Solidarity 3/153
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Solidarity 3/153, 12 June 2009
Politics in the New Depression
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America is a centre-right nation. Or so the pundit class in America tirelessly insists. The Obama administration is ubiquitously warned, from quarters both friendly and hostile, that failure to adhere to this truism augers political calamity.
Protecting children from religion
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A young child is removed from his family, taken to live in a remote community, made to engage in strange rituals, denied the company of ordinary children, dressed in unusual clothes and surrounded by adults who worship him. Are these scenes from some despotic cult? No, this is the way that new religious leaders are “nurtured” under the auspices of what are widely held to be the enlightened and progressive practices of Tibetan Buddhism.
Which way for the unions and Labour?
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What should socialists conclude from the debate at the Communication Workers’ Union conference on the union’s political relationship to the Labour Party (where no policy was passed)?
Post: use the ballot!
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Postal workers across London recently voted nine-to-one for strike action over jobs and cost savings.
Probation Service fight
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NAPO and Unison members in South Yorkshire Probation Service last week suspended a planned 24 hour strike against jobs cuts which management are trying to impose.
A victory for militancy!
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Rob Williams, Unite convenor at the Linamar car plant in Swansea, has been re-instated following his sacking by the company last month. Rob was sacked for his record of defending members’ interests and building solidarity with the Visteon struggle.
Tube: Liars! The press and the strike
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This article can be found here http://www.workersliberty.org/blogs/tubeworker/2009/06/11
Tube: striking for jobs and pay
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London Underground workers struck for 48 hours from Tuesday 9 June-Thursday 11 June over pay, jobs and management bullying.
• 1000 jobs are at risk on London Underground and up to 3000 in Transport for London as part of a £2.4 billion cuts package. LUL have refused to rule out compulsory redundancies, despite signing up to a “no compulsory redundancies” agreement in 2001.
Reality TV
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Another look at The Wire, now being shown on BBC 2
Wading through the superlatives that are lavished on The Wire, the five-season HBO drama exploring the social politics of Baltimore, Maryland, and the police department's Sisyphean attempts to deal with the city's drug trade and the near-uncontrollable crime it generates, can be an exhausting business.