Union News
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Southampton City Council
Striking UNITE and UNISON workers march & rally
Posted on October 6, 2011 by Hampshire LRC
Pics: ©Sarah Evans
From the Morning Star, October 6, 2011.
By Paddy McGuffin, Home Affairs ...
Posted 8 Oct 2011 14:54 by Ian Aylett
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Wyndeham Impact workers sacked and locked out
http://hampshirelrc.wordpress.com
Pic: Sarah Evans Sacked Wyndeham Impact workers
At 3.30pm today striking Wyndeham Impact workers
were sacked and locked out. Some of the workers were informed ...
Posted 30 Sep 2011 15:02 by Ian Aylett
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Building union elections and new militancy
Nominations are currently being taken from UCATT branches for
candidates for General Secretary. The left candidate is Mick Dooley.
Former General Secretary Alan Ritchie, has also thrown his hat in ...
Posted 16 Sep 2011 09:09 by Ian Aylett
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Unite left meeting
by Pete Gillard http://www.socialistworker.org.uk
The United Left (UL), the broad left group in Unite, held its quarterly supporters’ meeting in Manchester last Saturday.
Activists from the ...
Posted 15 Sep 2011 14:45 by Ian Aylett
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Unite and GMB withdraw from Plymouth deal
Local Government Chronicle http://www.lgcplus.com
18 August, 2011 | By Ruth Keeling
Plymouth City Council faces the collapse
of any sort of agreement with staff after blacklisting the largest ...
Posted 19 Aug 2011 13:55 by Ian Aylett
Labour Party
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Refounding Labour
— the Damp Squid. Members are as Important as Ever — Yet They Are Leaving Us AgainSeptember 26, 2011 By Andy Howell www.labourdemocraticnetwork.orgThe
first wave of Refounding Labour ...
Posted 29 Sep 2011 04:27 by Ian Aylett
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Ed’s speech: the verdict
http://www.labourfutures.org
Ed Miliband’s speech today
was aimed at different audiences. Those of us in the hall, on left and
right, will have liked some parts and ...
Posted 28 Sep 2011 11:44 by Ian Aylett
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Young Labour changes
By Susan Nash and Callum Munro
Young Labour is changing. Next week in Liverpool, the Labour Party's
annual conference will ratify the outcomes of Refounding Labour,
outcomes which will ...
Posted 23 Sep 2011 04:50 by Ian Aylett
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Labour Party must pay £123,000 compensation to sacked Asian councillor
http://www.leftfutures.org
The
Labour party has been ordered by an employment tribunal to pay former
Birmingham Labour councillor Raghib Ahsan £123,000 after a 13-year
legal battle ...
Posted 12 Sep 2011 13:27 by Ian Aylett
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Ed and the mystery of unpublished Refounding Labour submissions
http://www.leftfutures.org
Come
on. It’s the silly season. How many Labour Party members does it take
to publish what they think? More than are currently paid up ...
Posted 3 Aug 2011 02:14 by Ian Aylett
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Refounding Labour consultation
posted
Jul 22, 2011
CLPD’s Motion & Draft Response
Wednesday, 08 June 2011
The Party’s consultation document “Refounding Labour” can be downloaded here Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD ...
Posted 22 Jul 2011 13:03 by Ian Aylett
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Turning Labour blue and purple?
Blue Labour's immigration stance is toxic
Maurice Glasman is no xenophobe, so why does Blue Labour promote the idea immigration is the root of economic misery?
Anthony Painter
guardian ...
Posted 22 Jul 2011 12:54 by Ian Aylett
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A boost for the hard right of the party
By Owen Jones / @owenjones84 http://www.labourlist.org
"Men make their own history," wrote Karl Marx back in 1852, "but they
do not make it as they please; they do ...
Posted 15 Jun 2011 08:58 by Ian Aylett
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Reddish left think tank?
GEER is all about putting the third way
behind us, by renewing our focus on Gender, Environment, Equality and
Race. We aim to develop policy and promote ideas that work ...
Posted 3 Jun 2011 07:17 by Ian Aylett
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Britain
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TUC call coordinated strike action
The TUC have called coordinated strike action against attacks on public sector pensions on 30th November.
This is a fantastic development. Trade unionists and anti cuts
campaigners around the country ...
Posted 19 Sep 2011 04:07 by Ian Aylett
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Saving the banks
by Michael Roberts
The Vickers Report on the UK banking sector
(http://bankingcommission.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ICB-Final-Report.pdf)
is supposedly aimed at avoiding ...
Posted 15 Sep 2011 14:40 by Ian Aylett
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Big protest at Tory conference
from www.socialistworker.org.uk Manchester - as it happened and 15,000 in Glasgow
The front of the march
Drumming up support
On the march
Leeds students arrive for the ...
Posted 8 Oct 2011 15:08 by Ian Aylett
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National anti-cuts campaign debate
Coalition
of Resistance Conference Report – Saturday July 9th 2011 – held at
University of London Union WC1E 7HY. Attended by: 240 delegates and 60
observers
Opening Session chaired by Romayne Phoenix ...
Posted 24 Jul 2011 03:47 by Ian Aylett
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750,000 strike in defence of pensions
30 June strikes: This is just the start
Striking council workers march alongside teachers, lecturers and civil service workers in Birmingham (Pic: Geoff Dexter)
9 July
by Viv Smith
The ...
Posted 22 Jul 2011 03:27 by Ian Aylett
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Make 30 June strike day a massive protest
Teachers and Civil Servants vote to strike--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PCS fights cuts to pensions, jobs and pay
15 June 2011
More than a quarter of a million civil and public servants today ...
Posted 28 Jun 2011 01:56 by Ian Aylett
Europe
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An alternative programme for Europe?
By Michael Roberts
The
euro debt crisis is reaching a new level. Greece is now close to
defaulting on its state debts. This threatens to cause a new banking
crisis ...
Posted 12 Sep 2011 13:34 by Ian Aylett
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Assessing the Greek deal
Greece proof?
By Michael Roberts
The new Greek bailout deal announced by the EU leaders late last
week will leave Greece with a huge debt burden. The EU and the ...
Posted 23 Jul 2011 04:27 by Ian Aylett
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Greece - the crisis continues
Despite the deal which has just been cobbled together the crisis in Greece and the Euro zone will continue
By Mick Brooks
4 July 2011
The financial
crisis, the fiscal ...
Posted 22 Jul 2011 03:18 by Ian Aylett
International
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Mass protests in Israel
By Jon Snow Channel 4 TV 3rd AugustNot many outside Israel noticed – but it started on the Tel-Aviv
cycle way on July 14th and has only got bigger ...
Posted 3 Aug 2011 06:26 by Ian Aylett
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Globalisation and the Environment
By Martin Hart-Landsberg 12 June 2011 Over 3000 participants from 183 countries are attending a two week UN sponsored climate gathering in Bonn, Germany. The talks are supposed
to ...
Posted 28 Jun 2011 01:51 by Ian Aylett
Economy
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What is China's present stage of economic development?
by John Ross
Accurately assessing China's present
stage of economic development is important. It determines what can
realistically be expected from its economy and provides a yardstick for
international ...
Posted 29 Apr 2011 05:12 by Ian Aylett
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How to Create 15 Million US Jobs
Suggestions for a way out of the current economic swamp
www.zcommunications.org By Jack Rasmus
P+
After
more than three years since the current economic crisis erupted in ...
Posted 2 Mar 2011 02:25 by Ian Aylett
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American economy
America: from progressive to rentier
February 15, 2011 by michael roberts
US
capitalism is no longer a progressive force in the development of
productive forces. What do I mean? An ...
Posted 16 Feb 2011 09:04 by Ian Aylett
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Announcements
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LRC annual conference 2011
Labour’s Resistance
Saturday 19th November 201110:00am to 4:30pm
ULU, Malet Street, London (see map)
The conference will set LRC campaigning priorities for the year
ahead, elect ...
Posted 8 Oct 2011 14:50 by Ian Aylett
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Billy Bragg announces Left In Motion tour
Featuring - Billy Bragg: The King Blues: Akala: Sound of Rum Since
taking over the running of the Left Field at Glastonbury Festival in
2010, Billy Bragg has made an effort ...
Posted 12 Oct 2011 08:36 by Ian Aylett
Capitalism & crisis
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It feels like a depression
by Michael Roberts
Economic growth in the major capitalist economies has slowed
sharply. The recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-9 that began in
mid-2009 appears to be ...
Posted 19 Sep 2011 03:53 by Ian Aylett
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Permanent Crisis?
By Mick Brooks
There has been a debate in
recent years within the IMT as to the cause of capitalist crisis. On one side
were those who stressed Marx’s ...
Posted 31 Aug 2011 10:02 by Ian Aylett
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Karl Marx was right (partly) – Roubini
By Michael Roberts
The great guru of the financial collapse, economist Nouriel
Roubini, who is famously acclaimed as having forecast the crisis of
2008-9 (see my paper, The causes ...
Posted 29 Aug 2011 14:39 by Ian Aylett
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Not Business As Usual
By Michael Roberts, from Labour Briefing http://www.labourbriefing.org.uk
The UK economy is struggling to recover from the worst economic
recession since WWII – the “Great Recession”. The crisis ...
Posted 10 Jun 2011 13:58 by Ian Aylett
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No.2 To Whom Do We Owe This Money, Exactly?
THE ANSWER ()
Children
have a terrifically simple way of exploring the limits of adult
knowledge. They do so by asking a question, then responding to each new
piece of data ...
Posted 18 May 2011 09:57 by Ian Aylett
History & Marxism
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Class and Chavs
The working poor
June 7, 2011 by Michael Roberts
There’s a new book just out called Chavs: the demonisation of the working class by Owen Jones (see Amazon, http ...
Posted 8 Jun 2011 15:20 by Ian Aylett
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The accumulation of capital
By Mick Brooks
The purpose of this article is to show the explanatory power of
Marxist analysis in looking at the dynamics of capitalism. The laws of
motion of the ...
Posted 14 May 2011 02:00 by Ian Aylett
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New additon: The Marxist Group in the ILP
The History of British Trotskyism to 1949
being a Thesis submitted for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
in the University of Hull
by
Martin Richard Upham, B.A., M ...
Posted 25 Apr 2011 11:20 by Ian Aylett
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The 1918 and 1919 Police Strikes and current comment
Historical article below, current comment first
Why the Left should support the Police Federation in its fight against the cuts (even if they’d rather not)
by: Owen Jones - March ...
Posted 30 Mar 2011 09:42 by Ian Aylett
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Social Progress: is it real or a figment of the imagination?
by Jamil Iqbal
Has humanity enlarged its
power and freedom, improved its conditions and increased its chances of
happiness? In simple terms, is social progress a fact? Marxists,
historical materialists ...
Posted 9 Mar 2011 02:54 by Ian Aylett
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Historical Materialism
By Mick Brooks
What is
Historical Materialism?
Historical Materialism is the application of Marxist science to
historical development. The fundamental proposition of historical
materialism can be summed up in a ...
Posted 23 Feb 2011 13:23 by Ian Aylett
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs, trade unions and the state
by David Brandon
A name etched into the collective consciousness of the labour and trade
union movement is that of the 'Tolpuddle Martyrs'. So who were they,
what did they ...
Posted 23 Feb 2011 13:27 by Ian Aylett
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