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The long wait is nearly over. Tony Blair is leaving
and it will be good to see him go. Any sense of jubilation, however, is
tempered by the fact that his successor, Gordon Brown, will continue
with his basic programme: public services will be cut, anti-union laws
will stay, and inequality will increase. PETER TAAFFE writes on the
significance of the transition.
Has France
moved to the right?
The crowning of right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy
was greeted by George Bush and Tony Blair. French workers, young people,
and those in the sprawling, run-down suburbs, on the other hand, are
bracing themselves for severe attacks on living and working conditions.
KARL DEBBAUT assesses the result and its implications.
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Scotland
The SNP victorious. What now?
The BNP
Mixed results in May's elections
Nigeria
Election farce brews new storms
Gay equality struggle continues
There is sill a long way to go forty years after the partial
decriminalisation of gay sex, Greg Randall argues
Yeltsin's legacy
Clare Doyle writes on the Yeltsin years and the impact of capitalist
restoration
Biofuels profits
Are biofuels a solution?
The God Delusion
Dissecting the 'god hypothesis'
Cover cartoon: Suzanne Muna
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