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New Labour battered at the polls – working class alternative desperately needed Last week saw New Labour battered in the local elections and the victory of the Thatcherite Boris Johnson in London’s Mayoral elections. Labour has gone from 11,000 councillors in 1997 to 5,000 today. With the Conservative Party taking 44% of the vote nationally, the nightmare of a Cameron-led Tory government after the next general election is now posed...read more Labour 'heart lands' lost - fight for a working class alternative In the recent council elections, New Labour saw their vote haemorrhage in former Labour 'heart lands' - including losing control of North Tyneside council and Bury council, Greater Manchester. Click here to read Manchester CNWP supporter Paul Gerrard's explanation of how this has come about. Campaign for a New Workers Party - conference 2008Sunday 29 June 10am - 5pm. South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London NW1. (Nearest Rail/Tube stations - Kings Cross/St Pancras, Euston, Mornington Crescent)
PCS members need a political voice In 1997 many PCS members welcomed the election of New Labour, believing that they offered a radical alternative to the Tories. However, this illusion was quickly shattered when Blair and Brown launched their attacks on public servants’ Jobs, Pensions, Pay and working conditions. PCS members no longer...read more Newcastle CNWP - building support in the North East Saturday 29 March was the launch event for the Northern Shop Stewards Network & CNWP supporters were out helping to build the network and putting forward the case for a new workers party...read more Campaign for a New Workers' Party national press coverage Click here to read a reply to Polly Toynbee carried in the Guardian on Monday 31 March.
Alternative Capital of Culture sucess At least 120 people attended the successful first film-debate organised by Merseyside Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP) and addressed by Ken Loach on 19 March...read more Campaign for a New Workers' Party national press coverage National coverage of the CNWP continues apace. Click here to read a letter printed in the Guardian on Saturday 15 March about the BBC's 'White' season.Also, last week the following letter from a CNWP supporter was carried in the local newspaper for Mansfield. Click here to read the letter about local Post Office closures. Manchester CNWP: Promoting a working class alternative for the council elections
Everywhere you go groups are challenging the New Labour agenda. The Community Action Party are standing in Wigan and Salford, Merseyside fire-fighters are standing against several Fire Authority members ...read moreNone of the establishment parties call for: Troops out now! We need a new mass party that's: For the millions, not the millionaires! Anti-war, anti-cuts, anti-privatisation! Five years ago, millions of ordinary people took to the streets of London in opposition to the threatened invasion of Iraq. Tens of thousands of Labour Party members tore up their party cards in disgust at Blair & Brown’s actions...read more Campaign for a New Workers' Party national press coverage Click here to read a letter printed in the Guardian on Saturday 16 February about the anti-war movement and the need for a new workers' partyThe trade unions must break with New Labour! Manchester trades council hosted a debate on whether the unions should continue funding New Labour:Pitted against Jenny Lennox, regional organiser for the NUJ and Labour Party member, were Roger Bannister of UNISON's National Executive and CNWP National Secretary and...read more
A Mexican wave of protest is travelling around the country in response to the Post Offices plans to close 2,500 local branches. They are rolling this programme out, area by area in order that there is not a synchronised national movement against them. Each time closures are announced, a six week period is given for “consultation”. So far only a tiny minority of branches have been reprieved. This is on top of the ongoing closures of Crown Post Offices, with their functions being taken over by WHSmiths...read more National Shop Stewards Network meetings Regional conferences of the NSSN are taking place across the country. For details go to www.shopstewards.net and for details of CNWP fringe meetings click hereLiverpool CNWP call for an Alternative Capital of Culture for the millions, not the millionaires
Capital of Culture 2008: A Tale of Two Cities? Read meeting report here
L iverpool will be Capital of Culture in 2008, but the event has become the product of the spin-doctors and marketing entrepreneurs. Much controversy has surrounded attempts to organise blockbuster events with expensive entrance fees...read morePressure for a new party grows Events over the last month have demonstrated yet again the dire need for a new mass political force to the left of the establishment parties that can fight in the interests of working class people.
Barely a month ago, New Labour was riding high in the opinion polls and an autumn election looked likely; now, the Tories are ahead and look stronger than they have at any time since 1997. The volatility on display here is a direct result of the closeness of all the main political parties and the narrow ‘centre ground’ that they each try to occupy...read more The old ways won't work Weather of Mass Destruction needs a new political force to oppose it
Representatives from 169 countries, meeting at the UN summit in Indonesia, are trying to find a consensus to curb the escalation of greenhouse gases causing global warming. Many, however, will have as a prime aim to quietly preserve the interests of the rich and powerful countries, and the rich and powerful companies who stand in the shadows behind them...read more
New Labour sleaze - more snouts in the trough The so-called anonymous donations scandal, sparked off by the laundering tactics of David Abrahams, another New Labour millionaire, has generated a media storm...read more
Kick out big business politicians Across the country, the NHS is facing cuts and closures on an obscene scale – government attacks on our health services have meant over 22,300 jobs lost so far, with more to go if they get their way. Gordon Brown has made this clear with his promise to “continue accelerating the pace of reform in the health service...read more
TONY BENN can still draw a crowd. Over 200 students packed into a recent Stop the War Society meeting at University College London to hear him speak. The meeting aimed to mobilise students to attend the 8 October anti-war demonstration and it certainly assisted that. But Benn's strategy for the way forward was disappointing...read more
If Brown won't listen then it's... Time for a new workers' party! The newly merged union Unite led a lobby of the Labour Party conference on Sunday 23 September. A whole list of grievances were presented to the Labour leadership in defence of the rights of working people. But millions of trade union members will rightly be asking 'How can the big unions still remain handcuffed to New Labour in the face of its pro-business agenda?'...read more
Credit Crisis: Fat Cat Britain click here to read
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Insisting that public sector workers must accept below inflation pay rises - in reality, pay cuts – Gordon Brown showed how little difference there is between the Blair and Brown governments. It was "to prevent inflation, maintain growth, so we never return to the old boom and bust of the past", he explained at the recent TUC conference. Cllr Dave Nellist Chair, Campaign for a New Workers’ Party It is not a message he ever delivers to company boardrooms, where pay (sorry, remuneration) can be counted in millions of pounds...read more George Monbiot on the Labour Link: "The unions might as well cut out the middle man and give their money to the CBI"
The environmentalist and political commentator George Monbiot wrote in the Guardian newspaper "The ragged trousered philanthropists who subsidise this bosses' party mumble and fumble but they will not strike back. Desperate to believe, union leaders cling to broken promises. They refuse to utter the only threat which Brown will heed: disaffiliation."
Read George's full piece here and if you agree that we shouldn't be wasting our money funding New Labour then join the fight for a new mass workers' party here Trade unions - break with New Labour
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Click here to read the case for a new mass workers' party. Click here for downloadable resources and campaign material. Click here to read reports of local CNWP activities and meetings. CNWP National ConferenceThe second national conference of the CNWP took place on 12 May 2007. Click below to read resolutions passed at that conference and at the CNWPs founding conference on 19 March 2006.
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