Theory
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By Ramon Samblas
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 |
Yesterday (Monday 5th Oct) marked the
75th anniversary of the
Asturian Commune. The mining and industrial region of Asturias in Spain
witnessed one of the key revolutions of the 20th century. We want to
bring to the attention of our readers an article by Ramon Samblas
written in 2004 for the www.marxist.com website and Socialist Appeal.
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By Fighback (Ireland)
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Monday, 05 October 2009 |
Ireland: The Lisbon Treaty Referendum has resulted in a
victory for the Yes camp by 67.1% to 32.9%. The result was in part due to the
enormous resources of the Yes campaign which had the support of big business,
Robbie Keane, the Bishops, Seamus Heaney and of all the government and main
opposition parties. The outcome was a dramatic reversal of the last referendum
with swings of more or less 20% in many constituencies.
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By Darrall Cozens (Coventry NE Labour Party and UCU - in personal capacity)
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 |
In March of this year, the People's Charter was launched at the House Of Commons and has since been backed by many labour movement organisations, trade union leaderships and the TUC. Based around six demands, the aim is to present a way forward which will ensure that the burden of the preesent crisis is not borne by working people. How effective are these demands? How could they be actually implemented? As part of the discussion which the Charter has opened up, we present the first of a number of articles which will seek to examine these demands from a Marxist perspective.
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By Leeds SA supporters
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 |
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Strikes continue into their fourth week as refuse workers in Leeds fight to stop savage pay cuts that would leave them
up to six thousand pounds a year worse off. Workers for Street Scene, the council department responsible for refuse
collection, graffiti cleaning and disposal of needles, have been solidly
manning pickets at Cross Green depot, the main refuse depot for Leeds, and secondary pickets at various public rubbish
tips and smaller sites.
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By steve
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
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The October 2009 edition of Socialist Appeal is now out!
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 02 October 2009 |
In the final part of his article, taken from a speech made last summer to a meeting of Marxists from around the world, Alan
Woods highlights the significance of the Iranian revolution and the
impact it will have on the whole of the Middle East and beyond. He
explains how all the conditions emerged for a successful revolution,
bar one, that of the revolutionary leadership, which must be built.
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By Dick Vivian
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
Fire fighters from all over the country
staged a mass demonstration in Barnsley on Tuesday 28th September in
support of South Yorkshire fire-fighters, who are
protesting against an arbitrary change of shift patterns forced upon them by
ultimatum by their bosses, South Yorkshire Fire Authority.
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By Jorge
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Thursday, 01 October 2009 |
Socialists, trade unionists and activists are invited to an emergency
picket of the Honduras Embassy this Monday, 5th October between 4.00pm
and 6.00pm.
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By Hans-Gerd Öfinger in Germany
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
Sunday’s elections in Germany reveal an enormous
shift within the electorate. Of particular importance is the
massive decline of the SPD vote, mirrored by a huge increase in support
for DIE LINKE which stands to its left. The victory of the right-wing
parties means the German capitalists are preparing for an offensive
against the biggest and most powerful working class in Europe.
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By Ben Curry
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
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Between
Wednesday 23
and Friday 25
of September, supporters of Socialist Appeal could be found running a
stall outside the University of Leeds – bringing the ideas of
Marxism onto the campus. The comrades sold 24 copies of the new
Socialist
Appeal
all-colour paper over the three days as well as other literature
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By Jim Brookshaw
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Tuesday, 29 September 2009 |
Nearly two decades ago. Robert Maxwell - former Labour MP, newspaper
tycoon and (so it turned out) conman died after 'falling' off his luxury
boat. Soon after all the scandals he was involved in were revealed to
an amazed world. He was living a great big lie and - worst of all - it
was at the expense of those former and then-current employees of the
Maxwell-owned Mirror Group who discovered that their pension fund had been milked dry by Maxwell.
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By Fightback Editorial Board
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Monday, 28 September 2009 |
Northern Ireland: A recent paper on the public spending of
the Stormont Executive confirms that cuts are on the way, which will hit
jobs and services. How will this affect the delicate political balance set up
by the Good Friday Agreement?
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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 28 September 2009 |
You
couldn’t make it up! About two years ago the banks in Britain, the USA and all over the world began to
go bust. It started over here with Northern Rock and culminated in the USA with the
collapse of the giant Lehman Brothers, the biggest corporate bankruptcy in
history. The problem for governments was that the banks were threatening to
take whole chunks of the capitalist system over the precipice with them. The
banking collapse and the ‘credit crunch’ were the triggers for a general crisis
of capitalism.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 25 September 2009 |
Nowhere is the chasm between leadership and rank and file more seemingly unbridgeable than in
the student movement. In 2009, students in the UK have spontaneously occupied
universities to protest at Israel’s
war on Gaza, to
fight against deportations of university cleaning staff, and against massive
cuts in teaching staff. At the same time, they face the worst attacks on their conditions
in living memory in the form of increasing fees, the end of grants, and the
vanishing jobs market. This is clearly an explosive combination.
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By LSSU/UCU Press Office
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Friday, 25 September 2009 |
The London School Students Union have dropped us a line to say that as
of yesterday (Thursday), the UCU strike at Tower Hamlets is over - the
management have capitulated and the lecturers’ demands have been met!
After a month of solid striking, which has seen strong daily pickets,
widespread and heartfelt support and large community demonstrations,
they won the dispute.
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