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By Ian Aylett
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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The magnificent wave of industrial action in
Egypt, which started over a year ago, is continuing. And it continues to be
ignored by the media. Price rises are the central focus of protest. But in a
very important development, at the Ghazl al Mahalla textile company have
raised political demands for the first time.
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By Mick Brooks
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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A debate in the British Parliament on the nationalisation of
Northern Rock, involving John McDonnell MP, has revealed that billions of
pounds are to be diverted away from the intended purpose of preventing a banking
collapse, into the pockets of the Rock's management. It seems the directors of
Northern Rock had set up a financial institution called Granite, the real
purpose of which was to carry out tax evasion!
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By Hands Off Venezuela - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
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Solidarity campaigners protested in central London on Wednesday night last week
against ExxonMobil's successful attempt to freeze Venezuelan assets as
part of a compensation dispute.
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By Barbara Humphries
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Most reviews of "Disaster capitalism" so far
have focussed on the use of natural disasters to change policies in favour of
the capitalists. But the book goes much further than this - it shows that it is
capitalism itself which is the disaster.
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By Ranabir Samaddar
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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The Economic and Political Weekly, the most academic
magazine in India, has published a review of Lal Khan's book, "Partition -
can it be undone?", written by Ranabir Samaddar. He gives a positive appraisal
of the book and asks a pertinent question at the end: "But are the official
communists listening to all these?"
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By Daniel Morley
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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Lukács was an important influence on what is called 'western Marxism'.
This was seen as a 'humanist' alternative to the dominant stalinist
orthodoxy of the inter-War period and later. One of Lukács' most
significant arguments was that (contrary to Engels) there can be no
dialectics of nature. Dan Morley examines the debate and goes into the
contradictory relationship between Lukács' interpretation of Marxism and
Stalinism.
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By Alan Woods
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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The second edition of
Alan Woods' book on Ireland,
Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution, has just come out, the first
edition having sold out. It is now available again to order from Wellred Books.
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By Pobunjeni um editorial board
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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There has been a lot of media hype about the big rally
in Belgrade
last week after the announcement that Kosovo had declared its "independence".
But the real mood in Serbia,
especially among the working class, is very different. There are indications
that the workers are tired of the nationalism and chauvinism being pumped out
by the Serbian bourgeoisie and in particular are fed up with all the bourgeois
parties. What is missing a political expression of the working class.
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By Martin Hall
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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A motion of affiliation to the PTUDC was successfully passed
at the meeting of the University
of East Anglia Union Council
on 21st February. The Union is now officially affiliated and an
emergency motion on Pakistan
was also passed to be sent to the NUS Executive in time for the National
Conference.
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By Luiz Bicalho in Rio de Janeiro
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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Obama may
well end up being the official Democratic candidate in the US Presidential
elections. But what kind of an alternative is he? Luiz Bicalho, a leading
member of Esquerda Marxista in Brazil,
explains that Obama promises many things but remains a defender of capitalism.
The answer is not Obama. The answer is an independent party of the US working
class fighting to change society.
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By Iranian Workers' Solidarity Network
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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According to a report by the National Union of Sacked and Unemployed
Workers in Iran three labour activists who were arrested and tried following
last year's May Day celebrations in Sanandaj have each been lashed 10
times. Please send a protest letter to put pressure on the Iranian regime to
release these class war prisoners immediately and
unconditionally.
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By PTUDC Canada
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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Over a dozen people attended a meeting on the recent fraudulent
elections in Pakistan on a cold blustery Toronto evening. The meeting
was hosted by Canadian supporters of the Pakistani Trade Union Defence
Campaign (PTUDC), the first such meeting to date in Canada.
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By Ted Grant in 1962
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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In 1962 Krushchev announced the introduction of
a new Constitution in the Soviet Union. Ted
Grant explained the real significance of this change and why the attempt to put
a check on the corruption of the bureaucratic caste without restoring real
workers' democracy was doomed to failure.
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By Fred Weston and Alan Woods
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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Spanish translation of Vultures hovering over Cuba after Fidel Castro steps down (February 20, 2008)
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By Alan Woods
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Friday, 22 February 2008 |
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Dutch translation of Pakistan elections: The Mother of all Frauds (February 19, 2008)
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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This year, for the first time one of Trotsky's key works, the Revolution
Betrayed, was presented by the Frederick Engels Foundation at the Havana
Book Fair, stimulating big interest. A special edition of a theoretical
magazine on China,
including the analysis of the International Marxist Tendency on this subject
was also being sold. It is clear that a layer of the most conscious workers and
youth in Cuba
are looking far a Marxist alternative to the prospect of "market economics"
being reintroduced to the island.
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By Jorge Martin
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Thursday, 21 February 2008 |
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As the news came out about Castro not standing again for president, the
comrades manning the Frederick
Engels Foundation at the Havana Book Fair sent us their impressions of how
people are reacting and what situation is opening up in Cuba.
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