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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 […]
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 […]
Rank and file challenge for Unite leadership
Unite the Union Britain’s largest and most influential Trade Union gears up for the election of its General Secretary. This election comes at a time when the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition is about to announce its plans for massive cuts to be set out in their Autumn Budget in October. All eyes will be […]
17Aug2010 | Administrator | 0 comments | Continued
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 […]
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 […]
Socialist Resistance statement against the banning of the veil
Throughout Europe there is a growing movement that seeks to ban Muslim women who chose to do so from wearing the veil. In Britain today this demand comes mainly from the BNP, UKIP and some individuals on the Tory right. Things though may change for the worse, already the Tory tabloids are stirring on this […]
26Jul2010 | Administrator | 3 comments | Continued
The rise of Islamophobia
Alf Filer writes
As the crises of capitalism continue to deepen internationally, so does the movement spread for scapegoating of others. This is not surprising nor is it new. In the 1930’s it was the great lie of the world Jewish conspiracy that was used to stir up hatred and anti-Semitism and today it is xenophobic […]
16Jul2010 | Administrator | 1 comment | Continued
The Challenge Facing the G20
World Economy Brought back from the Edge of Depression but not Stagnation, at Our Expense
Raphie de Santos
The financial crisis which started nearly three years ago rooted in loans to very poor Americans that led to the worst Global recession since the 1930s depression is far from over. Only a massive bailout out amounting to several […]
Keep Our NHS Public conference report
Norman Traub writes
The annual general meeting of KONP was held in London on 12th June. There were 70-100 people present. Although branches exist in relatively few areas, KONP punches above its weight. The membership consists of healthcare workers, patients, pensioners and activists. Among the speakers were Professor Wendy Savage, co-chair of KONP, a representative of […]
18Jun2010 | Administrator | 0 comments | Continued
World Cup in South Africa – behind the glitz
Bobby Wilcox reports from South Africa that the football World Cup has more to do with big business than sport.
When South Africa was selected to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a wave of euphoria engulfed the nation. But there were also widespread misgivings about what this would portend. These misgivings have not been misplaced. […]
New Socialist Resistance out now
The June-July issue of Socialist Resistance is out now. With the British general election behind us, the magazine includes deep analysis of the left and the election, Jerry Hicks’ campaign for the leaders of UNITE, the bosses’ offensive on pensions and fascism in Britain. A special feature on educations shows how the government is letting […]
27May2010 | Administrator | 3 comments | Continued
Greece – a struggle for all Europe’s workers
This is the text of Aris Vasilopoulos’ speech to the “Can’t pay, won’t pay: solidarity with the Greek protests” meeting in London on May 26th.Dear friends and comrades,
thank you for the invitation to speak, and I convey you the warmest greetings from Kokkino (Red) and SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left).
The first thing I want […]
ENA chant offensive slogan and ''EEDL'' while marching through peaceful independent shop area of Brighton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7n-tP_4hM 
