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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
 Although Dieterich does his best to cloud the issue, the facts speak
for themselves - Baduel has broken with the revolution, and now stands
on the side of the counterrevolution. To propose the unity of the two
forces - revolution and counterrevolution - is like hoping to unite
fire and water.
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By Jim Brookshaw
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Friday, 23 November 2007 |
 In the autumn of 1916 the Industrial Workers of the World, better known
as the Wobblies, were trying to organise lumber workers near Everett,
Washington in the USA. A series of attempts to organise by the workers
had lead to a murderous response from the employers. Charles Ashleigh was appointed to run the Wobblies defence campaign - this article is in memory of him, a soldier of the proletariat.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 |
 The Marxists have long argued that the only way forward for the
Venezuelan revolution is to strike blows against the
counterrevolutionary bourgeoisie, by expropriating the bankers,
landlords and capitalists, etc. However, there are other voices saying
rather different things. One of the most persistent of these voices is
that of Heinz Dieterich, who has been waging a noisy campaign in favour
of what he calls "Socialism of the XXI Century" - a strange kind of
socialism indeed in that it differs very little from capitalism.
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By Mick Brooks
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 |
 The second part of this extended article on the Marxist theory of Crisis looks at world
capitalism since the Second World War. It deals with Glyn and the profit rate, the tendency of the rate of profit to fall and the increasing organic composition of capital.
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By Kenny McGuigan in Glasgow
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 |
 In last May's Scottish
Parliament elections the Scottish National Party (SNP) emerged victorious as voters
wilted under increasing attacks and cuts in public services - already threadbare
after the Thatcher Tory years - by the New Labour-Liberal coalition. Socialist Appeal carried
in-depth Marxist analysis at the time when
we predicted an SNP victory and the factors that had made it possible.
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By Barbara Humphries
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
 Multiculturalism is again under attack. And it's not just from the BNP, but members of
New Labour. Following the bombings on London in 2005 Ruth
Kelly and David Blunkett called for a ‘British
identity'. Jack Straw asked women Muslims in his constituency
to remove their veils (the niqab), as he feels uncomfortable with
them. The chair of the Commission for Equalities and Human Rights has urged for
integration as a way forward, "to stop us from sleep walking into segregation".
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By Linda Clarke
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
 At a meeting in London recently Linda Clarke of the Socialist Appeal talks about Marxism in relation to the national Question. Linda talks about the history and evolution of the nation state, the meaning of bourgeois nationalism, and deals with the particular circumstances of the national question in relation to Scotland, Ireland and the position of the Marxists during the Falklands war.
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By Barbara Humphries
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
 The Health Care Commission accused the Kent and Sussex NHS Trust of
"significant failings in infection control" after 90 patients were
known to have died of the super-bug "Clostridium difficile" in three of
its hospitals last year. Kent police and the Health and
Safety Executive are considering the unprecedented action of pressing
manslaughter charges against the Trust.
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By www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Monday, 19 November 2007 |
 This weekend supporters of the Venezuelan revolution will gather at the
University of London Union for the Hands off Venezuela National
conference. Speakers from Venezuela will include Guadalupe Rodriguez from the Coordinadora Simon Bolivar and Nelson Rodriguez from the Factory Committee at Inveval. Show your
solidarity with the revolutionary events taking place in Venezuela and
throughout Latin America - book your place today!
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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 19 November 2007 |
 Marx's theory of crisis has been the source of controversy for more than
a century. Many competing schools have been set up, basing themselves on
isolated quotes. This is partly because Marx's key observations are
scattered through his economic writings. This extended article looks
first at the different theories that try to explain capitalist crisis
and at how Marx's own theory of crisis fits in with his broader view of
capitalist development. The next part will apply this analysis to world
capitalism since the Second World War.
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
One year ago today comrade Phil Mitchinson
died tragically of a heart attack. He was without doubt a very talented comrade
who devoted his time to editing the Socialist
Appeal and helping to build our tendency in Britain and internationally. Here
Rob Sewell remembers Phil and the role he played.
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By Mick Brooks
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Friday, 16 November 2007 |
 In 1970, just like today, the Labour Party seemed dead from
the neck up. After six years of desperately disappointing government, Labour
had been unceremoniously bundled out of office. The Tories were back, aiming to
put the boot in to the working class.
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By Ben Peck
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
 Supporters of the Venezuelan revolution held a meeting at Cardiff University on Wednesday evening. This
meeting was held in order to explain the significance of events that have taken
place in Venezuela over the last 10 years and to spread the message that is
coming out of Latin America: that there is an alternative to capitalism in the
21st century - socialism.
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By Eric Hollies
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
 We have now had more than a decade of Private Finance Initiative
involvement in the health service. Despite Labour pouring money into
hospitals and health care, more and more health trusts are reporting
deficits. PFI is sucking the NHS dry!
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The final part of this extended article on Marx's theory of crisis focuses on the tendency for the rate of profit to fall, with reference to the generalised world-wide crash of 1974. The tendency for the rate of profit to fall manifests itself in practice through the development of internal contradictions, as part of a cycle and not, as over-production
theorists would have it, as a crash coming out of a clear blue sky.
