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Cuba: The Drive for Efficiency within Socialism
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‘wages today are clearly insufficient to satisfy all needs and have thus ceased to play a role in ensuring the socialist principle that each should contribute according to their capacity and receive according to their work…the Party and government have been studying these and other complex and difficult problems in depth, problems which must be addressed comprehensibly and through a differentiated approach in each concrete case.’ (Raul Castro, 2007)
‘[we have] the dream of everyone being able to live on their salary or on their adequate pension…’ (Fidel Castro, 2005)
The announcement by the Cuban Trade Union Confederation on 13 September 2010 about plans to reduce the state sector workforce by half a million was greeted by jeering headlines from journalists outside the island.
10 years of the Palestinian Intifada, 10 years of boycotting M&S
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On 25 September, activists from FRFI and other groups held a lively demonstration outside Marks and Spencer on Oxford Street, to mark 10 years of Palestinian Intifada and 10 years of the weekly picket against M&S.
The Intifada began on 29 September 2000, a day after Ariel Sharon and 1000 riot police marched through the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Temple Mount is home to Islam’s third most holy shrine, the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Police used live ammunition and rubber bullets against unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, killing 6 and injuring 220. Within the first few days of the Intifada, 700,000 bullets and projectiles had been fired in the West Bank, and 300,000 in Gaza.
Read more: 10 years of the Palestinian Intifada, 10 years of boycotting M&S;
Free the Cuban Five!
On 11 September activists from Rock Around the Blockade held lively protests in London, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne to demand Freedom for the Cuban 5 as part of the international day of action planned by the U.S. National Committee To Free The Five (freethefive.org) to mark the 12th Anniversary of their imprisonment.
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Bradford sees off the EDL
On 28 August in Bradford the English Defence League (EDL) held another anti-Muslim demonstration. According to the EDL, Bradford was going to be ‘the big one’, a show of strength in a city where working class Muslims had risen up against poverty and racism in 2001, fighting back against police and fascists. But although the EDL claimed that they would mobilise 5,000 people, on the day they had closer to 700. When around 200 EDL members left the area designated by the police, they were physically opposed and contained by a mobilisation of several hundred, the vast majority of whom were working class Muslim youth, including members of the Muslim Defence League. The EDL were harassed until they were bussed out of the city, with reports that some of their coaches were stoned and the tyres slashed. The only reported arrests were of five EDL members.
James Connolly: A rebel ‘till the end'
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A lively discussion followed the introductory talk. Points were raised about links between the Irish rebellion and the class struggle on the Clydeside around the time of the First World War and the continuing refusal of the British labour movement to split with imperialism to this day through its funding of the Labour party. The role of
Connolly’s life was one of total commitment to the oppressed, from the worker exploited by the boss and the landlord, the peasant starved off his land, women workers (‘the slave of the slave’), the Irish nation and all others crushed by colonialism. Over ninety years on from his execution at the hands of the British army, the life and ideas of James Connolly remain as vital as ever.
While Palestinians die! The BBC Lies!
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The demonstration was part of a national day of action against the BBC called by individuals and groups supporting those onboard the Mavi Marmara when it was attacked by Israeli commandos in international waters.
More than a dozen pro-Palestinian activists gathered outside the BBC in Newcastle in a lively protest. It was supported by the Palestine Action Group and other independent activists.
Death in Custody - Tayside
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On 28 November 2007, 17 year old Kristoffer Batt was found dead in the cells at Tayside Police Headquarters in
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- British imperialism in the world today and the task of the British working class.
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- 'Che Guevara' The Economics of Revolution
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Editorial & Welcome
Build an anti-imperialist movement against racism and fascism!
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On Saturday 17 July, 500 members of the English Defence League (EDL) rampaged through Dudley in the West Midlands, attacking Muslim and Hindu residents. The EDL is fast developing in the direction of...
Read More...Defend the right to protest! Defend the Gaza Demonstrators!
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The British state has moved to marginalise those who want to resist imperialism in this country, and especially to criminalise those who take a militant stance against Zionism. In the course of 2009, 119...
Read More...Close Guantánamo Torture Camp!
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On Monday 11 January 2010 the London Guantánamo Campaign held a demonstration outside the US Embassy in London to mark 8 years of the Guantánamo Bay torture camp. A vigil by protesters in orange...
Read More...No to the BNP! - No to the racist Labour government!
The BBC has invited Nick Griffin of the British National Party on to its flagship debating show, Question Time, where he will share the platform with the Labour Party representative Jack Straw and others....
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- Cuba: The Drive for Efficiency within Socialism
- Free the Cuban Five!
- Ten Years of Intifada! Ten Years of Resistance to Zionism!
- While Palestinians die! The BBC Lies!
- Bradford sees off the EDL
- James Connolly: A rebel ‘till the end'
- Death in Custody - Tayside
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