I write to you about the election for General Secretary (GS) of
Unite which this time round will involve the whole union, unlike
last year’s election for Joint General Secretary which was only
held in the Amicus section.
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Full time officials from Unison's London Regional Office led
teams of staff into branch offices in Bromley and Woolwich in South
East London taking control away from locally elected
officials.
The Tenant Services authority branch was also placed under regional
control.
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The fascist EDL is coming to Bolton. This statement of
Bolton trade unionists calls for antiracists and trade unionists
from across the country to mobilise against the EDL.
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The radical left in Argentina is organizing a
demonstration in Buenos
Aires for international women's day. An interview
with Andrea D'Atri, spokeswoman for the Argentinean women's
organization "Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses), connected with the
"Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas" (Socialist Workers'
Party).
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This earthquake at 8.8 at the epicentre on the
Richter scale was one of the most powerful Chile has ever
witnessed, and lasted almost three minutes….writes Diego
Mocar… even though the city of Santiago is several hundred
kilometres from the epicentre, the level of intensity for us here
in Santiago was 7.8 on the Richter scale.
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The winter 2010 issue of Permanent Revolution is out now
featuring articles on the retooling of British fascism, finance
capital after the credit crunch, the Left Party in Germany, a
critique of Robert Brenner and much more.. Order your copy now
online
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The US Marxist economist Robert Brenner has been highly
influential as a leading stagnation theorist of modern capitalism.
Bill Jefferies lays bare some fundamental flaws in Brenner’s
understanding of the world economy in a review of a recent
paper...writes Bill Jefferies
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A Joint effort has been established to help the people of
Chile after the earthquake which left over 700 dead and
thousands homeless and destitute.
Merseyside TUC has joined the Merseyside Chilean Solidarity
Campaign and the F.B.U (Fire-fighters) in launching a massive
aid programme to help the people of Chile to resolve and
rebuild their lives and communities.
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NUT members will be receiving ballot papers this week in
elections for the Union’s Executive. It is obviously crucial that
left candidates are elected and put to the test of office.
In the Inner London Executive elections,
however, there are no right wing candidates. PR is calling for a
critical vote for the Socialist Party’s Martin Powell-Davies and
the SWP’s Sara Tomlinson. Why are we calling on NUT members not to
vote for the other “left” candidate, Alex Kenny of the Socialist
Teachers Alliance (STA)?
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A new issue of Permanent Revolution is out with
articles on the British general election, New Labour and the
Tories. Plus much more...
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Over the winter of 2008/9 as trade plunged and industrial
production followed it the Great Depression seemed to have arrived.
According to Chris Harman capitalism faced either a Great
Depression at worst or ten years of stagnation at best. How wrong
can you get?....writes Bill Jefferies....
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This is one of those priceless books. Not valuable, just with no
price printed anywhere on it. So it is not the sort you are likely
to happen upon by chance in Borders or Waterstones. It is rather
the sort of worthy academic treatise you will find tucked away in
the history or politics section of a university bookshop which, as
anyone who has been in one recently will agree, are thankfully free
of any students at all. That bloody internet . . .
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They didn't pass! The planned Nazi demonstration on
February 13 in Dresden was blocked by more
than 10,000 people. At 5 o'clock that morning, 25 fully-loaded
buses set off from Berlin to go to the blockades – all in all, more
than 100 buses from across Germany and neighboring countries
arrived in Dresden.
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Marx noted that the tendency for the rate of profit to fall was
the most important law in political economy. Every recession since
WWII has been proceeded by a fall in the rate of profit and every
recovery a rise. During the latest period of capitalist
development, globalisation, the restoration of capitalism in
Central and Eastern Europe, the ex-USSR and China, doubled the
world’s working class that could be exploited by capital....writes
Bill Jefferies....
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