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Home » Archives by category » Newspaper » 2013 » Issue 371: April 2013
The future’s ours – if we want it
By K D Tait Across the world young people are in the forefront of mass movements for democracy and human rights and against the exploitation and oppression of a system…
The Palestinian struggle in Syria: an interview
A member of the League for the Fifth International’s German section interviewed Thaer, a resident of Yarmouk, Syria’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, located in Damascus. He escaped the camp, currently…
Postal workers plan boycott of privatised mail
2013 may not be the year the world ends but it certainly could prove a bad one for anyone who relies on Royal Mail, once again threatened with privatisation. Now…
Rape and the Left – The enemy within
By Rebecca Anderson THE RAPE AND assault charges against members of the Socialist Workers Party, the RMT union and the Socialist Party have dragged into the light a long overdue…
NHS: the beginning of the end?
By Carla Turner APRIL 2013 could go down in history as the day that marked the beginning of the end for our National Health Service. If, that is, we don’t…
Spotlight on communist policy: Democratic Centralism
In the last year or two a major debate has been taking place over Lenin’s model of the revolutionary party. Given that over a century has elapsed since it was…
‘More votes than can fill Wembley’
JERRY HICKS HAS delivered a sensational blow to Len McCluskey, scoring a massive 36 per cent of the vote in the election for the General Secretary of Unite, Britain’s biggest…
WP no. 371 Editorial
The crisis in the Socialist Workers Party has implications for the entire left. Allegations of rape against a leading member were shamefully mishandled. Expulsions and a clampdown on dissent provoked…
Post Office workers fight Coalition “transformation”
Post Office workers have taken strike action twice, on Easter Saturday and again on 19 April. They’re angry at plans to close or franchise 76 big high street or “crown”…
1000 march to axe the Tax!
Over 1000 people marched through the streets of Leeds on 20 April in protest against the Bedroom Tax. With chants of “axe axe the Bedroom Tax!” and “they say cut…
