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Workers Power No. 383 April 2015
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Austria: revolution in the health service?
By Arbeiterinnenstandpunkt 6 May, 2015 The mood among employees of the Austrian health service has finally turned. After the introduction…
Why not vote SNP?
By Peter Main All indicators point to a massive swing from Labour to the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) in the…
Brazil: the left and the PT dilemma
Rico Rodriguez 5 May, 2015 In the face of recent protests and the general political situation, the Brazilian left faces…
Racism, repression and resistance in Baltimore
By Marcus Otono 4 May 2015 Just like a horrific version of the film “Groundhog Day”, police killings of African-Americans…
Marxists and elections: a weapon against capital
What's the point of voting Labour?
Long before the delayed publication of its election manifesto, the Labour Party leadership made very clear what their real priorities…
Cuts put women on rations
By Rebecca Anderson 2 May 2015 Chancellor George Osborne crowed in his 2015 budget speech that the employment rate was…
125 years of International Workers' Day
May Day 2015 marks a century and a quarter since the Second International launched this annual worldwide celebration of working…
Reclaim Brixton: reclaim the future
By KD Tait 27 April 2015 Saturday 25 April saw the first demonstration by Reclaim:Brixton, a movement formed to defend…
Deterrent by drowning: Mediterranean tragedy is official policy
By Dave Stockton and KD TaitONCE AGAIN, the seas surrounding Fortress Europe run red with the blood of migrants. The…
Ireland: the Socialist Party's dangerous times
By Bernie McAdam 20 April 2015 The Socialist Party in Ireland is deeply worried. Senior trade union officials like Irish…
Podemos and the limits of responsibility
By KD Tait Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos (We Can) won 14.8 per cent and took 15 seats in elections to…
Vote to kick out the Tories
The importance of the 2015 general election is not just that it will be close-run and that new or previously…
Podemos fails to breakthrough in Andalusia elections
By Christian Gebhardt 4 April 2015 This is super election-year in Spain. In May, there are local elections across the…
Pakistan caught in the crossfire
1 April, 2015 On 17 March, Pakistan was again shaken by terrorist attacks. In Lahore, two Taliban suicide bombers left…
General Election 2015: the choice is simple
All the experts agree the 2015 general election is the most unpredictable for decades. New parties, like Ukip on the…
Scandal or business as usual?
By Joy Macready 25 March 2015 Whose customers include drug barons, arms dealers, dictators, terrorists and blood diamond dealers? Why,…
Let Greece breathe: workers' solidarity to counter bosses' blackmail
25 March 2015 Despite the election of a government pledged to ease the intolerable burden of paying interest on Greece’s…
Israel votes for expansionism and war
On Saturday 7 March, only ten days before Israel’s recent elections, 50,000 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv against prime minister…
War of words
By Bernie McAdam 21 March, 2015 “Sex Lessons at Five Under Labour”, “Sick Benefits – 75% are Faking”, “Immigrant Baby…
Order reigns in Tobruk
By Marcus Halaby March 21, 2015 Those on the left who supported Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship against its own people in…
NHS 'Devo-Manc' is thin end of the wedge
Dara O’Cogaidhin The NHS ranks consistently among the top three priorities voters care about. Yet a recent policy, which has…
Nato escalation risks Russia war
A propaganda offensive against ‘Russian aggression’ orchestrated by the United States and its Nato allies aims to trigger a new…
Stop the Stormont House Agreement
By Bernie McAdam 16 March 2015 A mass strike involving up to 50,000 public sector workers was held across the…
Hawks v doves
Ukraine ceasefire exposes tensions between USA and EU The surrender of government forces surrounded in the town of Debaltsevo has…
Workers Power No.382 March 2015
The March 2015 issue of Workers Power Review is out now. [scribd-url pubid=”24852238179500127593153362″ url=”https://workerspower.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/finalwp382pp1-12reduced.pdf” ]
Saudi Arabia's unholy war
Marcus Halaby investigates Saudi Arabia’s role in the rise of ISIS Our rulers routinely present the beheadings of hostages carried…
Whose party is it anyway?
By Jeremy Dewar 9 March 2015 The latest figures for party funding in the run-up to the election are revealing….
Syriza's negotiated surrender
By KD Tait 5 March 2015 Syriza’s failure to secure concessions on Greece’s loan repayments shows the weakness of a…