Israel should get out of Gaza and West Bank!
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By Mark Osborn
The Israeli government plans to withdraw 9,000 settlers and the troops that protect them from the Gaza Strip in mid-August.
Solidarity 3/77, 21 July 2005
The Buddhist Detective
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Dan Katz reviews Bangkok 8 and the recently published Bangkok Tattoo by John Burdett
The Most Political Potter
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Amina Saddiq reviews Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Those who haven’t read the last few Harry Potter books will probably laugh when I say that the latest instalment is not only the most interesting, but the most political of the series. I’ll try and explain.
"Socialist" rationalisation for the London bombings
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The response to 7/7 from the Respect/SWP axis has been smug, thoughtless, and irresponsible.
International working-class solidarity is the way to beat the terrorists
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The same sort of Islamist terrorists who killed more than fifty people in London on 7 July are also killing people in Iraq, and on a far bigger scale.
Industrial News
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A round-up of the latest news from the UK labour movement
PCS: Ballot now!
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On 5 November 2004 the left-led civil service union PCS held a national one-day strike over New Labour’s decision to cut 100,000 civil service jobs. The strike was also officially over the refusal of the government to move towards national pay bargaining.
Labour left backs Iraqi unions
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The Labour Representation Committee conference in London on Saturday 16 July voted to support the new trade unions in Iraq and to recognise that: “the dominant military forces of the ‘resistance’ are Sunni-supremacist and Islamic-fundamentalist. They will crush the new Iraqi labour and women’s movements if they triumph”.
Heath: the Thatcherite who lost
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Former Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath, who died on 17 July, has elicited lavish praise from what the bourgeois press likes to call “all parts of the political spectrum”. Tony Blair has described him as “magnificent… an extraordinary man, a great statesman, a prime minister our country can be proud of”, and eulogies from Michael Howard and Charles Kennedy have been similarly gushing and hackneyed.
The workers of Paris triumph (2)
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The Commune had organised itself into nine Commissions or delegations. The Department of public or municipal services involved the general superintendence of public offices such as the Post Office, the Telegraphs, the Mint, the official printing press, the hospitals. Theisz, a workman, took the direction of the Post Office.