Issue 170 of Socialist Appeal is out now. This months journal features:

Editorial: No more bail-outs - take over banks

Ireland: Labour must be prepared to fight

Unskilled and unemployed: Organise or die on your feet slowly

Education: Bologna process - a password for privatisation

IMT winter school: Forward to the future, don’t forget the past

Rich and poor: The rich get richer - here’s how

Economic crisis: Crisis of world capitalism gathers speed

Our history: The Ridley Report

USA: Martin Luther King, Obama and the struggle against racism

Gaza: Israel’s massacre in Gaza - a balance sheet of the struggle

Cuba: 50 years of Revolution

Unite-Amicus elections: Jerry Hicks for Gerneral Secretary

Pensions: Won in 1909 - at risk in 2009?

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