Chris Bambery’s Marxism lies a-mouldering in the grave
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Sacha Ismail on the Socialist Workers Party pamphlet Iraq: why the troops must get out now by Chris Bambery
Solidarity 3/62, 18 November 2004
The most widespread racism is against gypsies
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According to Understanding Prejudice, a major new study commissioned by the gay rights group Stonewall prejudice is rife in Britain. Two-thirds of white people in Britain admit to some prejudice, even if only casual or unintentional, against one or another or against several minority groups.
Industrial news in brief
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Management has now been forced to recognise the GMB at Laing O’Rourke, where there is a dispute over new contracts. Previously, it had recognised only UCATT, which had agreed a new contract which slashed pay and conditions. Over 100 workers have now joined the GMB, which management initially barred from the big Channel Tunnel Rail Link site at King's Cross.
What Galloway admitted
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The libel case against the Daily Telegraph brought by George Galloway MP has finally come to court. It will run in court for five days, from 16 November, and then there will probably be some delay until the judge’s verdict.
Nigerian general strike
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Unions in Nigeria organised a general strike on 16 November after the government failed to cut petrol prices.
Korean civil servants' general strike
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Chinese textile workers arrested
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More than twenty worker activists at the former Tianwang Textile Factory in Xianyang city, Shaanxi Province, have been arrested by police after a seven week factory-wide strike by around 6,800 workers.
US hotel workers demand boycott
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Hotel workers have demanded a boycott of nine Los Angeles luxury hotels involved in a dispute with over wages, benefits and working conditions.
Tube strikes
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Aslef, the train drivers’ union, has called 24-hour strikes by half the drivers on the Jubilee line on 4 and 24 December.
Working for 21 pence an hour (No, it’s not the Third World, it’s the UK)
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“The Company doesn’t care if you are getting rubbish money. As long as you get the work done, you are out of sight, out of mind.”