Theory
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By Daniel Morley
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 |
The bourgeoisie has never,
anywhere, been able to find the key to unlock the mysteries of their own
economic system. The only way to understand capitalism is to accept and
to explain its contradictory, crisis-ridden nature. It cannot be
perfected; its riddle will never be solved from within its confines.
Precisely because the apologists of capitalism can never accept this
fact, they are forever shifting from one side of the problem to the
other.
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By Fred Weston
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 |
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Berlusconi has lost his majority in
the lower house of the Italian parliament. Although he won a vote on the
latest round of austerity measures included in the budget, he did so
with less than half the votes of the MPs in parliament. The result of
the vote was 308 in favour, 1 abstention, but with the majority of MPs
not voting. This means the budget was approved but now Berlusconi stands
naked having lost his parliamentary majority. His days are numbered and
the pressure is mounting for him to go - something we are told he has now promised.
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 09 November 2011 |
 On the first anniversary of the great student protest of November last year, several thousand students and trade unionists marched through the City of London accompanied by several thousand police, clearly under pressure to stop a repeat of what happened last time with the Tory HQ.
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By Terry McPartlan
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Saturday, 05 November 2011 |
 On November 30th 2011,
three million public sector workers will strike over the
government’s attacks on their pensions. This coordinated strike action
represents the biggest strike movement since the general strike in 1926.
To all intents and purposes it will be a 24-hour public sector general
strike. Unison have already announced a large majority vote for action.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 04 November 2011 |
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As we write these lines the Papandreou government is staggering towards
collapse. In a matter of days the whole situation has been thrown into
turmoil. Only
last week, eurozone leaders were congratulating each other on agreeing a
100bn-euro loan to Athens and a 50% write-off of its mountain of debt.
Governments cheered. Stock exchanges rose on the announcement of the
deal. And politicians breathed a sigh of relief. A few days later and
everything turned into its opposite.
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By Fightback (Ireland)
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Friday, 04 November 2011 |
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Last Thursday’s by election in Dublin
West came down to a three horse race between Councillor Patrick Nulty of
Labour who won and Councillor Ruth Coppinger of the Socialist Party who
came third, while Fianna Fáil (FF) squeezed into second place after a
tie for second and third place – on the basis that they had more first
preference votes.
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By Luca Lombardi
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Friday, 04 November 2011 |
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As Europe teeters once more, staring
financial collapse and slump in the face, we provide an analysis of what
happened in Iceland, the first country to go under as a result of the
global crisis of capitalism.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 02 November 2011 |
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The Tory-led government has come forward today with newly revised
proposals on public sector pensions in the wake of the build-up to the
mass strike on November 30th.
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By Stamatis Karagiannopoulos
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Wednesday, 02 November 2011 |
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October 28 is a National holiday in Greece marking ΟΧΙ (No) Day – the refusal of Greece
in 1940 to accept the Italian ultimatum advanced by Mussolini, to allow
the Italian fascist troops to enter the country. Not only did Greek
forces stop the Italian invasion, but actually forced Mussolini's troops
back into Albania. Every year it is celebrated as a day of “national
pride”. Not so this year! The masses took over the celebrations and used
them to express their anger at the Greek ruling class. Here we publish a
report from Athens written on the day of the “celebrations”
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By Juan Rojas and Antonio Palmer, Bay Area WIL
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Wednesday, 02 November 2011 |
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On October 25, people on the streets
were confronted by hundreds of riot police launching anti-riot grenades.
Plumes of tear gas rose as protesters fled from the rubber bullets of
the police. The scene we have described was not in the streets of Tunis,
Cairo or Homs, but occurred in the streets of Oakland, California in
the United States. On that Tuesday, the police forcefully evicted the
occupation taking place in Oscar Grant plaza, renamed so after the
police killing of Oscar Grant on New Year’s Eve 2009 in the city of
Oakland.
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By Steve Jones
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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The protest camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral in the heart of
the City of London has had one unexpected side effect. It has revealed the
usually hidden fissures inside the
Church of England.
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By Cambridge Marxists
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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Socialist Appeal member Adam Booth spoke against Vince
Cable, the Secretary of State for Business in the Coalition government, in the
Cambridge Union on Thursday 27th October, in a debate that
highlighted the two starkly contrasting choices facing society as a result of
the crisis of capitalism: austerity or socialism.
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By Site Worker
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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Last week saw protests in Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Govan and London
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By Tomasz Pierscionek - www.londonprogressivejournal.com
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Monday, 31 October 2011 |
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As the big day approaches, the hysteria builds up to a crescendo. The
21st December 2012 is seen as being the next date of the ‘end of the
world’, according to the ancient Mayan calendar. Yes, this time the
world is really supposed to end, we are told, and apologies for all the
previous false alarms.
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By Fred Weston
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Sunday, 30 October 2011 |
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Last week Angela Merkel was warning
that peace in Europe could be endangered if an agreement was not
reached at the EU summit on how to manage the crisis that has engulfed
the euro and the whole of the EU economy. Speaking to the German
parliament she said, “No one should think that a further half century of
peace and prosperity is assured. It isn't. And that's why I say if the
euro fails, Europe will fail, and that mustn't happen." Some of the more
serious strategists of capital have even raised the prospect that the
euro could break up. The 27 EU leaders on Wednesday night, however,
finally produced a three part deal.
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