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03/09/2010: The only antidote to painful public-sector cuts
03/09/2010: Repression and criminalisation of struggle is not socialism!
02/09/2010: A socialist candidate for the Brazilian presidential elections
02/09/2010: Can Nigeria experience positive development and improved living
conditions?
01/09/2010: Say no to job cuts and poverty wages!
01/09/2010: Do local councillors have ‘no choice’? – Lessons from 1980s Liverpool
Council struggle
31/08/2010: The celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Solidarity take place
against the background of attacks and an unprecedented media campaign
against today’s trade unions and workers.
31/08/2010: Struggle must continue to save environment and to win democratic rights!
31/08/2010: Massive turn-out on ninth day of strike
31/08/2010: SNP are putting independence on the backburner
30/08/2010: Aren’t people motivated by money? Wouldn’t socialism stifle hard work
and innovation?
29/08/2010: Lawyer attacked and arrested in run-up to Euro MP’s visit
29/08/2010: Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development
in philanthropy” for many decades.
28/08/2010: On August 28, the right-wing populist Tea Party Movement, an assortment
of conservative organizations, and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck will
descend on Washington, D.C. for the so-called “Restoring the Honor”
rally.
28/08/2010: The Australian Federal election held on August 21 delivered a hung
parliament – the first in 70 years. Neither the Labor Party led by Julia
Gillard nor the Coalition led by Tony Abbott won the 76 seats required
to form a government. The result is both a reflection of the lack of
enthusiasm people have towards the two major parties and a reflection of
the uncertain future that faces Australian capitalism.
27/08/2010: Strike and protest action in around 4,000 factories
27/08/2010: “Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich
27/08/2010: Accordging to the Police Federation of Northern Ireland, dissident
republican groups have been responsible for carrying out an average of
two attacks a day since the beginning of the year.
27/08/2010: Up to 1,000 firefighters poured into the conference room of TUC
headquarters for a mass meeting of the London Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
on Tuesday night (24 August).
26/08/2010: The Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2010 secured a landslide
victory for the conservative FIDESZ party, with their leader Victor
Orbán retaking the Prime Ministerial position that he had held from 1998
to 2002.
25/08/2010: The government hid information to the families for hours
25/08/2010: London Socialist Party members travelled to Watford (North of London) to
deliver a protest letter to the Vinci regional office.
25/08/2010: Solidarity vital
25/08/2010: Solidarity message from socialist brutally assaulted by thugs
24/08/2010: DSM demands: General Strike to support public sector workers
24/08/2010: Towards a 24 hour all-European general strike!
24/08/2010: With thousands of young people being denied a university place, facing a
substandard education, forced into low paid work or left on the
scrapheap of unemployment, a nationally organised fightback is essential.
23/08/2010: Workers in Europe donate
23/08/2010: Racism, corruption, economic crisis and class struggle
21/08/2010: Trotsky’s key 1938 work shows rich application of the method of Marxism
20/08/2010: 70 years on from his asasination, is it “Springtime for Trotsky?”
20/08/2010: Employers bow down to their demands
19/08/2010: Response to brutal attacks on Russian activists
19/08/2010: TWENTY MILLION people affected, over 1,600 dead and thousands face
starvation, but the Pakistan government’s lacklustre response and
incompetence has made the disaster worse.