Month: June 2014
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Campaigns
Scotland: Trade unions must adopt a fighting policy to defeat the cuts
Brian Smith – Glasgow City Unison branch secretary (personal capacity) Since 2009 there has been a 25% real terms cut…
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Culture/Reviews
Book Review: Capital in the Twenty-First Century – by Thomas Piketty
Hannah Sell, Socialist Party England and Wales The poorest fifth of Britain’s households are among the most economically deprived in…
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Can capitalism put All Of Us First? – A response to the “practical idealism” of the Common Weal
By Philip Stott One year ago, the Jimmy Reid Foundation began work on the Common Weal project. Against the backdrop…
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Iraq: Oil war’s bloody legacy
By Judy Beishon At the time of Bush and Blair’s catastrophic and criminal invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Socialist Party…
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Committee for a Workers International
Hong Kong: Pro Beijing newspaper launches attack on CWI
Dikang, Socialist Action in Hong Kong The pro-Beijing newspaper, Ta Kung Pao, ran a front-page attack on pro-democracy legislator Leung…
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Taking back the streets: 5,000 march in Glasgow against rape and sexual abuse
By Sinead Daly, Socialist Party Scotland & Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre Dundee & Angus (personal capacity) The stroke…
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Brazil: Homeless struggle and Metro strike as World Cup approaches
André Ferrari, LSR (CWI in Brazil) In the context of a wave of struggle and protests in the run-up to…
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100 days to go: Step up the fight for independence and socialism
by Philip Stott “Austerity is just another word for an unremitting class war carried out by the elite and the…
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China 1989: 25 years since the mass democracy movement
China’s dictatorship is haunted by the prospect of a new mass revolt Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info June 4th marks the 25th…
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