Solidarity 3/146
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Solidarity 3/146, 12 February 2009
Isle of Grain: talking strikes
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Two other comrades and I went to Hoo on the Isle of Grain on Saturday 7 February to talk to local workers and residents. We have visited the area before as socialist activists at the Climate Camp.
Staythorpe, 11 February
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Liam Conway was on the construction workers’ demonstration at the Staythorpe power station site in Nottinghamshire on Wednesday 11 February.
The "cowardice" of AWL on the Gaza war?
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A debate from the website (in full here).
In brief: short industrial reports
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NHS privatisation, Arriva Trains Wales, London Underground ex-Metronet jobs, Tube cleaners, Irish unions and students.
Workers of the world: Guadeloupe, Israel, United States
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GUADELOUPE: The French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been rocked by a general strike — a total shut-down of shops, supermarkets, schools and public services.
Daniel Bensaid: "We need to create a common culture"
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Daniel Bensaid, a leader of the LCR and now of the NPA, spoke to Vicki Morris and Ed Maltby.
Six months from now, how will you measure the success of the New Anti-capitalist Party?
The foundation of the NPA: A new workers' party in France
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Over the weekend of 6-8 February, working-class activists in France took a big step towards the creation of a powerful revolutionary party.
Time to link up student activists!
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On 20 January, a laughably unrepresentative “extraordinary conference” of the National Union of Students passed its Blairite leaders’ plans to gut the union’s democracy.
“No nation will put up with so barefaced an exploitation of the community by a small band of bonus-mongers”
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“No nation will put up with so barefaced an exploitation of the community by a small band of dividend-mongers”, wrote Frederick Engels over a hundred years ago.