature & interview pages 8-9
UNISON CAIM RESPECT and RMT must show the way for labour movement
in the NHS
Wheels come off Blair's reforms -pages 4-5 Blair's butchery in Iraq and his bankruptcy at home reinforce the need for a political alternative to the left of New Labour.
The development of Respect is the best opportunity that the left in England has ever had to create such an alternative, and remains so despite the disappointments of its recent conference (see p3, p 6-7).
But Respect must reach out to, recruit and involve a broader audience, particularly amongst active trade unionists who see their job security and conditions under assault every day in the workplace.
These militants also see their public services under attack from the blows of a government deeply committed to a neo-liberal agenda, and have marched in their thousands against the illegal war in lrag.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union has taken a timely initiative in calling an open conference on working class representation on January 21 in London.
This should provide an opportunity for trade union activists and other socialists to debate out how most effectively to create a political alternative to Blairism.
This conference has been called following a motion at the union's Annual General Meeting in 2005, which clearly expressed the RMT member
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