Socialist Appeal

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By Mick Brooks
Tuesday, 11 March 2008
The government has a good scam going on rising prices. They're trying to hold public sector pay down to 2.1%, which is the rate of inflation measured by the Consumer Prices Index. But if you measure inflation by the Retail Prices Index (another official government index) prices have gone up by more than 4% over the past year.

The NUT Strike Ballot

By Ed Doveton (Wakefield NUT)
Monday, 10 March 2008
Last month the National Union of Teachers’ Executive announced a ballot for a 24 hour strike on 24th April for all school-based members. The ballot is currently underway, having started on February 24th and will end on 31st March.

Audio File: ULU Marxist Society - 100 years of International Women's Day

By Barbara Humphries

Friday, 07 March 2008

Whatever happened to Women's liberation?

Tomorrow is International Women's Day. Although governments and political parties around the world pay lip service to women's liberation, the liberation of women remains elusive. Barbara Humphries, long-term labour movement activist and Marxist, spoke on Wednesday evening at the ULU Marxist Society on the origins of International Women's Day, the necessity for capitalism to divide society on the basis of sex and how the emergence of class society made women second-class citizens.

Audio File: ULU Marxist Society - 100 years of International Women's Day

By Barbara Humphries

Friday, 07 March 2008

Whatever happened to Women's liberation?

Irish Republican Socialist Youth Movement Day School

By Ewan Gibbs
Friday, 07 March 2008
On February 23 three comrades of the International Marxist Tendency attended the Republican Socialist Youth Movement’s (RSYM) winter day school in Belfast. Jim Daly, Sean McGowan and Bernadette McAliskey spoke on various aspects on the question of Republicanism and Socialism and the role of the working class. Francesco Merli spoke on Venezuela. There was keen interest in the ideas of Marxism and the school bodes well for the development of the RSYM.

Irish Republican Socialist Youth Movement Day School

By Ewan Gibbs
Friday, 07 March 2008
On February 23 three comrades of the International Marxist Tendency attended the Republican Socialist Youth Movement’s (RSYM) winter day school in Belfast. Jim Daly, Sean McGowan and Bernadette McAliskey spoke on various aspects on the question of Republicanism and Socialism and the role of the working class. Francesco Merli spoke on Venezuela. There was keen interest in the ideas of Marxism and the school bodes well for the development of the RSYM.