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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 25 May 2012 |
 Socialist Appeal announces the publication of a new pamphlet on the construction workers fight against 33% pay cuts and new inferior contracts of employment. The bosses were beaten - find out how.
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By Joel Bergman and Camilo Cahis
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012 |
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Over the past two weeks, the student
strike in Quebec has entered a new stage. What originally began as a
strike against a 75% increase in tuition fees has rapidly progressed
into a movement against the Liberal government itself. Premier Jean
Charest’s government has clumsily fallen over itself, trying to suppress
or divide the movement, with little success. Instead of killing the
movement, every action by the government has only given the movement new
life.
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012 |
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In the May elections, workers delivered a sound hammering to the
Coalition parties and made very clear what they thought of them and
their policies.
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By Lal Khan
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Wednesday, 23 May 2012 |
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With two-thirds of its work force in
the rural sector, Bangladesh’s agriculture contributes just 19 percent
to its GDP. Sixty-six percent of exports are from the garment industry
that makes it the third largest clothes exporting country in the world.
It is perhaps the cheapest and most profitable place for garment
manufacturers. However, the conditions of the workers, mainly women, are
atrocious.
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By Darrall Cozens, UCU, Coventry TUC
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Monday, 21 May 2012 |
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For the General Secretaries of three major trade unions –
Matt Wrack of FBU, Len McCluskey of Unite and Bob Crow of RMT – to come to
Coventry at the same time there must have been something important taking
place. And there was. On the weekend of May 11th, 12th
and 13th the 2012 Annual Trades Union Councils’ Conference took
place in the Britannia Hotel and comrades from Coventry TUC worked closely with
the national TUC in the organisation and running of the event.
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By Michael Allan (Glasgow Marxists)
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 |
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In the recent local elections,
the Coalition parties took an electoral hammering to Labour’s gain. The
Conservatives and Lib Dems lost around 740 seats in total – and control of 13
councils – with Labour gaining 800 seats and majority control of 32 local
authorities
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By Chris Burrows
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Monday, 14 May 2012 |
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Just five years ago, not a day would go by without global warming making
the headlines. The American politician Al Gore’s documentary film about
climate change, An Inconvenient Truth, was seen by hundreds of
thousands in cinemas across the world. The Conservative Party rebranded
themselves as the champions of the environment, nailing their ecological
colours to the mast and urging people to ‘vote Blue to go Green’. Even
the arch-reactionary American president George W. Bush was forced to
concede that, maybe, the environment was worth thinking about.
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By Alan Woods
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 |
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The
elections in France and Greece represent a fundamental change in the
situation. The crisis of European capitalism has entered a new and
turbulent stage. A mood of anger is sweeping across Europe. Of course,
we understand that election results do not reflect the psychology of the
masses with complete accuracy. They are like a snapshot of the mood at a
given moment. But it is necessary to analyse election results
carefully, since they do show certain trends in society.
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By Marxistiki Foni Editorial Board
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 |
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We continue our analysis of the Greek elections of last week with a look at the critical role of the leadership of the Greek CP.
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By Walter Leon (London LP activist)
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Saturday, 12 May 2012 |
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A day after the electoral authorities had announced massive gains for
Labour up and down the country, activists in London were left
disappointed as the Tories kept control of City Hall. In an incredibly
close contest, incumbent Boris Johnson beat Labour veteran and former
mayor Ken Livingstone by 1,054,811 votes to 992,273, after
second-preferences were counted. This contrasted sharply with the other
results: Labour gained 823 council seats nationally, with the Tories and
their Liberal Democrat stooges losing 741 between them.
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By Richard Vivian
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Thursday, 10 May 2012 |
 Public
sector workers in Barnsley today came out in protest against austerity
cuts and attacks on their pensions, some for the third time in the last
12 months
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By Marxistiki Foni Editorial Board
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 |
We publish here the first of a two
part article written by the Editorial Board of Marxistiki Foni) The
results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Greece – a political
earthquake –are a clear indication of the growing radicalisation of
society on the basis of the historic deadlock of capitalism and the
movement towards an openly revolutionary situation.
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By Greg Oxley, PCF Paris 10, Editor of La Riposte
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 |
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The defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy in the
presidential elections opens a new phase of the class struggle in
France. The socialist candidate, François Hollande, won 51.62 % of the
vote. However, this overall score tends to conceal the social basis of
the election result. Practically all the major towns and cities voted
massively for Hollande – or, to be closer to the truth, to get rid of
Sarkozy.
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By Sam Ashton, Camberwell & Peckham CLP (Personal Capacity)
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 |
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Last week's local elections saw a disastrous showing for the Coalition
government as the Conservative and the Liberal Democrats respectively
lost 403 and 329 council seats. At the same time the Labour Party saw a
huge net gain of 824 councillors meaning they were able to gain control
of 32 councils across the country.
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By Steve Jones
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Friday, 04 May 2012 |
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This year's local election results have delivered a huge no-confidence
vote to the Coalition parties. On Thursday night, the Tories were
accused of 'ramping up' election predictions for Labour in the hope that
they would not win that figure and the government could then claim that
things were not that bad after all. In fact, the Tory prediction was
wrong - Labour did far better!
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