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By Darrall Cozens, UCU, Coventry TUC and Coventry NW CLP.
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Friday, 10 February 2012 |
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It will go down in the annals of the labour movement as one of the
greatest victories that has ever been achieved in Britain. Forty years
ago to the day, when the NUM was picketing the Saltley Coke works in
Birmingham, some 30 to 40,000 engineering workers struck in support
across the city.
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By Brian Adams
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Friday, 10 February 2012 |
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Saturday February 11 marks the one year
anniversary of the fall of Mubarak. Summer, Autumn and Winter have
passed since the beginning of the “Arab spring”, and the Egyptian masses
are still taking to the streets. Despite all that has happened over the
past 12 months, nothing has fundamentally changed for the majority of
ordinary Egyptians. There have been a series of victories and defeats
for the workers and youth of Egypt, but now, with the anniversary of the
Revolution, the movement is entering a new phase.
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By Darrall Cozens, Coventry North West Labour Party with help from Fernandez’s son Pau
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Friday, 10 February 2012 |
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For many of us older comrades who were
politically active in the Labour Party Young Socialists in Coventry in
the late 1960s and 1970s, Fernandez Montes was the living embodiment of
the Spanish Civil War.
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By Jo Pickard, Sussex University Marxists
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Friday, 10 February 2012 |
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In November of 2011 record-breaking
statistics for youth unemployment were splashed across headlines in the
UK, with 21% of all 16 to 24-year-olds being unemployed, out of
education or training. In December the records were broken all over
again with youth unemployment reaching 1.027 million– equating to 22% of
all 16 to 24-year-olds.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 10 February 2012 |
PROTEST @ Electrical Contractors Association Awards Dinner
5.30pm Wednesday, 15 February 2012
Grosvenor Park Hotel
Park Lane
London
(nearest tube: Marble Arch)
Wrap up warm and bring your banners
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 08 February 2012 |
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: A new two-handed version of Stephen Lowe’s original
adaptation of Robert Tressell’s book.
ON TOUR THROUGHOUT 2012 - read on for more info
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By John Dunn and Richard Vivian
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Monday, 06 February 2012 |
 With all the hype surrounding the Hollywood version of Margaret Thatcher
as the ‘Iron Lady’ who (supposedly) brought the miners and trade unions
to their knees, there now comes the real story of the Miners Strike of
1984 from Betty Cook and Ann Scargill, two women who not only played
their part during the strike but who now say that the events of that
historic year changed their lives forever. Socialist Appeal put
some questions to the women on the subject of their feelings about the
film and the Miners Strike of 1984 and the lessons to be learned.
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By Richard Vivian (Unite)
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Monday, 06 February 2012 |
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The 250 Unite bus drivers based at Barnsley and Rotherham bus depots are
set to continue their 9 week long dispute with Stagecoach the bus
company owned by multi-millionaire Brian Souter. In the absence of any
realistic offers to the drivers pay claim of around £10.00 per hour by
the management of Stagecoach, the bus drivers, have agreed to continue
their programme of one day strikes with another series of four day
strikes to take place on the 4th, 6th, 8th and 10th of February.
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By Harry Whittaker
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Sunday, 05 February 2012 |
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IRELAND: The nineteenth century was
proving to be another age of poverty, oppression and starvation for the
mostly Catholic tenant farmers. They were still at the mercy of the
landlords who charged increasingly exorbitant rents and would not
hesitate to evict any family who could not pay. Keeping his tenancy was a
matter of life or death to the farmer and his family.
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By Steve Jones
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 |
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When things get bad the ruling class has been known - if all else fails -
to turn on its own "for the greater good." With all the anger
continuing to boil up over the cuts and the role of the bankers, the
government decided it was time for a sacrificial lamb to come forward.
So this week "Fred the Shred" - Fred Goodwin - got his knighthood taken
away from him. The former head of RBS was told that he was being
punished for helping to bring down the world financial markets.
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By Socialist Appeal USA
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 |
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We republish here a graph that was
originally published in the New York Times, based on figures from “The
State of Working America” by the Economic Policy Institute. It covers
the period from 1913 to the present, with a focus on the period after
1947
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By Unite official press release
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 |
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Unite members at Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) have
voted overwhelmingly for a second time to strike over the
termination of long-held agreements and the de-skilling of
construction workers.
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By Terry McPartlan
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 |
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Forty years ago this month, the power of the organised working class was
demonstrated outside a West Midlands fuel depot. The lesson was not
lost on both unions and bosses. The example of Saltley Gate remains as
relevant today as ever in the face of renewed attacks by the bosses and
their government on the working class. Terry McPartlan looks back at the
events of February 1972.
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By Jorge Martin
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 |
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One year after the revolutionary
overthrow of Ben Ali, Tunisia faces a wave of strikes, regional
uprisings, sit-ins and protests of all sorts. For hundreds of thousands
of Tunisian workers and youth who bravely defied the bullets of the
dictatorship to get jobs and dignity nothing has fundamentally changed.
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By Lal Khan
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 |
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It is not ruled out that if the
democratic facade of imperialism creates a crisis that threatens to
unravel the economic system, the imperialist bosses would not hesitate
to revert back to military dictatorship.
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