As a regular reader of Socialist Outlook I have been very impressed with recent articles, in particular Harry Sloan's article on the new Job Seeker's allowance.
It goes some way towards outlining its consequence for the working class as a whole. These attacks need to be explained in the light of the changing labour market and the failure of the TUC to respond to anti-employment legislation.
As John Lister acknowledges in "A World in Crisis", the key point is organising the unemployed alongside the unions.
In the early 1980s the TUC attempted to control unemployed workers and effec(tively destroyed the claimants movement. Oxford unemIt will be open to all independent unemployed workers organisations and we may well open it to community organisations campaigning on behalf of the unemployed.
We must learn the lessons of the 1930s and unlike the so-called National Union of Unemployed Workers (and the late Ernie Roberts' National Organisation of Unemployed Workers) we are in as position to work towards a national unemployed workers movement.
Andy Gibbons, Oxford Unemployed Workers and Claimants Union I JUST got the most bizarre glossy leaflet with countryside is in private ownership...the first government to. abolish fox hunting was Nazi Are these people on the same planet as the rest of us?
These same fox hunting the people who have been busy destroying our countryside - 98 per cent of flowerrich meadows and 45 per cent of ancient woodland gone in a 300 people occupied the protest against the Criminal My glossy leaflet told me "a Labour government should hesitate before criminalising an entire community". Dead right! But it's not the community who go to Hunt Balls that I'm thinking of... Dave Bangs, London