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On 26th April, 1937, Hitler's Luftwaffe carried out the aeriel bombardment of the Basque town of Guernica, as part of their support for Fran...
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The front page of yesterdays Lancashire Evening Post was filled with the horrifying news that kids had spraypainted graffiti all round the ...
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You can't go anywhere in Preston city centre at the moment without running up against pink letter 'G's all over the place. I did a little i... -
EDL Supporters give Hitler salute The so-called 'English Defence League' are actually a rag tag grouping of football hooligans and neo-nazi...
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Tunisia Middle East Revolution: Tunisia http://www.socialistworld.net/ Protests against government biggest since January 14 This c... -
Nobody is celebrating the self-destruction of the Tithebarn dream, because it has damaged Preston so much. We need to learn from the mist...
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I've been writing quite a bit on the coup in Honduras , and the growing resistance to it on this blog. Before the coup, the left in Honduras...
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This comes as no surprise. The Tithebarn scheme in Preston was flawed from the start. It wasn't based on Preston's heritage and strengths,...
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Welcome to the 46th Carnival of Socialism. A carnival is a roundup of the best recent blogposts from around the blogosphere, and socialist...
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Models employed at Victoria Beckham’s latest New York fashion show were victims of recent famine. - Victoria Beckham’s latest New York fashion show has been mired in controversy after claims that the models she employed were victims of the recent famin...
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Get Political: why read Luxemburg, Trotsky and Lenin today? - *Ours is a time of multiple crises generated by global capitalism. It is a time of global resistance, occupation, and insurgency. It is a time to connect w...
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Countdown Begins: International Day of Action for Rivers - It is just under three weeks until the International Day of Action for Rivers, on March 14th. *Please plan your events, and let us know about them! Take p...8 hours ago
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Rule of Law: How to Fix Mexico's Broken Prisons - InSight Crime- "An incident earlier this week at the prison in Apodaca, in the tumultuous northern state of Nuevo Leon, resulted in the escape of 30 inmate...10 hours ago
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Volunteers to bring community garden back to life in Ribbleton Park - A team of volunteers will be creating a community allotment in a Preston park on Saturday morning. The Friends of Fishwick and St Matthew’s won a grant fro...10 hours ago
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Where’s the Environment in Senator Paul’s “Defense of Environment and Property Act”? - Senator Paul’s ‘Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2012’ is the latest attack on clean water, significantly narrowing the scope of the Clean Water ...10 hours ago
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SWINDON GMB STRIKE SOLID AGAINST CARILLION BULLYING - Three more days strike action start Monday next week. Thanks to union news12 hours ago
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Greedy Tosser ft MC Cameron - By NxtGen Loughborough rapper NxtGen has produced this spoof music video attacking Andrew Lansley, featuring David Cameron and Nick Clegg Written perform...12 hours ago
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Challenges mount to Venezuelan democracy - The political manoeuvring surrounding President Chavez's ill-health13 hours ago
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Grayling lies – most people oppose workfare – emergency protest Saturday Feb.25th - A4e head Emma Harrison steps down from Family Champion role Protest really does work – just look at Tesco and workfare Tesco to face more ‘occupy’ protests...14 hours ago
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Anything to Declare? - Christopher Booker’s undisclosed interests illustrate the need for transparency in journalism. By George Monbiot, published on the Guardian’s website 24th ...16 hours ago
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Slideshow: Backstage at Asger Juel Larsen AW12 - Large Slideshow. “Asger Juel Larsen AW12″ – marcvallee.co.uk Here is a slideshow backstage at the Asger Juel Larsen AW12 show. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 22....16 hours ago
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Welcome to your police station! - The writer Neville Shute advised a young American from the southern states that the safest place to evade racial attack and abuse in England was a police s...17 hours ago
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Thanks Chris Grayling! Now I have sympathy for the SWP - This is what the employment minister said: “What’s happened in the last week is we’ve got a lot of companies who are very jumping, they’re coming under pre...17 hours ago
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What's in a title ? - Something on the BBC breakfast this morning about the use of Miss / Mrs /Ms. It comes in the wake of the campaign in France to replace ‘Mademoiselle’ w...
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The Sparks kill off BESNA - In the last two days, all of the remaining employers trying to force the BESNA agreement on construction workers have pulled out. Though there is much mor...
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Greece: solidarity visit – Day 1 - Austerity measures have gone so far that they increasingly represent an attack on society itself.22 hours ago
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Review: Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder - by Helen Yaffe Who Killed Che? How the CIA got away with murder, by Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith, OR Books, 2011 This book by two leading US c...22 hours ago
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King’s College London takes on unpaid staff - We are all aware of the state of the job market at the moment: each vacancy is being chased by an ever-increasing number of jobseekers. As a jobseeker myse...1 day ago
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'Uneven and combined Marxism' within South Africa’s urban social movements - *A protest by Kliptown Concerned Residents and the Anti Privatisation Forum. * By *Patrick Bond*, *Ashwin Desai* and *Trevor Ngwane* February 2012 -- *...1 day ago
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Via Campesina call to action – Rio +20 and Beyond - La Vía Campesina will mobilize for this historical moment, representing the voice of the millions of peasants and indigenous globally who are defending the...1 day ago
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30-Day Song Challenge 2: Day 25- A great song to work out to: Biohazard - Resist - It's funny this one should come up. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote on my One Small Step blog about how I'd found the perfect band to accompany me in my tra...
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Where does the left stand on Syria? - by Abdul Rahman The response of the Left and progressives on the crisis in Syria has been somewhat obfuscating. On the one hand, the Syrian regime has ta...1 day ago
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Bristol Socialist Party Public Meeting: Could There Be A 'Compassionate Capitalism'? - *Bristol Socialist Party Public Meeting* *Tuesday 28th February 2012* *7.30pm* *Cheltenham Road Library, Cheltenham Road, BS6 5QX* *Could There Be A 'Compas...1 day ago
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Oppose The Racist SDL This Weekend In Glasgow - Comrades, This coming Saturday sees the Scottish arm of the English Defence League rear its ugly head in Glasgow. The SDL had originally planned to march t...1 day ago
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Pensions - Update from today's National NUT Executive - As the NUT Executive was meeting today, surveys were about to be sent out to NUT members across England and Wales to ask for their support for further acti...
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The changing moral case for capitalism - THERE is a moral case for capitalism that currently goes unheard, and David Cameron can make it most effectively by ensuring that the lowest paid see their...1 day ago
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Occupy discussion at Green Party Conference - I am introducing a fringe session at Green Party Conference in Liverpool at 5pm on saturday to discuss how we can learn from and support the occupy movement....1 day ago
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Vanity post - Histomatist is a very interesting blog. I disagree profoundly with much of the politics (the blogger is an SWP activist), but there's a wealth of material ...2 days ago
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"No military targets" in Homs - Here's how strange the reporting on Syria gets - this reporter was killed yesterday in Homs, evidently by Syrian government shelling. Here's what she said ...2 days ago
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Still Looking Into The Shadows: Lobster Issue 62 – December 2011 Reviewed - I was a fanatical reader of Lobster, the UK’s first journal of parapolitics, which ran in print form from 1983 to summer 2009. Since that winter it has been ...2 days ago
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Fracking threatens Sussex River Ouse?... A public meeting in Lewes this Friday w... - Fracking threatens Sussex River Ouse?... A public meeting in Lewes this Friday will consider whether fracking (hydraulic fracturing) of oil deposits could ...2 days ago
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Nine Afghan girls injured in NATO air raid - PTI: Nine schoolgirls were injured in a NATO helicopter attack in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, an Afghan official alleged Wednesday. NATO’s In...2 days ago
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The War Drums are Beating Again. - The drums of war are beating again in Parliament and the talk of an attack on Iran is raising the temperature. This is either a cover to give tacit support...2 days ago
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Fusion Awards 2012 - If you know someone who goes that extra mile to help others then the Fusion Awards would like to hear from you. The nomination process for the 2012 No...
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Epigram - What does on-line plagiarism really amount to, or matter? What damage is done if material is taken from one source - a newspaper article, a blog, a review ...3 days ago
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Miscellany - Criticism etc I have added a rss feed for Criticism etc down at the bottom right, as I find myself wanting to re-post almost everything there. Here are som...3 days ago
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Home Improvements To Add Value To Your Home: Risk-Free Ways To Sell Your Home - You might be aware of the different ways one can increase the value of a house, but perhaps not of some smaller changes you can carry out to improve your s...
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There's no public or professional support for the NHS privatisation reforms - and the LSE Study's indicators can't measure quality of patient care - David Cameron’s planned NHS reforms are opposed by more than twice as many people as support them. A YouGov poll this month found 48% oppose them and onl...
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Latvian Russian language referendum: the tyranny of the majority - News that more than 75% of voters in Latvia have rejected demands for the Russian language to be accorded official status in the country call to mind Alexi...5 days ago
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Disability workloaded - Thanks to one of my contacts for drawing my attention to one of the nastier bits of the current governments disability legislation - see Guardian article ...6 days ago
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Witherstone Giveaway! - *Witherstone reviews** have been a great boost, from 'a really outstanding read' and 'genuinely ‘unputdownable’', to a '**gripping' and 'enormously tense' ...
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Is workfare slavery? - Social networking platforms have exploded with howls of outrage over the latest workfare scandal; I would imagine that real-life face-to-face conversations...1 week ago
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Eleftherotypia’s Workers are back with their own newspaper ! - Moissis Litsis reports from Greece Here it is ! Done ! The workers at Eleftherotypia, one of the biggest and most prestigious Greek daily newspapers, go fo...1 week ago
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سوريا: الاحتجاجات ضد النظام تواجه استجابة شرسة - http://www.socialistworld.net/m/SyriaarticleFeb2012ARABIC.pdf v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* ...
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First win for Westley at PNE - Preston 1 Hartlepool 0. Over 14,000 watched PNE score fairly late in the game and take their first win for the new manager. The team has a lot of new fac...1 week ago
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China: Socialist Zhang Shujie exposes state repression of left activists - *TV news report highlights the case of CWI supporter Zhang Shujie* chinaworker.info New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) carried this report on the case of ...1 week ago
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My blog is too good for that nonsense. - My blog is too good for this nonsense. I'll leave it to the Spectator. Permalink | Leave a comment »1 week ago
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Well done NSS – - What a fantastic result regarding Council Prayers – And listen to the little lambs bleating! Their undisguised outrage is very revealing isn’t it?. Nobody ...1 week ago
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Not to be played with! - Well we never thought we'd have an eagle owl and a Harris hawk in our shop... Thanks to Frank and to Charlotte and Nick for being ever so brave!
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Why the “right to buy” should be abandoned - Download a PDF of this here rtbimpact The coalition government is proposing to give “right to buy” (RTB) a boost by giving Council tenants an increased dis...3 weeks ago
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You Can Attend Thursday’s Council Meeting re: Preston Bus Station - Thursday 2nd Feb 2pm, Preston Town Hall - A council meeting discussing the bus station.3 weeks ago
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Public debate on the Cuts in Brighton - Thursday 2nd February 7.30pm Friends Meeting House Ship Street
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Western Democracy: Is It Worth Killing For? - Bolivar Hall, 16 Jan 2012: Do I have a say? Do I have a voice? That is a question I have asked myself many times. Of course, I do, I am using it to speak r...5 weeks ago
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Rob Windsor – comrade and friend - Sadly, Rob Windsor (ex-Socialist Party Councillor in Coventry) passed away on Saturday after a long illness and complications following a major operation, ...5 weeks ago
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Rebuilding working-class education - REBUILDING THE TRADITION OF INDEPENDENT WORKING-CLASS EDUCATION MEETING Saturday 4th February 2012 10.30 – 3.30 Brunswick Centre, near Russell Square Tube,...5 weeks ago
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It's time for LU to say goodbye - For seven years, first on my own server then on Blogger, Lancaster Unity (formerly Lancaster UAF) has been fighting fascism and racism as embodied in such ...1 month ago
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Sanum's report from Sounds Like Freedom - So, for my first blog post of the year Sanum Ghafoor gives us a fantastic overview of last year. She dun 'alf go on, in the most entertaining and humerous ...1 month ago
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Top 10 Dance Tunes of 2011 - The blog maybe deader than England's chances at the European Championships next year, but in 2011 the quietude of its crypt was regularly disturbed by an a...
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Kim Jong Il team America - A Hollywood film, Team America, depicting Kim Jong-il as an out of touch and ludicrous dictator has become one of the most talked about topics on Twitter i...
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Conflict in Planning - Over the last few years I've been involved in work thinking about the conflicts that sometimes occur during person centred thinking and planning. It's no ...2 months ago
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New Hawks Of The Great Interior - Charlotte, Bill Surname's loyal PA, stands stock still in the doorway, her helpless face frozen with the anguish of horrors past and humiliations yet to co...2 months ago
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Brighton TUSC Resources - *By-election Leaflet* Full colour versions of our leaflet and poster for the 22 December Westbourne by-election are now available online: Read online Print...
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Ribble Estuary Against Fracking talk about Fracking in Lancashire on Countryfile Sunday 4th December - *Ribble Estuary Against Fracking** have had a busy week of interviews as the debates about Fracking in Lancashire heat up. * They have been interviewed by...
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Soundtrack to a Strike - Very much a work in progress this. I was trying to think of stuff that should be on an OST for the day. This is what I ended up with: The Workers - Let's W...2 months ago
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November 30th - Strikes and Solidarity - Rally and March in Lancaster - November 30. Lancaster prepares for biggest strike rally in decades. Local people are invited to join what is planned to be a carnival like day of celeb...2 months ago
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Baiada workers win strike - Workers at Baiada Poultry, Australia’s largest chicken supplier, have won their dispute with management after a 13 day strike. The workers stared down bull...2 months ago
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THE 50P TAX RATE HAS TO GO - The UK’s economic competitiveness is being fundamentally undermined by the Government’s 50p tax rate. In an area like the North West this is a ‘toxic tax’ ...4 months ago
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New article - the 1913 China Clay Strike in Cornwall - By Doug Lowe, North Devon Socialist Party. This article can be downloaded from the 'lead-offs' section of the downloads part of this website. The artic...5 months ago
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Riots and retribution - It’s been a painful week, both politically and personally. The riots and looting that spread accross England started in my home place of Tottenham. Watchin...6 months ago
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Oral History Network Ireland Conference Programme - For those who are interested in attending the Oral History Network conference in September (mentioned here previously), I have provided the programme of t...
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ヌーブラビーチが気になる今日この頃 - この前タカアンドトシが司会の「ほこ×たて」を見ていたら、 豊胸手術の専門医が ヌーブラビーチを着用した女性を見抜けるか！？ 的な対決をやっていたんだけど、 これが、見事にヌーブラビーチの勝利！ うーん、見抜けないくらいに自然な胸に見せてくれるなんて！ すごいなぁ。ちょっと買ってみようかな。。6 months ago
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The Last Post - The *Renegade Eye* blog, was born born March 26th, 2005. Today it is going into retirement, after 561 posts. What an experience. If you read the blog, from...6 months ago
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Wrexham Socialists ….. Still Here ! - Yes ….. We are still here, despite a few set-backs and tech-probs, we are back and stronger than ever ! We still meet weekly, at the usualtime/place and ...7 months ago
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Blog off - *Update: *you need to look at Big Smoke for my latest work (and my personal site). Thanks.* * *A few eagle-eyed regular readers have pointed out to me that...
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The Final Act: Cabin Crew vote to accept latest offer - The Unite website announced yesterday that cabin crew have voted 92% in favour of accepting a deal which will end this long running dispute. Just under 100...8 months ago
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Find us now over at Facebook ! - Haringey Socialists are still very much alive and kicking - but you can will find that we are more frequently updated on our Facebook group.
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Taking a Pause for the Cause - Even while not posting here, new posts, updates, documents, and videos will appear on ZA’s pages on Facebook, Twitter, Box.net, and ZATV. You can also foll...
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Radical tactics and mass movements – some reflections on March 26th. - Last Saturday saw two significant phenomenon on the streets of London. Firstly, the massed ranks of around half a million organised trades unionists, worke...10 months ago
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Outrage at the council revelations - Originally written for the Socialism in RCT blog SP member of the ponty anti-cuts demoOn March 17th an article appeared on the WalesOnline website explainin...
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Labour Must Find Its Spine - Not much blogging of late. I have been too ill with various viruses . And I have been too angry. Mulling over events of the past couple of weeks I feel that...11 months ago
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New Carnival out at Harpy Marx - Well, I say new, it's a few days old and I only just remembered to link to it here - sorry everyone!11 months ago
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A break from blogging - I'm very aware I haven't blogged much of late. At the moment it is more a stress, a chore, than a pleasure . The blog has always been something I have enjo...11 months ago
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Youth Fight for Jobs to recreate Jarrow March - Youth recreate Jarrow March for Jobs on 75th anniversary “No return to the 1930s!” This October will mark the 75th anniversary of the Jarrow March ...1 year ago
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Recovery: still a long way off yet - Several weeks ago came the somewhat surprising news – at least for some – that British GDP fell by half a percent last quarter. This is contrasted against ...1 year ago
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Manchester marches again…and so do UCLan - Things may have quieted down on the protest front, but the Christmas holidays are well and truly over. On the 29th January, there will be two national educ...1 year ago
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BBC's coverage of student demo's hits new low - What's worse: the police dragging a disabled person from a wheelchair or the attempts of the BBC to justify it? If anyone is in any doubt about the bias of...1 year ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!1 year ago
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PoliticalTheatrics Back Up And Running - We apologize for the seemingly unwavering hiatus – due to technical and financial issues we lost hosting and other services crucial to keeping the site up ...1 year ago
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Young people demand – FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL - Thousands of secondary school students awaited A-level and GCSE results anxiously last month. Again it was another record-breaking year for Northern Irelan...1 year ago
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A New Blog - Hi there, Readers will have noticed that my updates have dropped off a bit recently. The good news is, I've co-founded a collaborative blog called The Grea...1 year ago
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Build the protests against June 22nd "bloodbath budget" - June 22nd is the ConDem governments emergency budget that will begin the process of savage cuts across public services, jobs, pensions and benefits. In r...1 year ago
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Labour Party Leadership - The withdrawl of John McDonnell from the leadership contest shows the futility of the chances of re-introducing grass-roots democracy into the LP. I know m...1 year ago
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The first steps of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition - THE EARLY EFFORTS to establish working class political representation did not meet with easy success. In his first contest as an independent labour candida...1 year ago
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Vote Roger Bannister in the Unison general secretary election - *For a fighting union leadership!* After the shenanigans of the election campaigns of the last few weeks, another election starts on 17 May - the election ...1 year ago
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Fight the Tory Cuts! No to CON-DEM-nation of Jobs and Services! - On the 22nd June George Osbourne will announce the Con-Dem coalition emergency budget, a savage program of cuts on jobs and services. Trade Unionists acros...1 year ago
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Final post – for now - Thank you to everyone who supported and voted TUSC. In Spelthorne we got 176 votes but you could hear a pin drop when I spoke and warned of the cuts to co...1 year ago
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Vote Jackie Grunsell on May 6th! - As the leaflet below explains, it is vital that Jackie Grunsell is re-elected to Kirklees Council on Thursday. She is the only councillor that has opposed ...1 year ago
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Öskufall úr Eyjafjöllum hylur vaxandi samfélagsólgu. - Talsmaður Icelandair; Guðjón Arngrímsson lét hafa eftir sér við blaðamenn að; “Ef haldið sé rétt á spilunum, gæti hin fordæmalausa athygli sem nú er á Ísla...1 year ago
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20 years ago: the Strangeways prison riot - *from this weeks issue of the Socialist* On 1 April it was 20 years since the start of the Strangeways prison 'riot'. The riot was a protest by prisoners ...1 year ago
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Hazel’s husband gets £80,000 expenses from local hospital - SHOCKER! It appears ‘jumping on the gravy train’ whilst the world is burning behind you runs in the family… If Hazel Blears’ behaviour last year over her p...1 year ago
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Η κρίση, η επίθεση της κυβέρνησης, η απάντηση του κινήματος και τα ιστορικά καθήκοντα της Αριστεράς - Κείμενα του Ανδρέα Παγιάτσου2 years ago
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A glimmer of hope for the NHS - “The NHS is our preferred provider”. These are the words of Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health. A speech to the King’s Fund has been followed by a...2 years ago
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