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Unite general secretary slams Miliband’s capitulation to ‘discredited Blairism’ Print E-mail
By Walter Leon (Unite member)   
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
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.
 
Labour must not accept the Coalition's cuts Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
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.
 
Ed Balls and the danger of 1931 Print E-mail
By Rob Sewell   
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
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
 
Fight the Coalition with socialist policies Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
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.
 
Labour: Anger over leadership lurch Print E-mail
By Rob Sewell   
Monday, 23 January 2012
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.
 
Sparks dispute; critical weeks ahead Print E-mail
By Steve Kelly   
Thursday, 19 January 2012
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.
 
Birmingham meeting plans ahead Print E-mail
By Alan Keays (Site Worker)   
Thursday, 19 January 2012
80 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.
 
USA: The revenge of history Print E-mail
By John Peterson (USA)   
Thursday, 19 January 2012
 
MP demands Public Inquiry after courtroom drama Print E-mail
By Blacklist Support Group   
Thursday, 19 January 2012
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.
 
Press Release: Unite announces strike re-ballot in Balfour Beatty Print E-mail
By Unite Press Office   
Monday, 16 January 2012
 
Review: Inside Job Print E-mail
By Joe Boustead, Newcastle University Marxists   
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
inside-job_1.jpgThis 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.”
 
1912: "The Great Unrest" Print E-mail
By Darrall Cozens   
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

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.

 
Miliband’s Fictitious ‘Responsible Capitalism’ Print E-mail
By Daniel Morley   
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Ed 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.
 
Tories nationalise slavery! Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
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 starvework.jpg. This is now being legally challenged as it breaks laws against bonded labour i.e. slavery!
 
Marxism and anarchism – Part One Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Monday, 09 January 2012
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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