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Economy in crisis
Profits, crisis and credit crunch: can 1929 happen again?
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By Rob Sewell
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Friday, 17 November 2006 |
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It will come as a great shock to all comrades to
hear the tragic news of the premature death of comrade Phil Mitchinson, the
deputy editor of the Marxist journal Socialist
Appeal and leading member of the International Marxist Tendency.
Regrettably Phil suffered a severe heart attack late last night, was rushed to
hospital, but staff were unable to save him. He was 38 years of age.
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By Jorge Martin
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Friday, 10 November 2006 |
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The campaign for Venezuela's presidential election on December 3rd is
already well under way. But this is far from a normal election. On
December 3rd what is really at stake is the future of the Bolivarian
Revolution. In November's Socialist Appeal Jorge
Martin analyses the current situation in Venezuela and explains why the
elections represent a vital turning point for the revolution
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By Ted Grant (first published in 1967)
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006 |
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Today, November 7th, we celebrate the 89th anniversary of the 1917
Russian Revolution by republishing an article written by Ted Grant,
originally published in 1967 on the revolution's 50th anniversary. Even
at a time when the bureaucracy seemed almighty and irremovable this
article confidently predicts the downfall of the Stalinist regime.
Then, the political revolution, i.e. the workers coming to power,
seemed a concrete possibility, especially in the light of the 1956
Hungarian events. Unfortunately, because there was no party capable of
leading the workers, the collapse of the Stalinist regime led to the
capitalist counter-revolution. However, this article clearly
demonstrates that the genuine Marxists, the Trotskyists, never had any
illusions in Stalinism and always struggled for its overthrow and for
the workers to take back the power they had briefly held after the 1917
revolution.
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By Matt Wells
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
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The band Catch 22 have produced an album based on the life struggles and ideas of Leon Trotsky. Here Matt Wells gives a brief outline of what the album is about.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Thursday, 02 November 2006 |
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Police in London
brutally break up a protest picket outside the Mexican embassy. The picket had
been called to protest at the army clampdown in Oaxaca over the weekend. Read the report here
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 |
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The Editorial of November's Socialist Appeal examines the
staggering death toll in Iraq and the various 'exit strategies' being
considered by the imperialists desperate to extricate themselves from
the quagmire they have created.
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By Daniel Morley
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Monday, 30 October 2006 |
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Ronny Pante continued his speaking tour of UK universities at the University of East Anglia in Norwich on 26th October, continuing to prove that youth in Britain feel solidarity and excitement towards the revolutionary movement in Venezuela. The mood at the meeting was eager, with a great deal of questions on how we can make our own desire for a transition from capitalism to socialism concrete.
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006 |
Last night was the first of many events organised by Hands
Off Venezuela featuring Ronny Pante, general
coordinator of the Integrated Students' Movement in Bolivar,
Venezuela, who is touring
British universities to explain why students and activists in this country
should care about what is happening in Venezuela. Read a report of the meeting here.
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By Kenny McGuigan
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Tuesday, 24 October 2006 |
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Garment production workers at one of the world's most famous clothing manufacturer continue their series of industrial actions, including strikes after bosses rejected their demand for a 2.5% pay increase. 85% of the membership voted for industrial action up to and including strike, work to rule and a refusal to pass on work to sub-contractors for completion.
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By Kenny McGuigan
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Tuesday, 24 October 2006 |
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Council
tenants in Stirling voted by a resounding 68%
against privatising the housing stock in a magnificent victory to keep council
housing out of the hands of profiteers. As this report is compiled,
Renfrewshire tenants have also voted "NO". Council tenants across the country are
sending a strong message to local authorities and the Scottish Executive - NO
TO THE PRIVATISATION OF COUNCIL HOUSING!
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By Michael Roberts
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Friday, 06 October 2006 |
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In October's Socialist Appeal our Economics Correspondent, Michael Roberts, examines the claims of the Financial Times
(and others) that the British economy is in rude health. In reality, he
argues, Britain’s capitalist survival has increasingly been built on
becoming a
rentier economy, relying on providing financial and ‘professional’
services to other capitalist nations, while the "City of London is a
huge aircraft carrier parked in the Thames,
where world money flows in and out, with little touching the sides,
except fro those working on the carrier and living in London and the
south-east. The rest of Britain is a just a dark shadow to these
people."
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Friday, 06 October 2006 |
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The Editorial of October's Socialist Appeal calls for meetings
to be organised to support John McDonnells' bid for the leadership of
the Labour Party as an important opportunity to raise socialist ideas
throughout the labour movement. In preparing for a struggle in the
Labour Party we must learn from the past. The most vital lesson is that
it is not sufficient to tinker with the
capitalist system. We will fight for any reform in the interests of the
working class. The central lesson of the whole of Labour history,
however, must be that not one of those reforms can endure if the
capitalist system remains intact.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 03 October 2006 |
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John McDonnell, the Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, has announced
his intention to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party. He is
Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs, the Labour Representation Committee,
and the 'Public Services Not Private Profit' anti-privatisation
campaign. He is also the national chair of Hands Off Venezuela and has
been at the forefront of the campaign to defend the Venezuelan
revolution. Socialist Appeal supports John's campaign as a real
opportunity to raise socialist ideas throughout the labour movement. We
asked John to tell us about his campaign and about the need to fight
for socialist policies inside the Labour Party.
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By Pablo Roldan
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Friday, 29 September 2006 |
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On Thursday, September 14, around 80 people attended a meeting called
by Wandsworth Stop the War Coalition at the Baptist Church in Balham to
which Hands off Venezuela was invited to have a stall. The main
speaker of the evening was John McDonnell MP, who is standing for the
leadership of the Labour
Party once Blair quits. Next week we will be publishing an interview
with John McDonnnell, which features in the October edition of Socialist Appeal.
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By Gerry Ruddy, Irish Republican Socialist Party
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
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Twenty five years ago British imperialism demonstrated its cold,
calculating cruelty in the face of Irish Republican prisoners who felt they had no alternative but to make
the ultimate sacrifice in the struggle for political rights, embarking
on a
hunger strike that would tragically end with their deaths.
The Hunger Strikers of 1981 join a hall of many martyrs in the long
struggle to free Ireland, the fight for national liberation and
socalism. Gerry Ruddy of the Irish Republican Socialist Party has sent
us an excellent and intimate analysis of the events, the tactics, and
the politics of Republicanism from the time of the Hunger Strikes in
1981 to the present day, highlighting the need to build a revolutionary
movement based on Marxism and rooted in the working class across all
boundaries.
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