“The workers... battle-cry must be: 'The Permanent Revolution.'” — Marx and Engels, 1850
Fri 30, October 2009 @ 11:45
The day before the final debate on the prostitution clauses in the PCB, please join us in a discussion of the evidence. Whatever your views on the sex industry, women’s safety must be the priority. Trafficking cannot be stopped by driving prostitution further underground.
6-7pm Monday 2 November
Tue 27, October 2009 @ 14:39
Saturday 7th November 2009
Sun 25, October 2009 @ 21:16
Interview
with a Honduran trade union leader: Carlos H. Reyes is an
independent presidential candidate in Honduras and a member of the
National Front of Resistance Against the Coup. He is also secretary
of the beverage workers' union.
Tue 20, October 2009 @ 19:39
One year ago governments and the people lost confidence in global financial markets as the international banking system went into meltdown. Now it appears, according to Labour and Tory parties alike, having socialised the debts by pumping £1.4 trillion of public money into the banks, we have to slash and burn the welfare state so that the financial sector maintains confidence in the government! Keith Harvey explains why the hysteria over public debt is a smokescreen for massive cuts and privatisation after next year's election.
Mon 19, October 2009 @ 17:54
Steve Acheson is a Unite/EPIU member - being charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act for protesting over his blacklisting.
Sun 18, October 2009 @ 19:55
The Wales Council of University and College Union met in Swansea at the weekend. Following the FE sector meeting on Saturday morning most of us went to join the anti-fascist protest, called by the union-backed Unite Against Fascism, in Castle Square. The plan was to occupy the square and prevent the fascist WDL from assembling there at 4pm.
Sun 18, October 2009 @ 19:47
A leaked management document from Royal Mail shows how they and the government are planning to break the national strike and, if they can, cripple the union. A London postal worker explains what is at stake in the strike.
Sun 18, October 2009 @ 19:44
The
strikes last week involved both the lecturing staff, UCU members,
and support staff, from Unison. Back in July the Unison leadership
sabotaged strike action by withdrawing support the night before the
strike but on Thursday and Friday lecturers and support staff stood
shoulder to shoulder on picket lines.
Fri 16, October 2009 @ 16:29
In the last of his dispatches from Honduras Wladek Flakin reports on the stand off between the coup regime and the ousted President Zelaya
Fri 16, October 2009 @ 09:39
The SWPs International Socialism Journal (ISJ) claim that capitalism is stagnant and has been for nearly four decades now. Throughout the period of globalisation they say, capitalism has seen declining production and investment, overcapacity and low, stagnant or falling profit rates. The digital age, internet revolution and Nintendo Wii Fit are all manifestations of capital’s inability to revolutionise the productive resources. The latest ISJ 124 features articles by Andrew Kliman and Joseph Choonara, re-treading this well worn road….writes Bill Jefferies…
Thu 15, October 2009 @ 22:07
Brian Lyons (strike committee, Tower Hamlets College)
Thu 15, October 2009 @ 18:56
The fascist English Defence League have marched through Birmingham, Luton and Manchester, they plan to visit other major cities in the next weeks. The BNP fascist leader Nick Griffin has been invited onto BBC Question Time. Right on queue the CPGBs Weekly Worker launches a campaign to explain why socialists and anti-fascists should abandon no platform for fascists and support Griffin’s right to a place in the mass media. John McKee explains why they are wrong.
Thu 15, October 2009 @ 14:35
Wed 14, October 2009 @ 09:16
An eye-witness account of the strengths and weaknesses of the resistance movement in Honduras. It was the 107th day of resistance against the coup regime in Honduras: on Monday, the "Resistencia" organized a rally in the neighborhood of Kennedy in the capital Tegucigalpa. Because of the massive presence of police and soldiers, the roughly 400 demonstrators were forced to remain on the sidewalk. But they remained combative. They not only demanded the return of the deposed President Manuel Zelaya but also the convening of a constituent assembly to replace the constitution of 1982, which the coup-makers claim to base themselves on.
Tue 13, October 2009 @ 10:14
This autumn at the three main pro-business party conferences, Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat leaders competed with each other on how they were going to cut public spending. "Savage" or "focused" was the only choice. The purpose was to tell the electorate – in Margaret Thatcher’s favourite phrase – “there is no alternative”, says Stuart King
Sun 11, October 2009 @ 22:20
Around a thousand fascist lead nationalists, escorted by mounted police, dog handlers and five deep rows of riot cops, marched through Manchester on Saturday 10th October. They were met with determined resistance by 2000 anti-fascists. But this was no victory for the anti-fa and the Nazis will take much from the day....
(Pic: fascist protestor hates Muslim people)
Mon 05, October 2009 @ 13:10
Gordon Brown “Dead Man Talking”, these words from Alan Simpson, the left Labour MP neatly sum up Brown’s position after the Labour Party conference in Brighton. His speech to delegates was long on vacuity and short on new policies. In typical New Labour fashion, it contained previously announced policies and proposals that didn’t stand the test of 24 hours examination....writes Andy Smith....
Sat 03, October 2009 @ 11:33
On Wednesday, September 30, more than 1,000 people demonstrated in Tegucigalpa for the right to free speech. They were protesting against the closure of the radio station Radio Globo and the television station Canal 36 by the military two days earlier...."With the censorship against opposition media and the growing number of murdered activists, this regime reminds one more and more of the dictatorships of Mussolini and Hitler," said Roberto, who declined to give his full name, during the demonstration.
Thu 01, October 2009 @ 15:00
In August he ceramics factory Zanon in Argentina was expropriated by the government after eight years of workers' occupation. It is now under workers' self-management. This struggle provides many lessons for workers around the world who are threatened with mass layoffs as a result of the economic crisis. An interview with Raul Godoy...
