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The Trent House pub, 1 Leazes pub, NE1 4QT
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International Community Centre, Mansfield Road, Nottingham
We lives in odd times indeed. Even leading right-wing economists from the IMF think that the Tories are
cutting too far and too fast. Yet, there are no signs that Cameron, Osborne & co. are ready to halt their austerity measures. At the same time—and despite much rhetoric—our unions have failed to develop strategies and tactics to take on the government. So, how likely is it that we can topple this government? What chance of a general strike? How could we get a workers’ government and what should socialists be arguing for now?
Come and join this discussion, introduced by Liam Conway—NUT activist and Trades Council President
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“Anybody familiar with Stalinism will know the technique; figures record yet another triumphant over-fulfilment of the five-year plan while the peasants drop dead of starvation in the fields.”
NCAFC held its AGM last weekend in Birmingham where Student Broad Left – the student front of Socialist Action – proposed a motion so absurd that only the four members of Student Broad Left present at the NCAFC conference voted in favour of it.
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What We Are And What We Must Become [SECTION 3]
VULGAR MATERIALISM AND PLATONIC PERSPECTIVES
By Rachel Lever, Phil Semp and Sean Matgamna
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Letters and replies sent to Workers' Liberty 7, October 1987:
* Zionism, Israel and the play, 'Perdition': Tony Greenstein and John O'Mahony
* Not an inch! Geoff Bell replies to Workers' Liberty on Northern Ireland
* Kitch-Trots tango: John Alloway on the Workers' Revolutionary Party's (WRP) call for an open conference of Trotskyist Groups.
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Labour gained ground slightly during the 1987 British general election campaign - the first time it had done so since 1959. But the Tories still won. The central lesson - Neil Kinnock said it, and he was right - is that you don't win an election in four weeks.
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In 1987 Tony Benn submitted a draft Socialist Manifesto to the Labour Party's National Exacutive Committee with the aim that it be discussed and voted on at the 1987 Conference. We republish that document here.
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According to the official history of MI5, Britain’s spy-hunters considered Jack Jones, the leader of the Transport and General Workers’ Union in the 1970s who died recently, to be a paid agent of the USSR.
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The following article was an "As We Were Saying" column in Socialist Organiser, in 1991, during the Walton by-election.
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The bitter experience of Labour in government in 1964-70 and in 1974-9 pushed many activists away from reformism and towards revolutionary socialism.
