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Report on Edinburgh Gaza Demo Print E-mail
By Rachel Gibbs   
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
gaza1.jpgn light of the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza, people in Britain and around the world have come out to demonstrate and show their disgust at the imperialist attacks of the Israeli state and its funding and support from both the UK and the USA. On the 10th of January supporters of Socialist Appeal attended the Palestinian Solidarity demonstration in Edinburgh.
 
Cambridge people say Free Palestine! Print E-mail
By Matt Wells   
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
gaza2.jpgAround 300 people gathered in the centre of Cambridge last Saturday in the biggest demonstration yet since Israel began its assault on Gaza a few weeks ago. A noisy rally was held in front of the Guildhall before a short march through the town centre as shoppers were treated to the loud rallying cry, ‘Free, free Palestine, occupation is a crime!’

 

 

 
Fight job losses. Fight unemployment Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Thursday, 15 January 2009

un.jpgWhose fault is it that nearly 30,000 workers have lost their jobs with the closure of all the Woolworths stores? Not the workers, that's for sure. We are due to see an avalanche of job losses after Christmas. Unemployment is nearly 2 million already, and due to hit 3 million in 12 months' time. None of these workers deserve to lose their jobs. They are the victims of a capitalist system that is just not working. How can we make things better? If we fight for work or full pay, the bosses would soon find them something to do.

 
The spectre is back Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Wednesday, 14 January 2009

km.jpgIn 1848 The Communist Manifesto opened with the line, "A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism. " The spectre of Marx haunts world capitalism still.The years of steadily rising living standards, of relatively full employment have gone, never to return. This year, and for years to come, workers look with trepidation at their future. Will they have a job? Will they still have a roof over their heads?

 
Stop Royal Mail Sell-Off Madness Print E-mail
By Andy Blake, CWU   
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
rm4.jpgThe government has thrown its weight behind the Hooper Report and decided to sell 30% of its stake in Royal Mail. The background to all this is that Royal Mail has been making shed loads of profit for us as a publicly owned company for years. The trouble was that the Treasury has been using the Post office as a milch cow all that time, siphoning off all the money. Then the government complains that the firm hasn’t invested. No wonder!

 

 
Unskilled workers and the unemployed: organise, or die on your feet slowly Print E-mail
By Hamish McLaren   
Friday, 09 January 2009

pub.jpg2008 makes for a sad story, and in 2009, the working class will begin really paying for it. Some of the worst to be affected will be young unskilled workers; cleaners, shop-workers and caterers, like myself. Minimum wage workers at the best of times, we have, during the period of boom (which apparently was the last 10 years, although no one told us) eked out an existence, hovering from one place to the next for as long as moral holds out. Most I have worked with were young, often migrants, demoralised but unorganised and so usually without contracts of employment and subject to very poor working conditions.

 
How Blair felt ‘instant sympathy’ for Murdoch Print E-mail
By Dan Morley   
Monday, 05 January 2009
rm2.jpg Buried on page 11 of the Guardian on 1st November is an article, extremely enlightening in its simplicity, reporting the ‘news’ that during office Blair was only too happy to do Rupert Murdoch’s bidding. According to Lance Price, former Downing Street spin doctor, Murdoch was ‘one of the four most influential people in the administration’. Never mind that he was totally unelected, not actually a part of any ‘administration’, or that he is a US citizen whose company (News Corp.) pays no net tax.
 
The rich get richer, the poor get prison Print E-mail
By Will Roche   
Monday, 22 December 2008
gordonwatches.jpgIf you’re a fan of the writer George Orwell then you may find Gordon Brown’s recent proposals to install lie detectors into phone lines at benefit offices frighteningly reminiscent of the novel ‘1984’, which was about a draconian totalitarian state that constantly monitored its citizens, and brain washed them into submission. Well, it seems that Orwell was only 24 years out.
 
What you should know about Royal Mail... Print E-mail
By a Socialist Appeal reader   
Thursday, 18 December 2008
royal-mail-letter.jpgOne of our regular readers sent this letter to the Prime Minister. Strangely, he did not get a reply
 
Review of 2008: Potatoes, Freddie Mac and the strange case of the disappearing cash Print E-mail
By Terry McPartlan   
Monday, 15 December 2008
iceberg11.jpgThe economic and financial crisis has dominated the whole year. Speculation and uncertainty in the US led to the price of oil hitting $100 a barrel by January 2nd, followed shortly after by the first stock market crash of the year amid fears of a global recession caused by last year’s crisis in the sub-prime mortgage market. The world has entered perhaps the most disturbed period in the whole of human history.
 
Glasgow says ‘No Pasaran’ Print E-mail
By Ewan Gibbs   
Monday, 15 December 2008
antinazi1.jpgSaturday 13th December saw fascists once again attempt to organise in Glasgow’s city centre. A few weeks ago it was the pleasantly named and completely ineffective ‘Racial Volunteers Squad’ who were intimidated just by the sight of the number of left wingers who were also handing out propaganda on Buchannan Street.  However this Saturday saw those fine defenders of white nationalism, the racist British National Party attempting to distribute their paper, the aptly titled ‘Voice of Freedom’ to unwitting members of the public.
 
Damian Green affair – what are the issues? Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Thursday, 11 December 2008
dg.jpgThe recent much publicised arrest of Tory immigration spokesman Damian Green has led to acres of newsprint being used up by normally establishment papers in defence of Mr Green and the tradition of whistleblowing.However are we not seeing double standards here? When it is a right wing MP leaking stuff about immigration then it is all OK, but when it is a trade unionist revealing management lies being perpetrated in the public sector or in government then it is quite a different story.
 
Make this a good Christmas for Marxism Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Tuesday, 09 December 2008
merry-marxmas2.jpgFor us, another world is not only possible but also necessary. However, to achieve all this, to get our ideas out to workers, students, homeworkers, unemployed and all those who find capitalism to be lacking, we need your support. At this festive (although not so festive for the thousands now facing losing their job or having a cut in salary) it is traditional to make a special appeal for donations to help build our resources.
 
Benefit claimants in government's firing line Print E-mail
By Fred McDowell   
Wednesday, 03 December 2008
welfare-reforms-cartoon3.jpgSingle parents and those on incapacity benefits are due to suffer as a result of government rule changes. From now they will be transferred from Income Support to Job Seeker’s Allowance. They will have to show they are ‘genuinely seeking work.’ If not, their benefits could be cut by up to 40%. This is workfare on the way.
 
Same old Tories - no answers there Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Wednesday, 03 December 2008

brown_cameron12.jpgWhat a difference a few months make! In the summer Gordon Brown was on the ropes. Over the past couple of months he has picked up a thoroughly undeserved reputation as the ‘saviour of the world economy.’ Brown has embraced Keynesian policies wholeheartedly, without explaining his U-turn. His solution to our economic ills is to hurl money at them. ‘Never apologise, never explain’, seems to be his motto. So what is making Brown look good? The Tories, that’s what.

 
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