A tribute for ctalwart Sid

... ough. When the boy from the valleys was cramming for his degree Sid was combining a career as a nurse with ensuring the Socialist flag was kept flying over Kettering. @ And when the Labour leader wucum'.zhhwfiulmilk tuthnl- P for “gn Sid wasa player on ...

Talks on beating Mrs Thatcher

... brought the party to a more upmarket position than it was but as well as new looks we also need more room to manoeuvre. Socialists cannot work inside a strait-jacket. It may help to get discipline but not much else. You can dig up a dinosaur, polish it ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1990
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 456 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

\ MORE READERS’ LETTERS Poll tax fairer 9vrback lane is than the rates nowan M-way

... this house, two people, not three, pay £1,150 per year and if I lived on my own it would be one person. Now as a very good socialist | am sure you agree that that is not fair. Oh! I forgot, my house is probably bigger than yours so I should be punished for ...

Published: Thursday 18 January 1990
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

The political di

... true that some of today’s Green Party members, and no doubt many in the wider Green movement, come from a socialist background Greens and Socialists share common ground on at least one major issue: The need to combat exploitation, in all its forms, of the ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1990
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ain’s leading environmentalists. The General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades union says it’s looking ..

... groups with memb;unptétheued’ 18. Go For Green will be judged by Jane Asher from Parents For Safe Food, Dave Wheeler of the Socialist Environment and Resources Association and Ann Taylor,Labour spokesman on water. | Entries for Go For Green should be sent ...

Published: Friday 09 February 1990
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

B ECGR UL SO DL Please explai o B this anomal

... or er life to be ruled by the forces of either wealth or poverty. I never said that I would punish anyone because I am a socialist. It is the “force” of money itself that needs punishing by helping those people that it uses. If the rich in general, in ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1990
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Opposition to new Poll Tax

... cannot justify the “horrific rate increase of 26% above the Government's Poll Tax target, horrific being his own word. The Socialist controlled Derbyshire County Council has squandered ratepayers’ money, with the clear intention of ensuring a swingeing rate ...

Published: Friday 16 February 1990
Newspaper: Matlock Mercury
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 426 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Greater chances!

... Republic will be one country within three months.” He told the meeting he had recently returned from a mecu'n‘g”of the Socialist Group in the Reichstag buiiding in West Berlin and had visited the German Academy of Science in East Berlin. Dr Adam said ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1990
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 235 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

Letters fo the Fditer D IREEIAVIIM Pennies from heaven weren’t warned or piein the sky?

... truth was known there are still over three million out of work. ANGRY VOTER, (Hucknall). Name and address supplied. AS a socialist, | find MAN‘?’E debate seems to exist Nllummm} cal viewpoints (something that is lacking in the Nottingham Evening Post.) ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1990
Newspaper: Hucknall Dispatch
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Tory panic signs of great magnitude

... undoubtedly cmtinF a virtual timebomb for Britain’s future society unless fairer policies are distributed soon. NON-MILITANT SOCIALIST. ...

Published: Thursday 05 April 1990
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

- %V;}RICK Labour MP rown is pwn‘ to fight de-selection as his party’s candidate in the rock-solid Edinburgh ..

... . After t.lho decision — taken at last 's constituency mo::fi: that lasted barely 50 minutes’ — he said: “Ron Brown is a socialist, and always will be.” The decision to drop the 49-year-old MP was expected after votes of no confidence by constituency branches ...

Young Labour group planned

... Young Labour group planned e B T PLANS to re-launch the young socialists were announced at the meeting of Blyth Valley’s constituency Labour party executive committee. Cheryl Spybey, the newly l’eylcctet:i) you)ih officer, plans to re-establish the o ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 1990
Newspaper: Blyth News Post Leader
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 4 | Tags: none