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By Severfield Reeve workers
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Monday, 10 May 2010 |
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Severfield Reeve workers in Yorkshire have won a significant concession in their struggle
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By Socialist Appeal editorial (May 2010)
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Saturday, 08 May 2010 |
Who has won the election? Everybody has lost. The ruling class was
quite clear what it wanted and needed. There is a crisis. They need to
unload the burden of the crisis on to the backs of the working class.
To achieve that they needed a strong majority Conservative government
ready and willing to put the boot in to jobs and public services. The
election hasn’t delivered it. Here is the editorial from the new issue of Socialist Appeal.
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By Socialist Appeal
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Saturday, 08 May 2010 |
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The 2010 general election has produced the result that the ruling class were dreading: a hung parliament. With one seat to declare, no party has a working majority. So the dirty dealing begins...
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By Sylvia Courtnage (NUJ member)
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Monday, 10 May 2010 |
In 1999, the government set a target of eradicating child poverty
within a generation and of halving child poverty by 2010. Progress has
been made and (according to a government report ‘Ending child poverty:
everybody’s business’) 600,000 children have been taken out of relative
poverty, and absolute poverty has fallen by 1.8 million to less than
half the 1998-99 level. But many children still live in poverty and
this is unacceptable. (Photo - flckr)
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By Editorial Board of “Marxistiki Foni”
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
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Since the crisis in Greece has hit
the headlines there have appeared in the bourgeois media many stories
about how Greece has too many civil servants, how the working week is
very short, how people retire early on fat pensions, and so on, as if
this were the cause of the crisis. Facts and figures, however, can be
very stubborn things and they tell a completely different story.
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By Barbara Humphries (Member of Ealing Southall CLP)
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 |
Who killed Blair Peach? This is a question
which has been asked many times over the last 31
years, not only by the family and friends of Blair Peach, but the by the
thousands who joined a demonstration to protest against a so-called public
meeting held by the far right National Front as a provocation in predominantly
Asian Southall, on April 23rd,
during the election campaign of 1979.
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By Steve Jones
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010 |
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Thursday 6th May. Election Day. After weeks of campaigning the opinion
polls suggest that the result is still too close to call. Of course,
the polls could be wrong as they were in 1970 and more recently in
1992. But one thing is clear - no one is looking forward to whoever
forms the next government with much optimism.
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By Séamus Loughlin (Fightback - Ireland)
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
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The next few weeks will be very
important for the trade union movement in Ireland; either the Public
Service Agreement will be rejected and the trade union leaders will be
forced into organising action, or the government will get away with yet
another attack on living standards and working conditions.
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By Fred weston (www.marxist.com)
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Thursday, 29 April 2010 |
The downgrading of Greece’s credit
ratings by Standard & Poor’s
has sent shockwaves around the world’s financial markets, with stock
exchanges seeing significant falls over the last few days. The fear is
that Greece
could default and drag the rest of the eurozone into a severe crisis,
putting immense pressure on the euro. The problem the bourgeois face is
the Greek working class, which is not taking this lying down.
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By Mick Brooks
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
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The Liberal Democrats are riding high
in recent opinion polls. They are presenting themselves as something
“new” and “clean”. A closer look reveals a very old party that has
always carried out the policies dictated by the capitalist class of
Britain.
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By Editorial Board Statement
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Tuesday, 27 April 2010 |
Given the colossal volatility within the electorate in the
recent period, the outcome of the general election has become impossible
to
predict. With under 10 days to go, opinion polls point to some kind
of hung
Parliament with the Liberal Democrats holding the balance of power.
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By editor@Marxist.com
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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
The Cuban revolution is once more being attacked by the imperialists.
They raise a hue and cry about “democratic rights”, but what they are
really concerned about is a country where private property of the means
of production has been abolished, where the revolution has survived, in
spite of many mistakes and difficulties, and which continues to be a
point of reference for the downtrodden masses of Latin America. In
this,
the International Marxist Tendency stands firmly in support of the
Cuban revolution against the attacks of imperialism.
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 26 April 2010 |
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In 2008 the people of Pakistan voted
into office the PPP, hoping that this would bring genuine change, i.e. a
real improvement in their living conditions. Instead we have a
worsening economic situation, real suffering of the millions of poor,
and warfare killing many innocent civilians. Meanwhile the PPP
leadership is busying itself applying the IMF-imposed policies of cuts
and privatisations. In these conditions it is not surprising that many
are asking themselves what democracy has meant for them.
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By Mick Brooks
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Thursday, 22 April 2010 |
Goldman
Sachs has been accused of fraud and is up before the American Securities
and
Exchange Commission. What is coming out from all this are the clever
tricks of
the trade, i.e. how to make money from money - without actually
investing in the
real economy - and in the process “advise” people on how to lose their
money
while making the likes of Goldman Sachs very rich... until it all
crashes of
course.
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