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18 January 2012

Irish 'poll tax' battle has begun

A massive campaign against a new 'Household Charge' has begun in Ireland. The new flat tax affects 1.6 million households across the country, including the overwhelming majority of ordinary workers...

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18 January 2012

1972 Derry - "this was murder"

Forty years ago, on Sunday 30 January 1972, members of the Parachute Regiment (the Paras) shot 27 unarmed civilians, (14 of whom died) on a protest through the barricaded Bogside area of Derry in Northern Ireland...

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Massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle

Massive general strike in Greece on 15 June 2011, photo Stephan Kimmerle

18 January 2012

Greece: Non-payment movement against new housing tax

In October 2011 the Greek Pasok government of George Papandreou (just before being forced out of office), announced the implementation of a new housing tax through people's electricity bills, writes Christina Ziakka, Xekinima (CWI in Greece).

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Rob Windsor

Rob Windsor

16 January 2012

Rob Windsor: socialist fighter and Coventry Socialist Party councillor 1964-2012

On 14 January Rob Windsor, socialist fighter and previous Socialist Party councillor in Coventry, lost his long struggle against liver disease and died at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth hospital.

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Thatcher: The Iron Lady, still from movie

Thatcher: The Iron Lady, still from movie

11 January 2012

Film review :The Iron Lady in meltdown

The widely hyped film 'The Iron Lady' is not intended to cover all the political events of Thatcher's life. It deals with the political issues through the incoherent rambling recollections of an old and demented Thatcher...

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19 October 2011

Hunger marches - When the unemployed fought back

"Why all this unrest? It seems in the rebound from the anxieties from the war, we are all trying to get something for nothing. We must not ask for the impossible" - Mayoress of Southport, 1922

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27 September 2011

MEP to join Jarrow march against unemployment

Paul Murphy (Socialist Party MEP for Dublin) will be joining the Jarrow march for jobs for its final leg going into London at the end of its 330 mile journey from South Tyneside

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21 September 2011

Mirror's Kevin Maguire wishes luck to Jarrow marchers

In today's Daily Mirror, Kevin Maguire's section includes the following piece that wishes the "best of luck" to the Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow marchers...

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9/11: Attack on the Twin Towers of the Wold Trade Centre, photo BBC

9/11 attack

5 September 2011

Consequences of 9/11: a world turned upside down

Ten years after the twin towers came crashing down in New York, Peter Taaffe assesses the changed world situation. In the aftermath of that terrorist attack, US imperialism unleashed mass slaughter in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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A Common Treasury by Gerrard Winstanly Verso

A Common Treasury by Gerrard Winstanly Verso

6 July 2011

Review: A Common Treasury

One of the false arguments against socialism and communism is that these ideas are 'foreign'. Karl Marx was a German Jew and a follower of the German philosopher Hegel. 'Revolution is something that...

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6 July 2011

Endgame by Rise Against

Review: In 2010, Rise Against's lead singer Tim McIlrath said the band's motivation to tour almost continuously for the past eleven years was to influence the social conscience, writes Hannah Bastow.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx

4 May 2011

Paris commune 1871: When workers "stormed heaven".

The mass struggles against dictatorships and poverty sweeping North Africa and the Middle East encourage workers and young people in the region and internationally to seek to learn from previous revolutionary movements, writes Niall Mulholland

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Manningham Mills

Manningham Mills

27 April 2011

Manningham Mills 1890-1891: A strike that changed Britain's unions

On 27 April 1891, 120 years ago, the great Manningham Mills strike of Bradford textile workers ended after nearly 19 weeks...

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Building support for a socialist response to the repression after the Brixton riots, photo Socialist Party

Building support for a socialist response to the repression after the Brixton riots, photo Socialist Party

6 April 2011

1981 Brixton riots

April 2011 marks the 30th anniversary of the riots in Brixton, south London, against police racism, unemployment and poverty...

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24 March 2011

Oppose all cuts in jobs, services, pay and conditions!

United we are strong, divided we will be defeated. The government knows that and is desperate to divide us - public sector from private sector, old from young, benefit claimants from everyone else.....

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23 March 2011

Mass non-payment - how the poll tax was beaten

The campaign against Thatcher's hated poll tax is an example of how a mass movement can defeat a government, writes Steve Score, Former secretary of the Leicestershire Anti-Poll Tax Federation.

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No to cuts! Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, photo by Suzanne Beishon

No to cuts! Youth Fight for Jobs demonstration, photo by Suzanne Beishon

23 February 2011

Hands off our future!

The government has an entire generation in its sights. It is determined to price working class young people out of education. It has voted to triple tuition fees to £9,000 a year, savage funding to universities...

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Knocking off at harland and Wolf shipyard

Knocking off at harland and Wolf shipyard

16 February 2011

Britain 1911-1914: The great unrest - lessons for today

100 years ago the working class responded to the terrible conditions imposed on them by taking mass industrial action in what became known as the 'great unrest', writes Jim Horton.

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5 January 2011

Grunwick: leader of historic strike dies

Jayaben Desai, the leader of the famous Grunwick strike died just before Christmas aged 77. She inspired many who saw her, especially when she stood up to the bullying brutes of the Grunwick management, writes Bill Mullins, Socialist Party Industrial Organiser

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3 December 2010

West Cheshire Against Cuts launch meeting

Fifty-five people attended the launch of West Cheshire against cuts this Thursday. Cheshire Socialist Party...

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