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By W.I.L (USA)
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Monday, 14 June 2010 |
Marxists in the US have just finished discussing and agreeing a new perspectives doument on the ongoing crisis of the system in America. Given the importance of what happens in the most powerful capitalist country on earth, we are reproducing that document for UK readers.
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 14 June 2010 |
Last year a powerful movement erupted in
Iran that shook the hated
Islamic fundamentalist regime to its very foundations. All the
conditions were present for a successful revolutionary overthrow of the
regime. What was lacking, however, was the active participation of the
working class as an organised force and, most importantly, a conscious,
revolutionary leadership of the movement.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Monday, 14 June 2010 |
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As the campaign to get Jerry Hicks elected as General Secretary of Unite gets into full swing, here is a new video to watch - just click here!
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By Séamus Loughlin
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
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IRELAND: The
outcome of the ballots among the ICTU affiliated unions over the Croke
Park deal will be finally clear by next week when the SIPTU and IMPACT
ballot results are counted. A huge amount of pro deal propaganda has
been brought to bear on the membership of the public sector unions,
backed up by the trade union leadership who have been desperate to
present the deal as the saviour of the Irish working class.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
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Alan Docherty, a long standing Unison activist has been banned from holding office for two years by union officials in what is a clear attack on democracy in the union.
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By Unison Socialist Appeal Supporters
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Friday, 11 June 2010 |
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Next week's conference of the public sector union Unison will be the most important for decades given the severity of the cuts being promised by the new government. Many of Unison's members are low paid or part time and will be hit hard by a government keen to cut costs to bail out the bosses crisis.
Unison Conference Meeting:
"Which way forward for Unison?"
Thurs 17th June 5.30pm start
Royal Exeter Hotel, Bournemouth.
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
Further to
our earlier report that John McDonnell has withdrawn as a candidate for
election as Labour leader, it has now been confirmed that Diane Abbott
has now secured
enough nominations to get on the ballot. She will be up against the two
Milibands,
Ed Balls and Andy Burnham.
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By John McDonnell (LRC website)
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 |
The following statement has just been released by John McDonnell
concerning his campaign to be on the ballot paper for Labour leader.
Nominations close at lunchtime today with the party NEC meeting this
afternoon. We will comment further on this once the situation becomes
clearer later today.
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By Veronica Killen - Northern Region LRC
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
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Last Saturday an excellent meeting of the Northern LRC was held in
Gateshead with John McDonnell, fighting to be on the ballot for the new
leader of the Labour Party, and Paul Holmes, candidate for GS of
Unison, amongst those in attendance. We reproduce here a report on the
meeting by Veronica Killen from the LRC
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By Frederick Engels
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
Anarchism is a confused political creed. In fact some anarchists
take pride in the fact that it is difficult to pin their ideas down
almost as a point of principle. But their watchword has always been a
struggle against ‘authority.’ Some may find this slogan attractive,
but Engels’ brilliant essay shows that some class always wields
authority in society – the question is which one.
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By Terry McPartlan
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010 |
Ted Heath’s plans went very "agley" in the early 1970s, and he had a Tory
parliamentary majority that Cameron can only dream of. The volatility
of the world in 2010 means that this new Tory/Lib Dem government will be a
government of crisis. Certainly the story of Ted Heath’s demise has a
lot of lessons for trade unionists and socialists today.
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 07 June 2010 |
Europe faces a protracted period of austerity, with major
contractions in output, consumption and employment. The crisis has
started with the smaller, more vulnerable economies like Greece,
Portugal and Ireland. But the others will follow, starting with
Britain.
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By Fred McDowell
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
Those of us watching the political developments in the wake of the
election have seen a kaleidoscope of people passing by – Brown,
Cameron, Clegg and all their understrappers have all been very busy.
They all have one thing in common. They are interested in politics. But
at this crucial time their attention has been concentrated on an
unusual figure – the Queen. She’s unusual because she’s not interested
in politics at all. Her favourite paper is the ‘Racing Post’ and her
major interest is in horse racing
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By Jorge Martin (www.marxist.com)
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
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On Tuesday and Wednesday, June 1 and
2, most workers returned to work at the Honda plant in Foshan, China,
after strike action which had started on May 17. As www.marxist.com reported
earlier, the workers were fighting for substantial wage increases.
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By Adam Booth (Unite the Union, personal capacity)
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
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In
1987, Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Prime Minister, declared in an
interview that, “there is no such thing as society.” It is therefore fairly ironic that 13 years later,
David Cameron, the new Conservative Prime Minister, has announced his plans to
create a ‘Big Society’ in Britain. Throughout the general election coverage,
Cameron had avoided mentioning any specifics on what was meant by his vision of
a Big Society, but now Cameron and his new best friend Nick Clegg, have
outlined what is in store for the country.
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