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Greece October 19-20: After earth-shattering general strike –what next?

By Marxistiki Foni
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Today (October 19), the first day of the 48-hour general strike in Greece was sensational. Apart from the government and public utilities workers that participated in the strike massively, hundreds of thousands of workers from the private sector came out on strike for the first time, and also joining the millions of striking workers were tens of thousands of small businesspeople and shopkeepers who closed the shutters to their shops in solidarity.

Portugal: right wing government’s austerity cuts prepare social explosion

By Jorge Martin
Thursday, 20 October 2011
As Portugal’s right-wing government announced the harshest austerity cuts in the country’s history, economic forecasts were revised down and the main trade union confederations CGTP and UGT announced the calling of a general strike.

Rome: October 15 – half a million people protest against the ECB and austerity measures

By Roberto Sarti, Editorial Board of FalceMartello
Thursday, 20 October 2011
On October 15, Rome saw one of the biggest demonstrations of the last few years in Italy. Up to half a million people flooded the streets of the capital. Not only was this a huge demonstration in terms of the numbers taking part, but even more significantly you could hear the most radical slogans of the last decade. The masses, inspired by Athens, Madrid and New York, chanted “we don’t want to pay the debt”, “No to austerity”, “No to the dictatorship of the ECB and the banks”, etc.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - A Two Handed Play, Review

By Andy Fenwick, Unite, Worcester CLP
Monday, 17 October 2011
Whilst chatting with students at Worcester University, I was presented with a flyer for a production of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists that night in the university, an opportunity not to miss. However my expectation of a theatrical interpretation of this socialist classic by just two actors was very low but this was blown away as soon as the performance began.

N. Ireland: Free Marian Price!

By Tony Healy (Fightback Ireland)
Thursday, 13 October 2011
The decision of the Secretary Of State to revoke Marian Price’s release from prison has been met with widespread opposition from the Republican movement. The justification given was that the threat that she poses has “significantly increased” and that she had been encouraging support for an illegal organisation based on her involvement in an Easter comm

Cambridge Students Union calls on Students to Strike!

By Cambridge Marxists
Thursday, 13 October 2011
As the crisis of capitalism continues to pile attack after attack on living standards, the student and labour movements in Britain are preparing for their largest mobilisations in decades and crucially are coalescing this Autumn into a momentous month of activity in November. No one can deny that the national student demonstration (9th November) and the coordinated strike action (30th November) are really part of the same struggle.

Occupy Wall St. - Letter from a participant

By Cecilia Gingerich, NYU
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Today ULU Marxists received a letter from a student at New York University (NYU), Cecilia Gingerich, who was a member of the University of London Marxist Society while studying in London in the spring of 2010. She is now a participant in Occupy Wall Street and in her letter gives a first hand account of her experience of the movement from the beginning, her narrowly escaping the mass arrest of the 700 protestors on October 1st and the impact that had on the movement in the following days. Now the unions have joined the protestors on Wall Street, along with walk-outs from high schools and colleges, which Cecilia has participated with students from her own university.

Sparks fight on!

By Site Worker/Electricians Against The World
Thursday, 13 October 2011
The fight against attempts to cut Sparks pay by 35% continued this week with protests around the country and a very lively rank and file meeting of Unite construction workers on Tuesday. Here are some reports...

Let's show the Tate Modern the Art of Civil disobedience

By Site Worker
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Seven weeks of fantastic rank and file protests has seen off one of the big 8 [MJN Colston]. At rank and file meetings committees have been elected in London, Manchester and the North East. And this week's target sites have been chosen

Militant Students at Freshers Fairs

By Militant Student
Monday, 10 October 2011
Marxist ideas have never been more relevant and more needed than in this present epoch. Students, especially those entering university for the first time, have become radicalised and are asking profound questions about our society. Above all they want to change society in a revolutionary way - from Wall Street to Cairo radicalised students are demanding a different kind of society and are experimenting with different methods of mobilisation to effect that. Underneath this process lies a thirst for revolutionary ideas. This enthusiasm was certainly experienced by Militant Student supporters up and down the country as they took part in freshers fairs.

The impending default and the new wave of working class revolt in Greece

By Marxistiki Foni Editorial Board
Monday, 10 October 2011
The financial crisis in Greece is constantly in the headlines and focusing everyone’ attention on what it could lead to. As we have explained before, the reason for this is not due to the objective economic weight of the Greek economy within European and world capitalism. In absolute terms Greece only accounts for 2% of the European Union’s GDP and even its public debt is only 3% of the total public debt of the Eurozone. The point is, however, that Greece is the weakest link in European capitalism which is now at the centre of the global capitalist crisis.

USA: Wall Street rocked by anti-capitalist protests – time to build a labor party!

By Alan Woods
Monday, 10 October 2011
Last week Wall Street was rocked by a mass demonstration of over 15,000 people protesting against “corporate greed.” The crowd jammed the square and stretched for blocks along Broadway. This unprecedented protest was a manifestation of the mood of anger, bitterness and frustration that has been accumulating for years in American society, which had already previously erupted in the big demonstrations and walkouts in Madison, Wisconsin, culminating in the occupation of the Capitol.

Union resolution to build for Nov 30th

By Socialist Appeal
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
Here is the text of a excellent resolution from two unions sent to the Cambridge Trades Council. It provides clear guidance and direction as to how the union movement should organise to make Nov 30th a big success.

USA: Youth hits the streets

By John Peterson in the USA
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
“Enough is enough! We are the 99%!” This is the sentiment being expressed by the brave youth now occupying Freedom Plaza in New York City, just a few feet away from Wall Street. This is the pent-up feeling of millions—no—billions of people around the world. Enough unemployment! Enough war! Enough poverty! Enough discrimination!" The Wall Street campaign is growing - here is what the US Marxists have to say.

Sparks hit Oxford Street

By Site Worker
Wednesday, 05 October 2011
Early morning visitors to London's Oxford Street got a surprise today (Wed) when they were greeted by hundreds of protesting workers as the ongoing rank and file Sparks campaign arrived to hit the Park House site.