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red pepper issue 123 september 2004 Contents Natfhe leader Paul Mackney guest edits our September TUC special issue, urging unions to fill the political vacuum on the left through campaigning in close alliance with social movements Cover by Jai at UHC Collective features 19 The abiding relevance of the trade union movement Paul Mackney introduces this month 's Red Pepper features 20 Danger: people at work The government is dismantling the health and safety reg ime in a way that business - and Margaret Thatcher - could never have imagined. John Bamford, Hilda Palmer, Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte report 23 There's life in the Labour Party, yet John McDonnell MP answers accusations made by Liz Kinght in last month 's issue that the ' reclaim the Labour Party' Labour Representation Committee is a forum for conservatives 24 Nul points for the BNP Nick Lowles of Searchlight magazine and Weyman Bennett and Sabby Dhalu of Unite Against Fascism describe how their organisations helped prevent the British National Party from making gains in June's local and European elections Venezuela after the referendum People's Global Action in Belgrade Why stakeholder pensions fail the low-paid The new US left: what role in the elections? The Labour Party: what's left to reclaim? Why the UK's dependence on oil matters David Hare and the new wave of political theatre review 34 Book reviews 36 Arts reviews Supersize Me page 37 26 Gls against the war Interviews with prominent activists in the anti-war strug gle within the US armed forces 30 lnternationale rescue Hilary Wainwright speaks to the disillusioned oligarch spearheading the emergence of a new left in Russia 33 Paul Foot 1937-2004 A tribute to the campaigning journalist and socialist who died in July regulars 4 Letters & Agony Subcomandauntie 6 Activision UK news/ Natural born rebel: Jeffrey Gazzard/ Know your enemy: Wilkinson/ Guerilla guides: Guerilla gardening/ A day in the life: Working Class Movement Library/ Red Hot: Fair-trade trainers/ Asylum watch 13 World Iraq Occupation Focus/ German left unites/ US trade unions/ Declassified: The Butler report/ Temperature gauge: Corporate polluters 38 Infrared David Osier 39 Rear view Maggie Lambert ... a magazine of political rebellion and dissent. Influenced by socialism, feminism and green politics, it is a resource for all those who imagine and work to create another world - a world based on equality, solidarity, and democracy. We tell the truth about the world as we see it. We promote and debate the most creative new thinking and practice about achieving radical change. We see our readers not as 'customers', but as critics and collaborators from whom we seek to learn. September 2004 Red Pepper 3

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red pepper issue 123 september 2004

Cover by Jai at UHC Collective

Contents

Natfhe leader Paul Mackney guest edits our September TUC special issue, urging unions to fill the political vacuum on the left through campaigning in close alliance with social movements

features

19

The abiding relevance of the trade union movement Paul Mackney introduces this month's Red Pepper features

20

Danger: people at work ŁŁŁ The government is dismantling the health and safety regime in a way that business -and Margaret Thatcher -could never have imagined. John Bamford, Hilda Palmer, Steve Tombs and Dave Whyte report

23

There's life in the Labour Party, yet John McDonnell MP answers accusations made by Liz Kinght in last month's issue that the 'reclaim the Labour Party' Labour Representation Committee is a forum for conservatives

24

Nul points for the BNP Nick Lowles of Searchlight magazine and Weyman Bennett and Sabby Dhalu of Unite Against Fascism describe how their organisations helped prevent the British National Party from making gains in June's local and European elections

26 Gls against the war

Interviews with prominent activists in the anti-war struggle within the US armed forces

Venezuela after the referendum

People's Global Action in Belgrade

Why stakeholder pensions fail the low-paid

The new US left: what role in the elections?

The Labour Party: what's left to reclaim?

Why the UK's dependence on oil matters

David Hare and the new wave of political theatre

regulars

4 Letters & Agony Subcomandauntie

6

Activision UK news/ Natural born rebel: Jeffrey Gazzard/ Know your enemy: Wilkinson/ Guerilla guides: Guerilla gardening/ A day in the life: Working Class Movement Library/ Red Hot: Fair-trade trainers/ Asylum watch

13

World Iraq Occupation Focus/ German left unites/ US trade unions/ Declassified: The Butler report/ Temperature gauge: Corporate polluters

38

Infrared David Osler

39

Rear view Maggie Lambert

30

Internationale rescue Hilary Wainwright speaks to the disillusioned oligarch spearheading the emergence of a new left in Russia

33 Paul Foot 1937-2004

A tribute to the campaigning journalist and socialist who died in July

...a

magazine of political rebellion and dissent. Influenced by socialism, feminism and green politics, it is a resource for all those who imagine and work to create another world

-a world based on equality, solidarity, and democracy.

We tell the truth about the world as we see it. We promote and debate the most creative new thinking and practice about achieving radical change. We see our readers not as 'customers', but as critics and collaborators from whom we seek to learn.

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