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Review: The Riots by Gillian Slovo
Joy Macready reviews The Riots at Tricycle Theatre on between 17 November – 10 December THE RIOTS, written by Gillian Slovo,…
What Christmas means for capitalism
It is that time of the year again, writes Simon Hardy. But what is the real meaning of Christmas under…
Socialist measures against the capitalist crisis
WITH BRITAIN predicted to go back into recession next year, and with a new credit crunch and the collapse of…
N30 Birmingham: 15,000 join mass city-wide protest
Around 15,000 marched in Birmingham yesterday. Huge contingents of teachers, civil servants, careworkers, nurses and local government workers from across…
N30 Leeds: over 10,000 take to the streets against Tories
November 30 in Leeds saw a solid strike, with the city covered in picketlines, and a massive demonstration and rally…
Manchester: a whole city behind the strikes
It seemed that everywhere you turned in Manchester city centre there was a picket line somewhere – and the strikes…
After 30 November – escalate the action to win!
Workers Power leaflet for the picket lines and protests on N30 • No concessions on pensions • Link up all…
N30 – All out tomorrow!
Biggest strike since 1926 • Government on the defensive • Serious public support for strikes Across the country trade union…
N30 We are the 99% – Protest, Strike, Occupy!
• All out on 30 November • Joint strike committees in every town • Workers and students unite – forward…
Motion to Unite Resistance Convention
This is the motion which was submitted to the Unite the Resistance conference, but not taken, on 19 November 2011…
Unite the Resistance: a missed opportunity
Up to 1000 trade unionists gathered in London on Saturday to discuss the public sector pensions strike on 30 November….
Marxism Today – the Gramsci Enigma
Luke Cooper on Gramsci’s Marxism (followed by discussion and summing up below)
Editorial: Anticapitalism hits the streets
November is a crucial month in the fightback against the cuts. Demonstrations and protests by students and electricians will hit…
The rich get richer…
DIRECTORS OF the FTSE 100 – the top 100 British companies – saw their incomes rise by an average of 49…
… and the poor get poorer
CHANCELLOR GEORGE Osborne famously claimed that, “We’re all in this together.” But when it comes to wealth and living standards,…
… and angrier!
THE UN’S INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation has produced a report stating that “social upheavals” are on the cards due to growing cuts,…
Democracy, cuts and the anti union laws
The government, backed up by howls of anger by those on the right, are threatening to strengthen the anti union…
Public sector pensions – trade dispute or class war?
Is the struggle over pensions limited to an economic issue, or is it a political fight, asks Jeremy Dewar THE…
The G20 didn’t stop the economic crisis: what comes next?
No matter what they try, nothing seems to work… The world leaders have gathered at the G20, and European leaders…
Greece: the prospects for a revolution
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou gives way to a coalition government as the EU leaders attempt to force through more cuts…
Egyptian workers fight for their rights
Since the fall of Mubarak, workers have taken their chance to launch strikes and protests over both political issues and…
Military trials and constitutional principles
The Egyptian army’s attack on unarmed Coptic demonstrators has not occurred in a vacuum. It takes place in the run-up…
Egypt after the Maspero massacre
Violence against Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, about one-twentieth of its population, is not a new phenomenon. Hosni Mubarak’s regime, and…
How can the sparks win?
The electricians have a only weeks left until their industry agreement is ripped up, how can the campaign escalate to…
BBC ballots for strike action
Joy Macready, an NUJ member, reports on the continuing struggle at the BBC BBC WORKERS are gearing up for battle…
Builders’ union bars militant from election
MICK DOOLEY, a bricklayer who has been blacklisted and imprisoned for his militant trade union activities on construction sites in…
Grass Roots Left agrees platform
Fifty rank and file union activists, mainly but not exclusively from Unite, gathered in Birmingham on 5 November for the…
We need an anticapitalist alternative
Unite the resistance
A new anti cuts coalition is being set up in November, it offers a real opportunity for the left, but…
Building the left: The lessons of the last 10 years
Luke Cooper looks back on past efforts to build new left organisations and points to what we can learn from…