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By Isa Al-Jaza'iri (www.marxist.com)
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
 In the middle of the night of the 31st of May, 64 km off the coast,
Israeli commandos rappelled down from helicopters onto the 6 ship
flotilla. Activists say they boarded the ships firing. The Israeli
government decided to use deadly force to maintain their blockade of
the Gaza strip, provoking waves of protest. These events have exposed
the policy of Israeli imperialism to the masses everywhere: Gaza is a
ghetto, kept in starvation conditions, and no one may interfere. This
will have effects across the world, even in Israel itself.
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By Niklas Albin Svensson
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
 Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of UNITE,
in a speech at the union’s conference in Manchester, declared his
determination
to “take the party back” for working people. This is a positive step but
it
needs to be made concrete.
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By Mick Brooks (Ealing Southall CLP)
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
 What has the banking crisis cost us all? Andrew Haldane of the Bank of
England has tried to work it all out in a paper called ‘The $100
billion question’.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 |
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Britain is heading for a showdown. The British establishment is taking
stock of the situation. They are fully aware of the social crisis that
is unfolding. The illusions of class harmony have evaporated. They
consider that it is time that the working class learned its lesson that
capitalism cannot afford any reforms. Counter-reforms are on the order
of the day. The workers are therefore being sent to the school of the
coalition government whose programme is “red in tooth and claw”
austerity.
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
 In
the second part of his article, Alan Woods looks at the dire economic
situation the European Union faces. He also analyses the effects of the
European crisis on the world economy.
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By Fightback (Ireland)
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
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We publish here an article which looks at thge Labour leadership campaign from an Irish point of view.
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Monday, 31 May 2010 |
 As part of their visit to Britain in May 2010 to attend the Hands
Off Venezuela conference, Venezuelan revolutionaries Katy Jaimes and
Elias Chacón also spoke at fringe meetings at the conferences of the
Public Commercial and Services Union in Brighton and the Communication
Workers Union in Bournemouth
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By Terry McPartlan
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Friday, 28 May 2010 |
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After the Second World War the advanced capitalist world went through a prolonged period of boom, rising working class living standards and relative class peace. By 1970 it was clear that the boom was coming to an end. The ruling class saw the need to confront the working class and drive down living standards in order to restore their profits. Their chosen instrument in Britain was the Tory government under Heath, elected in 1970.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 |
 After talk of the so called "credit crunch" gave way to optimistic
comments about the "green shoots" in the economy, events in Greece
caught the bourgeois commentators unaware. Now the world economy has
once again been plunged into chaos and uncertainty as the governments
of Europe try to contain the fall-out from the near-default of Greece
and it is the workers who will be presented with the bill.
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By Dan Morley
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
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It cannot be denied that the historic global crisis of
capitalism has not, in Britain and America, led to an immediate corresponding
rise in class struggle (unlike say in Greece). Does this rule out the class struggle in the long term?
No. But in order to understand why it has been delayed, it is necessary for
socialists to concretely analyse all the conditions of the class.
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By Will Roche (a BECTU member)
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
 Copyright is in crisis. Photocopying, scanning, audio and video
recording, computers and now the internet have all made it increasingly
difficult for the owners of copyright to enforce their rights. There
has been a renewed effort, such as the Digital Economy Bill, to restore
the balance of power in favour of big business, but levies and legal
penalties only serve to patch holes in an already leaky system. The
flaw lies not in the technology, or in piracy or file-sharing, as
corporations would have us believe, but in the very notion of copyright.
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By LRC
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
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The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) has
issued the following press release outlining union support for John
McDonnell to be on the ballot for Labour leader.
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By Will Roche
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Monday, 24 May 2010 |
 Last Saturday's HOV conference, held in London, was a great event. Here are some photo's by HOV's resident snapper, Will.
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By Fran P. Bowman (Fightback)
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Sunday, 23 May 2010 |
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Under
heavy Gardaí surveillance, including a helicopter, a crowd of over 1500
filled up Molesworth St, opposite the Dáil's gates on the 18th
May. It was the second protest, after the 11th of May, organised by the
Right to Work Campaign (RWC) sponsored by the union UNITE and the
support of all the left groups with presence in Dublin, including SF.
There were also two banners of the Labour party, although this party is
not officially supporting the protest.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Sunday, 23 May 2010 |
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With Labour Party officials now having been forced by pressure
from below into extending the time period for MPs to nominate for the
position of Labour leader, the campaign to get John McDonnell onto the
ballot has been given a new impetus. As part of this Jerry
Hicks, the left candidate for the position of Unite General Secretary,
has issued a press release giving support to John:
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