Solidarity 3/66, 3 February 2005
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Solidarity 3/66, 3 February 2005
All out for pensions on 23 March!
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The Government has announced its intention that the pension retirement age for public sector workers should be 65.
On top of that they want to replace “final salary” schemes by “career average” schemes.
Is there a split in the IRA?
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By Thomas Carolan
As the 7th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) approaches, the work of seven years of constitution-making and Dublin and London structure-building to create a new interdenominationalist power-sharing government in Belfast, is rolling down the hill.
Anti-semitism on the rise
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Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer were unorthodox Marxist academics and German Jews.
In the early 1930s, like others of their sort who could, they fled Nazi Germany for the USA. And they reported that, in ordinary day-to-day life, they encountered more anti-semitism in the USA than they ever had in Germany.
Stop the cuts in Incapacity Benefit!
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By Joan Trevor
The government announced on Wednesday 2 February its five-year plan for benefits and pensions, including cuts in Incapacity Benefit (IB). This is a disgraceful attack on IB claimants, many of whom live in poverty. Instead of setting itself the humane goal of providing the sick and disabled with comfort and ease, the government is setting out to make the sick and disabled poorer still.
Lessons of the Holocaust
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During the recent Holocaust memorial week, the following question was posed many times in the media: has humanity learned the lessons of the Nazi genocide? The question is hard to answer in sound-bites. In fact, there was very little discussion about what the lessons might be.
Signal workers settle
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London Underground signal workers have voted roughly 70% in favour of a new deal over the working week, pay and job cuts. The 30% “no” vote was significant for the RMT, where going against a recommended deal is not usual.
Come to NUS conference. Vote “Education Not for Sale”
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By Daniel Randall
In March 2004, the National Union of Students conference rejected Labour Students’ bid for the NUS presidency for the first time in more than 20 years. The beneficiary was Kat Fletcher, a former support of Solidarity and Workers’ Liberty, and still a self-proclaimed revolutionary socialist.
Midland Mainline strike banned
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By Janine Booth, Finsbury Park branch RMT chairperson (personal capacity)
The High Court has banned industrial action by train guards on Midland Mainline, in a case which shows the blatant class bias of Britain’s anti-union laws.
Stop New Labour plans for “house arrest”!
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By Mike Rowley
House arrest, a form of incarceration formerly identified with Burmese dictators, has come to Britain under cover of the “war on terror”.