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By Greg Oxley
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
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Greg Oxley of the French Marxist journal, La Riposte, pays tribute to the outstanding revolutionary, Pierre Brou�. |
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By Morad Shirin
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
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The Islamic-military dictatorship in Iran has yet again shown its true colours. The regime has consistently followed the policies of the reactionary Shah’s regime vis-à-vis the national minorities: brutal repression and the denial of basic national rights. In many cases, particularly when dealing with the Kurds, it has even surpassed the violence and barbarism of the monarchy! The whole world has been subjected to endless rhetoric about ‘reforms’ and ‘civil society’, however the behaviour of the regime’s thugs in Iran’s Kurdish areas has consistently unmasked the true nature of the system. Read the article on the IRSL's English website. |
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By Celia Hart
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
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Celia Hart escribe a sus camaradas en el aniversario del 26 de Julio, el día del asalto al cuartel de la Moncada. Lee este artículo en venezuela.militante.org. |
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
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Pierre Broué, historiador francés, militante trotskista y editor de
Cahiers Leon Trotsky falleció en las primeras horas de la mañana del
miércoles 27 de julio. Su pérdida será lamentada por los militantes de
la clase obrera y los revolucionarios de todas partes.
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By Alan Woods
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Wednesday, 03 August 2005 |
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Con profunda tristeza nos hemos enterado de la muerte del compañero Pierre
Broué, el extraordinario historiador trotskista y veterano militante
revolucionario. Luego de una larga y penosa batalla contra el cáncer,
Pierre falleció a las 3:04 am del miércoles 27 de Julio, a la edad de
79 años.
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By Alan Woods
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Monday, 01 August 2005 |
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Pierre Broué, French historian, Trotskyist militant, and editor of the Cahiers Leon Trotsky,
passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning. His loss will be
mourned by working class militants and revolutionaries everywhere.
In Spanish: En memoria de Pierre Broué (1926-2005) |
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By Jean-Pierre Juy
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Monday, 01 August 2005 |
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J'ai connu Pierre il y aura 4O ans dans quelques semaines. J'arrivais à Sciences Politiques Grenoble. Déjà étudiant en économie, venant ici pour tenter de comprendre ma propre histoire, ce professeur m'offrait, de mon point de vue, la meilleure introduction à ce que je venais chercher. Un professeur étonnant. Il n'arrivait pas pour nous lire ce qu'il avait écrit auparavant. Il prenait place devant nous pour un moment de création imtellectuelle. Pour moi, les cours de Broué c'était la pensée vivante en action. |
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By Javier Méndez-Vigo Hernández
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Monday, 01 August 2005 |
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Con tristeza nos enteramos de la muerte del camarada Pierre Broué.
Pierre Broué además de militante trotskista, además de revolucionario
fue un historiador marxista que intentó buscar la verdad histórica de
las distintas revoluciones ocurridas. |
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By David May
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
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Titanic sums of money - the taxes paid in mostly by the working class - have been spent by
the Bush Administration primarily on two things: the continuing slaughter in Iraq and the
further enrichment of the top 10 percent of Americans. Millions of working people in the
United States continue to worry about whether or not they will have a job two months from
now or even next week. And how does the ‘compassionate conservative’ in the
White House soothe the nation’s anxiety? By handing out billions of dollars to the
modern-day robber barons of Capital. |
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By Socialist Appeal
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
The recent terrorist attacks in London only confirm
the volatile position the world finds itself in at the beginning of the
21st century. Bush and Blair’s war on terror and the invasions of Iraq
and Afghanistan have done nothing but further destabilize the
situation. In the United States, the mood is finally turning against
the war. This is the editorial of the latest issue of the American Socialist Appeal.
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By Shane Jones
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Thursday, 14 July 2005 |
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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's atypically frank condemnation of the treatment of U.S.
prisoners around the world cause a storm of criticism. The bulk of the critics purposely
skewed Durbin’s apt comparison, ignoring the widespread tactics used in the war on
terror which without question include torture. The ugly truth is that prisons in
Iraq are merely a reflection of the prison system here in the U.S. |
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By Chris Boutilier
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Thursday, 14 July 2005 |
Every victory by working people in the struggle to improve their lives is a step forward
that must be applauded. Working people have power when they organize. But it is not enough
to petition the bosses and their cronies in government to throw a few crumbs to those at
the bottom. From the latest issue of the American Socialist Appeal.
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
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Every ruling class entertains the same illusions about itself. In their
imaginations they are conquering heroes, when in reality they are
involved in the most sordid and dirty business. Cervantes reflects the
breaking down of the old feudal society and a transition towards a
capitalist society and morality, based on money not rank. |
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By Ramon Samblas at the Houses of Parliament, London
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Wednesday, 20 July 2005 |
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The Houses of Parliament cleaners made history by staging their first
walk-out on the morning of 20th July. At 10 am the strikers assembled
outside St. Stephens’ entrance together with some MPs, parliamentary
staff and the media to publicise their demands. The strikers were
chanting slogans like “Low Pay, No Way” while some of them were
brandishing placards and mops. |
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By Der Funke
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Wednesday, 20 July 2005 |
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On Thursday, July 14, a group of Young Socialists and representatives of the Editorial Board of Der Funke
organised a picket in front of the Brazilian embassy to protest against
the threatened repression of the Cipla and Interfibra workers who have
occupied their factories to defend their jobs. |
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
 This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first publication of Don Quixote, the greatest masterpiece of Spanish literature. The working class, the class that has the greatest interest in fighting to defend culture, should celebrate this anniversary enthusiastically. This was the first great modern novel, written in a language that ordinary men and women could understand. |
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By Adil Khan
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Saturday, 16 July 2005 |
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July 7, a rally of more than 2000 students and youth broke the deep
silence of the Jhelum Valley road in Muzaffarabad Azad, Kashmir and its
surroundings. The participants of the rally waved huge red flags and
banners and chanted revolutionary slogans while riding on the roofs of
buses and wagons. The convoy disrupted and even paralyzed the routine
life of the valley and every viewer called it a “red storm”. |
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Sunday, 17 July 2005 |
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After the success in raising solidarity for Venezuela's Bolivarian
Revolution at the British trade union conferences, the next step of the
Hands Off Venezuela campaign will be the intervention at the Trades
Union Congress in Brighton in September. NATFHE will move a resolution
in support of Venezuela and fringe meeting with Orlando Chirino and
Marcela Máspero, National Coordinators of the UNT has also been organised. Read the article on Handsoffvenezuela.org. |
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By Fred Weston and Stamatis Karagiannopoulos in Athens
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Sunday, 10 July 2005 |
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After playing for time before last year’s Olympic games, the Greek
ruling class is preparing an all-out attack on the workers of Greece.
The Greek economy is beginning to slow down and this is adding to the
problems of the ruling class. A recent wave of strikes and general
strikes indicates that Greece is clearly moving towards a period of
renewed class conflict. |
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By Maria Emilia Duran and Maikel Moreno
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Wednesday, 13 July 2005 |
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July 9, Barquisimeto, 35 youth gathered to form the Socialist
Revolutionary Youth (JSR). Students, activists and sympathisers from
various organisations attended this event. In addition to those
attending from Barquisimeto, there were comrades from Caracas, Merida,
Tachira and Los Teques from different youth and student organisations,
amongst them the Yacambu Revolutionary Movement, the Resistance
collective, the Rebel America Front and the youth of the Revolutionary
Marxist Current. |
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By Hans Gerd finger, Der Funke editorial board
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Friday, 15 July 2005 |
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Schröder has dissolved the Bundestag and has called early elections for
September 18. Polls show a drastic fall in the SPD vote and the most
likely outcome seems a victory of the right wing Christian Democrats.
But on the left a new formation is emerging, the Left Alliance, made up
of the PDS (former Communist Party of East Germany) and the WASG, a
left split of disenchanted social democrats and trade unionists, and
the former leader of the left of the SPD, Oskar Lafontaine, is
preparing to be its main leader. The crisis of German capitalism is
preparing the ground for greater instability and a polarization of
German society. |
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By Hands Off Venezuela
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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
On May 1, to coincide with the celebration of International Workers' day, the Hands Off Venezuela campaign launched an “Open Letter to US trade unionists”. The response to the appeal has been a great success. More than 1000 trade unionists have so far signed the Open Letter,
coming from a wide range of countries, from Argentina to Canada; Mexico
to Sweden; Israel to Austria. Signatories come from more than 20
different countries, including more than 300 signatures from members of
all major unions in Britain. Read the full report on Handsoffvenezuela.org.
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By Steve Jones
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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
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Despite clashing with both the RISE festival and the traditional
Tollpuddle Rally, the main hall at the TUC’s Congress House was largely
full for this year’s AGM and rally of the Labour Representation
Committee (LRC), the main new umbrella grouping for Left activists
inside the Labour Party. Amongst others, a number of the platform
speakers from the trade union movement, including Jeremy Dear (NUJ),
Mark Serwotka (PCS) and Paul Mackney (NATFHE) took time to outline the
ongoing process of attacks against the public sector being carried out
by the government. |
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By Jorge Martin
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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
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In his weekly Alo Presidente TV programme, Venezuelan
president Hugo Chavez announced that some 136 closed factories are
being surveyed with the aim of expropriating them. Within the workers’
movement this has been enthusiastically received. The main discussion
now is what is meant by socialism, how to apply “co-management” and
what the role of the workers is in the revolutionary process and in the
economy. |
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By Harry Nielsen
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Wednesday, 13 July 2005 |
 Quantum
mechanics has given scientists and engineers a new and deeper
understanding of physical reality. It explains the behaviour of
electrons, atoms and molecules, the nature of chemical reactions, how
light interacts with matter, the evolution of stars, the bio-chemistry
of life and the evolution of mankind itself. Despite its successes it
remains an intensely controversial theory. It suggests that very small
objects such as electrons or photons behave in ways that contradict the
common sense ideas. Yet many scientists to this day refuse to accept
the fact that contradiction is an essential part of all matter. |
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