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No sweet future for Cadbury workers? Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
cadbury_chocolate.jpgThe news that Cadbury, the iconic chocolate making firm, has accepted a hostile bid from US based Kraft is clearly not good news for Cadbury workers given the huge debt Kraft is currently carrying. In an article wriiten just before the news broke we look at what all this could mean.
 
Ireland: Public sector strikes begin... ICTU needs a clear strategy Print E-mail
By Fightback Editorial Board   
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
air_traffic_ireland.jpgThe trade union campaign against the wage cuts announced in Lenihan’s December budget will begin to escalate over the next few weeks as different groups of workers across the public sector take action in what is being portrayed as an ongoing campaign of selective action. Today 20th January, the air traffic controllers are coming out, which will have a dramatic and very public effect on air travel.  It’s likely that the workers concerned in the various selective actions will receive strike fund support in many cases and as such the campaign could continue for a considerable time. But what is the underlying situation and what are the issues for the movement?
 
Road to peace? Print E-mail
By Darrall Cozens Coventry NE Labour Party   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
afghan_war2.jpgJust about a month ago in Coventry we were treated to a public meeting on the Road to Peace in Afghanistan with local MP Bob Ainsworth, MoD, versus Bruce Kent of CND. For Bob the issue was simple. We are there to help the Afghan people, to stop the country becoming a failed state, to protect British interests, to fight terrorism and to stop Pakistan collapsing as withdrawal of UK forces would mean precisely that. Members of the audience asked a number of questions, all of which failed to get an adequate answer.
 
Review: The Power Of Yes Print E-mail
By Mick Brooks   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
power-of-yes-001.jpgMick Brooks reviews a new play by David Hare which deals with the events surrounding the start of the great financial crisis.
 
Soldiers for hire Print E-mail
By Melanie MacDonald   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
mercenaries_silh_web.jpgExploitation and robbery – colonial style - is alive and well and now, more than ever mercenary soldiers are doing the dirty work. Unaccountable and secretive,contracted armies are the preferred method powerful western states use to destabilize governments and secure control of natural resources. With state complicity, soldiers for hire are uninhibited by fear of prosecution and use what ever means necessary to undermine national liberation movements and impose imperialist chains and the rule of Western big business.
 
Bolshevism and Stalinism Print E-mail
By Rob Sewell   
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
desk_1918_better_web.jpgThe history of the Russian Revolution is intimately associated with the names of Lenin and Trotsky, its two great leaders. They attracted all the praise and they bore all the hatred. The reason for this is not difficult to understand. The October Russian Revolution, led by the Bolshevik Party, was the greatest event in history. For the first time, the workers and peasant took power into their hands, swept aside the landlords and capitalists, and proceeded to organise a democratic workers’ Soviet Republic. The authority of the new Soviet government rested upon a congress of soviets (workers’ committees) elected from factories and barracks.
 
The next recession Print E-mail
By Michael Roberts   
Friday, 08 January 2010
recession.jpgThe deepest and longest economic recession in the advanced capitalist economies since the 1930s is more or less over.  But it won’t be long before capitalism plunges into another.  That won’t happen in 2010, but there will be another economic slump before the new decade is out.
 
Interpol plots with Iranian regime Print E-mail
By Daniel Read   
Friday, 08 January 2010
The international police organisation INTERPOL has posted wanted alerts on a number of Iranian political dissidents. This revelation follows in the wake of the December 26-27th protests in Iran which drew millions onto the streets nationwide. Clashes with police led to military units being ordered to fire on demonstrators, an order which is alleged to have been disobeyed.
 
Solidarity with UNITE strikers @ Fujitsu Print E-mail
By Manchester Trades Council   
Thursday, 07 January 2010
fujitsu.jpgUnite members at the Fujitsu plant in Manchester are taking action in defence of jobs, pay and pensions. An appeal to the labour and trade union movement to give support has been sent out from Manchester Trades Council. Click on the heading to find out more.
 
TSSA Members Strike to Defend Rail Services. Print E-mail
By Darrall Cozens, Coventry NE Labour Party, UCU, Coventry Trades Council.   
Thursday, 07 January 2010
tssa_strike_2.jpgMembers of the Rail union TSSA came out on strike this week. Darrall Cozens, a former TSSA member himself, explains the background to this dispute and why your ticket matters!
 
The Relevance of Marxism Today Print E-mail
By Adam Booth   
Thursday, 07 January 2010
marx.jpgThe current recession has given people a thirst for knowledge; a desire to understand what is happening. People no longer need to be convinced of the failure of Capitalism – they can see and experience it for themselves. The public look to the bourgeois economists and reformist politicians for answers and they get no explanation other than some muttering about “greedy bankers”. This article published by a Cambridge student magazine explains what the Cambridge Marxists have to say about this.
 
2009: recession and class struggle Print E-mail
By Terry McPartlan   
Monday, 28 December 2009
clock.jpgIt is customary at this time of year to look back over the events of the last 12 months. In this article published in the final issue of Socialist Appeal for 2009, Terry McPartlan takes a trip back over the highs and lows of the year (and decade) now ending.
 
Merry Xmas! Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Friday, 25 December 2009
A very merry Xmas to all our readers, writers and sellers
 
Turmoil, Floods and Crisis: Ireland in 2009 Print E-mail
By Fightback (Ireland)   
Thursday, 24 December 2009
 

The last year has marked a huge turning point in the Irish economy and most importantly a huge shift in the relations between the classes in Ireland. While the Celtic Tiger had been on life support for a while, 2009 saw a huge crisis that has had massive economic consequences and political change that will play out for a whole period. This year represented a shift from one historical period to another; a whole new perspective has opened up for Irish society, not just in the 26 counties, but increasingly across the whole island as the impact of the capitalist crisis begins to be felt to its full extent in the north.

 
Editorial: 2010 Elections, austerity and struggle Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal Editorial Board   
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
New Year is meant to represent a new beginning, a clean slate. Old Father Time gives way to a new bouncing baby. But what can we expect in 2010?  Will it be a new shiny outlook for world capitalism or will 2009 just seem to be dragging on under a new name?
 
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