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Solidarity 3/135, 10 July 2008


Rank and file participation and political representation

Unions & politics
Author: 
Stuart Jordan

At the union conferences held this summer, anger at the Brown administration gave the the left the opportunity to pose serious questions about working-class political representation.


Independent workers' party to stand up to Chavez

Venezuela

By Paul Hampton
Two reasons to cheer in Venezuela recently, as socialists restarted the task of building an independent workers’ party, separate from Chávez’s ruling bourgeois PSUV.


Let Amdani Juma stay

Anti-deportation campaigns

By Isabel Turnbull

Anti-deportation campaigners in Nottingham are trying to stop the deportation of Amdani Juma, a Burundian refugee and worker at the Nottingham Refugee Forum.


Strike against Mugabe once and for all!

Zimbabwe

David Broder spoke to Mike Sambo from the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe

What is the current state of the ISO Zimbabwe and the labour movement?


Test marking fiasco: scrap SATs

Schools
Author: 
Pat Yarker

In May, 11 and 14 year olds in England’s state schools faced the tedious annual round of public tests in English, Maths and Science.


What's in a minimum?

Poverty

Recent research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimates that around £13,400 a year is required to maintain a minimum standard of living.


Brown and Picasso

Unions & politics
Author: 
Colin Foster

By Colin Foster


Around the unions: in brief

Trade Unions

•RMT: The RMT has called a ballot of Charing Cross Group Tube workers for action in solidarity with Jerome Bowes, a member of station staff at Elephant and Castle unjustly sacked after an incident o


What is Marxism For?

Leon Trotsky
Author: 
Leon Trotsky

Introduction:
Marxism and Lenin's "State and Revolution"


Women Workers: "We brought the Ford Empire to its knees"

Author: 
Becky Crocker

In June 1968 women sewing machinists in the Ford car plant in Dagenham took a stand for equal pay in a strike that stopped production for three weeks.


Left unity? Yes! But why is the “left” divided now?

There are a sizable number of “unite the left” calls, campaigns, conglomerates and projects in Britain now.


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