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Israel's assault backfires
The barbarous 34-day assault on Lebanon saw the
deaths of at least 1,300 Lebanese, thousands injured, up to a million
people forced to flee their homes, and civilian infrastructure
shattered. On the Israeli side, 157 were killed, including 118 soldiers.
But none of the Israeli regime’s objectives were achieved. The war
exposed the limits of Israel’s military power, and that of its sponsor,
US imperialism. Hezbollah, on the other hand, has been strengthened
politically. This has provoked a crisis for Ehud Olmert’s government.
The ceasefire has brought fighting to a halt for the time being, but the
US-French brokered UN resolution will resolve none of the region’s
problems. KEVIN SIMPSON analyses the situation.
Terror
plots & spin: Socialism Today editorial
On the night of 9-10 August, New Labour’s home
secretary, John Reid, announced a dramatic terrorist plot. Around 50
people, he said, had been involved in a conspiracy to use liquid
explosives to bring down 20 planes flying between Britain and the USA.
If successful, it would have resulted in "mass murder on an unimaginable
scale". Twenty-one alleged conspirators were arrested under
anti-terrorism laws, which allow the police to hold suspects for up to
28 days without being charged. Draconian security measures were
implemented at all British airports, producing massive disruption for
tens of thousands of travellers. Many of those stuck in airports
ruefully reflected that Tony Blair and family had flown out of Britain
the previous day to start their holiday in Barbados.
As we go to press, twelve have now been charged with
conspiracy to murder or to prepare acts of terrorism, while police are
still holding eleven other suspects.
China’s
ecological suicide
a global
nightmare
China is committing ecological suicide, argues
LAURENCE COATES – destroying its waterways, atmosphere and natural
resources to fuel runaway industrialisation. And this process threatens
the entire planet. Just as the Chinese people are among the main victims
of global warming, mainly caused by the older industrialised ‘West’,
China’s latest export wave – acid rain, air pollution and even more
greenhouse gases – is a major threat to the global environment.
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Honour & New Labour
The party funding scandal
Mexico
The stolen election
Kazakhstan
Residents' resistance in Almata
The SWP & the Spanish civil war
A recent commemorative article confirms the rightward evolution of
the SWP, argues Bob Labi
Female Chauvinist Pigs
The reality of 'raunch culture'
John Pilger DVD set
Documentaries that shook the world
The James Connolly & religion debate
Speakers include:
  Mark
Serwotka, general secretary of the civil servants' union PCS
The PCS has led important struggles against
government attacks on workers pay and conditions
 Lucy
Redler, WASG regional executive committee and SAV (Socialist Alternative
- CWI, Germany).
Leading anti-cuts campaigner in Berlin
 Tommy
Sheridan MSP, leader of the newly formed Solidarity - the Scottish
Socialist Movement.
Tommy recently defeated Murdoch's News Of The
World in a famous court case.
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