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London postal workers are out on a one day strike in protest of
the governments plans to part-privatise Royal Mail. Interview with Mark
Dolan, Area Delivery Rep.
Students from London Metropolitan University London occupy the top floor of the building in protest over plans by management to carry out massive job cuts due to a management / government funding crisis. Why should teachers and students pay for the mistakes of the management and the inadequacies of the capitalist system?
Construction workers travel to London on May 6 to demonstrate
against a new wave of exploitation. Workers gather outside London
Olympics site, and then Parliament, to make their voices heard and to
demand justice for ALL workers.
This year
marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist International. Mick
Brooks spoke at a recent Socialist Appeal Day School on the rise of the "world
party of socialist revolution" under Lenin and Trotsky and its subsequent
political and bureaucratic degeneration under Stalin.
![[Video] Visteon Workers Eviction in Enfield](images/stories/Britain/visteon_occ2_th.jpg "[Video] Visteon Workers Eviction in Enfield")
Visteon workers in Enfield, having been threatened with mass
arrest by a court order, agree to leave peacefully under the
recommendation of the union on April 9, 2009. Some workers feel that
ending the occupation is a mistake, despite an agreement by the Visteon
management to enter into negotiations.
![[Video] Visteon Factory Occupation Workers go to Boss's House](images/stories/Britain/visteon_visit_boss.jpg "[Video] Visteon Factory Occupation Workers go to Boss's House")
On Monday 6th April 2009, seven days after occupying their factory in
Basildon, Essex, the Visteon car plant workers decide to give their
former boss, Steve Gawne, a visit at his country manor to hand-deliver
a letter demanding justice be served.
![[Video] Visteon Factory Worker Occupations](images/stories/Britain/visteon_occ_th.jpg "[Video] Visteon Factory Worker Occupations")
Hundreds of workers occupy three Visteon car manufacturing
factories in Britain after the management closed them down, laying off
the entire workforce with no notice, violating their contracts. This is reminiscent of the factory occupations of the 1970s.
Hear Rob Sewell, Political Editor of Socialist Appeal, leading off at a meeting after the "Put people first" demonstration in the lead-up to the G20 summit in London. He spoke on whether this is the deepest crisis capitalism has ever faced, and what you can do to help organise the fight back, as part of the struggle for socialism.
Speaking on the 1871 Paris Commune at the IMT
Winter School in Berlin, Greg Oxley explained:
"The history of the Paris Commune is not just
history, but it is our history. It is really the
beginning of the concsious struggle for
socialism. The Paris Commune was the first time
the working class rose up, took power, held on to
power for ten weeks before it was brutally
crushed in the last week of May 1871."
![[Audio] Trotsky's Writings of the 1930's](http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/trotsky-color-thumb.jpg "[Audio] Trotsky's Writings of the 1930's")
At a recent meeting of the International Marxist Tendency in Canada, Alex Grant, editor of 
At 6pm, on the 12th of March the Marxist society of the University of London Union met for a discussion on ‘Marxism and Darwinism’. The topic of this meeting was chosen in order to coincide with the recent exhibitions and publicity surrounding the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s masterwork, ‘Origin of the Species’ in November this year, and John Pickard, author of “150th anniversary of publication of Origin of the Species” led off for the first time (at a political meeting) for 15 years before a meeting of about fifteen people, comprising students, Socialist Appeal supporters and other interested people. Includes audio of the meeting.
Fred Weston spoke at a recent day school of Socialist Appeal on how the
Cuban revolution, starting out as a bourgeois democratic revolution,
was forced to move against capitalism in order to achieve its aims, a
brilliant confirmation of Trotsky’s theory of the Permanent Revolution.
Now there are growing pressures inside Cuba to adopt the so-called
“Chinese model”, i.e. changes that would eventually lead to the
re-establishment of capitalism in Cuba. There are also those who resist
this idea and are seeking ways of building socialism on the island.
This year marks the 30th
anniversary of the Iranian revolution. The media has been highlighting
it as an "Islamic revolution", when in actual fact what we witnessed
thirty years ago was a genuine workers' revolution that was hijacked by
the reactionary Ayatollahs because of the lack of a genuine
revolutionary leadership. Hear Morad Shirin of the 
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.
