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By Walter Leon (Unite member)
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
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In what could turn out to be a significant turn of events,
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey fired an angry broadside last week at
Labour leader Ed Miliband, taking issue with Miliband’s recent support for a
public-sector pay-freeze. After twenty years of uncritical support by
trade-union leaders for the right-wing Labour leadership, such a missive is
certainly welcome. It has also helped reopen the debate about the relationship
between the Labour Party and the trade unions.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
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The following is a motion written and
proposed by Adam Booth, Labour Party member and secretary of the
Cambridge Marxist Discussion Group. The resolution was written in
response to comments made recently by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, the
leader of the Labour Party and Shadow Chancellor respectively, who have
outlined that the Labour Party cannot promise to reverse any of the
Coalition's cuts if Labour is elected in the next election.
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By Rob Sewell
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
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The recent remark by Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, that the Labour
party should join a Lib-Lab coalition, is another dangerous attempt to
push the party to the right
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
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The Coalition of millionaires is continuing with its onslaught against
working people. Billions of pounds have been slashed from public
spending, destroying essential services, cutting pay and conditions and
throwing tens of thousands of workers on to the dole.
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By Rob Sewell
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Monday, 23 January 2012 |
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In response to pressure from the bosses’ press and Blairites, Labour leader, Ed Milliband has come out in favour of the government’s line on cuts and pay. Rob Sewell responds.
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By Steve Kelly
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
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The next few weeks are the most important for us in the
electrical/mechanical trades since the JIB was formed back in 1968.
Wages could be slashed by as much as 35% - Site workers, you stand to
lose £240 a week on a basic 40 hour wage if you sign the new contract
being pushed by the Besna 7.
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By Alan Keays (Site Worker)
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
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construction workers met in Birmingham on 14th January to discuss the
ongoing JIB dispute. Gail Cartmail (Unite Asst. General Secretary)
spoke on the dispute and the pending ballot of Balfour Beatty workers.
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By John Peterson (USA)
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
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By Blacklist Support Group
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Thursday, 19 January 2012 |
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A Labour MP is calling on the government to launch a full Public
Inquiry after shocking revelations emerged today in court about security
services and police collusion in illegal covert blacklisting of trade
union members in the construction industry.
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By Unite Press Office
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Monday, 16 January 2012 |
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By Joe Boustead, Newcastle University Marxists
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
 This is an overview of the documentary Inside Job that was recently
shown on the BBC. As one interviewee commented regarding the path
Iceland had taken from 2000 onwards, “Nothing comes without
consequence.”
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By Darrall Cozens
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 |
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The Great Unrest is the term used by historians to describe
the period a 100 years ago when
Britain saw many industrial conflicts such as the Cambrian Combine Strike, the
Tonypandy Riots and many other struggles.
In Wales there was also a major dispute in the Cynon Valley and riots in
Llanelli during the Railwaymen's strike. Strikes occurred in Clydeside, London,
Liverpool, Hull and many other towns and cities throughout the land. Important ideas were developed
and discussed during this period which had a profound affect on the Labour and
trade union movement.
Darrall Cozens, a member of the UCU and Coventry NW Labour
Party, considers what we need to learn from these events.
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By Daniel Morley
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 |
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Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party is turning into an elaborate
parody of the emptiness of reformism. With capitalism unable to afford
any reforms, he is like the school pupil who works extremely hard to
avoid working whilst giving the impression of being studious. He is
trying very very hard, tossing and turning, to give the impression that
reformism can work without any actual reforms. Unfortunately for Ed, in
this case the illusion does not work.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 10 January 2012 |
The government has been hard at it coming up with new ideas to punish those who are unemployed and on benefit. The latest such idea involves forcing people to work for nothing or starve . This is now being legally challenged as it breaks laws against bonded labour i.e. slavery!
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 09 January 2012 |
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The present period is the most stormy and convulsive period in history. Globalization now manifests itself as a global crisis of capitalism.
Given the depth of the crisis and the worsening conditions, things are
developing very quickly. The stage is set for a general revival of the
class struggle, and in fact, this process has already begun.
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At the end of January 2009 a meeting of Socialist Appeal, the British
section of the International Marxist Tendency, met to discuss the
latest developments in the international situation. Alan Woods
introduced the discussion, highlighting the conflict in Gaza; the
effects of the economic crisis; Obama and the change in administration
in the US; the situation in Iran; the developing crisis in Russia; the
riots in Greece; Latin America, Cuba and the Venezuelan revolution; and
even Iceland, where the economic crisis has led to the fall of the
government.
