Workers' Liberty 35, October 1996

How to fund education

Debate on 'New Solution', with Rosie Woods Bureaucrats against Blair? By Sleeper

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News: German workers "learn French" Will Italy break up? The Republicrat victory Dockers stop ships in solidarity The big dipper Israel, the danger of war (Adam Keller) Download PDF

Narks, Provocateurs and Avuncular Policemen (1996)

POLICE spying, infiltration and manipulation of opponents of the Establishment is older than Guy Fawkes, whose celebrated early 17th Century "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the Houses of Parliament was in part manufactured and manipulated for their own ends by state agents. The latest example is the case of former police constable, Janet Lovelace. Janet Lovelace says that she was offered money (£200 a month for starters, plus expenses and "special help" with any pressing bills) to infiltrate and spy on the Catholic peace action group, Ploughshares, four of whose supporters were recently acquitted...

Cable Street 1936 : 75th Anniversary - When Workers Stopped the Fascists

October marks the anniversary of the memorable day when the workers of East London stopped police-protected fascists marching through the Jewish areas of the East End. The Battle of Cable Street was an epic, and is now a myth-enshrouded event in British working-class history. The against fascism may once more become a matter of life and death to the labour movement. What lessons for this work can we learn from the anti-fascist struggle in East London? Did 'objective conditions' and, after 1934, Establishment disapproval kill off Mosleyism, or was it direct action on the streets? What are the...

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