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Economy in crisis
Profits, crisis and credit crunch: can 1929 happen again?
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By Der Funke, Austrian section of the International Marxist Tendency
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Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
On Saturday the "Der
Funke" Marxist tendency organised a big event with Trotsky's grandson, Esteban
Volkov, as special guest, to commemorate and celebrate the 90th anniversary of
the 1917 Russian Revolution. Around 200 people came to listen to the speeches in
defence of "Red October" and between 400-500 celebrated all night long at the
party that was organised after the meeting.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
 A Basque Marxist was
on a speaking tour of the North of Ireland at the end of October. He spoke to
audiences in Belfast, Strabane and Derry mainly composed of republican socialists, but not
only. There was keen interest in seeing how the experience of the Basque
situation could be applied to the North of Ireland, and vice versa. We make
available here a report, originally published in The Plough, the journal of the
Irish Republican Socialist Party.
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By Alan Woods in 1992
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
 "The October revolution laid the foundation of a new
culture, taking everybody into consideration, and for that very reason
immediately acquiring international significance. Even supposing for a
moment that owing to unfavourable circumstances and hostile blows the
Soviet regime should be temporarily overthrown, the inexpungable
imprint of the October revolution would nevertheless remain upon the
whole future development of mankind." Trotsky - The History of the Russian Revolution
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By a serving firefighter in East London
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
 The London Fire Brigade have been trying to impose a change in the
current shift system on its fire-fighters. This has been in the
pipeline for some time and would benefit the LFB management to the
detriment of its workforce.
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By UNISON branches
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Friday, 09 November 2007 |
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 MANCHESTER (fighting the victimisation of Karen Reissman)
BARNET, NORTH LONDON (battle against
vicious privateers, Fremantle)
NEWHAM, EAST LONDON (stop the victimisation of Michael
Gavan)
GLASGOW
(all-out strike by day centre workers)
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By Ewan Gibbs
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Friday, 09 November 2007 |
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 As winter creeps, in students and staff at Edinburgh schools and nurseries have learned
of the chilling news that their places of learning and work places may be under
threat once again. The Edinburgh Evening News reported on the thirtieth of
October that Edinburgh Council intended to reopen a consultation process that
would look into the future of schools. It also listed seventeen schools and
nurseries that it expected to be earmarked for the process.
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By Ben Curry
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
 During the 1980s
and 1990s, advances in chaos and complexity theory began to demonstrate a fact
understood more than a century and a half earlier by the founders of scientific
socialism, Marx and Engels, that systems which show an apparently high degree
of complexity or “design” do not require the hand of a creator but emerge naturally
from the apparently mundane interacting and contradictory forces at play inside
the system. It may come as a surprise to many then to find that in the field of
cosmology there are respected scientists groping towards the revival of the
mystical idea of intelligent design.
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By Terry McPartlan
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
 When you watch a Michael Moore film, it doesn’t take long to realise just why the US bosses find him so irritating and why his films have never been shown on US mainstream TV.
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By Socialistisk Standpunkt Editorial Board
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
 Today, 7th of November a big meeting organised by the Danish
Marxist tendency, Socialistisk Standpunkt, will take place in Copenhagen to
celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. However,
2007 marks another anniversary, and one with special importance for Denmark. It
is 75 years since Leon Trotsky held his last public speech in November 1932,
which was held at a huge meeting in Copenhagen, where Trotsky was invited by
the Social-Democratic Students Association.
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By Owen Jones
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
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Marxists have always maintained that
at some stage the intensity of the class struggle affects even the "armed
bodies of men" of the bourgeois state. Such an example was the police strike in
Britain at the end of the First World War. In the late summer of 1918 the sight
of 12,000 furious Metropolitan constables marching on Whitehall sparked panic
among ruling circles in Britain. Under the leadership of the National Union of
Police and Prison Officers, militantly class-conscious policemen conspired to
overturn their role as the subservient body of the State.
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By Jamil Iqbal
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
 Has humanity enlarged its power and freedom, improved its conditions and increased its chances of happiness? In simple terms, is social progress a fact?
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
 On Saturday November 3 President Pervez
Musharraf declared virtual martial law, imposing a state of emergency
throughout Pakistan,
suspending the Constitution and replacing superior courts. This amounts to his
second coup d'etat after he seized power in October 12, 1999. It is a desperate
move that underlines the extremely unstable nature of the regime, which is
losing support by the day.
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By Mick Brooks
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
 Mick Brooks of the Socialist Appeal Editorial Board spoke recently at a meeting organised by Socialist Appeal supporters in London on Britain and the World Economy, looking in particular at the financial panic that began in August.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
 BBC staff are set to ballot for strike over plans to axe up to 2500
jobs. The mood is angry and a big 'yes' vote is likely among the 23,000
workers. The three unions involved are Bectu, Unite and the National
Union of Journalists.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 02 November 2007 |
 After weeks of media speculation the Brown bounce election became the general
election that never happened. Marx explained that the state and politics are like a superstructure that sits on top of society and maintains the appearance of having a certain independence. But in the final analysis, politics, the state and even bouncing Prime Ministers are organically connected to the real world. The prospect of a general election was just too risky.
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