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Economy in crisis
Profits, crisis and credit crunch: can 1929 happen again?
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Wednesday, 24 May 2006 |
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Following the hugely successful visit to London by
Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, where he addressed audiences of hundreds,
the Hands Off Venezuela campaign is to be launched in Scotland with a press conference
at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, 31st May.
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By Steve Jones in Bournemouth
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 |
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Thirty delegates and visitors from the national conference of the
Communication Workers Union attended the very first Hands Off
Venezuela fringe meeting, held on Monday lunchtime in windswept
Bournemouth. The day before, the 250,000-strong union, which organises
both postal and telecommunications workers in Britain, had unanimously agreed to
support the Venezuelan Revolution and also affiliate nationally to HOV.
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By Maarten Vanheuverswyn
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Friday, 12 May 2006 |
 After being labelled a “butcher” by
the British press following last week's bad election results for the
Labour Party and the subsequent Cabinet reshuffle, Tony Blair
suffered another blow, this time not at home but abroad. In Basra the
British army lost five soldiers, including the first female casualty,
as their helicopter crashed and British soldiers came under attack.
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Tuesday, 09 May 2006 |
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Labour suffered a heavy defeat in England's local council elections,
but Blair is desperately clinging on to office for now. In an attempt to
cover up Labour's losses and to shore up his support Blair quickly moved
to sack several high ranking ministers and promote loyal supporters.
What Blair has installed is a Final Days administration. It is a bunker
cabinet. Blair is finished and so is Blairism. These elections
illustrate a growing class polarisation taking place in British society.
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By Rick Fricker (Shop Steward, USDAW)
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Tuesday, 09 May 2006 |
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In Blackpool over the May Day Bank holiday, the British shop workers’
union USDAW, representing some 330,000 workers, passed a resolution
unanimously supporting the Venezuelan Revolution and affiliating to the
Hands Off Venezuela Campaign.
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Tuesday, 09 May 2006 |
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In Part One of
British Perspectives Phil Mitchinson looks at the general trends in
British politics, with an eye to the international situation, the war
in Iraq, and the decline of Blairism.
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By Darrall Cozens, NATFHE, Coventry (personal capacity)
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Monday, 08 May 2006 |
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The workers at the Peugeot plant in
Ryton (near Coventry) risk losing their jobs and livelihood. Darrall
Cozens reports on the latest situation after interviewing John
Cummins, Deputy Convenor from Amicus, about the trade union plans to
keep the plant open.
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By Barbara Humphries
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
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On the 80th anniversary of the 1926 general strike in Britain we look at what led to it and why it eventually was defeated. In spite of the tremendous militancy of the British working class, the top leaders of the trade union movement proved to be only too willing to compromise and get the workers back to work. |
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
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Eighty years ago an earthquake shook the very foundations of British capitalism. In the greatest display of militant power in its history, the British working class moved into action in the General Strike of 1926. For 9 days, from May 3, not a wheel turned nor a light shone without the permission of the working class. In such a moment, with such power, surely it ought to have been possible to have transformed society? How can such a position have ended in defeat? (by Phil Mitchinson, originally published in May 2001) |
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By Espe Espigares
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
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Hands Off Venezuela made a very good intervention in May Day. At the beginning of the march in Clerkenwell, a large stall was set up behind a massive HOV banner selling literature and t-shirts. The new HOV magazine was on sale throughout the demonstration. |
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Sunday, 07 May 2006 |
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This year’s rally was bigger than usual with thousands of workers taking part from many different unions, but there was a contradiction between some of the moderate speeches of the leaders and the real problems faced by the workers facing the onslaught of the bosses. |
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By Stuart Knox
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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Tony Blair has been pushing the line that the National Health Service has never had it so good. He lives on another planet obviously. Anyone who uses the NHS or works for it knows that a systematic attack on the very concept of free healthcare is taking place. |
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By Phil Mitchinson
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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Like vultures waiting for an animal to die before ripping it to pieces, private “investors” are watching as Blair destroys the National Health Service preparing the ground for more and more privatisation. The grandparents of today’s British workers struggled for a fully funded free healthcare system. Now we have to struggle to win it all back. |
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By Darrall Cozens, NATFHE, Coventry and Coventry Labour Party
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Friday, 21 April 2006 |
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The decision to close the Peugeot car plant at Ryton in Coventry and cease production of the best-selling 206 model was compared by one worker at the plant to knowing that a loved one was dying of cancer yet being shocked to know that death is at the doorstep. There is no time to lose if this struggle to save jobs is to win! |
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By Socialist Appeal
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Wednesday, 12 April 2006 |
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This year’s Socialist Appeal conference, which was held in London, showed a significant increase in attendance over last year, particularly of young comrades. Sellers and supporters attended from all over the country to participate in a weekend of debate and discussion. |
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