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Tories out to destroy comprehensive education

All across the country teachers, school staff and pupils are looking forward to the start of the new academic year. Alex Kenny, an executive member of the National Union of Teachers, looks the Tories’ ideologically driven plans for education and sets out how we need to fight them.
The education industry represents the largest market opportunity […]

Administrator | August 31st, 2010 | Continued

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New book: “Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings”

In 2007, French fascist Le Pen won almost four million votes. In 2009 the British National Party won almost a million votes while Germany’s fascist NPD won over 750,000. In 2010, fascist-led organisations like the Engish Defence League and Italy’s Future and Freedom party emerged.
To help activists understand this twenty-first century wave of fascism, Socialist […]

Admin. | August 29th, 2010 | Continued

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Feature Article #3

Build opposition to the “slash and burn” coalition’

Alan Thornett writes:
Britain’s first coalition government since the war has completed its first Parliamentary session. Coalition, however, is something of a sick misnomer. What we have is a right-wing Thatcherite, small state, slash and burn, Tory Government, propped up by the cringing Lib Dems, with a cuts and privatisation agenda which goes well beyond anything […]

Administrator | August 18th, 2010 | Continued

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Ireland becomes a NAMA Republic

Joe Carter writes
All across Ireland the evidence of an enormous property crash hits one in the face with empty houses and office developments all over the country. Many of these, it is now admitted, will be bulldozed. There are apparently 620 “ghost” estates in which 5,000 families live amid 15,000 empty or unfinished homes. From […]

Administrator | August 16th, 2010 | Continued

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Leaflet now available for ‘Latin America and the ecosocialist alternative’ in Spanish and English

You can  download the new leaflet for the seminar being organised by Green Left and Socialist Resistance with Hugo Blanco: click here for English and click here for Spanish.
Hugo Blanco is a historic leader of the Peruvian peasant movement, who has been active for more than fifty years. In the 1960s he played a central […]

Administrator | August 1st, 2010 | Continued

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The first month of Labour Relief Campaign Pakistan

The Labour Relief Camp first camp was organized in Lahore on 1st August 2010 at Regal Chouck Lahore. Earlier on 25th July 2010, we decided to launch a Baluchistan appeal. 

 

It stated, “Torrential rains have unleashed flash floods in different parts of Baluchistan over the few days.? Water levies broke leaving […]

3Sep2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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Labour Relief Campaign brings aid to Pakistan

Sindh Labour Relief committee consists of Labour Education Foundation,
Home Bassed Women Workers Federation, Home Based Women Bangle Workers
Union Hyderabad, National Trade Union Federation and Labour Party
Pakistan conducted its four camps in Karachi and supporting three
camps in Moro District, one in Hub and Thatta each where people coming
from suburb of Moro, Jaffarabad, Jaccobabad and get shelter […]

2Sep2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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SSP aids donations to Pakistan’s Labour Relief Campaign

The Scottish Socialist Party is encouraging donations to a British account which is channelling urgent donations to the Labour Relief Campaign in Pakistan. This makes is much easier and less costly for donations to help the 20 million Pakistanis who are still struggling to recover from the floods, which killed 1600 people.

1Sep2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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Fascists humiliated in Brighton

A rabble of just 30-40 EDL/ENA members were effectively run out of town by hundreds of anti-fascists, assembled at short notice to demonstrate the city of Brighton and Hove want nothing to do with their message of hatred and division.
I doubt we’ll be seeing them again anytime soon.
The fascists arrived at Brighton station and many […]

31Aug2010 | terry | 4 comments | Continued
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International support grows for Brazil’s socialist alternative

During the presidency of Lula da Silva Brazil’s governing Workers’ Party has turned from a radical alternative into a safe pair of hands for capitalism. Now support is growing for a socialist alternative in the coming presidential elections.
Brazil is not just one of the world’s most unequal and fast-growing economies. It’s also a country […]

30Aug2010 | Duncan Chapel | 0 comments | Continued
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justice4bolton’s urgent need to raise £35,000

On 20 March 2010, anti-racists and anti-fascists organised a demonstration in Bolton against a rally called by the so-called English Defence League (EDL). The EDL has direct links to the fascist BNP, and is violently Islamophobic (racist against Muslims).
Over 50 antifascist activists were arrested. Many fewer were charged though the national and local organisers […]

30Aug2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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Netherlands: Islamophobia is the main form taken by racism

Since the rise of Pim Fortuyn in 2002, Islamophobia has played a central role in Dutch politics. Geert Wilders and his Freedom Party have now emerged as a threat to all progressive forces. There is no point in trying to change the subject and hoping the danger will pass; Islamophobia has to be confronted head-on. […]

30Aug2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued
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New leaflet for Manchester’s October 23 Hugo Blanco dayschool

The Climate & Capitalism II Day Conference is now set for 23 October 2010 in Manchester, and a new leaflet is available below. Among the guest speakers will be Peruvian ecosocialist activist Hugo Blanco. The Conference continues the debates and discussions between different activist campaigns in January, and will take them forward in the context […]

29Aug2010 | terry | 0 comments | Continued
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Marxism and Psychology in 2010

 
A timely conference just took place in Canada on ‘Marxism and Psychology’. The connection between Marxism and ‘psychology’ is not often made by activists or academics, but the connection is crucial to our understanding of how individual subjectivity comes to be caught up in economic processes under capitalism. We only have […]

29Aug2010 | terry | 0 comments | Continued
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COP15 Activists Facing Trials

In December 2009 during the climate summit in Copenhagen, tens of thousands of protesters gathered to call for climate justice and challenge the ongoing UN negotiations. Instead of welcoming these popular calls for action, the Danish state responded with brutal police force and intense repression of protestors. Around 2000 people were preemptively arrested at legal […]

25Aug2010 | Admin. | 0 comments | Continued