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28 January 2011
Egypt: Revolutionary masses move to overthrow Mubarak dictatorship
Mass protests spread across Egypt following today's Friday prayers, demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak's 30-year presidency. Demonstrations took place in Alexandria, Suez...
26 January 2011
Review: THE COALITION government in Britain has made it clear that it wants 'educational reform' by increasing the number of academies and developing 'free' schools, writes Paul Gerrard, Bury NUT.
12 January 2011
'Big Oil' cuts corners on safety to boost profits
A PRELIMINARY report by the US National Commission (set up by president Barack Obama following the fatal Deepwater horizon oil rig blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico last April) has accused three companies - BP, Transocean and Halliburton - of cutting corners over safety in order to cut costs ie to boos...
15 December 2010
US government turns the screws on WikiLeaks
THE CONTINUING publication of leaked US diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks highlights the role US imperialism plays in every corner of the world, writes John Sharpe.
1 December 2010
North Korean artillery attack raises tensions
THE UNSTABLE military regime in North Korea has once again thrust itself into global headlines. On 23 November its artillery exchanged shellfire with South Korea on the island of Yeongpyeong, administered...
National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) lobby of TUC conference in Manchester 2010, photo Suleyman Civi
23 November 2010
Not one job or one service to be cut
Every time you switch on the TV there is yet more gloomy news about cuts - mostly handed out by millionaires; big business bosses laying off workers to maximise their profit, or their pals in parliament who do their bidding, writes Linda Taaffe, National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) secretary.
18 November 2010
The long march in Bangladesh: interview with a march organiser
The people of Bangladesh are among the poorest in the world. Wages are so low that they undercut those of China in many industries.
Demonstrating against war in Afghanistan, photo A Hill
17 November 2010
Afghanistan: Withdraw the troops now!
The Nato onslaught on Afghanistan is now in its tenth year. Ten years of horrific brutality inflicted on those who have fought against the invasion and on many thousands of civilians in the areas under...
17 November 2010
More jumpers: PRIVATISED ENERGY giant British Gas has dropped its charm offensive of lower prices to customers with a 7% rise in gas and electricity bills this winter...
11 November 2010
US elections: Bankruptcy of Democrats leads to spectacular fall
THE US 2010 mid-term elections revealed the deepening instability of the two-party system and capitalism, writes Philip Locker, Socialist Alternative, USA.
3 November 2010
USA elections: What the Tea Party really represents
As The Socialist goes to print, US electors will be voting in their mid-term congressional elections...
27 October 2010
Police attack Bristol demonstration
Two thousand people from across Bristol protested on 23 October against the Con-Dem government's latest cuts, writes Frankie Langeland, Bristol Youth Fight for Jobs.
27 October 2010
The US army logs released by WikiLeaks paint a brutal picture of the torturing and killing of innocent Iraqi civilians in a war fought to boost oil profits and defend western power and prestige, writes Keith Whitehead.
20 October 2010
World economy heading for 'double-dip' recession
THE WORLD economy grew by only 2.8% in 2008 and shrank, for the first time for over 65 years, by 0.6% in 2009, while the economies of the advanced capitalist countries shrank by 3.2% on average, writes Per-Åke Westerlund, Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden).
29 September 2010
UN fails to meet development goals
THE UNITED Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals were set amid much fanfare in 2000. There were eight anti-poverty goals ranging from ending poverty and hunger to universal education and child and...
24 September 2010
Uniting the movement will need to have an organisational, as well as a political form. In both Liverpool and the poll tax Militant played a key political role. However, contrary to the slurs against us...
20 September 2010
Introduction to Planning Green Growth
To avoid embarrassment, at a time when famine is sweeping the region, some of the governments involved are making cosmetic cuts in their delegations and restricting extravagant consumption of luxury items...
20 September 2010
Is sustainable growth possible on a capitalist basis?
Most capitalist politicians now pay lip service to sustainability, so what are the prescriptions they are putting forward to achieve this...
15 September 2010
IN AN enthusiastic response to the call by the major French trade union organisations, three million workers took to the streets of France on 7 September for a day of massive strikes and demonstrations in protest against the Sarkozy government's attack on the country's pension system...
9 September 2010
THE OUTGOING Blair/Brown New Labour government won parliamentary support for the modernisation of the Trident system with support from the Tories, writes Ronnie Stevenson, Socialist Party Scotland.
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