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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
Eviscerating the NHS
John Lister writes:
New proposals set out in the new coalition government White Paper “Liberating the NHS” could reduce the National Health Service in England from one of Europe’s largest single employers, with around 1 million staff, to near zero staff by the time of the next general election, in the most ambitious privatisation proposals yet.
The […]
Con Dems will create new slump
The butchers’ coalition’s emergency budget cuts and spending plans will push Britain into a decade long economic slump argues Raphie de Santos
The list of projects, services and support for the community that will be lost just from the announced spending cuts and suspended future programmes reach down into the very fabric of our society. The […]
22Jun2010 | Resistance | 9 comments | Continued
A contribution to the debate on the future of Respect
Respect needs to take itself seriously build itself as a fully functioning party with a comprehensive political platform, engaging in a range of activities. This is the only way to build a political alternative.
I agree with much of what Clive Searle (Respect National Secretary) says in his report on the election results […]
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. […]
Gaza Flotilla attack: end impunity for Israel’s crimes!
The far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman has demonstrated once more its ability to go even further than earlier Israeli governments in trampling international law and basic human decency under foot. Their murderous attack in international waters on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla is a new escalation of the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian […]
7Jun2010 | Admin. | 3 comments | Continued
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
ENA chant offensive slogan and ''EEDL'' while marching through peaceful independent shop area of Brighton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK7n-tP_4hM 
