Year: 2009
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Elections
No real choice on offer from big business parties
Main parties competing to slash our jobs and services - new party for workers, not bosses neededPeter Taaffe, General Secretary,…
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BNP’s Nick Griffin prevented from speaking at Belgian university
Violent attack on socialist student meetingGeert Cool, LSP/PSL (CWI in Belgium)Tensions have grown in the past few weeks at Antwerp…
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Europe
Ireland: Socialists campaign against anti-worker Lisbon Treaty
Capitalist establishment conduct a campaign of fear to secure a yes vote in second referendumSocialist Party reporters (CWI in Ireland)There…
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The Future Jobs Fraud
The situation for young people looking for work in this recession is still desperate and it is getting worse. Unemployment…
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Debt, Hardship and Stress
As thousands of students return to university and college and many others arrive for the first time, most have something…
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Trade Union
Vote yes for national postal strike
Postal workers in the CWU are balloting for a national strike against cuts, job losses and attacks on the union.Jane…
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Youth & Students
Youth fight for a future
The politicians keep telling us that the recession will mean our lives will be hard for a short period but…
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News & Analysis
Billion for bankers – Pay freeze for workers
“Bonuses are back.” That’s the new slogan running round the City of London and the bankers’ boardrooms today. Philip Stott…
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News & Analysis
Diageo press ahead with jobs slaughter
Workers action needed to save jobs at Johnnie Walker Diageo, the global drinks multinational, is to press ahead with its planned jobs…
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Is Obama’s Honeymoon Over?
Big-Business agenda fuels discontentPhilip Locker, from Justice, newspaper of Socialist Alternative (CWI in the USA)Just seven months after taking office…
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