Banking on versities found that 14.5 million people were too poor to afford poverty eccentiais.
Margaret Thatcher, when she was Prime Minister alwavs In what it describes as "the claimed that some of the most detailed study ever" of wealth accumulated at the top world poverty, The World of the economic pyramid Bank claims that the poor have would "trickle down", and benefited from globalisation. everyone would gain.
If it wasn't so tragic, this state- Not so, according to this surment would be almost hilari- vey. It estimates that the proportion of households living in Its own World Development poverty grew from | 4% in |983 Report, released on September to 24% in 1999. 13, says 2.8 billion people - New Labour has done little to almost half the world's popula- correct this situation. tion - lived on less that $2 a day. Another popular criticism of A further fifth had to do with Marx is his anticipation of less than $I. Some benefit! power passing from the bourLearned critics of Karl Marx, geoisie to the proletariat - the while acknowledging the accuworking class. racy of his analysis of capitalism, "The working class?", ask the always aver that he was wrong academic critics. "What workabout the increasing impover- ing class? Haven't they almost ishment of the masses. completely disappeared, their But according to this report, place taken by modern techthe gap between rich and poor nique which makes the workcountries has doubled over the ers redundant?" past 40 years, with the average Indeed? Who makes the income in the 20 richest counriothes thece arlidite scholars tries now 37 times the average are wearing? Or the food they in the poorest 20.
ins does not oniv aDON Who mows down the trees in abroad. A report published by the verdant forests from which the loseph Rowntree the paper on which they write Foundation claims that two their learned theses are manumillion children in Britain lack at factured? least two basic necessities. It is true that in the economiSocial scientists from four uniing i course to most of the coning world, often small children she made for $2 a day were Michael Young, who helped to draft the manifesto on which ahour won its landcide pAr. toral victory in 1945, pin-points the difference between old Labour and the new variety in an article in The Guardian.
The Attlee government was not revolutionary socialist; far from it. It was a reformist government. Its manifesto was based on two basic principles.
The first was public service, in local government and in essential industries such as water, electricity, fuel and railways; the these principles overboard. As escaped obloquy altogether." recent Guardian survey shows businessmen went up by 16.5% in 1999, four times the The increase was from an than 110 senior executives The Blair government has lence of the rewards which Honorary Blairite: Mandela selves. Even Ted Heath denounced it as "the ugly face of capitalism." Gifted A great fuss is being made about whether Gordon Brown Labour Party before the last They have only one reason -Labour Party. Have their direcsee an end to the Post prize for the answer! Nelson Mandela was made an honorary member of the New Labour Party after he addressed conference. Is he aware that Isaac Kaye, who supported the National Party, who governed South Africa in the apartheid years until black majority rule in 1994, has been a major donor to New Labour, since 1997.
He gave £100,000 to the party last year, and also paid £5.000 for tickets at New well as donating £10,000 to attempt to be come London 1982, he became involved with foreign policy at the next elecGKN is selling armoured cars the past two years; Bruce Rachel Squire (Dunfermline) Italy by the friendly GN.
On August 17, six children were shot dead and five injured in Colombia. Troops opened fire on the children who were looking for a picnic spot, without provocation.
Last year Britain sent components for heavy machine guns to Colombia's military.
Labour's decision to ditch any pretence of ethics also gives the all-clear to British firm Balfour Beatty to go ahead with its participation in building the Ilusu dam in Turkey, which would destroy the homes of up to 25,000 Kurds and potentially stop the flow of the Tigris river into Syria and Iraq.
Dave Nellist: "not only were we all in the same room at the start of the conference, we were also all in the same room at the end of it".
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