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By Rob Sewell
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Wednesday, 04 August 2010 |
 Today 6th August is the 20th anniversary of the death of Marxist MP and class fighter Pat Wall. In his memory we publish a tribute to him by Rob Sewell.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 |
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Campaign Press Release: Yunus Bakhsh, a highly respected trade unionist from
Newcastle, has won a four-year battle to clear his name after a landmark
Employment Tribunal victory. Bosses at Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS
Trust
sacked the mental health nurse in 2008, claiming he had bullied and
intimidated
other workers. But in a scathing judgement the tribunal last week found
that
the Trust had unfairly dismissed Yunus for his trade union activities.
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By Jeppe Druedahl
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 |
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In this second part of Jeppe
Druedahl's contribution to the
discussion on China, he explains how initially the Chinese bureaucracy,
after the death of Mao, introduced market methods as a means of
stimulating production within a planned economy. However, over time the
capitalist methods began to dominate and the relation between the plan
and the market were overturned. Quantity was transformed into quality,
and capitalism has come to dominate.
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By Jeppe Druedahl (www.marxist.com)
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 |
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Does the development of China on a
capitalist basis deny the theory of permanent revolution? Does it mean
that capitalism on a world scale has a new lease of life? What was China
under Mao? In this first part of a two part article, which we publish
as a contribution to the discussion, Jeppe Druedahl looks at these and
other questions and draws lessons from the development of the Soviet
Union after the revolution and under the Stalinist bureaucracy.
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By Séamus Loughlin (Fightback - Ireland)
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 |
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IRELAND: Recently we
reported on the vote of the public sector unions to back the Croke Park
Deal. We argued that despite the apparent victory of the ideas of
“Social Partnership” as espoused by Peter McLoone and David Begg; under
the present conditions it would be extremely difficult for any deal to
be brokered that was worth the paper it was written on.
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By Steve Jones
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
 We are pleased to inform our readers that "Ted Grant: Writings Volume One 1938-1942" is now in stock and orders are being accepted.
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By Jorge Martin
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 |
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On Thursday, July 22, Venezuelan
president Chávez decided to put the
border with Colombia on maximum military alert, after Colombian
president Alvaro Uribe made accusations that Venezuela was harbouring
FARC guerrillas and demanded an “international commission of enquiry”.
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By Séamus Loughlin
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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IRELAND: There’s
been a steady procession of attacks on the public sector over the last
couple of years. Wage cuts, levies and a deluge of propaganda. We’ve
made the point elsewhere that the FF and the Greens are in a cul de
sac, they are most likely going to be slaughtered in the next general
election. So by all accounts they have nothing to lose. They have
launched a one sided civil war against the working class at the behest
of the bourgeois, the home grown variety of course, but also the multi
nationals based in London and New York.
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By Tony Healy
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 |
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IRELAND: A
ban on trade union donations to the Labour Party will not benefit
anyone other than the enemies of the working class and the organised
working class in particular.
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By Gavin, DWP worker. Shared Services. PCS Union Member.
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 |
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Once again, though, the new Tory/ Lib Dem government has
turned its eyes towards the redundancy payments of civil servants. The
Tories reckon on saving more than the £500 million envisaged last year by the Hoonites when the time comes to destroy over half a million jobs across the
public sector, a good portion of which is to come from the civil
service.
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 |
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When David Cameron announced "The Big Society" (a name nicked from the
American President LBJ who used it in the '60s) during the election,
most people laughed and assumed that would be the last we would hear of
it. Tory spokespeople said that they had no idea what it meant and one
Tory MP described it as "Bollocks." Indeed. However, now safely inside
Number 10, Cameron has brought up it up again.
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By Our Oil Industry reporter
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 |
 Much is said in the news about the disastrous situation that now
exists in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the Deepwater Horizon
explosion. An ecological disaster of gigantic proportions has been
created by the profit motive, which is what drives the BP executives.
However, were the company to be thoroughly unionised, with workers’
representatives controlling every level of safety, this disaster could
have been averted.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 |
 Today, July 20th, is the fourth anniversary of the death of Ted Grant, Marxist, Revolutionary, defender of the banner of Trotskyism. In the next few days we will be publishing the first volume of the collected writings of Ted Grant cover the period from 1938 to 1942.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 |
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The following motion was passed by Southwark unison at a special members
meeting to discuss how to fight the cuts in local government. We are
publishing it here as it represents a good template that can be used by
trade unionists elsewhere in drafting similiar resolutions.
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