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Serco and Virgin Care are bidding for a three-year contract means: worth £130m to run children’s health services in Devon Serco or Branson to run children’s health See page 5 Don’t let Tories wreck the NHS! NEWS What is the Alliance Brooks arrested, cancer persists for Workers’ Liberty? By Andrew Smith David Cameron’s family Today one class, the working class, lives by selling and Tony Blair’s. It is rela - its labour power to another, the capitalist class, tively rare, in this society, “But don’t rejoice too soon which owns the means of production. Society for such big fish to get at your escape reeled in. Also pleasing is is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to The womb he crawled the fact that she did not increase their wealth. Capitalism causes from is still going strong” seem to know that the ar - poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by Bertolt Brecht overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the rest was coming. It is good news that for - environment and much else. It is still a number of big mer Sun and News of the Against the accumulated wealth and power of the steps, however, from here World editor Rebekah to senior News Interna - capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity. Brooks was arrested on The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build solidarity tional figures being con - 13 March, along with five victed of anything serious. through struggle so that the working class can overthrow other senior News Inter - These people have a lot of capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership national officials, for money and very good But even if Brooks et al ties will remain fully func - of industry and services, workers’ control and a democracy conspiring to pervert the lawyers; and their connec - do go down, and even if it tioning. Even in the best much fuller than the present system, with elected course of justice. tions with various wings seriously impacts on Mur - possible variant, it will representatives recallable at any time and an end to of the political establish - Brooks is one of Rupert doch’s empire, the capital - produce new Rupert Mur - bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. ment mean there will be a Murdoch’s top aides. She ist press system which dochs and new Rebekah We fight for the labour movement to break with “social lot of pressure for some is close friends with both produced these monstrosi - Brooks, all over the world, partnership” and assert working-class interests militantly sort of fudge. against the bosses. in the future. Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, Socialists must argue for a a democratic media supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, Don’t let Mugabe jail Zimbabwean socialists! which combines public helping organise rank-and-file groups. ownership of large-scale We are also active among students and in many campaigns Six Zimbabwean ac - media resources with free - Munyaradzi Gwisai (a for - Send protests to the and alliances. tivists arrested in Febru - dom from state control. mer Movement for Demo - Zimbabwean embassy in Such a media would ary 2011 at a meeting We stand for: cratic Change MP, before London at zimlondon allocate those resources about the Egyptian revo - to political parties, work - G Independent working-class representation in politics. the MDC purged its left @yahoo.co.uk, ring 020 lution face up to ten ers’ organisations and A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the wing and then entered 7379 1167, or write to Zim - G years in prison after groups of citizens based labour movement. government with Mu - babwe House, 429 Strand, being convicted of “incit - gabe), Tafadzwa Choto, on their support in the G A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to London WC2R 0QE