Month: January 2014
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Featured Articles
95 years on: Red Clydeside and The Battle of George Square
An extract from the pamphlet Red Flag Over the Clyde written by Jim Cameron and produced by Scottish Militant Labour…
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News & Analysis
People’s Assembly fails to offer a concrete way forward in fighting the cuts
By Richard Neville. Posted 29th January 2014 Over 200 people attended the launch of the People's Assembly on the 25th…
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Europe
Spain – New Abortion Law a crime against freedom, health and life of women
A question of gender and class By Marisa Cabal, based on a longer article by Victoria Lara of Socialismo Revolucionario…
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Trade Union
Never mind the balaclava’s, give us our wages back
By Philip Stott. Posted 24 January 2014 Hundreds of Glasgow residential care workers are due to start another 48-hour strike…
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History
Review – Lenin’s revolutionary Legacy
‘Lenin’ by Lars T Lih Peter Taaffe, from Socialism Today (No.175, February 2014) In an attempt to answer the description of Lenin…
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Culture/Reviews
Beyonce’s trivialising of violence against women
On 13 December 2013, singer Beyonce Knowles released a surprise self-titled ‘visual’ album. The promotional lead of the album was…
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World News
Ariel Sharon – a brutal architect of monstrous crimes
The butcher of Sabra and Shatila has died Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel/Palestine) The butcher of Sabra…
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History
95th anniversary of murder of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
By Peter Taaffe, written to commemorate the 90th anniversary in 2009. Posted 15th January 2014 On 15 January 1919, Rosa…
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Trade Union
This far and no further for Unison care workers
By Socialist Party Scotland reporters. Posted 14th January 2014 The first day of the 48-hour Glasgow Unison strike among residential…
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Trade Union
Glasgow Unison members strike against Labour council cuts
By Unison members. Posted 10th January 2014 UNISON members in Glasgow City Council’s residential homes for older people will be…
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