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Summer camp attracts internationalist youth

This year’s international revolutionary summer camp in Greece will be a perfect place to bring together 400 fresh faced, politically hungry, students and young activists. Each day, workshops, meetings, forums and discos are planned to be engaging, constructive, highly educational and most importantly enjoyable.The delegation from Britain looks set to be the best that SR […]

Admin. | June 30th, 2009 | Continued

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SR & Green Left plan ‘Climate & Capitalism’ seminar

Planned for Saturday September 12, Climate and Capitalism is the first seminar organised jointly by Green Left and Socialist Resistance, the ecosocialist currents in two of Britain’s left parties, the Greens and Respect. This energetic and open day of discussion will bring experts, campaigners, radical activists and others together. The event will be in the […]

Resistance | June 27th, 2009 | Continued

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A new look for ‘Socialist Resistance’

Issue 55 of ‘Socialist Resistance’ comes out next week, with a fresh new design, just in time for the Marxism festival in London. The headline sums up the mood across the left: ‘Election disaster! Now the left MUST unite‘.
The editorials in the magazine build on Socialist Resistance’s recent statement on the European elections, which argues […]

Duncan Chapel | June 24th, 2009 | Continued

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Troops out of Tamil homeland; Release the prisoners

The massive demonstration in London on June 20th reflected the widespread shock and anger of the Tamil diaspora. The key demands that have to be raised are the right to live in the Tamil homeland; freedom for internees and political prisoners; and immediate withdrawal of the army, which is overwhelmingly Sinhalese.

Duncan Chapel | June 21st, 2009 | Continued

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European elections — an alarm is ringing

Socialist Resistance statement: The European election results are not good reading for the workers’ movement. Across Europe the turnout was only 43.2% and the main winner was the centre right. Centre right governments in France, Italy, Germany, Poland, all made gains to one degree or another as they did in Austria and Hungary.
On the other […]

Administrator | June 14th, 2009 | Continued

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Updated leaflet for Climate and Capitalism seminar

A updated leaflet is available for the upcoming Climate and Capitalism seminar, as part of a series of mobilisations for the event (replacing yesterday’s leaflet). To download it visit http://tinyurl.com/CandCleaflet.
The first registrations have been coming in for the event. There are 17 confirmed attendees and 41 ‘maybes’ on facebook. Ten people have registered on the […]

2Jul2009 | Resistance | 0 comments | Continued
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This week: How workers of Ford in Europe are fighting back

The crisis in the car industry is hitting hard. Union leaders have been responsible for negotiating shorter weeks and pay cuts. But where workers have taken decisive action important victories have been won. By striking and occupying plants, and the threat of international solidarity action, Visteon workers blew aside the myth that it […]

28Jun2009 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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Leaflet published for ‘The Global Fight for Climate Justice’

Download our new Climate Justice leaflet to promote our new book on ‘The Global Fight for Climate Justice’. The book will be launched at the Climate and Capitalism conference, but we’ll have the first run in the next week or two.

28Jun2009 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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What to do to help the SOAS cleaners

We have only days to get the message to Alan Johnson, MP Secretary of State for the Home Office, who has the power to intervene and save our cleaners.
1. Please send urgent faxes immediately to Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP, Secretary of State for the Home Office asking that Marina Silva, and Rosa de […]

23Jun2009 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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Iran union: Any suppression or threat of civil liberty condemned

From afar it’s very difficult to say whether or not Ahmadinejad won the Iranian Presidential election only as a result of ballot rigging. The point of course is that whether or not this is the case the ruling clerics would have little hesitation in rigging any ballot, Presidential or otherwise if it suited their […]

23Jun2009 | Patrick | 1 comment | Continued
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Wigan anti-school closure campaign hotting up!

On Saturday 20th June, over 250 people from Atherton and the surrounding area took part in the first protest march in the town for more than 15 years. (Atherton is located in the eastern part of the Wigan Metropolitan Borough of Greater Manchester, and up until the next General Election forms part of the Leigh […]

22Jun2009 | Steve Hall | 0 comments | Continued
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New GMB statement on lock-out at Lindsay Immingham

The recent GMB statement about the dispute at North Lindsey, below, shows excellent reasons why active trade unionists should get to the National Shop Stewards Network Conference on Saturday 27 June at South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London WC1, 11.30am — 4.30pm
In the last 20 years, the number of active shop stewards in industry […]

22Jun2009 | National Shop Stewards Network | 0 comments | Continued
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Tour: Campaign against closure of the Ford factory in Bordeaux

The Ford factory at Blanquefort (near Bordeaux, France ), which employs 3,500 workers, has been threatened with closure since 2000. The CGT union has led the campaign against closure with the consequent loss of 10,000 jobs, with demonstrations, strikes, and the invasion of the motor show in Paris by 600 […]

22Jun2009 | London SR | 0 comments | Continued
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