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Revolution 14, Autumn 2009 Out now
Targeting the public sector in Britain / Get out of Afghanistan
Fascism rears its ugly head / Climate change: Vestas, Green New deal, Labour’s low carbon plan, Copenhagen conference / Students face a tough year / NUT: anatomy of a defeat / Lewisham Bridge: how we won
Articles
Britain / Resignation and resistance (PDF)
Britain - Resignation and resistance (TXT)
The recession has hit working class families hard as bosses cut costs through pay freezes, job losses and short-time working. Trade union responses have spanned major concessions at one end and strikes and occupations at the other. George Binette surveys the unions and argues that a complete revitalisation of the rank and file is essential if a sustained response is to win lasting success.
Over the summer the SWP, CPB, Socialist Party and the RMT union have been in a tempestuous courtship over whether and how to join ranks before the next general election. Mark Hoskisson says history does not suggest a successful outcome.
Iran / The Islamic
Republic under fire (TXT)
Iran/ The Islamic Republic under fire (PDF)
President Ahmadinejad has survived the summer protest movement against electoral fraud. But, as Stuart King explains, the crisis has deeper roots in a stalling economy, and the corruption and rigidities of the Islamic Republic.
Cuba
/ Workers at the heart of the revolution
(PDF)
Cuba / Workers at the heart of the revolution (TXT)
Based on ongoing research into the Cuban Revolution Steve Cushion shows how the strikes and other actions of the working class were an essential component of the Castro-led coalition that overthrew General Batista fifty years ago.
In 2001 ceramic workers took over the running of their factory in Argentina. Here Raul Godoy, who led the occupation, explains how it has served as a school for socialism
Review
/ Zombie Capitalism (TEXT)
Review Zombie Capitalism (PDF)
In his new book Socialist Workers Party leader Chris Harman insists that recent financial bubbles were the result of the real economy stagnating ever since the 1970s. Graham Balmer disagrees.
Building the New Anti-Capitalist Party in France:
Discussion of the recent strike wave
Eagleton on Ditchens / Engels’ life and work / Violence against sex workers / Capitalist crises / Trotsky’s exile and death / Desperate Romantics / Futurism
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