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Economy in crisis
Profits, crisis and credit crunch: can 1929 happen again?
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By Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
 This British perspectives draft document (2008), agreed on February 3rd, has been issued by the Socialist Appeal editorial board as part of a wide-ranging discussion about the likely development of events in British society. Such a document is not a blue-print, but an attempt to understand the underlying processes at work in Britain today, and how these will be reflected in the class struggle. The document will be discussed at the Socialist Appeal conference at the end of April.
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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
 The degradation of the environment has consistently grabbed the headlines in the past few years as the way in which the world is arranged threatens the very existence of life on this planet. Mick Brooks, editor of the Socialist Appeal, talks at the Socialist Appeal day school in December on capitalisms contibution to the environmental problems we face today and and what alternative a socialist society can offer.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
 Tomorrow marks the 70th anniversary of the murder
of Trotsky's eldest son - Leon Sedov -by agents of the Stalinist secret police,
the GPU. He was thirty-two years of age. This crime constituted part of the
systematic hounding and murder of Trotsky's key supporters and family, whose
only ‘crime' was to defend genuine Marxism against Stalin and the crimes of the
Russian bureaucracy.
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By Jamil Iqbal
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
 The crisis in the garments sector goes unabated in
Bangladesh. On January 30, 2008 two workers in World Dresses Ltd, Mirpur,
Dhaka, were attacked and beaten by management staff at the end of an evening shift. One died at 3am, the other is still
hospitalised with broken limbs. Fearing unrest
management closed the factory on Thursday. When knowledge of the attack
reached the company's workers, hundreds demonstrated outside the factory.
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By Ben Curry
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
 Meeting at Leeds University with Darrall Cozens.
On Thursday 7th February, having recently returned from a speaking tour of Latin
America, Darrall Cozens visited Leeds University to share his experiences with more
than 20 students and “Hands off Venezuela!” activists.
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By Steve Jones
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
 The announcement by English football’s ruling elite, the FA
Premier League, that they intend introducing an extra round of fixtures to be
played in venues around the world over one single weekend should come as no
surprise to anyone. Since its formation 15 years ago as a replacement for the
old First Division, the FA Premier League has sought to increase the
profitability of its product (their term not mine) out of all proportion – and
at our expense.
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By Ed Doveton
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Thursday, 14 February 2008 |
 On Tuesday 5th February the Manchester Hands of
Venezuela held a successful meeting with over 60 people attending. The meeting
was held jointly with the Green Party of Manchester to raise awareness of Venezuela,
discuss the revolutionary situation and look at changes and developments in the
country and more widely in South America as a whole.
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By Ben Peck
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 Over 300 from across London came to St. John’s Church in
Stratford, Newham, on Monday night to show their solidarity with Michael Gavan,
the UNISON chair sacked by Newham council last November as part of their
campaign to stop trade unions effectively organising against privatisation. Report includes audio.
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By Terry McPartlan, UNISON
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 In November trade unionists marched through Manchester in support of
Karen Reissman, but national UNISON speakers
and national publicity were conspicuous by their absence. Is Karen being hung
out to dry by the UNISON bureaucracy? This is becoming a common tale up and down the country. All UNISON members need to ask some hard
questions of the full-time apparatus. If management can get rid of militants
with the tacit support of the Union, where does that leave me? Whose side is
the union on?
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By Niklas Albin Svensson
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 In a speech on 'liberty' at the University of Westminster, Gordon Brown
outlined his vision for 'Britishness'. Brown is, of course, a Scot.
Listing the achievements of so-called 'British liberty' from Magna
Carta to the Reform Act of 1832, he announced a debate on what it means
to be British. Brown's vision, however, amounts to nothing more than
reactionary politics dressed in liberal-radical language.
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By Barry Purdy, County Council employee, UNISON member
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 New Labour
should hang their heads in shame in their ongoing programme of cuts, closures and job losses
in the public sector. Margaret Thatcher’s band of robbers would be proud of their accomplishments and
their policies sit so easily within a Tory ideology that it is no wonder the Tories don’t look
like an opposition. They don’t need to. They have been in power in the guise of New Labour for over 11
years.
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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
 The coming to power of the Nazi party in Germany 75 years ago marks the begining of one of the darkest periods of human history. What is Fascism and how did it emerge in a country with the strongest labour movement in the world? Mick Brooks of Socialist Appeal talks on the story of the rise of the Nazis.
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By Roberto Carlos
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
 This is a letter submitted to the US section of the International Marxist Tendency , the Workers International League. In this letter, Roberto Carlos depicts his experience working in a
movie theater and the problems young workers have to put up with on a
regular basis.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
 More than 13,000 tonnes of food have been seized in the last two weeks
in Venezuela as part of the Food Sovereignty Plan launched in order to
fight speculation, hoarding and sabotage in the food distribution
chain. The main lesson is that food soverignty is not compatible with
capitalism.
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By David May
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
 The big
corporations in North America, Western Europe and Japan are moving more
of their factories abroad in search of lower wages. But in the process
they are tying the interests of the international working class closer together. In North America Ford workers prepare to weather a new round
of closures and layoffs, while their bosses have unveiled
plans for new plants in China, a country with the world’s fastest
growing car market along with rock-bottom wages. Meanwhile, Russian
Ford workers have won an important victory not only against the company
but against the new, repressive Russian Labor Code.
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